Bandwidth
Enterprise carrier providing global voice, messaging, and telephony infrastructure with direct network integrations
- Also known as
- bandwidth
Available worldwide
What is Bandwidth?
Enterprise-grade telephony and messaging infrastructure serving contact centers and businesses across multiple countries, with APIs for voice communications, integrations with CX tools, and focus on compliance and reliability.
Bandwidth pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Usage-based pricing from $0.004 per SMS to $0.15 per call verification. Volume-based discounts. Custom enterprise pricing available.
SMS Messaging
Per-message SMS pricing via 10DLC, Short Code, and Toll-Free
MMS Messaging
Per-message MMS pricing
Voice API
Per-minute voice calling with transcription, text-to-speech, and conferencing
Authentication API
Two-factor authentication and call verification
SIP Trunking
Contact salesCustomizable usage-based model for premises-based or cloud stack voice
What Bandwidth does
The capabilities that matter for communication apis, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- SMS
- ✓
- Voice
- ✓
- -
- RCS
- ✓
- Transactional email
- -
- Video / real-time
- -
- In-app chat
- -
- Verify / OTP / 2FA
- ✓
- Two-way messaging
- ✓
- Geographic coverage
- Global
- Email deliverability tools
- ✓
- Published per-unit pricing
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Hybrid
- On-premise
Integrations (15)
Independently observed- CRM
- Salesforce Contact Center•
- Conversational AI
- Google Integrations•
- Microsoft Teams Operator Connect•
- Call Verification
- Pindrop
- Genesys
- Five9
- Webex
- Zoom
- Conversational AI Integrations
- Contact Center
- Workforce Management
- Analytics and Reporting→
Bandwidth FAQ
Common questions about Bandwidth, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Bandwidth?
Enterprise-grade telephony and messaging infrastructure serving contact centers and businesses across multiple countries, with APIs for voice communications, integrations with CX tools, and focus on compliance and reliability. It is indexed under Communication APIs.
Source: https://www.bandwidth.com
How much does Bandwidth cost?
Bandwidth is a paid product; published pricing starts at $0.00. It is sold across 5 plans (SMS Messaging, MMS Messaging, Voice API and Authentication API). There is no free tier. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
Source: https://www.bandwidth.com
What platforms does Bandwidth support?
We have confirmed browser-based access to Bandwidth. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.
Can Bandwidth be self-hosted?
We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Bandwidth, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.
What does Bandwidth integrate with?
We have confirmed 11 integrations for Bandwidth, including Call Verification, Pindrop, Genesys, Five9, Webex, Zoom, Conversational AI Integrations and CRM, plus 3 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
Source: https://www.bandwidth.com
What security certifications does Bandwidth have?
We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR for Bandwidth. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Bandwidth not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Bandwidth alternatives
Other communication apis we track, ranked by the same independent score.
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- PlivoAI voice agents and omnichannel communications platform with usage-based pricinghigh · 75%
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Compare Bandwidth
Side by side against other communication apis, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Bandwidth, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security posture | 95 | 0.12 | 10.9 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 0.16 | 7.9 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 75 | 0.06 | 4.7 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 81 | 0.05 | 4.2 | ✓ |
| Price level | 80 | 0.04 | 3.4 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 22 | 0.05 | 1.1 | ✓ |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 6 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 62% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Rcs: Yes · Sms: Yes · Voice: Yes · Two way: Yes · Verify otp: Yes · Global coverage: global | mediumsource · 2026-09-18 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 5 | mediumsource · 2026-09-18 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-09-18 · 75% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gdpr | Yes | highsource · 2026-09-18 · 75% |
| Hipaa | Yes | highsource · 2026-09-18 · 75% |
| Iso27001 | Yes | highsource · 2026-08-03 · 75% |
| Soc2 | Yes | highsource · 2026-09-18 · 75% |
| Pci | Yes | highsource · 2026-09-18 · 75% |
| Trust center | https://www.bandwidth.com/resources/top-compliance-terms-for-navigating-telephony/ | mediumsource · 2026-09-18 · 60% |
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