Bird

Communications infrastructure your AI agents operate

Also known as
bird

What is Bird?

Multi-channel communications platform enabling email, SMS, voice, WhatsApp, and real-time messaging through a single API designed for developers and AI agents.

Independently observed

Bird 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.

Pricing as of verify at live pricing ↗Independently observed
from $0.80/moUsage-basedFree tier

Free tier with 1000 emails/month. Startup from $15/month. Growth from $80/month with volume-based pricing declining to $0.42 per 1000 emails.

Free

Free
Free
emails
1000/month
daily_cap
50/day
  • 1 webhook endpoint
  • 1 sending domain
  • Shared sending IP

Startup

$15/month for 50K emails or $30/month for 100K
emails
50000-100000/month
  • 1 webhook endpoint
  • 10 sending domains
  • Shared sending IP

Growth

From $80/month at 100K emails. Per-message rate declines to $0.42 per 1000 at 2.5M volume
emails
100000-2500000/month
  • 10 webhook endpoints
  • 1000 sending domains
  • Dedicated IPs available as add-on

Enterprise

Contact sales
Contact sales
annual
emails
2500000+/month
  • Negotiated per-message rates
  • Multi-year invoiced billing
  • Overage cap lifted by agreement

Add-ons

  • Dedicated IP$24.95/mo

What Bird 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.

Channels
SMS
Voice
WhatsApp
RCS
Transactional email
Video / real-time
-
In-app chat
-
Verify / OTP / 2FA
Messaging
Two-way messaging
Reach
Geographic coverage
Global
Delivery
Email deliverability tools
Commercial
Published per-unit pricing
Independently observed

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • CLI
  • Web
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS

Bird alternatives

Other communication apis we track, ranked by the same independent score.

Independent · unbought · dated

The Vioscale 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 Bird, not the verdict.

Balanced composite 73 / 100
low · 30%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Reliability5030.001500.0
Pricing Transparency10012.001200.0
Capabilities9612.001152.3
Price Level808.00640.0
Integrations016.000.0-
Security Posture522.000.0-

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.

Features

AttributeValueEvidence
Capabilities{"rcs":true,"sms":true,"email":true,"voice":true,"two_way":true,"whatsapp":true,"verify_otp":true,"global_coverage":"global","deliverability_tools":true,"usage_pricing_transparent":true}mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Free tierYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
Modelcommercialmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 70%
Price levellowmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
Starting gbp0.8mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
TransparentYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Reliability

AttributeValueEvidence
Status pageYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Security

AttributeValueEvidence
Disclosure policyYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%