Bird
A unified communications platform for sending and receiving messages across email, SMS, WhatsApp, and voice through a single API.
- Also known as
- bird
Available worldwide
What is Bird?
Bird is a communications infrastructure platform that enables businesses to send and receive messages across multiple channels—email, SMS, WhatsApp, and voice—with a single API, integrated compliance tools, and built-in deliverability features.
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.
Free tier (1K emails/month). From $15/month. Growth plan with volume-based per-message pricing. Enterprise custom rates.
Free
Free- emails
- 1000/month
- 1,000 emails per month
- No credit card required
- 50 emails per day cap
- 1 webhook endpoint
- 1 sending domain
- Authentication, dashboards, suppression, webhooks, 30-day retention, shared IP
Startup
- emails
- 50000-100000/month
- 50,000 to 100,000 emails per month
- 10 sending domains
- Authentication, dashboards, suppression, webhooks, 30-day retention, shared IP
Growth
- emails
- 100000-2500000/month
- 100,000 to 2,500,000 emails per month
- 10 webhook endpoints
- 1,000 sending domains
- Dedicated IPs available as add-on ($24.95/month each, up to 5)
- ISP-aware routing, SPF/DKIM/DMARC, managed warm-up
Enterprise
Contact sales- emails
- 2500000+/month
- 2.5M+ emails per month
- Negotiated per-message rates
- Multi-year invoiced billing
- Volume above published tiers
- 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.
- 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- CLI
- iOS
- macOS
- Web
- Android
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (15)
Independently observed- Slack⇄•
- Salesforce⇄•
- ActiveCampaign⇄•
- Attio⇄•
- Zendesk Support⇄•
- Monday.com•
- Asana•
- Atlassian Jira•
- PagerDuty•
- Google Cloud Translation AI•
- n8n•
- Zapier⇄•
- Notion•
- Splunk•
- OPERA Cloud•
Security & compliance
Independently observed- SOC 2active
Bird FAQ
Common questions about Bird, answered from independent, dated evidence.
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. It is indexed under Communication APIs.
Is Bird free?
Bird offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans are also available: Free, Startup, Growth and Custom. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
What platforms does Bird support?
Bird supports the web, macOS, iOS, Android and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.
Can Bird be self-hosted?
We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Bird, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.
What security certifications does Bird have?
We have independently confirmed SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR for Bird. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Bird not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Source: https://bird.com/en-us/products/sms/compliance/opt-out
Bird alternatives
Other communication apis we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- NovuOpen-source platform for sending notifications and enabling agent conversations across email, SMS, chat, push, and in-app messagingmedium · 73%
- DailyLow-latency infrastructure for building real-time voice, video, and AI conversationsmedium · 71%
- StreamUnified platform for building real-time communication and community featuresmedium · 74%
- PlivoAI voice agents and omnichannel communications platform with usage-based pricinghigh · 75%
- SinchAPIs for SMS, voice, email, video, and verificationmedium · 72%
- InfobipConnect with customers across multiple messaging and communication platformslow · 48%
Compare Bird
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 Bird, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 50 | 0.16 | 7.9 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 60 | 0.12 | 6.9 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 100 | 0.06 | 6.3 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 100 | 0.05 | 5.1 | ✓ |
| Price level | 50 | 0.04 | 2.1 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 39 | 0.05 | 1.9 | ✓ |
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 | 5 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 62% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Rcs: Yes · Sms: Yes · Chat: Yes · Email: Yes · Voice: Yes · Two way: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-09-18 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 21 | 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 · 2026-08-13 · 60% |
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure policy | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
| Gdpr | Yes | highsource · 2026-09-03 · 75% |
| Hipaa | Yes | highsource · 2026-09-03 · 75% |
| Soc2 | Yes | highsource · 2026-09-03 · 75% |
| Certifications | SOC 2 | mediumsource · 2026-09-03 · 60% |
| Trust center | https://bird.com/en-us/products/sms/compliance | mediumsource · 2026-09-18 · 60% |
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