Telnyx
Voice AI Agents with Built-In Global Telco Infrastructure
- Also known as
- telnyx
What is Telnyx?
Voice AI platform that owns the full stack from carrier network to AI inference, enabling real-time agents without handoffs or lag.
Telnyx 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.
From $0.05/min voice engine. Pay-as-you-go or volume-discounted committed plans.
Pay as you go
- sms_per_sec
- 50
- concurrent_calls
- 500
- api_requests_per_sec
- 100
- 500 concurrent calls
- 100 API req/s
- 50 SMS/s
- Full platform access
- Community support
Committed
- Volume discounts across all usage
- Dedicated account manager
- Priority support
- Higher rate limits
Enterprise
Contact sales- Dedicated infrastructure
- Private network interconnect
- Unlimited rate limits
- Custom pricing
Add-ons
- LLM tokens$0.00 per minute
- Telephony$0.00 per minute
- Call recording$0.00 per minute
- SMS$0.00 per message
What Telnyx 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
Telnyx alternatives
Other communication apis we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- AgoraReal-Time Engagement & Conversational AI Platformlow · 48%
- NovuThe communication infrastructure for agents and productsmedium · 64%
- DailyRealtime voice, video, and AI for developersmedium · 62%
- StreamScalable Chat, Video & Activity Feed APIs and SDKsmedium · 62%
- Plivomedium · 62%
- BirdCommunications infrastructure your AI agents operatelow · 30%
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 Telnyx, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security Posture | 75 | 22.00 | 1650.0 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 30.00 | 1500.0 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 75 | 12.00 | 900.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 75 | 12.00 | 896.7 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 8.00 | 640.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 16.00 | 0.0 | - |
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
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"rcs":false,"sms":true,"chat":false,"email":false,"video":false,"voice":true,"two_way":true,"whatsapp":true,"verify_otp":false,"global_coverage":"global","deliverability_tools":false,"usage_pricing_transparent":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |