Twilio Communications
The communications infrastructure for every customer interaction
Twilio is the CPaaS that powers communications across channels. Our reliable APIs, global carrier reach, and compliance tools support teams and AI agents at scale.
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We handle the hard parts of connectivity
Twilio’s mission is to make it easy for you to connect with your customers, anywhere in the world. Twilio handles the global carrier networks and helps with compliance, which frees you up to reach people reliably and build amazing experiences.
262B+
messages sent/received annually
2.4T+
emails sent annually
38B+
voice calls annually
6.4B+
customer verifications annually
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Trusted scale and reach
Twilio supports 2.7+ trillion communications per year and handles massive volume spikes without interruption. Backed by the Super Network, our CPaaS solution covers 180+ countries and ensures low-latency and high deliverability while simplifying the complexity of global telco regulations.
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Intelligent engagement
Our scale doesn’t just mean greater reach. It means every message, call, and email is smarter. The volume of communications we process every day fuels our data and AI, so we can improve deliverability, reduce fraud, and optimize throughput in ways low-cost providers can't replicate.
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Freedom to build
Guided onboarding, multichannel APIs, SDKs, and documentation make it easy to get started with Twilio. Over 12 million developers choose Twilio so they can quickly spin up solutions and scale to global consumers.
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Fraud prevention
Our user authentication and identity solution uses authoritative mobile signals, real-time contextual data, and proprietary fraud detection models to stop fraud before it starts. We’ve blocked 878 million fraud attempts with Twilio Verify Fraud Guard to date2.
Not just small talk. Infrastructure for connected, contextual conversations.
When you build communications with Twilio, you’re not just getting communications APIs. Yes, you get the reach of a leading CPaaS along with a platform that has rich customer data, an intelligence layer, and security and trust built in.
You can connect single interactions into continuous threads that move from channel to channel and from conversational AI to agents without losing any of the critical context. No more communications that fall flat—just messages that build relationships and drive conversions.
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Guide
What is CPaaS?
Businesses are using Communications Platforms as a Service to create impactful cross-channel customer experiences.
Report
The ROI of the Twilio platform
The Twilio platform delivered 190% ROI and $12.5M in net present value, according to the Forrester Total Economic Impact study.
Partners
Find a Twilio partner
Work with a Twilio partner to build your communications solution with little to no developer resources.
Quickstart
SMS quickstart for developers
Build your first application with Twilio SMS to programmatically send and receive text messages.
Quickstart
Programmable Voice quickstart
Build your first server-side application that makes and receives phone calls with Twilio Programmable Voice.
Quickstart
SendGrid Email API quickstart
Send your first email with the Twilio SendGrid Email Send API, using your preferred programming language.
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Build with a CPaaS solution that can get your messages to customers reliably and deliver trusted communications—and then continue to meet your needs as you scale your solution.
FAQs
A communications platform as a service (CPaaS) is a cloud-based platform that embeds communications channels into any business application via API. This means you can send text messages (SMS, RCS, WhatsApp, and more), make voice and video calls, send emails, or verify users right from your app.
Twilio supports a wide range of communication channels to connect with customers, including:
SMS
MMS
RCS (Rich Communication Services)
WhatsApp
Facebook Messenger
Apple Messages for Business
Google Business Messages
Email
Video
Chat
Push
Voice
Companies choose Twilio over other CPaaS providers because we give you more freedom and flexibility to build the exact solution you need at your own pace, using the tools you already love—without getting locked into contracts or roadmaps.
Our platform provides reliability and global reach with infrastructure and connections with carrier networks to keep you connected with customers.
And we’re building the infrastructure for conversations in the AI era, so you can make every interaction more meaningful with the help of AI to carry over context from channel to channel, person to person, and from one conversation to the next. This enables your teams to deliver great experiences and your customers to get efficient service.
We try to simplify the process of A2P 10DLC registration with our Trust Hub and fast track onboarding.
Trust Hub is a centralized platform within Twilio where you can verify your business identity and manage compliance requirements for A2P 10DLC, toll-free, short codes, STIR/SHAKEN, CNAM and more. Discover Trust Hub
Fast Track onboarding is a paid service we offer to speed up the registration, review, and approval process for messaging campaigns and numbers in the United States if you need to get up and running quickly. See Fast track package terms
Twilio Communications costs vary. Our pricing is flexible by nature because you pay as you go with usage-based pricing instead of a package that locks you into a set price.
Your price is calculated based on:
Your monthly volume (messages, email, voice minutes)
Channel fees
Carrier fees
Phone number fees
Features you choose
View our pricing to get a better idea of what you’ll pay for communications.
You don’t need to be a developer to use Twilio for communications, but it does help. Twilio was built by developers, with developers in mind. Developers can use Twilio communication API and SDKs to build custom solutions in any programming language and develop highly tailored solutions by coding.
However, we have options that are low-code or no-code. You can manage many features through the Twilio Console or build workflows in our drag-and-drop editor, Studio.
We also have a Partner network with companies that can help you build a custom Twilio communications solution or offer something pre-built using our APIs.
Yes, you can start for free with Twilio by signing up for a trial account. Your account gives you access to Twilio products and is loaded with account credits to start working on your first projects.
When you’re ready, you can upgrade to a paid account to unlock all features in the Twilio Console and fully access our entire platform.
Yes, Twilio Conversations is our Conversational AI solution. Conversations lets you set up AI agents to respond to customers in natural language, with real-time intelligence across text, voice, and digital channels.
Our conversational AI powers virtual agents that can handle inbound inquiries, as well as agent assist tools that surface relevant information to human agents in real-time, and orchestration systems that connect conversations from AI to human agents without losing context.
Learn more about Twilio Conversations and how it powers conversational AI.