Twilio
Conversational AI and APIs for SMS, voice, and email
Twilio is a communications platform that provides APIs for sending and receiving SMS, MMS, RCS, WhatsApp messages, voice calls, email, and video, along with tools for user verification and identity checks. It also offers conversational AI capabilities for orchestrating customer interactions across channels and a customer data platform, Twilio Segment, for unifying first-party data. The platform is designed to help businesses build and manage customer communications through a single set of APIs and services.
Key modules include Conversation Orchestrator, Conversation Intelligence, Conversation Memory, Enterprise Knowledge, and Conversation Relay for voice AI. Communications products cover SMS, RCS, WhatsApp, the Conversations API, SendGrid Email API, Twilio Email, SendGrid Marketing Campaigns, Voice APIs, Elastic SIP Trunking, Twilio Flex, Twilio Video, Interconnect, and TaskRouter. Authentication includes Verify and Lookup. Customer data tools include Connections, Protocols, Unify, Twilio Engage, and the Twilio Segment CDP. Builder tools include Studio, Functions, and Assets. Integrations are available with Salesforce, Replit, and OpenAI, among others.
Twilio is intended for developers, marketers, and businesses building customer engagement solutions. Pricing is primarily pay-as-you-go and usage-based, with a free trial available that does not require a credit card. Some products offer free allowances, such as SendGrid Email API with 100 emails per day, Twilio Flex and Twilio Video with 5,000 free hours, and Functions with 10,000 free invocations. Twilio for Salesforce is priced per seat, and support plans range from free developer plans to paid tiers based on monthly spend.
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