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Alternatives to Nexmo

Twilio, Plivo, Bandwidth, Infobip, and Clickatell are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Nexmo.
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What is Nexmo and what are its top alternatives?

Nexmo connects your apps directly to carriers around the world. Integrate SMS and Voice messages using one simple API. Use Nexmo Verity to register users, verify transactions, and implement two factor authentication.
Nexmo is a tool in the Voice and SMS category of a tech stack.

Top Alternatives to Nexmo

  • Twilio
    Twilio

    Twilio offers developers a powerful API for phone services to make and receive phone calls, and send and receive text messages. Their product allows programmers to more easily integrate various communication methods into their software and programs. ...

  • Plivo
    Plivo

    Plivo provides basic building block APIs in the form of Plivo XML and HTTP API, to create telephony apps, so developers can completely do away with learning the nitty-gritty of the telephony plumbing. ...

  • Bandwidth
    Bandwidth

    A Communications Platform as a Service company offering a full suite of voice, messaging, and 9-1-1 APIs, all built atop the company's own all-IP voice network. ...

  • Infobip
    Infobip

    It is a global leader in omnichannel engagement. We help our clients and partners overcome the complexity of consumer communications & grow their business. ...

  • Clickatell
    Clickatell

    It gives powers to chat commerce by helping you reach and engage customers through SMS, WhatsApp and other social channels. ...

  • MessageBird
    MessageBird

    At MessageBird we believe that communicating with a business should feel as natural as communicating with a friend. That's why our SMS, Voice and Conversations APIs continue to revolutionize company-customer interactions. ...

  • Sinch
    Sinch

    Sinch makes it easy for developers to add voice, messaging and SMS to their apps with just a few lines of code. Enrich your apps with communications that your users will love. ...

  • Twilio SendGrid
    Twilio SendGrid

    Twilio SendGrid's cloud-based email infrastructure relieves businesses of the cost and complexity of maintaining custom email systems. Twilio SendGrid provides reliable delivery, scalability & real-time analytics along with flexible API's. ...

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PROS OF TWILIO
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    Powerful, simple, and well documented api
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    RESTful API
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    Clear pricing
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    Great sms services
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    Low cost of entry
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    Global SMS Gateway
  • 14
    Good value
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    Cloud IVR
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    Simple
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    Extremely simple to integrate with rails
  • 6
    Great for startups
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    SMS
  • 3
    Great developer program
  • 3
    Hassle free
  • 2
    Text me the app pages
  • 1
    New Features constantly rolling out
  • 1
    Many deployment options, from build from scratch to buy
  • 1
    Easy integration
  • 1
    Two factor authentication
CONS OF TWILIO
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    Predictable pricing
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    Expensive

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Hi, We are looking to implement 2FA - so that users would be sent a Verification code over their Email and SMS to their phone.

We faced some limitations with Amazon SNS where we could either send the verification code to email OR to the phone number, while we want to send it to both.

We also are looking to make the 2FA more flexible by adding any other options later on.

What are the best alternatives to SNS for this use case and purpose? Looked at Twilio but want to explore other options before making a decision.

Would be great to know what the experience with Twilio has been, especially the limitations/issues with Twilio...

Appreciate any input from users of Twilio and others who have had similar use cases.

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Cheri Booth
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Searching for options for SMS that integrates with SiteLink and will allow personalization of text and tracking of both incoming/outgoing messages with reporting (Time, date, call#, etc) Have been looking at Twilio, and seems most leaning toward this. Are there any other options known that integrate into SiteLink? Also looked at Clickatell.

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Plivo

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API platform to build Voice & SMS Applications
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PROS OF PLIVO
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    SMS gateway
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    Pricing
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    Voice API service
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    24/7 Support
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    I use Plivo because Tropo discontinued their services. It provides clean event logs, categorized and filterable. Super easy to troubleshoot problems. Tropo was a fine service but event logging was horrendous.

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    Bandwidth

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                Searching for options for SMS that integrates with SiteLink and will allow personalization of text and tracking of both incoming/outgoing messages with reporting (Time, date, call#, etc) Have been looking at Twilio, and seems most leaning toward this. Are there any other options known that integrate into SiteLink? Also looked at Clickatell.

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                Making business communications feel as natural as communicating with friends.
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                PROS OF MESSAGEBIRD
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                  User friendly
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                  Quality
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                  Low Cost of entry
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                    Super smooth SDK
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                    Easy setup
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                    Cross-platform (iOS, Android, Web)
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                    Super voice quality
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                    Great support
                  CONS OF SINCH
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                    Easy email integration!
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                    Reliable
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                    Well-documented
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                    Generous free allowance to get you started
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                    Trackable
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                    Azure add-on
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                    Better support for third party integrations
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                    Simple installation
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                    Free plan
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                    Helpful evangelist staff
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                    Great client libraries
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                    Great support
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                    Better customer support than the competition
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                    Great add-ons
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                    Nice dashboard
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                    Web editor for templates
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                  Julien DeFrance
                  Principal Software Engineer at Tophatter · | 3 upvotes · 562.4K views

                  Nexmo vs Twilio ?

                  Back in the early days at SmartZip Analytics, that evaluation had - for whatever reason - been made by Product Management. Some developers might have been consulted, but we hadn't made the final call and some key engineering aspects of it were omitted.

                  When revamping the platform, I made sure to flip the decision process how it should be. Business provided an input but Engineering lead the way and has the final say on all implementation matters. My engineers and I decided on re-evaluating the criteria and vendor selection. Not only did we need SMS support, but were we not thinking about #VoiceAndSms support as the use cases evolved.

                  Also, on an engineering standpoint, SDK mattered. Nexmo didn't have any. Twilio did. No-one would ever want to re-build from scratch integration layers vendors should naturally come up with and provide their customers with.

                  Twilio won on all fronts. Including costs and implementation timelines. No-one even noticed the vendor switch.

                  Many years later, Twilio demonstrated its position as a leader by holding conferences in the Bay Area, announcing features like Twilio Functions. Even acquired Authy which we also used for 2FA. Twilio's growth has been amazing. Its recent acquisition of SendGrid continues to show it.

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