Compare Telnyx vs. Bandwidth

Telnyx offers fine-grained control over routing, authentication, configuration settings and more, so you can build with freedom.

Bandwidth restricts configuration around options like encryption, whitelisting and authentication, limiting your integration options.

The Telnyx Mission Control portal is your sophisticated platform with the power to customize, simplify and scale your communications.

Multiple destinations for tools and services that add unnecessary overhead to managing your business.

Questions? Get a response in seconds from the engineers who built the API in the first place in our dedicated developer Slack channel.

Bandwidth forces you to comb through pages of outdated API docs, or submit a ticket to the end of their support queue, for simple questions.

Telnyx’s dedicated porting team is trained across International porting, and our Lookup API provides number information like MNC and MCC.

Bandwidth currently offers porting services across the US and Canada, with number lookup information limited to these regions too.

There’s no charge to receive an SMS and just $0.0025 to send (50% less than Bandwidth).

Bandwidth charges $0.005 to send a SMS, which can limit your ability to scale.

Points of presence in 10 locations across the globe connected via our private IP network, delivering the quality required for scaling with ease.

Bandwidth’s network only provides coverage from 4 points of presence in North America, limiting your ability to grow internationally.

Instantly search for, purchase and provision local, national and toll-free numbers, with features to match your use-case.

Bandwidth only provides access to telephone numbers within North America, meaning you need other providers for truly global reach.

Turn on international calling for individual countries, with real-time monitoring and advanced AI fraud detection so you're always protected.

Bandwidth forces you to activate international calling for every country at once, limiting your fraud protection options.