Twilio bills SMS per segment and MMS per message, so a long or Unicode SMS that splits into several segments is billed several times.

Checked 2026-10-14

Vendor
Twilio
Product
Twilio Programmable Messaging
Subsystem
billing-unit
Deployment
multi-tenant
Region
us
Release range
current as of 2026-10-14
Checked
2026-10-14

Sources

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, October 14). CPaaS voice and messaging pricing compared: source note cpaas-pricing-comparison-twilio-sms-per-segment. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/cpaas-pricing-comparison-twilio-sms-per-segment

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-cpaas-pricing-comparison-twilio-sms-per-segment,
  title  = {CPaaS voice and messaging pricing compared: source note cpaas-pricing-comparison-twilio-sms-per-segment},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/cpaas-pricing-comparison-twilio-sms-per-segment},
  note   = {Source note cpaas-pricing-comparison-twilio-sms-per-segment, checked 2026-10-14}
}

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