Twilio rejects termination calls sent faster than the trunk's CPS with a SIP 503 response, documented as '503 Trunk CPS limit exceeded'.

Checked 2026-10-02

Vendor
Twilio
Product
Elastic SIP Trunking
Subsystem
termination CPS enforcement
Deployment
multi-tenant
Region
not restricted
Release range
current as of 2026-10-02
Checked
2026-10-02

Sources

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, October 2). Calls-per-second limits on SIP trunks and dialers: source note sip-trunk-cps-limits-twilio-503-cps-exceeded. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/sip-trunk-cps-limits-twilio-503-cps-exceeded

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-sip-trunk-cps-limits-twilio-503-cps-exceeded,
  title  = {Calls-per-second limits on SIP trunks and dialers: source note sip-trunk-cps-limits-twilio-503-cps-exceeded},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/sip-trunk-cps-limits-twilio-503-cps-exceeded},
  note   = {Source note sip-trunk-cps-limits-twilio-503-cps-exceeded, checked 2026-10-02}
}

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