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Telnyx pricing is pay-as-you-go with volume and committed-use discounts: you pay per unit of usage (per minute, per message, per number, per GB) with no platform fee. Because Telnyx owns and operates its network, rates are typically lower than reseller platforms. → Full pricing for every product → Machine-readable pricing for AI agents (canonical markdown; JSON at telnyx.com/ai/pricing.json)

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Plans and tiers

TierHow it works
Pay-as-you-goDefault for every account — per-unit rates, no monthly platform fee, no commitment
Volume discountsApplied automatically as usage grows
Committed-use contractsCustom rates for committed monthly spend — via sales
Free trialSign up includes trial credit to test any API — no card required

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Representative rates

Live rates for every product and destination are at telnyx.com/pricing; these examples are from the canonical pricing.md:
ProductExample rate
SIP trunkingOutbound from 0.005/min⋅inboundfrom0.005/min · inbound from 0.0035/min
Voice API0.002/minplatformfee(plusSIPtrunking)⋅recording0.002/min platform fee (plus SIP trunking) · recording 0.002/min
Voice AI agents$0.05/min all-in (SIP + STT + LLM inference + TTS)
MessagingSMS outbound from $0.004/msg
Text-to-speechTelnyx voices from $0.000003/char
Speech-to-textFrom 0.007/min(AssemblyAI)⋅Telnyx0.007/min (AssemblyAI) · Telnyx 0.015/min
AI inferencePer-token by model, e.g. embeddings $0.0001/1K tokens

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How billing works by product area

Product areaBilling model
Voice (SIP trunking, Voice API, TeXML)Per-minute rates, inbound/outbound, by destination
Messaging (SMS, MMS, RCS, WhatsApp)Per-message rates by country and sender type
Phone numbersMonthly recurring charge per number, plus one-time fees where applicable
Wireless / IoT SIMsPer-MB data rates with regional zones
AI inference and voice AIPer-token or per-minute rates by model
Networking and storagePer-GB transfer and storage rates
Mission Control Portal shows real-time usage and per-product billing breakdowns.