Twilio
$6,150–$360,000per year
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$54,000
Based on data from 367 purchases, with buyers saving 16% on average.per year
Median: $54,000
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Cloud communications platform for building SMS, Voice & Messaging applications on an API built for global scale. Get started with a free trial today!
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Cloud communications platform for building SMS, Voice & Messaging applications on an API built for global scale. Get started with a free trial today!
Twilio Authy is a globally-managed multi-channel authentication system that helps protect the integrity of customer data. It provides a secure and easy way for customers to verify their identity and access data.
Allow your users to add photos, video, and other file types to their conversations. Pay per GB of stored media per month.
Users are counted once a month based on their unique address or identity.
Try Flex for free with 5,000 free active user hours.
Pay for what you use, so you can scale up or down to keep up with seasonal traffic or part-time agents.
Pay per named user (agent, supervisor, or administrator) per month for predictable spend, regardless of volume or activity.
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| Supplier | Twilio | Bandwidth |
|---|---|---|
| Median Contract Value | $54,000 | $500 |
| Avg Savings | 15.6% | - |
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Company with 201-1000 employeesThis month
"Mention the possibility of introducing additional teams that might be interested in Segment" as leverage in the negotiations"Company with 201-1000 employeesThis month
"Twilio is willing to negotiate pricing when moving from M2M to an annual contract"Company with 201-1000 employeesThis month
"Negotiated a 23% discount moving from M2M to annual commitment for Twilio's SMS"Company with 201-1000 employeesThis quarter
"Leverage competition such as Prelude/Ding, as they will do a side-by-side comparison with your Twilio rates and are often much more cost-effective. "Company with 201-1000 employeesThis quarter
"Twilio is moving towards adding language to allow them to update pricing with 14 days written notice."Company with 201-1000 employeesThis quarter
"Always focus on top handful of higher volume skus when negotiating, negotiating every sku is oftentimes futile and results in negligible differences after the main skus have been finalized"Company with 201-1000 employeesThis quarter
"It's important to track utilization and periodically update minimum commitment to ensure the team is getting the best economies of scale or not overspending."Company with 201-1000 employeesThis quarter
"Pricing for this supplier is predominantly consumption based which is worth keeping in mind when discussing the contract so you do not pay high overages. We decided to keep our minimum commitment flat and renew for another year. "Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"Twilio was able to waive the 6% uplift imposed upon renewal in exchange for a 24 month contract."Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"Twilio agreed to remove auto-renew when we moved from a monthly contract to annual."Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"Negotiated $1,000 per month discount to move from M2M to annual commitment. "Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"Negotiated more favorable inbound call pricing, closer to pricing on outbound calls, on renewal contract."Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"One of the most effective ways to reduce costs is to explore alternative SMS providers. For instance, Telnyx offers competitive pricing at $0.0025 per outbound message and free inbound messages. This can be significantly cheaper than Twilio's near 1 cent per message rate
"Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"We were able to leverage growth expectations to negotiate tiered rates by volume on specific line items."Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"Leverage growth for better rates at renewal"Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"Increased minimum monthly spend and was able to push for discounted Virtual agent and Admin monthly rate for a 12 month term. Over $8,000 in savings"Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"We cut our monthly commitment in half to align with our actual usage, and Twilio agreed to keep the rates flat."Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"Was able to drop min commitment from 310,000 to 300,000 without change of rates based off usage. "Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"Twilio does not offer seconds billing in most cases which is an issue for sales teams using the service with unanswered calls or voicemail being billed as full calls. We explored this and Twilio said to qualify more than 30% of the calls need to be over 12 seconds and the average call duration needs to be above the 2-3 min mark. Most of Twilio's competitors do offer seconds billing."Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"Twilio agreed to reduce the HIPAA fee 50% in exchange for a 2 year commitment."Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"Twilio removed auto-renew after some pushback."Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"Was able to secure a 10% discount by committing to an annual commitment "Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"In a strategic move with Twilio, we managed to get a 10% reduction in our SMS rates by agreeing to an annual commit of about 80% of our historical spend. Previously we did not have a commitment, so that was helpful, but overall we found that leveraging past transaction data was crucial for this renewal and helped us save $10k upfront while allowing the expansion of SMS services without sacrificing budget. "Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"We were able to remove the auto-renew clause upon renewal.
We were also able to keep the Business Support rate flat, while they initially presented a lift upon renewal. "Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"We were able to bring down the price by leveraging economies of scale for our new purchase. We were also able to remove the auto-renew clause in the terms. "Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"Through numerous attempts was able to maintain a zero commitment of spend "Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"Twilio has moved to a self serve based model and away from dedicated account managers. "Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"We were able to get the production support cost removed by asking how many tickets we had opened over the past 12 months."Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"We were able to backdate pricing for an over due contract and pushed back on the current per text message pricing by leveraging competition. Vonage was willing to cut our contract by more than half so we told Twilio and received an almost 80% reduction in our text message fee. "Company with more than 1000 employeesA while ago
"Leveraged our growth to get ~20% discount per named user."About Vendr
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