Bird Verify (MessageBird)
Bird's verification API with no separate verify fee; pay the channel rate, $0.0035 per US SMS plus carrier fees.
Bird charges for SMS delivery, with no separate verification fee. A US segment is $0.0035 plus carrier fees averaging $0.0042. US sending needs 10DLC registration: a $4.50 brand fee, $15 campaign vetting and $10/month for the campaign, billed quarterly. Bird is based in Amsterdam, but this service does not offer EU data residency.
- Headquarters
- 🇳🇱 Netherlands
- Parent jurisdiction
- 🇳🇱 Netherlands (parent: Bird)
- EU self-serve plan
- No / not documented
- GDPR DPA
- Yes
- Billing
- payg
- Open source
- No
- Website
- bird.com
- Source last checked
- 2026-10-06
- Pricing evidence
- Published rates
Pricing
Calculated from the listed vendor rates; exclusions still apply. How to read these estimates.
| US SMS segment |
|---|
| $0.0077 |
Allowances, plan limits & calculation details
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- Base fee / month
- $0
- Successful verification fee
- $0
- US SMS segment
- $0.0077
No separate Verify fee; code checks are free and each send is billed at the SMS rate. US SMS $0.0035 per segment (long code or toll-free; short code $0.007) plus carrier fees from Bird's fee table (long code: AT&T $0.0035, T-Mobile $0.0045, Verizon $0.0045; averaged $0.0042). 10DLC fees: brand $4.50, campaign vetting $15, campaign $10/month (2FA use case, billed quarterly); US local number $0.50/month. Bird (formerly MessageBird), Amsterdam.
Managed alternatives
At 100K verifications / month, US numbers. Adjust usage and requirements.
Bird Verify (MessageBird): $9,240/yr estimated.
No cheaper managed estimate matches your filters. Adjust your usage or compare with your actual contract bill.
The price difference leaves out migration costs, operating costs and any features you’d need to replace.
Self-hosted options
Operating cost is not estimated. These options are not counted as savings against managed services.
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