Plivo Verify
OTP API with no verification fee: pay only the SMS channel rate, sent from Plivo's pre-registered numbers.
Teams that want a managed OTP flow without per-verification charges or 10DLC paperwork fit well here. Each send costs $0.0077 per US segment plus carrier surcharges averaging $0.0043, and Fraud Shield is included at no charge. Because messages go out from pre-registered senders, there is no number rental or registration, which Bird Verify and AWS require. Compared with Twilio Verify, the main saving is the $0.05 fee on each successful verification, plus a slightly lower per-SMS rate ($0.0077 against $0.0083).
- Headquarters
- 馃嚭馃嚫 United States
- Parent jurisdiction
- 馃嚭馃嚫 United States
- EU self-serve plan
- No / not documented
- GDPR DPA
- Yes
- Billing
- payg
- Open source
- No
- Website
- www.plivo.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 |
|---|
| $0.012 |
Allowances, plan limits & calculation details
Rates are shown at their recorded precision. A zero means no charge in this calculation; the vendor may charge for things we leave out. See the notes for usage assumptions and currency conversions.
- Base fee / month
- $0
- Successful verification fee
- $0
- US SMS segment
- $0.012
$0 verification fee and $0 Fraud Shield; you pay the channel rate. US SMS $0.0077 per segment (long code/short code; toll-free $0.0079) plus carrier surcharges (AT&T $0.0035, T-Mobile $0.0045, Verizon $0.005; averaged $0.0043). Verify uses pre-registered senders, so no number rental or 10DLC registration; for DIY SMS a long code is $0.50/month and toll-free $1/month. Plivo Inc., US.
Managed alternatives
At 100K verifications / month, US numbers. Adjust usage and requirements.
Plivo Verify: $14,400/yr estimated.
- Bird Verify (MessageBird): $9,240/yr estimated 路 $5,160/yr bill differencePublished rates
- Infobip 2FA: $9,840/yr estimated 路 $4,560/yr bill differenceEstimated ratesAssumes 2FA bills at the SMS rate with no separate verification fee. US pass-through and registration fees are excluded.
- Firebase Phone Auth / Google Identity Platform: $12,000/yr estimated 路 $2,400/yr bill differencePublished rates
- AWS End User Messaging SMS: $14,340/yr estimated 路 $60/yr bill differencePublished rates
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鈥檇 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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