[ffritz]

Actually for Germany, the costs for sending an SMS with Twilio is 9 ct. If I’m not mistaken, that is 10x more than what it costs in the US.

[edoceo]

Twilio and Plivo are sub-penny (USD$0.01) per message - for most of NA. International gets a bit more but in USA is cheap.

[ljf]

Isn't that because in the US the receiver of the SMS also pays?

[kuschku]

That’s actually relatively cheap, considering SMS prices used to be much higher than that until the EU enforced a hard limit of 10ct per SMS as maximum price.

[ffritz]

In what universe is 9 ct for a couple bytes over the wire cheap?

[kuschku]

In the context where, until recently, it was 25ct+ for the same 140 bytes.