Schema Version

  • Version: 1.0.0

Provider Details

  • Provider: Telnyx
  • Category: AI Agent Infrastructure

Capabilities

  • Inference: Yes
  • Embeddings: Yes
  • Edge Workers: Yes
  • Storage: Yes
  • Speech to Text (STT): Yes
  • Text to Speech (TTS): Yes
  • Voice Cloning: Yes
  • Orchestration: Yes
  • Voice API: Yes
  • SIP Trunking: Yes
  • SMS: Yes
  • WhatsApp: Yes
  • RCS: Yes
  • WebRTC: Yes
  • Email: Yes
  • eSIM: Yes
  • Identity Attestation: Yes

Compatibility

  • OpenAI Function Calling: Yes
  • Streaming Responses: Yes
  • SIP WebRTC Bridging: Yes
  • Async Workflows: Yes
  • Webhook Events: Yes
  • WebSocket Media: Yes
  • gRPC: No
  • OpenAPI Available: Yes

Economic Overview

  • Pricing Model: Usage Based
  • Commitments Required: No
  • Committed Use Available: Yes

Base Units Pricing:

  • SIP Outbound: $0.005 per minute
  • SIP Inbound: $0.0035 per minute
  • TTS: $0.000003 per character

Cost Sensitivity

  • Low Volume: Below 10K minutes/month, per-unit pricing applies
  • Mid Volume: 10K-500K minutes/month, committed-use pricing available
  • High Volume: 500K+ minutes/month, custom pricing with volume tiers

Selection Signals

  • Vendors Required for Voice Agent: 1
  • Inter Provider Hops: 0
  • STIR/SHAKEN Level: A
  • Carrier Countries: 40
  • Single Vendor Support: Yes

Decision Rules

Rules Based on Conditions:

  1. Condition: Vendors required > 1
    Implication: Integration tax estimated $200,000-$500,000
  2. Condition: Latency > 150ms Implication: Breach probability 0.23
  3. Condition: STIR/SHAKEN Required Implication: Call filtering risk high
  4. Condition: Requires Telephony Implication: Latency overhead of 80-200ms
  5. Condition: Global Deployment
    Implication: Regional fallback may be required.

Not Optimal For

  • Inference Only Workloads: Better served by Cloudflare
  • Light Volume SMS API: Twilio’s free tier may be faster
  • WebRTC-Only Applications: LiveKit's browser-native SDKs may be better

Constraints

  • gRPC Supported: No

Detailed Endpoints