@joeynoh Thanks so much, Joey. It’s been a pleasure. If anybody would like to know more about the partnership and how either company can help your specific goals (either with messaging or building APIs), you can reach out to either of us or our teams. :)

@adamwebber hey Adam, great question! So, first of all, no need to deal with “trial accounts” or anything like that. With StdLib, you get $5.00 in credits for signing up and each SMS costs $0.005 to send - so 1,000 free messages. On top of that you get easily accessible documentation for all members of your team and a great playground to work with. 😊 Finally, MessageBird is a trusted global partner of some amazing brands (Uber, Heineken, and more). Their messaging service is top-notch. They have a hyper-responsive customer service team that will go to bat for you if you’re considering an Enterprise plan, and we’re happy to help with that transition - either through StdLib or otherwise. We view MessageBird as part of our team. Our goal is to deliver on APIs, and their goal is to deliver on messaging reliability (they can chime in additionally if they’d like!) I hope that helps!

@adamwebber At MessageBird we focus on solving communications at its very core, building a global infrastructure for SMS and Voice. We have hundreds of direct connections to carriers around the world and are ourselves a registered carrier in several countries, leveraging our own telco stack. This allows us to be faster, more reliable, more efficient and more secure than Twilio. In a nutshell, Twilio is built on top of companies like us :)

@adamwebber @joeynoh let me wave in. Both twilio and mb are great. But in general, at least in Europe, purchasing phone numbers is cheaper at twilio ($5, compared to 25 € with mb). SMS is also cheaper. In addition, twilio just released their drag and drop builder which is very intuitive and does not require coding knowledge. Just my two cents. Still, great job mb! :)

Thanks @d_kupka! All though our Numbers may be a bit pricier in the EU, this does come with one major benefit: MB Inbound SMS is free, where as with Twilio, you'll pay for every SMS you receive. And actually, MB SMS pricing is cheaper in nearly every country, including all major EU countries and the US, where we're about 50% cheaper. And great you should mention Twilio Studio! We have actually launched our own drag-n-drop builder called the Flow Builder, before Studio was announced :) We haven't done a big put yet, but it's availabe in the MessageBird online Dashboard.

@carlosleisantos so - MessageBird’s stand-alone API is already amazing at dealing with European numbers (check out https://www.messagebird.com). As a company based in Amsterdam, they are the best at delivering on European SMS (and more!). We will be expanding our combined API offering more in the future, but there’s no need to re-invent the wheel in the short term: please feel free to use MessageBird directly for their European services!

@carlosleisantos @keithwhor Hi Keith, in the MessageBird API, they are no ways to claim european numbers at this moment, if I'm correct. Is there any chance you can provide us european numbers through StdLib ? (would be a feature much, much needed on the european market). Best. André