{"slug": "telnyx", "name": "Telnyx", "category": "ai", "category_name": "AI tools and apps", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 10, "warners": 2, "score": 2.315, "rising": -0.98, "first": "2025-12-18", "latest": "2026-07-30", "why": "use an dedicated telecom API provider that doesn't squeeze you on pricing uselessly", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 5, "compare": 0, "warn": 2}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "use an dedicated telecom API provider that doesn't squeeze you on pricing uselessly", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "telnyx.com", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://telnyx.com", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Telnyx", "Telnyx Inference API"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 785859312, "item_id": 49116207, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49116207", "by": "pixelesque", "date": "2026-07-30", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Is one which is a bit cheaper", "excerpt": "Cheaper - not cheap! Morph occasionally have lower prices than the standard rates, and: https://telnyx.com/pricing/inference-api Is one which is a bit cheaper... I haven't actually tried K3 myself...", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT\u20115.6"}, {"id": 777803008, "item_id": 48612688, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612688", "by": "sameersri2004", "date": "2026-06-20", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The best one is literally Telnyx but it is costly compared to SignalWire.", "excerpt": "It's not Twilio; it's a combination of Telnyx and Signal wire and a link trip not using their TTS & STT. I'm using a combination of Cartesia and the self-hosted misolabs for TTS. I'm using Deepgram and in some cases Sarvam as well. It's a combination of all these things. As far as the question is why I used Telnyx and SignalWire, it's because of the cost and the latency thing. The Twilio API is not really fast as far", "context": "built a phone number product for AI agents", "use_case": "voice calling for AI agents", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Phone Number for AI Agents Like Hermes and OpenClaw"}, {"id": 762082001, "item_id": 47630125, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47630125", "by": "skrtskrt", "date": "2026-04-03", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "use an dedicated telecom API provider that doesn't squeeze you on pricing uselessly", "excerpt": "Starting with > Twilio charges around $0.05\u20130.06 per SMS round-trip Well - use an dedicated telecom API provider that doesn't squeeze you on pricing uselessly: https://telnyx.com/pricing/messaging Twilio is the DataDog / Microsoft of telecom APIs. The only reason you buy them is because it's the biggest name, or you have already integrated them so deeply that you're unwilling to rip it out. Their price structure also", "context": "", "use_case": "SMS messaging API", "switched_from": "", "story": "I Built an SMS Gateway with a $20 Android Phone \u2013 Jonno.nz"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 760793776, "item_id": 47549611, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47549611", "by": "zahlman", "date": "2026-03-27", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "If the version shown is 4.87.1 or 4.87.2, treat the environment as compromised.", "excerpt": "> If the version shown is 4.87.1 or 4.87.2, treat the environment as compromised. More generally speaking one would have to treat the computer/container/VM as compromised. User-level malware still sucks. We've seen just the other day that Python code can run at startup time with .pth files (and probably many other ways). With a source distribution, it can run at install time, too (see e.g. https://zahlman.github.io/p", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Telnyx v4.87.1 and v4.87.2 are compromised by TeamPCP"}, {"id": 760756192, "item_id": 47547262, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47547262", "by": "LoganDark", "date": "2026-03-27", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "was squeezed out when they started adding layer after layer of mandatory identity verification", "excerpt": "I used to use Telnyx many years ago, but was squeezed out when they started adding layer after layer of mandatory identity verification. Nope.", "context": "", "use_case": "telephony", "switched_from": "", "story": "Telnyx v4.87.1 and v4.87.2 are compromised by TeamPCP"}]}], "who": [{"by": "sameersri2004", "context": "built a phone number product for AI agents", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612688", "date": "2026-06-20"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["voice calling for ai agents", "sms messaging api", "telephony", "sip telephony", "sending faxes via api"], "compared": [], "makers": [{"id": 785517312, "item_id": 49094832, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49094832", "by": "luizanao", "date": "2026-07-29", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "chat/completions are stateless; no conversation or logs stored.", "excerpt": "check out https://developers.telnyx.com/docs/inference/data-residency - chat/completions are stateless; no conversation or logs stored.", "context": "", "use_case": "LLM inference with data residency", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API"}, {"id": 785224096, "item_id": 49076506, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076506", "by": "fionaattelnyx", "date": "2026-07-27", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "K3 is now available via the Telnyx Inference API", "excerpt": "Moonshot AI released open weights for Kimi K3 today and it's live on Telnyx Inference. The architecture and Moonshot's own benchmarks are in their technical blog. This post is about running it on Telnyx. What we are adding: K3 is now available via the Telnyx Inference API, hosted on GPUs that we own and operate. This matters due to the size of this model. A 2.8T model needs dedicated infra to serve well. Because we o", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API"}], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076505", "title": "Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47540388", "title": "Telnyx v4.87.1 and v4.87.2 are compromised by TeamPCP", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112867", "title": "Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT\u20115.6", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49107749", "title": "Agent-Manager: A Tmux TUI for Running Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612557", "title": "Show HN: Phone Number for AI Agents Like Hermes and OpenClaw", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47621825", "title": "I Built an SMS Gateway with a $20 Android Phone \u2013 Jonno.nz", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-01": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {"neutral": 1, "warn": 2}, "2026-04": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-07": {"neutral": 2, "recommend": 1}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "quotes": [{"id": 785859312, "item_id": 49116207, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49116207", "by": "pixelesque", "date": "2026-07-30", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Is one which is a bit cheaper", "excerpt": "Cheaper - not cheap! Morph occasionally have lower prices than the standard rates, and: https://telnyx.com/pricing/inference-api Is one which is a bit cheaper... I haven't actually tried K3 myself...", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT\u20115.6"}, {"id": 785822322, "item_id": 49113895, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49113895", "by": "jonesy827", "date": "2026-07-30", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "It uses Telnyx SIP and LiveKit cloud", "excerpt": "I started using herdr last night, and was able to get a workflow I've wanted to set up for a while working, which is to be able to talk to a managing agent in my car and check on / update claude sessions. It uses Telnyx SIP and LiveKit cloud, and I'm using Qwen3.6 35B-A3B quite successfully as the voice layer router. It's still very early but it works quite well. If you decide to try it out, please make sure to read ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Agent-Manager: A Tmux TUI for Running Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode"}, {"id": 785338000, "item_id": 49083625, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49083625", "by": "mkl", "date": "2026-07-28", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "The top text says MENA as well, but the regions page doesn't mention it.", "excerpt": "Atlanta, Denver, Paris, Sydney: https://developers.telnyx.com/docs/inference/models/regions The top text says MENA as well, but the regions page doesn't mention it.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API"}, {"id": 777803008, "item_id": 48612688, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612688", "by": "sameersri2004", "date": "2026-06-20", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The best one is literally Telnyx but it is costly compared to SignalWire.", "excerpt": "It's not Twilio; it's a combination of Telnyx and Signal wire and a link trip not using their TTS & STT. I'm using a combination of Cartesia and the self-hosted misolabs for TTS. I'm using Deepgram and in some cases Sarvam as well. It's a combination of all these things. As far as the question is why I used Telnyx and SignalWire, it's because of the cost and the latency thing. The Twilio API is not really fast as far", "context": "built a phone number product for AI agents", "use_case": "voice calling for AI agents", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Phone Number for AI Agents Like Hermes and OpenClaw"}, {"id": 762082001, "item_id": 47630125, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47630125", "by": "skrtskrt", "date": "2026-04-03", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "use an dedicated telecom API provider that doesn't squeeze you on pricing uselessly", "excerpt": "Starting with > Twilio charges around $0.05\u20130.06 per SMS round-trip Well - use an dedicated telecom API provider that doesn't squeeze you on pricing uselessly: https://telnyx.com/pricing/messaging Twilio is the DataDog / Microsoft of telecom APIs. The only reason you buy them is because it's the biggest name, or you have already integrated them so deeply that you're unwilling to rip it out. Their price structure also", "context": "", "use_case": "SMS messaging API", "switched_from": "", "story": "I Built an SMS Gateway with a $20 Android Phone \u2013 Jonno.nz"}, {"id": 760793776, "item_id": 47549611, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47549611", "by": "zahlman", "date": "2026-03-27", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "If the version shown is 4.87.1 or 4.87.2, treat the environment as compromised.", "excerpt": "> If the version shown is 4.87.1 or 4.87.2, treat the environment as compromised. More generally speaking one would have to treat the computer/container/VM as compromised. User-level malware still sucks. We've seen just the other day that Python code can run at startup time with .pth files (and probably many other ways). With a source distribution, it can run at install time, too (see e.g. https://zahlman.github.io/p", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Telnyx v4.87.1 and v4.87.2 are compromised by TeamPCP"}, {"id": 760756192, "item_id": 47547262, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47547262", "by": "LoganDark", "date": "2026-03-27", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "was squeezed out when they started adding layer after layer of mandatory identity verification", "excerpt": "I used to use Telnyx many years ago, but was squeezed out when they started adding layer after layer of mandatory identity verification. Nope.", "context": "", "use_case": "telephony", "switched_from": "", "story": "Telnyx v4.87.1 and v4.87.2 are compromised by TeamPCP"}, {"id": 760752176, "item_id": 47547011, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47547011", "by": "ilaksh", "date": "2026-03-27", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "The way I use Telynx is via SIP which is an open protocol.", "excerpt": "The way I use Telynx is via SIP which is an open protocol. No reason we should be relying on proprietary APIs for this stuff. On GitHub see my fork runvnc/PySIP. Please let me know if you know if something better for python that is not copy left or rely on some copy left or big external dependency. I was using baresip but it was a pain to integrate and configure with python. Anyway, after fixing a lot in the original", "context": "", "use_case": "SIP telephony", "switched_from": "", "story": "Telnyx v4.87.1 and v4.87.2 are compromised by TeamPCP"}, {"id": 743968272, "item_id": 46498017, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46498017", "by": "ahmgeek", "date": "2026-01-05", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "we don't use twilio, we use telnyx.", "excerpt": "Thanks for pointing out the outdated content, we don't use twilio, we use telnyx. our markup is mere 30% not 257%. thanks for the checks up tho :)", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "Twilio", "story": "Show HN: I built an international calling platform for the past 6 months"}, {"id": 741003856, "item_id": 46312741, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46312741", "by": "birdman3131", "date": "2025-12-18", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Telnyx. (Mainly because I also use them for voice.)", "excerpt": "https://developers.telnyx.com/docs/programmable-fax/send-a-fax-api I use Telnyx. (Mainly because I also use them for voice.)", "context": "", "use_case": "sending faxes via API", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 \u2013 Show and tell"}]}