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API-based Voice and SMS platform for businesses of all sizes

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Plivo - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Last updated: September 2026

Plivo overview

What is Plivo?

Plivo offers a simple, quick, and scalable way to modernize customer communications.

Plivo's enterprise-grade communications platform includes a premium carrier network with connectivity in more than 190 countries, an API platform for messaging and voice calls, our visual builder PHLO, and solutions for sales and support teams. The Plivo team brings deep experience in communications and modern software to address the needs of today's businesses — quality, scale, innovation, and agility.

Starting price

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Pros & Cons

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Delivery Rates

Performance and Speed

Customer Support

Disappointment

Server Backup

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Plivo’s user interface

Ease of use rating:

Plivo reviews

Overall rating

4.3

/5

84

Positive reviews

76

%

Rating breakdown
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend0.76/10
Rating distribution

5

4

3

2

1

44

32

2

1

5

Pros
“Plivo provides APIs and SDKs for various programming languages, making it easy to integrate communication functionality into my web applications. and allows me to scale communication services as my business grows, without having to worry about infrastructure and maintenance.”
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Ahmed S.

web developer

“Plivo provides excellent call quality, SMS delivery rates, and reliable voice and messaging services.”
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Imran H.

Team coordinator

“We offer text message capabilities for free to our customers and our switch from 1 provider to them caused an outage for our Ireland and Australian customers.”
MG

Mony G.

CEO

Cons
“It's also difficult to monitor calls for the same reason. But it's our backup server, so its not something we deal with often.”
SG

Steven G.

Production Supervisor

“Unfortunately, our account was suspended without clear explanations, even though we had been completely transparent about our usage from the start.”
FO

Fabio O.

Co-Founder

“We are unable to provide service at this time due to our internal risk assessment.”
OM

Oleg M.

CTO

Who uses Plivo?

Based on 84 verified user reviews.

Company size

Small Businesses

Midsize Businesses

Enterprises

Top industries

Information Technology and Services
Insurance
Financial Services
Telecommunications
Others

Use cases

SMS Marketing
Cloud Communication Platform

Plivo's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from Plivo users:

Scheduled messaging
2-Way messaging
Message personalization
Contact management

All Plivo features

Features rating:

2-Way messaging
Access controls/permissions
API
Audio/Video conferencing
Auto-Dialer
Automated responses
Automated routing
Call center management
Call conferencing
Caller id
Call logging
Call monitoring
Call recording
Call routing
Call scripting
Call tracking
Call transfer
Chat/Messaging
Chat Transcript
Collaboration tools
Computer telephony integration
Conferencing
Contact management
Event triggered actions
IVR
Mass texting
Message personalization
Mobile access
Mobile coupons
Multi-Channel communication
Multi-Language
Multi-User collaboration
On-Demand recording
Online voice transmission
Phone Key Input
Polls/Voting
Predictive dialer
Real-Time notifications
Reporting/Analytics
Scheduled messaging
Shortcodes
SMS marketing
SMS messaging
Survey/Poll management
Text to speech
Text-to-Win
Voice mail

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Plivo pricing

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Pricing details
Subscription
Free trial
Free plan
Pricing range

User opinions about Plivo price and value

Value for money rating:

To see what individual users think of Plivo's price and value, check out the review snippets below.

“Plivo provides APIs and SDKs for various programming languages, making it easy to integrate communication functionality into my web applications. and allows me to scale communication services as my business grows, without having to worry about infrastructure and maintenance.”
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Ahmed S.

web developer

“Plivo provides excellent call quality, SMS delivery rates, and reliable voice and messaging services.”
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Imran H.

Team coordinator

Plivo integrations (1)

Integrations rated by users

We looked at 84 user reviews to identify which products are mentioned as Plivo integrations and how users feel about them.

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Integration rating: 4.0 (1)

Very critical we were able to integrate since Salesforce is what we use internally for order management, and ServiceChannel did exactly that

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Andrew O.

Central Support - Senior Team Lead

Integration rating: 4.0 (1)

It was so easy to pull contact lists from Clevenio to HubSpot.

OI

Olli I.

Head of Sales

Plivo customer support

What do users say about Plivo customer support?

Customer support rating:

We analyzed verified user reviews to identify positive and negative aspects of Plivo customer support.

Widely noted by reviewers, Plivo's customer support is responsive, helpful, and often resolves issues quickly.

Frequently reported by users, the support team provides regular updates and personal attention until problems are addressed.

A limited number of users report slow response times, difficulty reaching support, and inconsistent quality of assistance.

Support options

Faqs/forum
Email/help desk
Knowledge base
24/7 (live rep)

Training options

Documentation

To see what individual users say about Plivo's customer support, check out the review snippets below.

“I contacted this team back in early 2021 to speak with sales about signing up and to understand more about 10DLC at the time and how they were going to handle it.”

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Ryan M.

CEO

“I've been a Plivo customer since 2014 with two other companies.”

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Daniel S.

Founder

“Our attempts to resolve the issue with their support team were met with delayed responses and a lack of helpfulness.”

FO

Fabio O.

Co-Founder

“This sort of false advertising and customer service is completely unacceptable and I felt like others need to be aware.”

MG

Mony G.

CEO

Plivo FAQs

Q. Who are the typical users of Plivo?

Plivo has the following typical customers:
Large Enterprises, Small Business, Mid-size Business, Freelancers

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Q. What level of support does Plivo offer?

Plivo offers the following support options:
FAQs/Forum, Email/Help Desk, Knowledge Base, 24/7 (Live rep)

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