Twilio is the default, and for US and European traffic it is a fine one. Woyra exists for the teams whose users are in Addis Ababa, Nairobi and Lagos, where the default is expensive and opaque.
| What | Woyra | Twilio |
|---|---|---|
| Verification, platform fee | $0.01 per success | $0.05 per attempt |
| Verification, all in (US SMS) | $0.017 | $0.058 |
| US SMS segment | $0.0069 | $0.0079–0.0083 |
| Lookup | $0.004 | ~$0.005–0.01 |
| Ethiopian data residency | Separate data plane, 451 on cross-region reads | Not offered |
| Which carrier carried the message | On every message, with the reason | Not exposed |
Twilio's figures are reference list prices from their public pricing; check them before you decide, and tell us if one is out of date.
Twilio Verify charges per attempt. Woyra charges the platform fee only when the code is entered, so a bad route costs Woyra, not you.
Rates for Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria and their neighbours are published per country and negotiated with the carriers there, and the router is scored on whether codes convert in those markets.
Email, SMS, verification and lookup on one key with one idempotency header, rather than a product per acquisition.
Twilio has products Woyra does not: video, contact centre, a marketplace of add-ons and numbers in most countries on earth. If you need those today, you need Twilio. If you send codes and notifications to people in Africa, compare the two on your own traffic.