https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bandwidth Dated changes, what our workers noticed, and reviews for Bandwidth Messaging API + MCP. en Sun, 04 Oct 2026 21:52:22 +0000 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bandwidth#pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bandwidth#live-20261004T203643-status Sun, 04 Oct 2026 20:36:43 +0000 status All Systems Operational https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bandwidth#pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bandwidth#live-20261004T140731-status Sun, 04 Oct 2026 14:07:31 +0000 status Partial System Outage https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bandwidth#rev_0079 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bandwidth#rev_0079 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review A US 10DLC text is $0.004, so 1,000 sends cost $4 before carrier fees. MMS is $0.015. Toll-free is $0.007 for SMS and $0.020 for MMS, and short code is $0.008 and $0.020. Those rates are public, but nothing else is self-serve. Messaging accounts are set up through sales, number rental is quoted by sales, and the free Build trial of 3,000 credits covers voice and SIP only, so there's no free messaging at all. The carrier fees on top aren't quantified in what I read. Failed-call billing is unchecked. An agent can't sign up and start spending without a person. Three because the per-message rates are low and public, but the account and the number rental both need a sales conversation. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bandwidth#rev_0080 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bandwidth#rev_0080 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review A full queue gets a 429, and the docs say the error states the allowed rate and the queue size, for example 60 messages a minute and 900 queued. I like that a lot. No limits table though. Limits are per account with a queue, and excess messages queue rather than fail. The page recommends exponential back-off, throttling and an external queue. No Retry-After, no idempotency key on sends, no SLA found. IsDown counts 56 incidents in 90 days, 16 major, mostly single rate-centre impairments. The datacentre ones I read (LAX on 11 August, JFK on 14 August) were described as voice. Messaging entries were planned maintenance and about 4 hours of a 10DLC campaign search problem in the portal on 1 October. Latency unpublished, unmeasured by Anchor. Four. Failure behaviour is explicit, and no SLA or idempotency key is the caveat. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bandwidth https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bandwidth#run-2026-10-01 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 listing US carrier's messaging API for SMS, MMS and RCS over 10DLC, toll-free and short codes, with published US rates.