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Phaxio founder here. Our pricing might seem higher (and may be in certain situations), but it works a bit differently that Twilio's. Twilio charges you the 1c
by rabidonrails 10y ago
Phaxio founder here.
Our pricing might seem higher (and may be in certain situations), but it works a bit differently that Twilio's. Twilio charges you the 1c _plus_ the costs of the call. Phaxio is an "all in" rate _including_ retrying the call. And, at Phaxio, if the calls all fail there's no cost to you.
I'm not saying that we won't adjust our pricing (#competition), but there's a difference in the actual unit cost.
- tyingq 10y agoHow long does it take, on average, to send a page?
- IgorPartola 10y agoHow long does it take to send a page of fax? Their pricing is 0.007 per minute. I haven't seen many fax machines take more than a minute per page, but they would have to take 10 minutes to catch up to your pricing. Edit: Fixed time to comparable pricing.
- rabidonrails 10y agoQuick answer is that it depends on what's on the page. It can be as quick as a minute or significantly longer if there are images or lots of data the page.
- IgorPartola 10y agoThat's fair but how many pages take more than 10 minutes?
- kelnos 10y agoI'd be surprised to see more than a couple minutes for even a complicated fax page. I've seen 45-70 seconds average for a not-too-complicated page. It also depends on the baud rate (never thought that term would come back, eh?) negotiated between both ends. A 14400 baud transmission will of course be faster than 9600.
- nojvek 10y agoI paid $10 to send a 28 page fax. I absolutely believe utility and govt companies still use fax because they want to make somethings very hard for the average customer. There's no reason why I shouldn't be able to send an email a pdf to show good credit so they don't charge me a deposit fee. Twilio please build a mobile app so those of us who don't live with typewriters and fax machines can deal with our nasty govt.
- karlmdavis 10y agoWhere in the government do you still have to fax things?
- tyingq 10y agoThis had me curious, so I tried googling for site: *.gov fax Was surprised at the results. It may not be the only conduit, but it is there for job applications, VA benefits, applying for a headstone in a national cemetery, court filings, IRS documents, and much more.
- generj 10y agoThe FBI recently stopped accepting FOIA requests online and now online accept them via fax and snail mail. They did it deliberately to reduce the number of requests.
- bluesign 10y ago10 minutes not 1000 minutes
- joering2 10y agoLong time user of Phaxio. We tried many other services and your seems the be the best when it comes to crunching documents - Word, PDF, Images, you name it. I don't know how Twilio does it, but unless one day in 100 years from now we will be sending 1 million faxes, we will be reluctant to switch and probably save ourselves a headache just to save few bucks a month.