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Plivo Rolls Out Free Trial Account that Lets You Do Voice Calls and SMS
- shrikrishna 13y agoDoes 'trial account' mean that it's free only for a limited duration?
- superlucy 13y agoFree trial is for life :)
- shrikrishna 13y agoAwesome! Thanks for this!
- superlucy 13y agoAnytime!
- 7cupsoftea 13y agoWe use Plivo at 7 Cups of Tea. They are great and I highly recommend them.
- bevenky 13y agoThanks Glen for the kind words :)
- superlucy 13y agoMuch appreciated :)
- toomuchtodo 13y agoWhat made you decide to use Plivo over Twilio? Just curious.
- tehwebguy 13y agoCan I use the SMS API with this free trial?
- superlucy 13y agoYes, you can definitely do that. However, the your caller ID will be that of the phone number assigned to you. Upgraded accounts will have the ability to customize their caller ID.
- quantumpotato_ 13y agoThis is a competitor to Twilio, yes?
- superlucy 13y agoIndeed we are in the same space as Twilio. However, we do have quite a number of differences. On the technical side, we have dedicated hardware for our media, which means that our call qualities are consistently great and drastically increases the number calls which can happen concurrently on our box. Our framework is also written on FreeSwitch, an open-source telephony platform. On the non-technical side offer 24/7 chat support at no extra cost and competitive pricing that just gets better with higher volumes. :)
- toomuchtodo 13y agoDefinitely like that you guys have your own hardware termination vs where Twilio is just terminating to Level3's gear.
- tsudot 13y agoThanks for the confidence. We think that decoding/encoding of audio on dedicated hardware works best for call quality and we are really focussed on doing that.
- sparky 13y agoThis is great news, thanks guys! Are there really no limitations on the number of calls and text messages? I imagine many businesses and other use cases could operate indefinitely with a single phone number and unlimited calls/texts, so what's preventing 10,000+ customers from never paying a cent, or even reselling your service to others?
- superlucy 13y ago@sparky You're correct, we are very aware of that risk, so we do have an algorithm in place to deter people from abusing the system. With that said, most users would not get to that limit with regular use while developing.
- chinmoy 13y agoWhat happens to the $10 credit developer accounts that was offered before?
- dhfromkorea 13y agoHi @chinmoy. It's DH from Plivo here. Interesting question: your old Developer account actually had more limitations than the new Free Trial accounts. For example, you couldn't have made outbound voice calls to regular numbers via PSTN. You can check out the full comparison here: http://plivo.com/faq/basics/whats-the-difference-between-free-trial-account-and-developer-account/ http://plivo.com/faq/basics/whats-the-difference-between-fre...
- dcc1 13y agoNo possibility of receiving SMS?
- dhfromkorea 13y agoHi, yes you can. You need to append a 'message url' to your Plivo app: check out the message section at http://plivo.com/docs/xml/request/ http://plivo.com/docs/xml/request/
- dcc1 13y agoOh ok, its just not very clear unlike twilio edit: those api docs are as clear as mud, no example on how to receive an SMS
- joe_bleau 13y agoQuick comment about the signup procedure; just finished the sign up and phone number verification, and I'm wondering why I have to enter the '+' in front of the country code and area code. Your signup form is smart enough to notice it's missing and let me know to enter it...so why isn't it smart enough to see that it's missing the leading '+' and just tack it on? Reminds me a bit of entering a credit card number into a form, only to have the validation tell me that spaces aren't allowed.
- mwagstaff 13y agoVery cool. Just been testing the SMS and text-to-speech API (via their node.js helper libraries) and it's working well.