deals with the telephony providers it works with (it’s also sacrificing some of its margins, but believes it will recoup those and then some as price adjustment drives further growth in its development base). And for many developers the changes are substantial — in some cases, CEO Jeff Lawson says that a developer using Twilio will see as much as 66% in savings.

The change primarily comes from the way Twilio charges for inbound and outbound calls. Before now any inbound call, and then any subsequent outbound call made as a result, cost developers 3 cents per minute. But Lawson says that many developers only used the first, inbound leg and didn’t take advantage of that second, outbound call, which meant they were paying 3 cents a minute for functionality they weren’t using. Today the two are being decoupled: developers will pay one cent a minute for inbound calls, and outbound calls are two cents a minute.

As part of the pricing restructure, Twilio has also decided to publicly disclose its volume pricing. Many services will only share these prices in secret, and will renegotiate them on a per-case basis. Lawson says that Twilio wants to keep everything transparent, taking a page out of Amazon’s Web Services playbook, so it’s posting its volume discounts online.

In addition to the pricing news, Twilio is announcing a few other more minor developments. Last week the company added new features to its API, including the ability to search for phone numbers using vanity names (e.g. 415-JSN-RULZ). It’s also launched a gallery of customers who are pleased with the service, and a gallery showcasing what developers have built.

In terms of growth, Twilio says that it has increased the number of developers on the platform 5x since the beginning of the year and that in a single day it now connects the same volume of calls it saw in all of January.

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Authors: Jason Kincaid

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