textbee is the open-source Twilio alternative. Send and receive SMS from your applications through your own Android device. No gateway fees, no per-message charges, live in minutes. Perfect for OTPs, notifications, and two-way messaging.
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Send and receive SMS online with your Android phone. Simple API, webhooks, and bulk messaging. Learn how to send SMS or receive SMS in the docs, or try our SMS tools.
Send SMS from any app with a single REST call. No SDKs to wrestle, no vendor lock-in, and it works with Node, Python, cURL, or anything that speaks HTTP.
Read the send docsReceive inbound texts via webhooks or the API. Build OTP verification, support inboxes, and true two-way messaging.
Read the receive docsReach many recipients in a single API call: campaigns, alerts, and broadcasts without writing loops.
Reusable templates with dynamic variables so your team ships consistent messages faster.
See delivery, volume, and performance at a glance with detailed reports.
Connect up to 5 Android phones to spread load and stay reliable at higher volume.
The whole stack is on GitHub: audit it, self-host it, and trust exactly what you run.
Queue messages for a specific time or on a recurring schedule and let textbee send them.
Install the app to turn your Android device into an SMS gateway, then call the API from your own applications. No carrier contracts, no hardware.
Install the free, open-source textbee app on any Android phone.
Get the appCreate a secure API key from your dashboard. Unlimited keys per account.
Open dashboardScan the code in the app (or paste the key) and enable the gateway.
Fire your first SMS from the dashboard or the API. You are live.
View API docsOne API, many jobs. Developers use textbee anywhere SMS needs to reach a real phone.
Send time-sensitive verification codes to secure logins and accounts.
Confirmations, shipping updates, and delivery alerts your customers actually read.
Cut no-shows with automated reminders for clinics, salons, and services.
Push critical system, weather, and on-call alerts the moment they happen.
Run opt-in promotions, offers, and bulk campaigns from your own number.
Receive replies over webhooks and hold real conversations with customers.
See how TextBee turns an Android phone into an SMS gateway in minutes.
Our REST API makes it easy to integrate SMS capabilities into any application. Just a few lines of code is all you need.
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1import axios from 'axios'
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3const API_KEY = 'YOUR_API_KEY'
4const DEVICE_ID = 'YOUR_DEVICE_ID'
5
6const response = await axios.post(`https://api.textbee.dev/api/v1/gateway/devices/${DEVICE_ID}/send-sms`, {
7 recipients: [ '+1234567890' ],
8 message: 'Hello from textbee.dev!',
9}, {
10 headers: {
11 'x-api-key': API_KEY,
12 },
13})
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15console.log(response.data)Twilio is carrier-grade throughput you rent. textbee is the phone you already own. Here is the honest trade-off.
Twilio figures are approximate US list prices and change over time. If you send millions of messages a month, Twilio is the right tool. For everything below that, keep the money.
Flat pricing with no per-message fees. Plans that grow with you, cancel anytime. Save 17% with annual billing.
You're saving 17% with annual billing (2 months free)
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Perfect for businesses and serious users
For growing teams sending at volume
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Tailored solutions for high-volume needs and specific requirements.
Real answers from our 10,000-developer milestone survey. Nonprofits, salons, universities, and indie builders running production SMS on hardware they already had.
We are a small construction company and we send messages to our team of 12. It works better than group messaging for announcements and notifications, with no off-topic replies.
We send a notification SMS after each successful donation, wired up through the API and make.com. It just works for our small two-person team.
We built a student and alumni document-request system for a university. textbee handles the automated notifications: verification codes, request updates, and approval messages.
We use the API to send SMS through our clients and agents, including notifying an agent the moment a new lead is assigned to them.
It powers the SMS in our booking system for beauty salons.
Réviscool is a new online learning platform for Haitian students to review their lessons with quizzes and flashcards. We were looking for a free SMS provider to receive OTP codes and secure access to our data. textbee was the answer.
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Transform your Android device into a powerful SMS gateway with our easy-to-use application. Install, connect, and start sending messages programmatically.
