Question
Why do the prices of SMS text messages vary between the SMS API logs and the Messages API logs?
Applies To
- Sending SMS via Messages API
Answer
- This is an expected behavior when sending multi segment text messages using the Messages API.
- When a customer views a multi segment SMS text message(that was sent using Messages API) on the SMS API logs section, then each segment of the text message is visible as a separate log and the pricing mentioned would be the price of each segment.
- However, when viewing the same text message on the Messages API logs , then only one message is visible. This message is a combination of all the segments of the text message and the price of this message is consequently the combined price of all the segments.
- For this reason, the price of a multi segment message is always shown as more(i.e combination of all segments) on the Messages API logs whereas on the SMS logs, each segment is shown its individual price.
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