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Africa's Talking vs Twilio: which is more reliable? (2026) Africa's Talking is more reliable than Twilio, scoring 78.7 vs 30.6 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Africa's Talking reported 5 incidents and Twilio reported 100, with effective uptime of 99.80% and 96.05% respectively. Africa's Talking resolves incidents faster on average (6h 12m).
Data updated Nov 2, 2026 · How we score
Metric Africa's Talking Twilio Reliability score 78.7 30.6 Rank (SMS & voice APIs) #5 #11 Uptime (90 days) 99.80% 96.05% Incidents (90 days) 5 100 Partial / major outages 3 0 Avg time to resolve 6h 12m 8h 16m Outages we detected 0 0 Transparency score 100/100 100/100
Where Africa's Talking and Twilio differ Twilio reported 20× as many incidents as Africa's Talking over the last 90 days (100 vs 5). Africa's Talking had 3 partial or major outages, compared with 0 for Twilio. Africa's Talking fixes problems faster: 6h 12m on average, against 8h 16m for Twilio. Africa's Talking's longest outage on record lasted 7h 2m (Feb 17, 2026); Twilio's lasted 3d (Sep 4, 2026). 90-day uptime Africa's Talking Aug 5, 2026 – Aug 26, 2026: no incidents Aug 27, 2026: 98.60% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage) Aug 28, 2026 – Sep 3, 2026: no incidents Sep 4, 2026: 99.17% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage) Sep 5, 2026 – Sep 12, 2026: no incidents Sep 13, 2026: 93.74% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance) Sep 14, 2026: 91.66% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance) Sep 15, 2026 – Sep 23, 2026: no incidents Sep 24, 2026: 99.14% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage) Sep 25, 2026 – Nov 2, 2026: no incidents 90 days ago 99.803% average daily uptime Today Twilio Aug 5, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance) Aug 6, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 4 incidents (Degraded performance) Aug 7, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance) Aug 8, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance) Aug 9, 2026: 87.31% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance) Aug 10, 2026: 98.01% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance) Aug 11, 2026: 94.32% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance) Aug 12, 2026: 93.08% uptime, 4 incidents (Degraded performance) Aug 13, 2026: 96.50% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance) Aug 14, 2026: no incidents Aug 15, 2026: 86.82% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance) Aug 16, 2026: 93.93% uptime, 3 incidents (Degraded performance) Aug 17, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 4 incidents (Degraded performance) Aug 18, 2026: 93.54% uptime, 3 incidents (Degraded performance) Aug 19, 2026: 98.58% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance) Aug 20, 2026 – Aug 23, 2026: no incidents Aug 24, 2026: 99.88% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance) Aug 25, 2026: 96.85% uptime, 3 incidents (Degraded performance) Aug 26, 2026: 96.52% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance) Aug 27, 2026: no incidents Aug 28, 2026: 99.12% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance) Aug 29, 2026: no incidents Aug 30, 2026: 96.78% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance) Aug 31, 2026: 97.26% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance) Sep 1, 2026: 90.69% uptime, 5 incidents (Degraded performance) Sep 2, 2026: no incidents Sep 3, 2026: 96.84% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance) Sep 4, 2026: 91.07% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance) Sep 5, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance) Sep 6, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance) Sep 7, 2026: 93.92% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance) Sep 8, 2026: no incidents Sep 9, 2026: 99.33% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance) Sep 10, 2026: no incidents Sep 11, 2026: 96.14% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance) Sep 12, 2026: 98.38% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance) Sep 13, 2026: 99.87% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance) Sep 14, 2026: no incidents Sep 15, 2026: 87.40% uptime, 3 incidents (Degraded performance) Sep 16, 2026: 89.68% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance) Sep 17, 2026: 86.90% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance) Sep 18, 2026: 96.32% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance) Sep 19, 2026 – Sep 20, 2026: no incidents Sep 21, 2026: 91.15% uptime, 4 incidents (Degraded performance) Sep 22, 2026: 96.14% uptime, 5 incidents (Degraded performance) Sep 23, 2026: 94.25% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance) Sep 24, 2026: 98.70% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance) Sep 25, 2026: 96.04% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance) Sep 26, 2026: 99.20% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance) Sep 27, 2026 – Sep 29, 2026: no incidents Sep 30, 2026: 94.87% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance) Oct 1, 2026: no incidents Oct 2, 2026: 98.87% uptime, 3 incidents (Degraded performance) Oct 3, 2026: 99.63% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance) Oct 4, 2026: no incidents Oct 5, 2026: 96.86% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance) Oct 6, 2026 – Oct 7, 2026: no incidents Oct 8, 2026: 95.96% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance) Oct 9, 2026: no incidents Oct 10, 2026: 95.37% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance) Oct 11, 2026: no incidents Oct 12, 2026: 98.60% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance) Oct 13, 2026 – Oct 14, 2026: no incidents Oct 15, 2026: 94.38% uptime, 4 incidents (Degraded performance) Oct 16, 2026: 96.03% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance) Oct 17, 2026: 96.83% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance) Oct 18, 2026: no incidents Oct 19, 2026: 96.14% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance) Oct 20, 2026: 88.47% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance) Oct 21, 2026: 94.12% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance) Oct 22, 2026: 87.81% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance) Oct 23, 2026: 99.02% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance) Oct 24, 2026: 97.67% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance) Oct 25, 2026 – Oct 27, 2026: no incidents Oct 28, 2026: 95.31% uptime, 4 incidents (Degraded performance) Oct 29, 2026: 97.42% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance) Oct 30, 2026 – Nov 2, 2026: no incidents 90 days ago 96.101% average daily uptime Today