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Bandwidth vs Twilio: which is more reliable? (2026) Bandwidth is more reliable than Twilio, scoring 33.7 vs 30.6 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Bandwidth reported 67 incidents and Twilio reported 100, with effective uptime of 97.18% and 96.04% respectively. Bandwidth resolves incidents faster on average (5h 38m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
Metric Bandwidth Twilio Reliability score 33.7 30.6 Rank (SMS & voice APIs) #9 #10 Uptime (90 days) 97.18% 96.04% Incidents (90 days) 67 100 Partial / major outages 14 0 Avg time to resolve 5h 38m 8h 16m Outages we detected 0 0 Transparency score 100/100 100/100
Where Bandwidth and Twilio differ Twilio reported 49% more incidents than Bandwidth over the last 90 days (100 vs 67). Bandwidth had 14 partial or major outages, compared with 0 for Twilio. Bandwidth fixes problems faster: 5h 38m on average, against 8h 16m for Twilio. Bandwidth's longest outage on record lasted 15h 12m (Oct 20, 2026); Twilio's lasted 3d (Sep 4, 2026). 90-day uptime Bandwidth Aug 4, 2026: 93.90% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance) Aug 5, 2026: 95.72% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance) Aug 6, 2026: no incidents Aug 7, 2026: 94.75% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance) Aug 8, 2026 – Aug 10, 2026: no incidents Aug 11, 2026: 87.27% uptime, 3 incidents (Degraded performance) Aug 12, 2026: 97.18% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance) Aug 13, 2026: no incidents Aug 14, 2026: 96.25% uptime, 3 incidents (Degraded performance) Aug 15, 2026 – Aug 16, 2026: no incidents Aug 17, 2026: 86.31% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage) Aug 18, 2026: 96.13% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance) Aug 19, 2026: no incidents Aug 20, 2026: 83.65% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage) Aug 21, 2026: 99.25% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance) Aug 22, 2026 – Aug 23, 2026: no incidents Aug 24, 2026: 97.38% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance) Aug 25, 2026: 91.66% uptime, 1 incident (Major outage) Aug 26, 2026 – Aug 31, 2026: no incidents Sep 1, 2026: 93.60% uptime, 2 incidents (Major outage) Sep 2, 2026: 94.30% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance) Sep 3, 2026: 88.81% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance) Sep 4, 2026 – Sep 7, 2026: no incidents Sep 8, 2026: 81.38% uptime, 2 incidents (Major outage) Sep 9, 2026 – Sep 10, 2026: no incidents Sep 11, 2026: 99.48% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance) Sep 12, 2026 – Sep 13, 2026: no incidents Sep 14, 2026: 95.27% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance) Sep 15, 2026: 96.33% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance) Sep 16, 2026 – Sep 22, 2026: no incidents Sep 23, 2026: 91.80% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage) Sep 24, 2026 – Oct 1, 2026: no incidents Oct 2, 2026: 78.36% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage) Oct 3, 2026 – Oct 5, 2026: no incidents Oct 6, 2026: 87.25% uptime, 3 incidents (Partial outage) Oct 7, 2026: 97.08% uptime, 5 incidents (Degraded performance) Oct 8, 2026: 98.07% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance) Oct 9, 2026 – Oct 18, 2026: no incidents Oct 19, 2026: 95.62% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance) Oct 20, 2026: 91.80% uptime, 3 incidents (Partial outage) Oct 21, 2026: 69.98% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage) Oct 22, 2026: 76.36% uptime, 4 incidents (Partial outage) Oct 23, 2026: 98.27% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance) Oct 24, 2026 – Oct 25, 2026: no incidents Oct 26, 2026: 98.34% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance) Oct 27, 2026 – Oct 28, 2026: no incidents Oct 29, 2026: 94.69% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage) Oct 30, 2026 – Nov 1, 2026: no incidents 90 days ago 97.182% average daily uptime Today Twilio Aug 4, 2026: 95.46% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance) 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 1, 2026: no incidents 90 days ago 96.050% average daily uptime Today