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Bandwidth vs Vonage Communications APIs: which is more reliable? (2026)

Vonage Communications APIs is more reliable than Bandwidth, scoring 53.7 vs 33.7 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Bandwidth reported 67 incidents and Vonage Communications APIs reported 24, with effective uptime of 97.18% and 99.10% respectively. Bandwidth resolves incidents faster on average (5h 38m).

Data updated Nov 2, 2026 · How we score

Bandwidth

33.7/100

Operational

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Vonage Communications APIs

53.7/100

Degraded

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MetricBandwidthVonage Communications APIs
Reliability score33.753.7
Rank (SMS & voice APIs)#10#9
Uptime (90 days)97.18%99.10%
Incidents (90 days)6724
Partial / major outages140
Avg time to resolve5h 38m10h 44m
Outages we detected00
Transparency score100/100100/100

Where Bandwidth and Vonage Communications APIs differ

  • Bandwidth reported 2.8× as many incidents as Vonage Communications APIs over the last 90 days (67 vs 24).
  • Bandwidth had 14 partial or major outages, compared with 0 for Vonage Communications APIs.
  • Bandwidth fixes problems faster: 5h 38m on average, against 10h 44m for Vonage Communications APIs.
  • Bandwidth's longest outage on record lasted 15h 12m (Oct 20, 2026); Vonage Communications APIs's lasted 4h 36m (Jun 12, 2026).

90-day uptime

Bandwidth

Aug 5, 2026: 95.72% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 6, 2026: no incidentsAug 7, 2026: 94.75% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 8, 2026 – Aug 10, 2026: no incidentsAug 11, 2026: 87.27% uptime, 3 incidents (Degraded performance)Aug 12, 2026: 97.18% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 13, 2026: no incidentsAug 14, 2026: 96.25% uptime, 3 incidents (Degraded performance)Aug 15, 2026 – Aug 16, 2026: no incidentsAug 17, 2026: 86.31% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Aug 18, 2026: 96.13% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 19, 2026: no incidentsAug 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 incidentsAug 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 incidentsSep 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 incidentsSep 8, 2026: 81.38% uptime, 2 incidents (Major outage)Sep 9, 2026 – Sep 10, 2026: no incidentsSep 11, 2026: 99.48% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 12, 2026 – Sep 13, 2026: no incidentsSep 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 incidentsSep 23, 2026: 91.80% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Sep 24, 2026 – Oct 1, 2026: no incidentsOct 2, 2026: 78.36% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Oct 3, 2026 – Oct 5, 2026: no incidentsOct 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 incidentsOct 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 incidentsOct 26, 2026: 98.34% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 27, 2026 – Oct 28, 2026: no incidentsOct 29, 2026: 94.69% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Oct 30, 2026 – Nov 2, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago97.249% average daily uptimeToday

Vonage Communications APIs

Aug 5, 2026: 97.77% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 6, 2026 – Aug 28, 2026: no incidentsAug 29, 2026: 90.46% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 30, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 31, 2026: 93.46% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 1, 2026 – Sep 3, 2026: no incidentsSep 4, 2026: 96.89% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 5, 2026 – Sep 6, 2026: no incidentsSep 7, 2026: 99.03% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 8, 2026 – Sep 20, 2026: no incidentsSep 21, 2026: 94.19% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Sep 22, 2026: 86.94% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 23, 2026: 92.27% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Sep 24, 2026 – Sep 27, 2026: no incidentsSep 28, 2026: 99.36% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 29, 2026: 99.30% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 30, 2026: 97.09% uptime, 3 incidents (Degraded performance)Oct 1, 2026 – Oct 12, 2026: no incidentsOct 13, 2026: 91.07% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Oct 14, 2026 – Oct 18, 2026: no incidentsOct 19, 2026: 96.77% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 20, 2026 – Nov 2, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago99.107% average daily uptimeToday

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