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

Bird is more reliable than Vonage Communications APIs, scoring 61.7 vs 53.7 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Bird reported 8 incidents and Vonage Communications APIs reported 24, with effective uptime of 99.47% and 99.10% respectively. Vonage Communications APIs resolves incidents faster on average (10h 44m).

Data updated Nov 2, 2026 · How we score

Bird

61.7/100

Operational

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Vonage Communications APIs

53.7/100

Degraded

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MetricBirdVonage Communications APIs
Reliability score61.753.7
Rank (SMS & voice APIs)#7#9
Uptime (90 days)99.47%99.10%
Incidents (90 days)824
Partial / major outages00
Avg time to resolve12h 38m10h 44m
Outages we detected00
Transparency score100/100100/100

Where Bird and Vonage Communications APIs differ

  • Vonage Communications APIs reported 3× as many incidents as Bird over the last 90 days (24 vs 8).
  • Vonage Communications APIs fixes problems faster: 10h 44m on average, against 12h 38m for Bird.
  • Bird's longest outage on record lasted 1d 23h (Nov 24, 2025); Vonage Communications APIs's lasted 4h 36m (Jun 12, 2026).

90-day uptime

Bird

Aug 5, 2026 – Sep 10, 2026: no incidentsSep 11, 2026: 92.27% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 12, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 13, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 14, 2026: 92.72% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 15, 2026 – Sep 16, 2026: no incidentsSep 17, 2026: 99.14% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 18, 2026 – Sep 25, 2026: no incidentsSep 26, 2026: 99.80% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 27, 2026 – Oct 3, 2026: no incidentsOct 4, 2026: 99.51% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 5, 2026: 99.44% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 6, 2026 – Oct 22, 2026: no incidentsOct 23, 2026: 99.70% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 24, 2026 – Nov 2, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago99.473% 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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