What does it cost to call from a Twilio number on a phone?

You pay Twilio a monthly rental for the phone number, Twilio's per-minute voice charges, and the ReachTo subscription. ReachTo is $5 per month or $50 per year after a free 10-minute trial. On Twilio's US Programmable Voice pricing page, which says pricing is current as of August 2026 and which this article checked on 1 November 2026, a US local number is $1.15 per month, calls placed to US and Canada numbers are $0.0140 per minute, and calls received on a local number are $0.0085 per minute. A call from the app can also add Twilio's browser or app rate of $0.0040 per minute. Other countries use different rates on Twilio's pricing pages.

Does ReachTo add a charge on top of Twilio's per-minute rates?

No. The ReachTo fee is the app subscription. When you connect your own Twilio account, Twilio bills the number rental and the minutes on that account. ReachTo does not add a per-minute markup.

How much is a Twilio phone number per month?

Twilio's US voice pricing page, checked on 1 November 2026, lists a US local number at $1.15 per month and a US toll-free number at $2.15 per month. The page says those prices are current as of August 2026. The rental is billed even in a month when you do not place a call. Numbers outside the US have their own prices on Twilio's site.

Is a Twilio number on a phone cheaper than a business desk phone?

It can be, and it depends on how many minutes you use. A hosted business seat is often a flat monthly fee per person. The ReachTo pricing page uses $30 per person per month as a stand-in for that kind of seat. Twilio plus ReachTo is the number rental, the minutes, and $5 for the app, on the Android phone you already carry. A heavy month costs more because the minutes scale. The worked figures on this page are an example, not a quote from a phone company.

What does the $5 ReachTo plan include?

The $5 monthly plan, or $50 for the year, is the ReachTo app for Android after a free 10-minute trial. iOS is coming soon. The phone number, calls, and texts are billed by Twilio. This article's example counts the ReachTo fee once. If each person pays for their own subscription, count $5 for each person.

Do these US rates apply when I call another country?

No. The dollar figures in this article are Twilio's published US list prices, including calls from the US price list to US and Canada numbers. If you call another country, or you rent a number outside the US, use the rate Twilio lists for that country and that number type. Recheck the page before you budget, because list prices can change.

What It Really Costs to Call from a Twilio Number on Your Phone

Calling from a Twilio number on your phone has three bills. Twilio charges a monthly rental to keep the number. Twilio charges per minute for voice. ReachTo charges for the app: $5 a month or $50 a year, after a free 10-minute trial. This guide uses Twilio's published US list prices, names the page and the date, and then walks one small team through a month that is clearly marked as an example. Your invoice follows the country, the number type, and the minutes you actually use.

The figures below are for a team that connects its own Twilio account in ReachTo. Twilio bills that account for the number and the minutes. ReachTo bills the subscription. If you buy the local number inside ReachTo instead, the checkout screen is the price of that number, and it does not add a second app fee on top of the subscription. Voice minutes still follow Twilio's published voice rates. ReachTo is an independent Android app from Ascent24 Technologies LLP, not a Twilio product. iOS is coming soon.

The three lines on a small team's bill

1. Twilio number rental

You pay this every month the number stays on the account, including a quiet month with no calls. On Twilio's US voice page, a local number and a toll-free number are different prices.

2. Twilio voice minutes

Outbound and inbound are different rates. A call placed from the phone app can also pick up Twilio's separate browser or app rate. Texts, recording, and toll-free inbound are extra lines, covered later.

3. The ReachTo subscription

$5 per month or $50 per year after the 10-minute trial. See pricing. ReachTo does not add a per-minute markup on Twilio's rates.

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Twilio's US list prices, with the source

Source: Twilio, Programmable Voice Pricing in United States. The page says "Pricing current as of August 2026." This article read that page on 1 November 2026. Recheck it before you budget. List prices can change, and a discount on your own account will not match the public list.

Rows this guide uses from that page:

US local number: $1.15 per month.
US toll-free number: $2.15 per month. Inbound on toll-free is $0.0220 per minute, which is higher than local inbound. The example further down uses a local number, not toll-free.
Calls you place to United States and Canada numbers: $0.0140 per minute. Alaska is a different row on the same page, $0.0945 per minute. This example does not include Alaska.
Calls you receive on a local number: $0.0085 per minute.
Browser or app, to make or receive a call: $0.0040 per minute in each direction.
Application connect: free on calls you place, $0.0025 per minute on calls you receive.

A call from ReachTo starts in the app and then goes out to a normal phone number, so the example adds the browser or app row and the phone-network row. On an inbound call that you answer in the app, it adds the local receive row, the browser or app receive row, and the application connect receive row. If your Twilio invoice shows only some of those rows, keep the ones you were charged and drop the rest. The labels on the invoice are the ones that count.

Those dollar amounts are US list prices. A number in the UK, India, or anywhere else has its own rental, and a call to a country outside the US and Canada row has its own per-minute price. Use Twilio's pricing page for that country. If the caller ID your customers should see is a US, UK, or Canada number, the setup is in calling those customers from a local number. The rates still come from Twilio, not from this article.

What you pay ReachTo

The app is $5 per month or $50 per year after a free 10-minute trial (pricing). $50 over 12 months is $4.17 a month. The example below uses the monthly plan, so the app line is $5. Twilio's own trial credit, which the US voice page lists as $15, is a Twilio credit. It is separate from ReachTo's 10-minute trial.

ReachTo's published price is one subscription figure, and the example counts it once. If each person on the team pays for their own install, multiply the $5 line by the number of people. The Android phone you already carry is the handset. iOS is coming soon.

Example: one quiet month for a two-person team

This is an example, not a quote and not your invoice. It shows the arithmetic with the US list prices above. Change any row that does not match your Twilio bill.

Assumptions: one US local number on the team's own Twilio account, one ReachTo monthly subscription, 200 minutes placed from the app to US or Canada phone numbers, and 100 minutes received on that local number and answered in the app. No Alaska, no toll-free, no SMS, no recording.

Line	How it is figured	Amount
US local number rental	1 number x $1.15	$1.15
Outbound voice, US and Canada	200 min x $0.0140	$2.80
Browser or app, outbound	200 min x $0.0040	$0.80
Inbound voice, local number	100 min x $0.0085	$0.85
Browser or app, inbound	100 min x $0.0040	$0.40
Application connect, inbound	100 min x $0.0025	$0.25
Twilio lines in this example	1.15 + 2.80 + 0.80 + 0.85 + 0.40 + 0.25	$6.25
ReachTo monthly plan	Published app price, counted once	$5.00
Example total	Twilio lines plus ReachTo	$11.25

A busier month scales the minute rows and leaves the $1.15 and the $5 in place. Same example rules, but 2,000 outbound minutes and no inbound calls: 2,000 x $0.0140 is $28.00, and 2,000 x $0.0040 is $8.00. Add $1.15 and $5.00 and that variant is $42.15. Still an example. Still US list prices from the page dated August 2026.

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How that compares with a desk phone or a hosted seat

A traditional business line usually has a flat fee that does not shrink when the team calls less, plus something to talk on: a desk phone you buy, a phone the carrier rents you, or a hosted seat that assumes a headset. There is often a term, a shipping charge, or an install. This page does not collect live quotes from carriers, so the comparison uses a labeled stand-in.

The ReachTo pricing page uses $30 per person per month as the stand-in for a legacy cloud phone seat. For two people that is $60 a month in this example, whether they talk for 10 minutes or 400. This example also puts $80 on each desk handset, once, so the first month has a hardware line of $160. That $80 is an assumption so the hardware is visible. It is not a catalog price. A used phone, a rental, or no desk phone at all changes it.

Example, first month, two people

Hosted seats: 2 x $30 = $60. Desk phones: 2 x $80 = $160. Example total: $220. The Twilio plus ReachTo example for the quiet month above is $11.25, and the hardware line is $0 because the team uses the Android phones they already carry.

Example, later months, same assumptions

Hosted seats stay at $60. The quiet Twilio plus ReachTo month stays at $11.25 if the minutes stay at 200 out and 100 in. The 2,000-minute outbound variant above is $42.15, which is still under the $60 stand-in, and it would pass that stand-in if the minutes kept climbing. Ask the phone company for their seat price before you treat $30 as your number.

The shape of the bill is the useful part. A seat fee is flat. A Twilio voice bill moves with minutes, and the number rental stays even when you do not call. A laptop SIP client is a third path, and it misses calls when the laptop is shut. That comparison is in why a mobile client fits Twilio numbers.

What this example leaves out

SMS. Texts are a separate Twilio charge. This page does not copy SMS rates. If the number is a US local 10-digit number and you text US phones, Twilio's A2P 10DLC guide says you register a Brand and a Campaign first. The local number guide covers that in more detail.
Recording, transcription, and toll-free inbound. Each has its own row on the same Twilio voice page. Toll-free rental is $2.15 per month and toll-free inbound is $0.0220 per minute on that page.
Taxes and volume discounts. Twilio can add taxes, and the same page describes lower rates after a high minute count. A small team on this example is on the list price, with no tax line.
Emergency calling. Do not use ReachTo for 911, 999, or 112. Twilio lists an emergency calling add-on on the voice page. See the regulatory page.

Put the number on the phone you already carry

The cost only matters after the number rings on the Android phone. Install ReachTo from the download page, paste the Account SID and Auth Token from the Twilio Console, and pick the caller ID. ReachTo does not ask for the Twilio password. The screens are in how to use a Twilio phone number on mobile. Where the token is stored is in securing Twilio API credentials on mobile.

Place one test call to your own mobile and read the caller ID. Then call the Twilio number back and confirm the app rings while the phone has data or Wi-Fi. After that, the monthly bill is the rental, the minutes, and the app fee.

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Setup questions: support@reachtoapp.com.