I work at MyOTP.App, so this is a vendor writing about a competitor. I'll stick to things you can check yourself, and I'll say where Twilio is the better pick.
What each one is
Twilio Verify is a managed verification product on top of Twilio's messaging platform. It generates the code, sends it, checks it, and charges a per-verification fee on top of the message price. The same platform does voice, email, video and a lot more.
MyOTP.App does one thing: send and verify one-time codes over SMS, WhatsApp or Telegram. One API key, a per-message price, and that's the whole product.
Setup
Twilio Verify: an account SID, an auth token and a Verify service SID, then the start and check calls with Basic auth.
MyOTP: sign up, copy the key, allowlist your server's IP address, send. WhatsApp goes out from our own approved templates, so there's no Meta business verification on your side.
Neither setup is hard. Ours is smaller because the product is smaller.
Price
Verify's list price is $0.05 per successful verification plus the channel fee, and a US SMS is $0.0083. For a signup flow where each user verifies once, that's fine. For a login flow where users verify every session, the verification fee adds up faster than the messages do.
MyOTP charges per message, in credits, and the rate depends on the destination country and channel. Checking a code costs nothing. Telegram is one credit flat everywhere, and WhatsApp is often cheaper than SMS on the same route: India is 9 credits over SMS and 3 over WhatsApp. The full table is on the pricing page.
Delivery
Twilio is a large aggregator with good coverage almost everywhere. If your users are in the US or Western Europe, you won't have complaints.
We deliver SMS through BroadNet, the messaging group behind MyOTP. We reach 190+ countries on SMS, WhatsApp and Telegram, so check the price for yours before you commit. Where we don't have a price, the API answers 400 up front instead of accepting the message and failing later. On the Business plan you get delivery status per message, by polling or by webhook.
Where Twilio wins
- You already use Twilio for voice or email and want one bill.
- You need a HIPAA BAA or another compliance document we don't offer as a standard product.
- You want SIM swap checks.
Where we win
- You want verification without a per-verification fee.
- Your users are global, in the Middle East, South Asia, Africa or Latin America, and you want to compare routes.
- You want WhatsApp or Telegram as a channel without setting up Meta yourself.
- An AI agent is building or running the app. Our MCP server is in the official registry, there's a CLI, and an agent can register and buy credits with USDC over HTTP 402 with no human in the loop.
Try it fairly
Run both for a week on real signups, half and half, and read your own delivery numbers. Switching is two API calls either way, and your numbers beat anything I write.
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