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Your own number means the SMS is sent from the line you purchased in the workspace. The recipient sees your area code or international number — not a generic platform sender. Pass from in the API or pick the line in the dashboard.

Two ways to send SMS

Analogy: shared is mail with a generic carrier return address; your own number is mail with your company name and address on the envelope. The number must be ACTIVE, SMS-enabled, purchased via Phone numbers.

Send with your own number

With E.164:
With internal number ID (equivalent):
Response (202)
With from set, options.speed is ignored. Full, Standard, and Slow apply only to shared sends — with your line, price depends on the destination country, not send type.

How price is calculated

  1. The API identifies the country from to.
  2. Looks up the rate in smsOwnNumber.rates (GET /v1/pricing).
  3. Debits credits (plan) or pay-as-you-go amount per SMS sent.
Example row in the public table:
Country without a specific row → uses smsOwnNumber.fallbackCountry (e.g. ZZ for rest of world). Query the full table:
Details: Pricing API.

Inbound SMS on your number

When the customer replies to your number, the message is stored as inbound:
Webhook: sms.received / sms.repliedWebhook events.

Common errors


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