Telesign · Rate Limits

Telesign Rate Limits

Telesign publishes default per-product rate limits in a support article ("Yes, our products have rate limits. The default rate limits that are enabled vary by product but can be adjusted."). Full-service (enterprise) and Self-service accounts have different defaults, and every API reference page links to this article as "Default rate limits by product". Limits are per customer account per product; higher limits are requested through Customer Support. Exhaustion is signalled with HTTP 429 and a product-specific Telesign error code in the JSON body rather than a RateLimit-* header.

Telesign Rate Limits is the rate-limit profile for Telesign on the APIs.io network — every limit transcribed verbatim from the provider’s own documentation on 2026-10-07.

It captures 16 rate-limit definitions, including Bulk SMS (Full-service) — Bulk SMS 1; Deactivated Numbers API (Full-service) — Deactivated Numbers API 10; Inbound SMS (Full-service) — Inbound SMS 50.

The profile also includes 1 backoff/retry policy defined.

Tagged areas include Authentication, Communications, Fraud Prevention, Phone Intelligence, and SMS.

16 Limits
Transcribed from the provider's documentation on 2026-10-07 — support.telesign.com/s/article/do-you-have-any-rate-limits.
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AuthenticationCommunicationsFraud PreventionPhone IntelligenceSMSVerificationTelecommunicationsMessagingVoiceEmail IntelligenceIdentityNumber MaskingAccount

Limits

Bulk SMS (Full-service) per-accountFull-service accounts
Bulk SMS 1
sendBulkSMS
· per 1 minute
requests per minute, not per second
Deactivated Numbers API (Full-service) per-accountFull-service accounts
Deactivated Numbers API 10
· per 1 second
Inbound SMS (Full-service) per-accountFull-service accounts
Inbound SMS 50
· per 1 second
Intelligence (Full-service) per-accountFull-service accounts
Intelligence 150
submitPhoneNumberForIntelligenceCloud
· per 1 second
Messaging (Full-service) per-accountFull-service accounts
Messaging 10
sendAdvancedMessage
· per 1 second
Number Masking (Full-service) per-accountFull-service accounts
Number Masking 50
· per 1 second
Phone ID (Full-service) per-accountFull-service accounts
Phone ID 150
submitPhoneNumberForIdentity
· per 1 second
Silent Verify (Full-service) per-accountFull-service accounts
Silent Verify 10
createSilentVerifyRequest
· per 1 second
SMS (Full-service) per-accountFull-service accounts
SMS 50
sendSMS
· per 1 second
SMS Verify API (Full-service) per-accountFull-service accounts
SMS Verify API 50
sendSMSVerifyCode
· per 1 second
Template Management (Full-service) per-accountFull-service accounts
Template Management 1
createMsgTemplate
· per 1 second
Verify API (Full-service) per-accountFull-service accounts
Verify API 10
createVerificationProcess
· per 1 second
Voice (Full-service) per-accountFull-service accounts
Voice 50
sendVoiceAction
· per 1 second
Voice Verify API (Full-service) per-accountFull-service accounts
Voice Verify API 50
sendVoiceVerifyCode
· per 1 second
SMS (Self-service) per-accountSelf-service accounts
SMS 1
sendSMS
· per 1 second
SMS Verify API (Self-service) per-accountSelf-service accounts
SMS Verify API 1
sendSMSVerifyCode
· per 1 second

Policies

Capacity adjustments
Higher rate limits are requested from the Customer Support Team with account type, paid or trial status, use case, traffic destinations, products and estimated monthly volume.

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Tools for rate limits

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  • find_rate_limitsBrowse and filter every rate limit in the catalog.
  • apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
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This rate limit 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits/telesign-rate-limits"
All rate limits 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits?limit=25"

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