Camigo Verify
Verify a phone number for pennies.
One-time codes over WhatsApp first, with a voice call for anyone who isn't on it. About half the price of SMS, and it arrives more reliably.
✓ No monthly fee✓ No minimum spend✓ Pay only for codes that arrive
A separate product, deliberately.
Camigo's flat price covers conversations with your customers. Verification is a different job with a real per-message cost from Meta and the networks, so it's priced per verification and kept on its own page. No allowances hidden inside plans, no asterisks on the pricing page.
Why WhatsApp first
| Cost to send | Gets through? | What your user does | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.59p | No carrier filtering | One tap — the code fills itself in | |
| Voice call | ~3–5p | Reaches landlines too | Listens and types six digits |
| SMS | ~3p | Filtering, occasional silent failures | Copies and pastes |
Everyone else is an SMS business with WhatsApp bolted on, so nobody has any reason to move you to the cheaper channel. I do it by default, and fall back only when I have to.
What it costs
| 3p | per verification | |
| Voice call | 8p | per verification |
| 1p | per verification | |
| SMS | coming | arriving as the middle option |
You only pay for codes that actually arrive. Failed sends are free. No platform fee, no minimum, no annual contract — which on its own makes this simpler to buy than anything Twilio will quote you.
How it works
POST /v1/verify/start
{ "phone": "+447700900123", "channel": "auto" }
POST /v1/verify/check
{ "id": "ver_1a2b3c", "code": "482913" }Two calls. auto tries WhatsApp, then voice. Or name the channel yourself.
UK numbers only at launch.
Not a limitation we're shy about — verification endpoints are the favourite target of toll fraud, where attackers trigger codes to expensive international numbers they take a cut of. Restricting to UK geographic numbers removes most of that risk, and we'd rather be dull than pass a fraud bill on to you.
Want in early?
Verify is in build. Tell me what you need it for and I'll get you on the list.
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