Bird halves US local number rental to $0.50 a month
What happened
Between the Sep 28, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026 captures of Bird's pricing page, Pulse recorded one change: US local phone number monthly rental price cut from $1 to $0.50 per number per month. Pulse files it as a pricing change (price decrease) with a downward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Oct 19, 2026) lists Startup at $15, Growth at $250 and Scale at $1,000.
It lands 97 days after Bird's previous change, "Bird shifts from multichannel to email-first tiered pricing" (Jun 29, 2026). Before that Pulse recorded "Bird: pricing restructured — Free/$15/$80/Custom volume tiers" (Jul 3, 2026) and "Bird adds Apple Messages, TAM, and Custom API rates to Enterprise plan" (May 5, 2026). Bird has been tracked since 2026-03-01.
In the same window Limelight Software, Bolt and X also changed their Marketing & Content pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- — · Price−50%
Before$1
After$0.50 per number per month
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Price | $1 | $0.50 per number per month | −50% |
Values as written on Bird's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.
Evidence
The two captures Pulse comparedFull-page captures of Bird's pricing page (bird.com) from Sep 28, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026; the change is marked around the middle of the page, where price reads $1 and then $0.50 per number per month.
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Bird, pricing history
Full history- Oct 19, 2026packagingBird: shifts to wallet-based billing, reveals Apple Messages pricing
- Oct 5, 2026decreaseBird halves US local number rental to $0.50 a month · this change
- Jun 29, 2026packagingBird shifts from multichannel to email-first tiered pricing
- Jul 3, 2026packagingBird: pricing restructured — Free/$15/$80/Custom volume tiers
- May 5, 2026improvedBird adds Apple Messages, TAM, and Custom API rates to Enterprise plan
Across Marketing & Content in the same window
All Marketing & Content changesQuestions about this change
Did Bird raise prices in October 2026?
No — prices went down. Between Sep 28, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026 Bird's pricing page showed 1 price cut: $1 → $0.50 per number per month (−50%).
What changed on Bird's pricing page between Sep 28, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026?
Price: $1 → $0.50 per number per month (−50%). Pulse compared the captures it took on Sep 28, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Bird change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 0 other pricing-page changes for Bird in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Bird shifts from multichannel to email-first tiered pricing" on Jun 29, 2026; Bird has been tracked since 2026-03-01.