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Africa's Talking vs Vonage Communications APIs: which is more reliable? (2026)

Africa's Talking is more reliable than Vonage Communications APIs, scoring 78.7 vs 53.7 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Africa's Talking reported 5 incidents and Vonage Communications APIs reported 24, with effective uptime of 99.80% and 99.10% respectively. Africa's Talking resolves incidents faster on average (6h 12m).

Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score

Africa's Talking

78.7/100

Operational

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Vonage Communications APIs

53.7/100

Maintenance

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MetricAfrica's TalkingVonage Communications APIs
Reliability score78.753.7
Rank (SMS & voice APIs)#4#8
Uptime (90 days)99.80%99.10%
Incidents (90 days)524
Partial / major outages30
Avg time to resolve6h 12m10h 44m
Outages we detected00
Transparency score100/100100/100

Where Africa's Talking and Vonage Communications APIs differ

  • Vonage Communications APIs reported 4.8× as many incidents as Africa's Talking over the last 90 days (24 vs 5).
  • Africa's Talking had 3 partial or major outages, compared with 0 for Vonage Communications APIs.
  • Africa's Talking fixes problems faster: 6h 12m on average, against 10h 44m for Vonage Communications APIs.
  • Africa's Talking's longest outage on record lasted 7h 2m (Feb 17, 2026); Vonage Communications APIs's lasted 4h 36m (Jun 12, 2026).

90-day uptime

Africa's Talking

Aug 4, 2026 – Aug 26, 2026: no incidentsAug 27, 2026: 98.60% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Aug 28, 2026 – Sep 3, 2026: no incidentsSep 4, 2026: 99.17% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Sep 5, 2026 – Sep 12, 2026: no incidentsSep 13, 2026: 93.74% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 14, 2026: 91.66% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 15, 2026 – Sep 23, 2026: no incidentsSep 24, 2026: 99.14% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Sep 25, 2026 – Nov 1, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago99.803% average daily uptimeToday

Vonage Communications APIs

Aug 4, 2026: no incidentsAug 5, 2026: 97.77% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 6, 2026 – Aug 28, 2026: no incidentsAug 29, 2026: 90.46% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 30, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 31, 2026: 93.46% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 1, 2026 – Sep 3, 2026: no incidentsSep 4, 2026: 96.89% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 5, 2026 – Sep 6, 2026: no incidentsSep 7, 2026: 99.03% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 8, 2026 – Sep 20, 2026: no incidentsSep 21, 2026: 94.19% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Sep 22, 2026: 86.94% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 23, 2026: 92.27% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Sep 24, 2026 – Sep 27, 2026: no incidentsSep 28, 2026: 99.36% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 29, 2026: 99.30% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 30, 2026: 97.09% uptime, 3 incidents (Degraded performance)Oct 1, 2026 – Oct 12, 2026: no incidentsOct 13, 2026: 91.07% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Oct 14, 2026 – Oct 18, 2026: no incidentsOct 19, 2026: 96.77% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 20, 2026 – Nov 1, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago99.107% average daily uptimeToday

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