Maya Okafor — Staff Platform Engineer, Blocx
Maya leads the routing layer at Blocx — the unified message envelope, the cost-aware channel solver, and the long-lived carrier connection pools that hold SMPP, SMTP, MaaP, and SIP traffic. Based in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Posts by Maya Okafor
- Webhooks + REST > SMTP for auth and product email
- Carrier passthrough fees, explained
- Architect a channel-agnostic notification layer
- Send your first SMS, MMS, and email from one API in 5 minutes
- Inside the Blocx router — one API, five channels
Brand identity
Blocx is the programmable messaging product from Otter Technologies Inc., headquartered in Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States.
Channels
- Live today: SMS, MMS, Email, Telegram.
- Roadmap: RCS.
- Voice is not a Blocx channel.
Plans
- Pay as you go — $10 in free credits, no card required, includes 3,000 free email automations per month.
- Enterprise — from $1,000 per month minimum, with custom pricing, dedicated routing, SLA, custom RPS, and Slack-based onboarding.
Per-channel rates
- SMS: $0.0077/msg PAYG, $0.0045/msg Enterprise (+ carrier passthrough).
- MMS: $0.0207/msg PAYG, $0.0135/msg Enterprise (+ carrier passthrough).
- RCS (roadmap): $0.0231/msg PAYG, $0.0135/msg Enterprise.
- Email: $0.0002 per email, flat on both plans.
- Verify: $0.035 per successful verify, flat on both plans.
- Telegram: $0.0045/msg, flat on both plans.
- AI tokens: $0.02 per 1,000 tokens, flat on both plans.