Best mass texting services in the USA
The cheapest mass texting at 1,000 texts a month is Kudosity (formerly BurstSMS) at $24 pay as you go, against Trumpia at $49 as the cheapest monthly plan, with number and carrier fees added. Kudosity (formerly BurstSMS) scores highest of the 25 mass texting services we rate, at 8.17 out of 10, and 16 of the 25 publish a free trial or free credits. Enter your own monthly volume below to price 10 of them the same way.
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What mass texting costs at your volume
Monthly plans and pay as you go on one scale: each service's cheapest published way to send your monthly volume, with the sending number and any carrier fee billed on top added in, and the cost per 1,000 texts.
At 1,000 texts a month the cheapest monthly plan is Trumpia at $49 and the cheapest pay as you go service is Kudosity (formerly BurstSMS) at $24.
| Service | How you pay | What the month is made of | Per month | Per 1,000 texts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kudosity (formerly BurstSMS) | Pay as you go | 1,000 messages, Starter rate, $0.019 a message $19 + toll-free number, from $5 | $24 | $24 |
| Notifyre | Pay as you go | 1,000 messages, $0.02 a message $20 + 10DLC number and campaign maintenance $16.40 | $36.40 | $36.40 |
| ClickSend | Pay as you go | 1,000 messages, $0.0292 a message, top-up from $20 $29.20 + Carrier fees, published average $4.20 + toll-free number $3.57 | $36.97 | $36.97 |
| Trumpia | Monthly plan | Lite 1,000 plan $49 | $49 | $49 |
| EZ Texting | Monthly plan | Launch plan, 500 credits $25 + 500 extra credits $20 + Monthly telecom fee $5 | $50 | $50 |
| SimpleTexting | Monthly plan | 1,000 texts plan $49 + Carrier fees, published average $2.50 | $51.50 | $51.50 |
| Postscript | Monthly plan | Starter monthly minimum spend $49 + Carrier fees, published average $3.30 | $52.30 | $52.30 |
| SlickText | Monthly plan | 1,000 credits plan $49 + Carrier fees $4.20 | $53.20 | $53.20 |
| Textedly | Monthly plan | Bronze plan, 1,000 credits $49 + Monthly telecom fee $8 | $57 | $57 |
| YepText | Monthly plan | The Standard plan, 1,500 credits $59 | $59 | $59 |
Not priced at this volume: Infobip, SMSGlobal, MessageMedia, TrueDialog, Podium, Avochato, Messente, Omnisend, BulkSMS, Emotive, Birdeye, Weave, Klaviyo, Attentive, Sendlane. One SMS of up to 160 characters per text, monthly billing. A longer text or a picture message counts as more than one. Pay as you go totals carry the sending number's monthly fee and any carrier fee billed on top; one-off registration fees are left out. Figures read from each service's own US pages between 9 and 21 September 2026.
Why some services are not priced
- Infobip: Its US number and registration fees are not published beside the message rate.
- SMSGlobal: Its one US figure is a starting price that falls with the size of a single purchase, and its number prices are not published.
- MessageMedia: Its plan prices are for annual billing, and what a message beyond the allowance costs is not on the page we read.
- TrueDialog: Its plans are sold on an annual contract.
- Podium: It sells bulk messages as a monthly credit allowance of 250 or 500 on plans from $399 a month, with more by quote.
- Avochato: Its per segment message rate depends on the plan and billing term, on top of a $210 platform fee.
- Messente: It prices in euros, and the site compares US prices in US dollars only.
- Omnisend: Its $59 Pro price is a starting price that rises with contact count, so no monthly cost holds without knowing your list size.
- BulkSMS: Its US number price is given only during onboarding.
- Emotive: Its plan band is set by list size rather than messages sent, and its number fee is published as a range of $40 to $90 a month.
- Birdeye: It publishes no price.
- Weave: Its bulk texting allowance is not tied to a published price.
- Klaviyo: Its per message rates are shown only inside an account; the one public price is a calculator default of $15 for 1,000 messages.
- Attentive: It publishes no plan price or message rate; pricing is by quote.
- Sendlane: SMS is an add on to an email plan from $100 a month, and the SMS add on carries no published price.
- A service whose published plans or bands stop below the volume you enter drops out of the table at that volume, because what it charges beyond them is by quote.
The five highest scoring mass texting services, and what each is best for
- Kudosity (formerly BurstSMS), 8.17 out of 10: best for features (10.0). $24 for 1,000 texts a month, pay as you go, read between 9 and 21 September 2026.
- ClickSend, 7.58 out of 10: best for features (10.0). $36.97 for 1,000 texts a month, pay as you go, read between 9 and 21 September 2026.
- Infobip, 7.25 out of 10: best for compliance (10.0). $0.00818 per SMS, read between 9 and 21 September 2026.
- SlickText, 6.67 out of 10: best for compliance (9.5). $53.20 for 1,000 texts a month, monthly plan, read between 9 and 21 September 2026.
- SMSGlobal, 6.67 out of 10: best for features (9.0). From $0.019 per SMS, read between 9 and 21 September 2026.
"Best for" is the criterion each provider scores highest on of the six we publish; the order is this page's ranking. How we rate.
Compare the 25 mass texting services
Sorted by the overall score. Filter by how you pay, by free trial or by the services the calculator prices, or select a column heading to re-sort.
| # | How you pay | Smallest way in | Free trial | Visit | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kudosity (formerly BurstSMS) | Pay as you go | $0.019 per SMS, carrier fee included | Yes | 8.17 | Review |
| 2 | ClickSend | Pay as you go | $0.0292 per SMS plus a $0.0042 carrier fee | Yes | 7.58 | Visit |
| 3 | Infobip | Pay as you go | $0.00818 per SMS | Yes | 7.25 | Review |
| 4 | SlickText | Monthly plan | $29 a month, 500 credits | Yes | 6.67 | Visit |
| 5 | SMSGlobal | Pay as you go | From $0.019 per SMS | Yes | 6.67 | Visit |
| 6 | MessageMedia | Monthly plan | $99 a month billed annually, 3,000 SMS | Yes | 6.58 | Review |
| 7 | TrueDialog | Monthly plan | $119 a month, up to 5,000 messages, annual contract | No | 6.58 | Visit |
| 8 | Notifyre | Pay as you go | $0.02 per SMS part, carrier fee included | No | 6.50 | Visit |
| 9 | SimpleTexting | Monthly plan | $29 a month, 500 credits | Yes | 6.42 | Review |
| 10 | Podium | Monthly plan | $399 a month, 250 bulk message credits | No | 5.92 | Visit |
| 11 | Avochato | Monthly plan | $210 a month platform fee, messages billed per segment | Yes | 5.83 | Review |
| 12 | EZ Texting | Monthly plan | $25 a month, 500 credits | Yes | 5.67 | Review |
| 13 | Trumpia | Monthly plan | $49 a month, 1,000 credits | Yes | 5.67 | Visit |
| 14 | Messente | Pay as you go | Priced in euros | Yes | 5.58 | Visit |
| 15 | Omnisend | Monthly plan | $59 a month, starting price, plus SMS credits | No | 5.58 | Review |
| 16 | Textedly | Monthly plan | $29 a month, 500 credits | Not established | 5.42 | Review |
| 17 | BulkSMS | Pay as you go | $0.038 per SMS on 200 credits | Yes | 5.17 | Review |
| 18 | Postscript | Monthly plan | $0 a month, with a $49 minimum spend | Yes | 5.08 | Review |
| 19 | Emotive | Monthly plan | $100 a month, plus a per message rate | Yes | 5.00 | Review |
| 20 | Birdeye | By quote | By quote | Not established | 4.92 | Review |
| 21 | Weave | Monthly plan | $199 a month base bundle | No | 4.83 | Review |
| 22 | Klaviyo | Monthly plan | Not published | Yes | 4.58 | Review |
| 23 | Attentive | By quote | Not published | Not established | 4.42 | Review |
| 24 | Sendlane | Monthly plan | $100 a month, email plan, SMS extra | No | 4.00 | Review |
| 25 | YepText | Monthly plan | $9 a month, 150 credits | Yes | 3.83 | Review |
Prices, trials and ways of paying read from each service's own US pages between 9 and 21 September 2026. The smallest way in is the cheapest published plan on monthly billing, or the first pay as you go rate; number rental and carrier fees are added in the cost calculator below, not here.
Clickatell, Skipio, Community, Heymarket, Salesmsg, Textline and Text Request publish bulk or broadcast features too, but the evidence we hold does not state a send to a whole contact list from their web app, so they are reviewed and not ranked here. Twilio, Bird (formerly MessageBird), Bandwidth and Telnyx sell SMS through an API for developers; they are ranked among the best SMS gateways and, on developer fit, among the best SMS APIs, and a month of sending at volume through an API is costed, fees in, on bulk SMS providers. 7 of the services here sell monthly plans, and those platforms are compared on their own, plan by plan with the credits each includes, among the best SMS marketing platforms.
The best mass texting services, ranked
- Kudosity (formerly BurstSMS) 8.17 out of 10, pay as you go
- ClickSend 7.58 out of 10, pay as you go
- Infobip 7.25 out of 10, pay as you go
- SlickText 6.67 out of 10, monthly plan
- SMSGlobal 6.67 out of 10, pay as you go
- MessageMedia 6.58 out of 10, monthly plan
- TrueDialog 6.58 out of 10, monthly plan
- Notifyre 6.50 out of 10, pay as you go
- SimpleTexting 6.42 out of 10, monthly plan
- Podium 5.92 out of 10, monthly plan
- Avochato 5.83 out of 10, monthly plan
- EZ Texting 5.67 out of 10, monthly plan
- Trumpia 5.67 out of 10, monthly plan
- Messente 5.58 out of 10, pay as you go
- Omnisend 5.58 out of 10, monthly plan
- Textedly 5.42 out of 10, monthly plan
- BulkSMS 5.17 out of 10, pay as you go
- Postscript 5.08 out of 10, monthly plan
- Emotive 5.00 out of 10, monthly plan
- Birdeye 4.92 out of 10, by quote
- Weave 4.83 out of 10, monthly plan
- Klaviyo 4.58 out of 10, monthly plan
- Attentive 4.42 out of 10, by quote
- Sendlane 4.00 out of 10, monthly plan
- YepText 3.83 out of 10, monthly plan
All sections on this page
What a mass texting service is
A mass texting service is a tool that lets a business with no developer send one text to a whole contact list from the service's own web app, and each contact receives an individual message. Among the 25 services ranked here, 16 sell monthly plans that bundle message credits and 7 sell pay as you go bulk SMS credit, priced per text. The monthly cost of mass texting depends on message length and your sending volume. The site's mass texting against one to one texting comparison covers the difference.
How to choose
Count your monthly segments
Work out how many 160 character segments you send each month before you look at any price page. SlickText defines one message credit as one industry standard SMS message segment to one subscriber, and its pricing page states that an SMS message segment contains 160 characters, with an MMS consuming 3 message credits per segment. Notifyre charges every 153 characters or part thereof in a long message as an additional SMS message. A message containing a character outside the GSM 03.38 basic character set is treated as Unicode and fits fewer characters per part, so count those messages separately.
Compare both billing models at your volume
Price your monthly plan against pay as you go using your own segment count, because the winner changes with volume. At 1,000 texts a month, the cheapest pay as you go service is Kudosity at $24 and the cheapest monthly plan is Trumpia at $49. At 25,000 texts a month, Kudosity costs $280 and SlickText costs $684. Kudosity charges $0.019 per SMS up to 1,499 messages and $0.015 up to 24,999 messages, with carrier pass-through included, so your volume determines your rate. Fifteen of the 25 services cannot be priced at a monthly volume without an assumption, and the page lists each one with its reason.
Register your number and budget for it
Register a 10DLC number for your brand before you send, and put the fees in your budget. The Campaign Registry (campaignregistry.com, read 19 September 2026) states that 10DLC is an A2P messaging channel in which brands and campaign service providers are verified, and that a brand cannot register directly, because it works through a registered messaging provider. Notifyre's pricing page, read 19 September 2026, itemizes its one-off 10DLC cost as brand registration $4.80, campaign registration $16.90, three months of campaign maintenance $34.20 and one month of the number $5.00, then $16.40 a month for the number plus campaign maintenance after a one-off $60.90 registration.
Get written consent and honor opt-outs
Collect written consent for every commercial text, and act on every opt-out. The FCC consumer guide "Stop Unwanted Robocalls and Texts" (fcc.gov, last reviewed 27 February 2026) states that commercial texts require written consent, that a person may opt out of any robotext at any time and in any reasonable manner even after giving consent, and that FCC rules apply even to numbers not on the National Do Not Call Registry. The FCC rule at 47 CFR 64.1200(c)(1) bars telephone solicitations to residential subscribers before 8 a.m. or after 9 p.m., local time at the called party's location.
Test before you commit
Use a free trial or free credits before you pay for a plan. Sixteen of the 25 services publish a free trial, free credits or a free plan that sends SMS, so you test the web app without spending money. ClickSend, on its US pricing page read 21 September 2026, charges $0.0292 per SMS when you top up from $20, falling to $0.0096 when you top up from $2,000, so the lower rates need larger top ups.
What the rules say
The FCC consumer guide "Stop Unwanted Robocalls and Texts" (fcc.gov, last reviewed 27 February 2026) states that FCC rules ban text messages sent to a mobile phone using an autodialer unless the phone owner previously gave consent or the message is sent for emergency purposes. The same guide states that commercial texts require written consent and that consent for informational texts may be oral. According to the guide, a person may opt out of any robotext at any time and in any reasonable manner, even after giving consent. The FCC rule at 47 CFR 64.1200(c)(1) bars telephone solicitations to residential subscribers before 8 a.m. or after 9 p.m., local time at the called party's location. The Campaign Registry (campaignregistry.com, read 19 September 2026) says 10DLC is an A2P messaging channel in which brands and campaign service providers are verified before they are allowed to send. The Campaign Registry states that a brand cannot register directly, because it works through a registered messaging provider.
How we ranked the services
The page ranks the 25 services the site reviews that meet one test, that a business with no developer sends one text to a whole contact list from the service's own web app, with each contact receiving an individual message. Four providers the site reviews, Twilio, Bird (formerly MessageBird), Bandwidth and Telnyx, sell SMS only through an API for developers on the evidence recorded, so they are ranked on the gateway rankings instead. The order comes from each provider's overall score out of 10, the equal-weighted average of six criteria, those being value for money, features, reliability, reputation, compliance and customer service. We do not open accounts and we do not send test traffic. Prices, plans, trials and features were read from each provider's own published US pages through a United States proxy on 9 September 2026 and re-checked by a second reader whose job was to refute them, with the pay as you go price lists read again on 19 September 2026. The full method is on the method page. Some providers pay the site a commission when a reader signs up through a link, and the order comes from the six criteria and nothing else, as the disclosure records.
Frequently asked questions
How much does a mass texting service cost?
A mass texting service costs from $24 to $59 a month at 1,000 texts, among the ten services priced at that volume. The cheapest pay as you go service is Kudosity at $24 and the cheapest monthly plan is Trumpia at $49. At 25,000 texts a month, the range runs from Kudosity at $280 to EZ Texting at $860.
What is the cheapest mass texting service?
The cheapest mass texting service at 1,000 texts a month is Kudosity, at $24 on its pay as you go rate of $0.019 per SMS up to 1,499 messages. The cheapest monthly plan at that volume is Trumpia at $49. At 50,000 texts a month the cost per 1,000 texts runs from $10.10 with Kudosity to $32.20 with EZ Texting.
Is mass texting legal in the USA?
The FCC consumer guide "Stop Unwanted Robocalls and Texts" (fcc.gov, last reviewed 27 February 2026) states the consent rules for robotexts in the USA. It says FCC rules ban text messages sent to a mobile phone using an autodialer unless the phone owner previously gave consent or the message is sent for emergency purposes.
Can I send a mass text for free?
Sixteen of the 25 ranked mass texting services publish a free trial, free credits or a free plan that sends SMS, giving you a way to send a mass text for free. Terms differ by provider, and some free trials send only test messages. The table's "Free trial or credits" filter lists the 16.
Is a mass text the same as a group text?
A mass text is not the same as a group text. A mass texting service sends one text to a whole contact list from the service's own web app, and each contact receives the text as an individual message. The site's mass texting against one to one texting comparison covers the difference.
Does a commission change these rankings?
No, a commission does not change these rankings. The order comes from the six criteria, the equal-weighted average of value for money, features, reliability, reputation, compliance and customer service, and nothing else. Some providers pay the site a commission when a reader signs up through a link, and the disclosure records this. We do not open accounts and we do not send test traffic.