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All 45 US SMS providers we score

Every provider on this site gets the same six criteria and the same score out of ten. The 11 that publish no per message rate are here too, marked as such rather than quietly dropped.

Alain Grossbard OAMJustin Grossbard Alain Grossbard OAM, with Justin Grossbard Figures verified 8 September 2026 How we rate

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All 45 providers, highest score first. Each card carries the provider's pricing basis and its published rate where there is one. 34 publish a rate, 33 of them in US cents; Messente publishes in euros and is never converted. Rates first captured 2026-09-08; providers added since carry their own read date on their review. Each of them sells an SMS service: text messages sent by API, from a web app, or both, and every one carries the same six-criterion score out of ten.

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Showing all 45 providers, highest score first.

Kudosity (formerly BurstSMS) By monthly volume 8.17from 1.00c Telnyx By number type 8.08from 0.40c Sinch By number type 8.00from 0.78c ClickSend By top-up amount 7.58from 0.96c Twilio By number type 7.420.83c Infobip One flat rate 7.250.818c Textmagic One flat rate 6.924.90c Bandwidth By number type 6.83from 0.60c SMSGlobal One flat rate 6.671.90c SlickText No published rate 6.67Price on request TrueDialog By monthly volume 6.58from 0.69c Vonage By number type 6.580.86c MessageMedia By monthly plan 6.58from 1.60c Notifyre One flat rate 6.502.00c SimpleTexting By monthly volume 6.42from 2.00c Plivo By number type 6.25from 0.77c, $1,000 a month minimum (Enterprise plan) Text Request By monthly plan 6.25from 1.30c Text-Em-All By credit bundle 6.17from 6.00c Podium No published rate 5.92Price on request Clickatell By monthly volume 5.830.751c Avochato By published band 5.83from 2.00c Salesmsg Entry plan rate 5.835.00c, entry plan, $25 a month for 500 credits; Salesmsg says credits start at 4 cents on higher plans Textline By credit bundle 5.75from 3.00c Mobile Text Alerts By monthly plan 5.754.00c Bird (formerly MessageBird) By number type 5.67from 0.35c EZ Texting By monthly plan 5.67from 1.00c Trumpia No published rate 5.67Price on request Omnisend By monthly volume 5.58from 0.70c Messente By monthly volume 5.580.70c EUR Heymarket By monthly plan 5.50from 1.50c CallHub One flat rate 5.421.90c Textedly No published rate 5.42Price on request BulkSMS By credit bundle 5.17from 3.21c Postscript By monthly plan 5.08from 0.70c Emotive By published band 5.00from 0.80c Birdeye No published rate 4.92Price on request TextUs By monthly plan 4.83from 2.00c Weave No published rate 4.83Price on request Klaviyo No published rate 4.58Price on request Attentive No published rate 4.42Price on request Textla By monthly plan 4.331.00c Sendlane By monthly volume 4.00from 0.90c YepText No published rate 3.83Price on request Community No published rate 3.75Price on request Skipio No published rate 3.17Price on request

Discontinued providers

WholesaleSMS no longer sells under its own name: when we checked on September 9, 2026, wholesalesms.com redirected to ClickSend and its Australian site named Sinch MessageMedia as the successor, so it carries no score. WholesaleSMS review: discontinued

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How these scores are built

One score out of ten per provider, the equal weighted average of six criteria: value for money, features, reliability, reputation, compliance and customer service. The same six apply to every provider on this page. Figures are compiled from published material on a stated date. We do not open accounts or send test traffic, so nothing here is described as tested. Read the full method.