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The best Twilio alternative in 2026 is Signal House, which publishes a complete US price list, approves most A2P 10DLC campaigns in 48 hours, and includes hands-on support at no extra cost. If you only care about the lowest sticker price, Telnyx lists US 10DLC messages at $0.004 a segment against Twilio's $0.0083. If you are not a developer and never want to touch an API, SlickText starts at $29 a month and gives you every feature on every plan.

Mobile Text Alerts sells message credits by the month, and unlike most of its rivals the price includes the dedicated toll-free number you send from and as many user seats as you want. Plans run from $25 a month for 500 messages to $499 for 20,000, with a flat $500 plan above that covering up to a million. Two things the pricing page does not put next to the headline number. A local number is not included. Toll-free is.

Nutshell is the best CRM for small business in 2026. It starts at $13 per user per month on annual billing and is the only tool here that includes unlimited contacts, unlimited storage, free onboarding, free migration, and live human support on every plan. Pipedrive is the better pick if you want the strongest visual pipeline. HubSpot is the better pick if you need to start on a free plan.

SimpleTexting sells credits, not texts. That distinction is the whole story of its pricing, and it is why a 500-credit plan is rarely 500 messages. A plain text under 160 characters costs 1 credit. Go over that and it costs 2. Attach a picture and it costs 3. So the $39 entry plan is 500 short plain texts, or 250 longer ones, or about 167 picture messages. Same plan, same price, three very different results. The $39 itself splits in two as well: $29 of credits plus $10 for the local number.

Yes, there are fees beyond the per-text rate. Textmagic badges its pricing “No hidden fees”, and for the texts themselves that is true. What catches people out is the number you send them from. A toll-free number costs $10 a month. A local US number costs $10 a month plus another $10 a month for brand and campaign registration, so $20 a month before you send a single text. Textmagic's own calculator prices 1,000 texts at $59 on a toll-free number and $69 on a local one. Neither figure is concealed.

SMS marketing was such a great idea, but now you’re looking at the bill, and… yikes. It’s a little high. But just how expensive is SMS marketing? And will you see a return on that investment? Let’s look at whether SMS marketing is actually worth it.

EZ Texting starts at $20 a month. SimpleTexting starts at $39. If that settled it, this page would be one line long. It does not settle it, because the two companies charge for completely different things. EZ Texting bills you for how many people are on your list. SimpleTexting bills you for how many messages you send. So the cheaper option depends almost entirely on the size of your contact list, and the gap between them gets enormous in both directions.

MarketerHire does not publish a price. No plans, no tiers, no rate card. That much it has in common with plenty of sales-led software. What makes MarketerHire different is the reason. Most companies hide the number because they want to quote you. MarketerHire hides it because the number is supposed to come from you. Its pricing page says so directly: “There's no plan to pick and no retainer to guess at.

Penji costs $995, $1,995, or $4,500 a month. Those are the three plans: Marketing & Ads, Agency, and Creative Team. There is no annual discount and no cheaper entry tier. Penji publishes all of that openly, which is more than several of its competitors manage. The number it does not publish is the one that decides whether $995 is cheap or expensive for you.

Trainual does not publish its prices. Not one plan, not one number. Its pricing page lists four tiers, Core, Pro, Premium and Enterprise, tells you what each includes, and gives you a “Get a demo” button. There are six of them on the page and no prices anywhere. There is also no free trial and no self-serve signup. You cannot create an account and look around. You start with a sales call. The one number Trainual publishes is a $1,000 one-time implementation fee.