SMS sent: price per 1,000 SMS
Lowest listed rate per service, cheapest first. Rates are overage prices beyond the included allowance.
Base per-SMS price only. Carrier pass-through fees are a separate rate; the all-in column adds them where the vendor lists one.
| Category | Free tier includes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pay as you go | Bird SMS | SMS APIs | $3.50 | no carrier fee listed | unlisted | 2026-10-24 |
| 2 | U.S. 10DLC | Bandwidth Messaging | SMS APIs | $4 | no carrier fee listed | unlisted | 2026-10-24 |
| 3 | Pay As You Go | Telnyx SMS | SMS APIs | $4 | no carrier fee listed | unlisted | 2026-10-24 |
| 4 | Pay-as-you-go | Plivo SMS | SMS APIs | $7.70 | no carrier fee listed | unlisted | 2026-10-24 |
| 5 | SMS (United States) | AWS End User Messaging SMS | SMS APIs | $7.74+ $4.21 carrier | $11.95 | unlisted | 2026-10-24 |
| 6 | Pay-as-you-go | Sinch SMS | SMS APIs | $7.80 | no carrier fee listed | unlisted | 2026-10-24 |
| 7 | Pay-as-you-go | Twilio SMS | SMS APIs | $8.30 | no carrier fee listed | unlisted | 2026-10-24 |
| 8 | Virtual Phone Number | Vonage SMS API | SMS APIs | $8.60 | no carrier fee listed | unlisted | 2026-10-24 |
| Pro | Kinde | Auth | $70 | no carrier fee listed | unlisted | 2026-10-23 |
USD per 1,000 SMS. "+" marks a model whose price changes with volume; the standard band is shown. Hover a verified badge for the freshness sentence. A price we could not source is "unlisted", never estimated.
Included allowance but no listed overage rate: Descope, Kinde, MailerSend, PagerDuty.