Is EZ Texting or Textedly cheaper?

EZ Texting starts at $25 per month on Launch, or $20 per month billed annually (14 days trial). Textedly starts at $29 per month (free plan available).

EZ Texting vs Textedly

An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.

The short answer

Editorial assessment

Textedly compared with EZ Texting

Both target the same US small business buyer with mass texting, keywords, and an inbox. EZ Texting has the longer track record and a more conventional tiered feature model, where higher plans unlock more. Textedly's every-feature-on-every-plan policy is the sharper offer for a small sender, and its free tier is a lower-risk way to start. Compare them on your actual monthly volume, because that is the only axis Textedly prices on.

Choose EZ Texting if

US and Canadian small businesses, nonprofits, churches, schools, franchises, and local retailers that want a mature, feature-complete texting platform with carrier registration handled for them, especially organizations that need payments or donations by text and value breadth over depth.

Choose Textedly if

Small US businesses, nonprofits, schools, churches, clinics, and service companies that want the complete texting toolkit on the cheapest plan they can fit into, and anyone who wants to test SMS properly on a free tier before spending anything.

Side by side

13 attributes

Attribute	EZ Texting	Textedly
Category	SMS	SMS
Starting price	$25 per month on Launch, or $20 per month billed annually (14 days trial)	$29 per month (free plan available)
Pricing model	Credit-based monthly subscription across three self-serve tiers that all include 500 credits, where the price buys a lower overage rate, a better number type, and a waived telecom fee. One seat included, additional seats and numbers charged separately.	Volume-based monthly subscription where every plan includes the full feature set and tiers differ only by monthly message allowance, from a free 50-message tier up to plans covering 360,000 messages.
Free plan	No	Free account with 50 text messages and one custom keyword, no credit card required.
Free trial	14 days with no credit card required	No fixed-length trial; the free plan serves as the evaluation path
Best for	US and Canadian small businesses, nonprofits, churches, schools, franchises, and local retailers that want a mature, feature-complete texting platform with carrier registration handled for them, especially organizations that need payments or donations by text and value breadth over depth.	Small US businesses, nonprofits, schools, churches, clinics, and service companies that want the complete texting toolkit on the cheapest plan they can fit into, and anyone who wants to test SMS properly on a free tier before spending anything.
Setup time	The vendor quotes setup within one business day on self-serve plans, which describes account and number provisioning. Actual sending waits on A2P carrier registration, which EZ Texting handles for you but which still typically takes one to four weeks. Enterprise with a dedicated short code is quoted at four to twelve weeks, driven almost entirely by short code provisioning.	Minutes to a first test message on the free tier, but one to two weeks of calendar time before you can send at volume, because A2P 10DLC registration or toll-free verification stands in the way and neither is under the vendor's control.
Learning curve	Low. Twenty years of iteration has produced an interface a volunteer coordinator or a front-desk employee can use unaided, and the campaign calendar and templates make repeatable programs easy. The workflows and automations layer takes an afternoon. The main conceptual hurdle is credit accounting, particularly that an MMS is three credits and an emoji can multiply segment count.	Low. The interface is built for people who are not marketers, and because nothing is gated by tier there is no confusion about which features you actually have.
Platforms	Web application, iOS and Android apps, US and Canadian SMS, MMS, and RCS, Local, high-volume, high-speed, and short code numbers	Web application, Mobile-responsive web, API
Compliance	A2P carrier registration included in all plans, Automatic STOP and opt-out suppression, Opt-in based service with an anti-spam policy, Age verification for age-gated products, Trust and compliance tooling at platform level	TCPA consent workflows, CTIA messaging guidelines, A2P 10DLC brand and campaign registration, Automatic STOP handling
Founded	2006	2015
Headquarters	Santa Monica, California, United States, with a San Francisco presence	Nashville, Tennessee, with operations in Los Angeles, California
Ownership	Privately held with institutional investors including AEA Investors, Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, ROCA Partners, and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. Acquired by CallFire in 2012, with all CallFire brands consolidated under the EZ Texting name in 2018.	Privately held, no disclosed outside funding

Strengths and limitations

EZ Texting

Strengths

The broadest feature list in this comparison set, including RCS, text-to-pay and text-to-give through Stripe, age verification, AI translation across six languages, and a smart contact cleaner that competitors simply do not ship.
A2P carrier registration is included in every plan rather than passed through, which removes the setup obstacle that stalls the most small-business texting programs.
A low genuine entry point: $25 a month, or $20 annually, with a 14-day trial requiring no credit card.
Unlimited contacts and free inbound messages mean neither list growth nor genuine two-way conversation inflates the bill.

Limitations

All three self-serve tiers include the same 500 credits, so higher tiers buy a discount rather than volume, and the overage rate ends up setting your real cost.
Overage at 3 to 4 cents per credit is two to four times what volume-oriented platforms charge per message, which makes growth expensive.
The gap from Scale at $125 to Enterprise at $3,000 is enormous with nothing in between, so a business outgrowing its plan has nowhere to go inside the product.
One user seat on every self-serve plan with $10 per additional seat, which is stingier than SimpleTexting's three and much worse than Sakari's and Textmagic's unlimited users.

Textedly

Strengths

Every feature on every plan is a genuinely differentiated pricing decision and eliminates the usual pattern of paying two tiers up for one automation you need.
A real free tier with 50 messages and a keyword, which lets you validate the channel with actual customers before spending anything.
Text-to-Pay and Google Business review requests are bundled, and for a local service business those two often produce more value than the promotional sending does.
Free incoming messages on every plan, so conversation does not cost more than broadcasting.

Limitations

The published pricing page does not lay out a static tier table, so you cannot compare plan-for-plan against competitors without working through the interactive selector.
The effective bill runs above the headline: a reported telecom surcharge of about $8 a month, $10 per teammate, per-keyword charges, and carrier pass-through all stack on top.
No published rollover policy for unused messages, which is a real gap next to SimpleTexting and SlickText, both of which document theirs precisely.
No ecommerce revenue attribution model, so SMS performance is measured in clicks and replies rather than orders and dollars.

Pricing compared

EZ Texting

Credit-based monthly subscription across three self-serve tiers that all include 500 credits, where the price buys a lower overage rate, a better number type, and a waived telecom fee. One seat included, additional seats and numbers charged separately.

Launch$25
Boost$75
Scale$125
EnterpriseFrom $3,000

EZ Texting is priced for the low end and gets awkward in the middle. At Launch, $30 all in with 500 credits and registration handled is a genuinely low barrier for a church, a salon, or a small nonprofit, and the breadth of features at that price is unmatched here. Once you are sending 10,000 or 20,000 credits a month the overage rate dominates the bill, and at 3 to 4 cents a credit you are paying two to four times what volume-oriented platforms charge, with no intermediate tier to escape into short of a $3,000 Enterprise contract. The single seat on every plan compounds this, adding $10 per person where SimpleTexting includes three and Sakari and Textmagic include unlimited. The honest read is that EZ Texting is very good value for a small organization sending modest volume that wants payments, translation, RCS, and registration handled without thinking, and poor value for anyone whose volume is growing quickly.

Textedly

Volume-based monthly subscription where every plan includes the full feature set and tiers differ only by monthly message allowance, from a free 50-message tier up to plans covering 360,000 messages.

Free$0
Entry paid plan$29
Volume plansQuoted by volume above $29

Textedly's value proposition is unusually honest and unusually easy to evaluate: you buy volume, and you get everything. For a small business that would otherwise be pushed to a $99 tier by a competitor just to unlock automations or an inbox, that structure alone can halve the bill. The free tier is real, not a demo, and it is the cheapest way in this category to find out whether your customers will actually engage by text. Where the value gets murkier is the total cost. The $29 headline becomes $40 or $50 once a telecom surcharge, a couple of teammates, and carrier pass-through land, and there is no published rollover, so a quiet month is money gone. Set against that, the tools bundled at no extra cost, particularly Text-to-Pay and Google review requests, would be separate subscriptions elsewhere. For a local service business it is one of the better dollar-for-dollar buys in SMS; for a marketing team that measures revenue per send, the money is better spent on an ecommerce platform.

Editorial verdict on each

EZ Texting

EZ Texting is the safe, broad, unexciting choice for a small US organization that wants to text customers and does not want to think about carriers. Twenty years of iteration has produced the longest feature list here, including RCS, Stripe-backed payments and donations, age verification, and AI translation that nobody else at this price offers, and including A2P registration in the plan removes the step that stalls the most small-business programs. At Launch, $30 all in is a genuinely low barrier. The problem is what happens next. All three self-serve tiers carry the same 500 credits, so growth is billed at 3 to 4 cents in overage, one seat per plan means every additional person costs $10 a month, and the leap from Scale at $125 to Enterprise at $3,000 leaves a growing business with nowhere sensible to go. Buy it if you are a church, school, clinic, restaurant, or franchise sending modest volume and you value breadth and handled compliance. Look at SimpleTexting if your team is larger, at Textmagic or Sakari if you have international contacts or many seats, and at Postscript if you sell on Shopify.

Read the full EZ Texting profile

Textedly

Best Value

Textedly is the small-business SMS platform to look at first if you resent paying two tiers up for one feature. Everything is on every plan, the free account is a real one, and Text-to-Pay plus Google review requests bundled at no extra charge are worth more to most local businesses than the promotional sending is. The reservations are about transparency rather than capability: the tier ladder is behind an interactive selector rather than a table, a telecom surcharge appears on invoices without much prominence, teammates cost $10 each, and no rollover policy is published, which in a credit-shaped business is a meaningful omission. Judge it on volume and honesty of fit. For a clinic, church, nonprofit, or service business that wants everything texting can do at the lowest workable price, it is a strong buy. For an ecommerce brand that needs to prove SMS revenue, it is the wrong tool at any price.

Read the full Textedly profile

EZ Texting profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Textedly last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.