Is Salesmsg or SimpleTexting cheaper?

Salesmsg starts at $25 per month on Basic, including one seat and one phone number (14 days trial). SimpleTexting starts at $39 per month for 500 credits, or $398.40 per year with annual billing (free trial).

Salesmsg vs SimpleTexting

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

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Salesmsg compared with SimpleTexting

SimpleTexting is a general business texting platform from $39 a month with three seats included, free inbound messages, rolling credits, and phone support, aimed at reminders, promotions, and alerts. Salesmsg is a sales tool with CRM object sync, a dialer, and AI agents. If texting is how your business communicates operationally, SimpleTexting is cheaper and simpler. If texting is how your reps work a pipeline inside HubSpot or Salesforce, SimpleTexting cannot do the job and Salesmsg can.

SimpleTexting compared with Salesmsg

Salesmsg is built for sales teams, with deep native HubSpot and Salesforce sync, a power dialer, calling, call recording, and AI qualification agents. SimpleTexting is a marketing and operations tool with a shared inbox and Zapier-based integrations. If texting is how your reps work leads inside a CRM, Salesmsg is the right shape. If texting is how your business sends reminders, promotions, and alerts, SimpleTexting does it for less money and less setup.

Choose Salesmsg if

Sales, service, and support teams running HubSpot or Salesforce where reps both text and call leads, particularly speed-to-lead businesses in mortgage, recruiting, insurance, real estate, and home services that need every touch logged against the CRM record automatically.

Choose SimpleTexting if

Small and mid-sized US and Canadian businesses that want a straightforward, well-supported texting platform for appointment reminders, promotions, alerts, and two-way customer conversations, especially teams of three to five who value rolling credits and included seats over ecommerce or CRM depth.

Side by side

13 attributes

Attribute	Salesmsg	SimpleTexting
Category	SMS	SMS
Starting price	$25 per month on Basic, including one seat and one phone number (14 days trial)	$39 per month for 500 credits, or $398.40 per year with annual billing (free trial)
Pricing model	Credit-based monthly subscription with per-seat and per-number add-ons. One credit is one SMS, two credits an MMS, one credit a call minute, and two credits a minute of call forwarding.	Credit-based monthly subscription, quoted by monthly credit volume. Credits are consumed per message segment. Three user seats included, additional seats and numbers charged separately, carrier fees passed through at cost.
Free plan	No	No
Free trial	14 days	Free trial with no credit card required, plus a 30-day money-back guarantee
Best for	Sales, service, and support teams running HubSpot or Salesforce where reps both text and call leads, particularly speed-to-lead businesses in mortgage, recruiting, insurance, real estate, and home services that need every touch logged against the CRM record automatically.	Small and mid-sized US and Canadian businesses that want a straightforward, well-supported texting platform for appointment reminders, promotions, alerts, and two-way customer conversations, especially teams of three to five who value rolling credits and included seats over ecommerce or CRM depth.
Setup time	An account and a number are live in minutes on the 14-day trial, but US sending waits on A2P 10DLC brand and campaign approval, typically one to four weeks, or on toll-free verification at one to three weeks. The HubSpot or Salesforce connection takes under an hour. Plan on two to four weeks from signup to a fully compliant production program.	An account and a local number can be live the same day. Realistically you are gated by carrier registration: A2P 10DLC brand and campaign approval takes roughly one to four weeks, toll-free verification up to a week, and a short code six to eight weeks. Start registration immediately and build lists while you wait.
Learning curve	Low for texting, moderate for the CRM automation. Reps pick up the inbox and the dialer immediately. The work is in designing which CRM events trigger which sequences and configuring the AI agents' qualification logic, which is a genuine design exercise rather than a settings screen and deserves a week of iteration before you point real leads at it.	Genuinely low. The interface is the plainest in this category and a non-technical front-desk employee can send a campaign in fifteen minutes. Drip campaigns and segmentation take an afternoon. The only conceptual hurdle is credit accounting, and specifically the fact that an emoji can double or triple the cost of a message.
Platforms	Web application, iOS and Android apps, Chrome extension, US and Canadian SMS, MMS, and voice, Local and toll-free numbers	Web application, iOS and Android apps, US and Canadian SMS and MMS, Local, toll-free, and short code numbers
Compliance	A2P 10DLC brand and campaign registration submitted on your behalf, Toll-free verification, Automatic STOP and opt-out suppression reflected into the CRM, Consent capture through opt-in workflows, Call recording, which carries its own state-by-state consent obligations	TCPA-aligned consent capture with recorded opt-in source, CTIA messaging principles, A2P 10DLC brand and campaign registration submitted on your behalf, Toll-free verification, Automatic STOP and opt-out suppression
Founded	2017	2010
Headquarters	Delray Beach, Florida, United States	Miami Beach, Florida, United States (originally founded in New York)
Ownership	Privately held and unfunded, led by co-founder and CEO Chris Brisson	Owned by Sinch AB, the Swedish CPaaS group, following acquisition by MessageMedia in November 2020

Strengths and limitations

Salesmsg

Strengths

Native HubSpot and Salesforce integration that logs texts and calls to the CRM record and exposes messaging as a workflow action, rather than the Zapier-mediated connections most competitors describe as integration.
Texting and calling on one number with recording and transcription, which no other product in this comparison set offers as a unified surface.
A power dialer, which is a genuine productivity lever for outbound teams and is simply absent from every pure texting platform here.
AI agents that qualify leads and book meetings around the clock, which directly addresses the speed-to-lead problem the customer base is built around.

Limitations

The jump from Basic at $25 to Pro at $277 is steep, and everything that differentiates Salesmsg from a generic texting tool sits on the Pro side of that line.
The advertised entry price covers one seat and one number, so the real cost for a functioning sales team is substantially higher than the pricing page suggests.
Shared credits across messaging and calling mean a heavy calling month consumes the message budget, which complicates forecasting.
No ecommerce data model, cart triggers, or revenue attribution, so online stores get nothing that matters to them.

SimpleTexting

Strengths

Credits roll over on monthly plans, so a business with a lumpy sending pattern does not forfeit what it paid for at the end of every month.
Three user seats included on every plan before the $20 per seat charge starts, which is more generous than most competitors and matters for a front desk with rotating staff.
Free inbound SMS makes genuinely two-way conversation economically viable rather than something you ration.
Features are not gated by tier. You buy volume, not capability, which means plan selection is arithmetic instead of a feature-matrix negotiation.

Limitations

Per-credit economics are poor at volume. At entry pricing you are paying multiples of what per-message platforms charge, and the 5.5 cent overage rate punishes miscalculation.
No ecommerce data model at all, so revenue attribution, cart triggers, and product-level personalization simply do not exist.
CRM integration runs mostly through Zapier rather than native object sync, which is a meaningful gap next to Salesmsg or Sakari for a sales team.
Number porting away has been publicly documented as slow and obstructive, in one case requiring an FCC complaint and taking three weeks. That is a real switching cost you should price in before choosing a number.

Pricing compared

Salesmsg

Credit-based monthly subscription with per-seat and per-number add-ons. One credit is one SMS, two credits an MMS, one credit a call minute, and two credits a minute of call forwarding.

Basic$25
Pro$277
EnterpriseCustom

Salesmsg is priced as a sales productivity tool rather than as bulk messaging, and it should be judged that way. If a rep closes one additional deal a month because an AI agent answered a lead at 9pm and booked the meeting, the entire cost of the platform is irrelevant. If nobody is calling, nobody is using the dialer, and nobody is working leads in a CRM, then you are paying a premium for capabilities you do not touch and SimpleTexting or EZ Texting will do the same broadcast job for less. The Basic-to-Pro gap is the awkward part of the ladder: $25 to $277 is a wide jump, and the calling, dialer, and AI features that justify Salesmsg over a generic texting tool all sit on the far side of it. Evaluate honestly whether you need Pro, because Basic on its own is a competent but unremarkable texting platform at a competitive price, and Pro is a different product entirely.

SimpleTexting

Credit-based monthly subscription, quoted by monthly credit volume. Credits are consumed per message segment. Three user seats included, additional seats and numbers charged separately, carrier fees passed through at cost.

500 credits$39
Higher credit tiersScales with volume
Annual billing20 percent off

SimpleTexting is priced as a business tool rather than a telecom commodity, and whether that is good value depends entirely on volume. At 500 credits for $39, you are paying roughly 7.8 cents a credit, which is five times what a pay-as-you-go platform charges per message and eight times what an ecommerce platform charges at scale. What you are actually buying is the shared inbox, three included seats, the automation layer, the support, and the fact that unused credits roll over. For a practice or a studio sending a few hundred reminders a month and holding real conversations, that is a fair trade and the total bill stays under $50. For anyone sending tens of thousands of messages, the credit model becomes the most expensive way to buy SMS in this category and you should be looking at per-message pricing instead. The rollover policy and the three included seats are the two structural details that make it competitive at the small end, and they are genuinely better than most rivals offer.

Editorial verdict on each

Salesmsg

Salesmsg is a sales tool that happens to send texts, and that framing tells you whether to buy it. For a team working leads inside HubSpot or Salesforce where reps both text and call, it is the only product in this comparison set that unifies those touches on one number, logs them automatically to the record, and adds a power dialer and around-the-clock AI qualification on top. For speed-to-lead businesses in mortgage, recruiting, insurance, and home services, that combination is worth well above what it costs. The reservations are structural. The $25 headline covers one seat and one number and the real invoice for a team is considerably higher. The gap from Basic to Pro at $277 is wide, and everything that makes Salesmsg distinctive sits on the far side of it. Credits shared across messaging and calling complicate forecasting, rollover terms are not published, and there is nothing here for an ecommerce store or an international sender. Buy it if your CRM is the system of record and your reps live on the phone. Buy something cheaper if you just want to send a broadcast.

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SimpleTexting

SimpleTexting is the sensible default for a small business that wants to text customers and has no interest in becoming a telecom expert. Fifteen years in market, a clean interface a receptionist can use unaided, phone support on every plan, three seats included, free inbound messages, and credits that actually roll over add up to a product that does not fight you. Sinch ownership gives it real carrier infrastructure without an enterprise sales motion. The limits are equally clear. Per-credit economics are poor at volume, there is no ecommerce data model, CRM integration is Zapier-shaped rather than native, and the publicly documented difficulty of porting a number away is a genuine switching cost that deserves weight in the decision. Buy it if you are a practice, a studio, a school, an agency, or a local retailer sending hundreds to low thousands of messages a month with a small team working the replies. Look elsewhere if you are a Shopify store, a CRM-driven sales team, or a high-volume sender chasing the lowest rate per segment.

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