SlickText 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
Both sides assessedSlickText compared with Textedly
Textedly starts cheaper, has a free plan, and gives every feature on every tier, but charges $10 per additional teammate and adds a telecom surcharge on top of the plan. SlickText starts at $29, includes short codes and toll-free numbers, and has the deeper Shopify and workflow story. Take Textedly if you want the lowest possible entry cost and a free tier to test with; take SlickText if the automation and attribution layer is the point.
Textedly compared with SlickText
SlickText starts at $29 for 500 credits, publishes a full eight-tier table, includes short codes in the plan price, and rolls unused credits over for up to a year on annual billing. Textedly starts at $29, has a free tier, and puts every feature on every plan. Take SlickText if rollover, a published ladder, and Shopify workflows matter; take Textedly if you want the cheapest complete feature set and a free plan to prove the channel first.
Choose SlickText if
Small and mid-sized US businesses that want real SMS marketing machinery rather than a plain texting inbox, especially Shopify merchants under roughly 50,000 messages a month who want revenue attribution without an ecommerce-platform contract, and any team that sends in lumpy bursts and wants unused credits to roll over.
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 | SlickText | Textedly |
|---|---|---|
| Category | SMS | SMS |
| Starting price | $29 per month for 500 credits (14 days trial) | $29 per month (free plan available) |
| Pricing model | Credit-based monthly subscription across eight published tiers, with one SMS segment costing one credit and MMS costing three credits per segment, plus carrier fees passed through. | 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, all features, no credit card required | No fixed-length trial; the free plan serves as the evaluation path |
| Best for | Small and mid-sized US businesses that want real SMS marketing machinery rather than a plain texting inbox, especially Shopify merchants under roughly 50,000 messages a month who want revenue attribution without an ecommerce-platform contract, and any team that sends in lumpy bursts and wants unused credits to roll over. | 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 | An afternoon to send your first campaign, but plan one to two weeks of calendar time before you can send at volume, because A2P 10DLC registration or toll-free verification sits in the middle and neither is under SlickText's control. | 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 for campaigns and keywords, moderate for workflows and behavioural segmentation. The Shopify event triggers are the part worth reading the documentation for. | 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, Mobile-responsive web, REST API, Webhooks | Web application, Mobile-responsive web, API |
| Compliance | TCPA consent workflows, CTIA messaging guidelines, A2P 10DLC brand and campaign registration, Double opt-in and age verification | TCPA consent workflows, CTIA messaging guidelines, A2P 10DLC brand and campaign registration, Automatic STOP handling |
| Founded | 2012 | 2015 |
| Headquarters | Jamestown, New York, with a second headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee | Nashville, Tennessee, with operations in Los Angeles, California |
| Ownership | PE-owned (Iron Creek Partners and Main Street Capital) | Privately held, no disclosed outside funding |
Strengths and limitations
SlickText
Strengths
- Every number type is included in the plan price, including short codes, which is genuinely unusual and saves the businesses that need one four figures a month.
- The best rollover terms published in this category: one month on monthly plans, a full year on annual plans.
- Real marketing automation rather than a bulk sender, with workflows, behavioural segmentation on Shopify events, A/B testing, and revenue attribution in reporting.
- Compliance tooling that goes past the minimum, including double opt-in, age verification, consent records, and AI recognition of opt-out intent phrased in plain English.
Limitations
- Carrier pass-through fees are acknowledged but not published as a rate, so your true per-message cost is not knowable from the pricing page alone.
- Credit pricing at the entry tiers is expensive per message, and anyone sending above roughly 100,000 a month should be looking at per-message platforms instead.
- The inbox is competent but shallower than a dedicated conversational platform: no WhatsApp, no Apple Messages for Business, and less sophisticated agent routing than Heymarket or Textline.
- Ecommerce depth stops at Shopify. There is no equivalent native model for WooCommerce, BigCommerce, or a headless stack beyond the API.
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
SlickText
Credit-based monthly subscription across eight published tiers, with one SMS segment costing one credit and MMS costing three credits per segment, plus carrier fees passed through.
- Starter$29
- Professional$49
- Business$79
- Growth$129
- Scale$169
- Enterprise Lite$319
- Enterprise$579
- Enterprise Plus$939
At the small end SlickText is priced fairly rather than cheaply. Starter at $29 for 500 credits works out to 5.8 cents a credit, which is a lot of money per message compared with a raw API, and the honest answer is that you are not buying messages, you are buying workflows, consent tooling, Shopify attribution, a shared inbox, and a phone number you do not have to fight a carrier for. The included short code alone is worth more than the plan fee for the handful of businesses that need one. The curve improves fast: Enterprise Plus at $939 for 50,000 credits is about 1.9 cents, which is competitive with mid-market SMS platforms and still generous on features. Where it stops making sense is above roughly 100,000 messages a month, where per-message ecommerce platforms and CPaaS providers are simply cheaper. The rollover policy is the quiet differentiator, and for any business with a lumpy sending calendar it is worth more than a small discount from a competitor.
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
SlickText
SlickText is the general SMS marketing platform to shortlist when your sending calendar is uneven and your store runs on Shopify. Two things on the pricing page do real work: every number type including short codes is bundled into the plan fee, and unused credits roll over for a month on monthly billing or a full year on annual. Both quietly save more money than the headline price differences between competitors. The product itself is a proper marketing tool, with workflows, behavioural segmentation, A/B testing, attribution, and more consent tooling than the price suggests. The reservations are the unpublished carrier pass-through, a two-way inbox that is competent rather than best in class, and a credit model that stops being competitive above roughly 100,000 messages a month. Below that line, for a business that wants marketing rather than telecom, it is one of the better buys in the category.
Read the full SlickText profileTextedly
Best ValueTextedly 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 profileSlickText 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.