Is Textedly or Textmagic cheaper?

Textedly starts at $29 per month (free plan available). Textmagic starts at No platform fee; roughly $0.049 per US SMS on Textmagic routes, or about $0.01 per message when you connect your own carrier account (free plan available).

Textedly vs Textmagic

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 Textmagic

TextMagic is a pay-as-you-go business texting service where you buy credit and spend it, with strong international coverage. Textedly is a monthly plan with a fixed allowance and a much richer application layer, including AI agents, Text-to-Pay, and review requests. If your sending is irregular and international, TextMagic's model fits better; if it is regular, US-based, and you want marketing tooling included, Textedly does more for the money.

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.

Choose Textmagic if

Small and mid-sized businesses with irregular or seasonal sending volumes who refuse to pay a monthly subscription for capacity they may not use, teams that want unlimited seats on a shared inbox, and anyone who already has a Twilio or Vonage account and wants a usable interface on top of it at $0.01 a message.

Side by side

13 attributes

Attribute	Textedly	Textmagic
Category	SMS	SMS
Starting price	$29 per month (free plan available)	No platform fee; roughly $0.049 per US SMS on Textmagic routes, or about $0.01 per message when you connect your own carrier account (free plan available)
Pricing model	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.	Prepaid pay-as-you-go credit with no monthly subscription and no per-seat charge. Credit is spent across SMS, MMS, and email. Numbers, sender IDs, and 10DLC registration carry small monthly fees.
Free plan	Free account with 50 text messages and one custom keyword, no credit card required.	There is no free plan in the subscription sense, but there is also no subscription: you hold an account at zero cost and only pay for credit, numbers, and registration when you use them.
Free trial	No fixed-length trial; the free plan serves as the evaluation path	Free test balance to send trial messages, plus the first 10,000 emails included free
Best for	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.	Small and mid-sized businesses with irregular or seasonal sending volumes who refuse to pay a monthly subscription for capacity they may not use, teams that want unlimited seats on a shared inbox, and anyone who already has a Twilio or Vonage account and wants a usable interface on top of it at $0.01 a message.
Setup time	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.	Account creation and first test message take minutes. Live sending is gated by number provisioning and, in the US, by A2P 10DLC brand and campaign approval, which typically runs one to four weeks. Bringing your own carrier adds an afternoon of credential setup and saves you most of the per-message cost thereafter.
Learning curve	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.	Low. The 2023 platform rebuild produced a clean interface and the concepts are conventional: lists, campaigns, templates, inbox. The flow builder takes an hour to understand. The genuine learning is commercial rather than technical, specifically working out whether the standard rate or the bring-your-own-carrier path is right for your volume.
Platforms	Web application, Mobile-responsive web, API	Web application, iOS and Android apps, Email-to-SMS gateway, SMS gateway API, Worldwide SMS delivery with per-country rates
Compliance	TCPA consent workflows, CTIA messaging guidelines, A2P 10DLC brand and campaign registration, Automatic STOP handling	A2P 10DLC campaign registration submitted on your behalf, Automatic STOP and opt-out suppression, GDPR obligations as a UK and EU established company, Toll-free and local number provisioning
Founded	2015	2001
Headquarters	Nashville, Tennessee, with operations in Los Angeles, California	Romford, Essex, United Kingdom, with engineering presence in Tallinn, Estonia
Ownership	Privately held, no disclosed outside funding	Privately held and management-owned following a 2013 management buyout led by Priit Vaikmaa

Strengths and limitations

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.

Textmagic

Strengths

Credit never expires, and there is no subscription at all, which makes it the only sensible option in this category for seasonal or unpredictable sending patterns.
No per-seat charges anywhere. The shared inbox supports the whole team at no additional cost, which is a structural advantage over every credit-plus-seat competitor.
The bring-your-own-carrier option at about $0.01 per message is genuinely unusual and turns Textmagic into a cheap software layer on top of Twilio, Vonage, Sinch, or Bandwidth infrastructure you already pay for.
Twenty-five years of continuous operation, profitable and management-owned since a 2013 buyout, which is the lowest vendor risk profile in this category by some distance.

Limitations

The standard US rate of $0.049 per SMS is the most expensive in this set, roughly five to seven times what volume-oriented platforms charge, and the economics only work if you bring your own carrier.
No ecommerce data model whatsoever: no cart triggers, no product data, no revenue attribution, so online stores get nothing from it that matters.
No native CRM object sync of the kind Salesmsg and Sakari build for HubSpot and Salesforce, and no dialer or calling features.
Compliance is handled rather than productized. There is no quiet-hours enforcement engine, no consent-record tooling of the depth the US specialists ship, and no in-house legal function tracking TCPA case law on your behalf.

Pricing compared

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.

Textmagic

Prepaid pay-as-you-go credit with no monthly subscription and no per-seat charge. Credit is spent across SMS, MMS, and email. Numbers, sender IDs, and 10DLC registration carry small monthly fees.

Pay-as-you-go on Textmagic routesAbout $0.049
Bring your own carrierAbout $0.01
Numbers and registration$10 per month each

Textmagic's value depends almost entirely on which of two products you buy. On its own routes at $0.049 per US SMS it is the most expensive per-message option in this comparison set, and a business sending 20,000 texts a month would pay close to $1,000 where Postscript on Growth would charge around $360. That path only makes sense at low or irregular volume, where the absence of a subscription and the permanence of credit outweigh the unit cost. On the bring-your-own-carrier path at $0.01 per message plus wholesale Twilio rates, the same 20,000 messages cost roughly $200 plus carrier fees, and Textmagic becomes one of the cheapest ways to run a real texting operation. Add unlimited seats and $10 numbers and the total cost of ownership for a small team is genuinely low. The honest summary is that Textmagic is poor value as a retail SMS reseller and very good value as software you point at your own carrier account.

Editorial verdict on each

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

Textmagic

Textmagic is two products wearing one name, and which one you buy determines whether it is a good decision. As a retail SMS reseller at $0.049 a message it is the most expensive option here and hard to defend at any real volume. As a software layer over your own Twilio or Vonage account at $0.01 a message, with unlimited seats, $10 numbers, credit that never expires, and no subscription at all, it is one of the cheapest ways to run a competent business texting operation. Add a genuinely useful multichannel inbox and twenty-five years of uninterrupted operation under management ownership, and the vendor risk is lower than anything else in this category. The gaps are real: no ecommerce data, no CRM object sync, no dialer, and compliance handled rather than productized. Buy it if your sending is irregular, your team is larger than your seat budget, or you already own a carrier account. Skip it if you run a store, run a sales floor, or want a vendor to own your TCPA posture for you.

Read the full Textmagic profile

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