Textdrip
Cheap drip texting built for agents working leads
Textdrip is a low-cost SMS automation platform aimed at insurance agents, brokers, real estate agents, and small sales teams, combining drip campaigns, two-way texting, a calling suite, AI message generation and spintext variation, DNC and landline filtering, a landing page builder, and lead distribution buckets, sold on plans from $19.99 a month at roughly $0.012 per message segment with A2P 10DLC brand and campaign fees included free on the higher tiers.
Overview
Textdrip was founded in 2019 by Philip Portman and is based in Holly, Michigan. Portman is a serial operator whose other ventures include landlineremover.com, argosautomation.com, and recruitdrip.com, and the family resemblance is visible in the product: Textdrip is built for people who buy leads and need to work them fast and cheaply, which is a specific and unglamorous market that most of this category ignores.
The core customer is the insurance agent. Textdrip's own marketing leans on insurance, health advisors, and brokers, with real estate, healthcare, and hospitality as secondary segments. Those buyers share a common problem: they purchase lead lists, the lists contain landlines and Do Not Call registry entries, and every wasted send costs money and creates regulatory risk. Textdrip answers that directly with automatic DNC checking, a landline remover that filters invalid numbers before you send, and spintext variation that makes bulk sequences look less like bulk sequences to carrier filters.
The pricing is the most aggressive in this comparison set and the structure is unusual. Spark Starter is $19.99 a month, Growth Gear is $34.99, and Elite is $74.99, with annual billing taking 20 percent off each. Credits cost about $0.012 each. The trick is in the credit multipliers: on Spark Starter an SMS costs two credits and an MMS ten, while on Growth Gear and Elite an SMS costs one credit and an MMS five. That means the cheapest plan is literally twice as expensive per message as the middle plan, which makes Spark Starter a trap rather than a bargain for anyone sending real volume.
The other thing the tiers gate is compliance cost. Spark Starter charges the A2P 10DLC brand fee of $5 and the campaign fee of $45 to the customer; Growth Gear and Elite include both free. Elite adds Automation Studio and Intent Automation, the smart response classification layer, where Spark Starter charges $10 to $24.50 in add-on fees for equivalent capability. Between the doubled credit cost, the registration fees, and the add-on charges, the effective gap between the $19.99 and $34.99 plans is far wider than $15.
Best for
Insurance agents, brokers, health advisors, real estate agents, and small sales teams working purchased or inbound lead lists who need the lowest possible cost per touch, DNC and landline filtering built in, and drip automation that runs without supervision.
Not the right fit for
- Ecommerce operators; there is no cart data, no order triggers, and no revenue attribution, so a Shopify store gets a lead-nurture tool where Postscript would give it a revenue channel.
- Organizations that need mature enterprise support, published security certifications, or procurement-grade documentation; Textdrip is a small, young company optimizing for price rather than for compliance paperwork.
- Marketing teams wanting deep segmentation and branching visual journeys; the automation is drip sequences and buckets rather than a flow canvas with conditional logic.
- International programs. Textdrip is built for US sending, A2P 10DLC, and the US Do Not Call registry, and none of that translates outside North America.
- Anyone tempted by the $19.99 Spark Starter tier at volume. Doubled credit costs plus the $50 in registration fees plus paid add-ons make it more expensive in practice than the $34.99 plan for almost any real usage.
How it works
- 1
You start a 14-day free trial with 1,000 free credits, which at one credit per SMS on the middle tier is enough volume to genuinely test a sequence rather than just look at the interface.
- 2
You register for A2P 10DLC. Textdrip runs on what it describes as a carrier-grade compliant network with reserved bandwidth and handles brand and campaign registration for you. On Growth Gear and Elite the $5 brand fee and $45 campaign fee are included free; on Spark Starter you pay them.
- 3
You import leads. Before anything sends, DNC check filters out Do Not Call registry numbers, landlines, and invalid contacts, and the Landline Remover integration does the same through an API. This is the step that distinguishes Textdrip from general texting platforms, because its customers work purchased lists where that filtering is both a cost saving and a compliance necessity.
- 4
You build drip campaigns. Multi-step sequences fire over days or weeks with personalization, and spintext generates natural variations of each message so a thousand sends do not look identical to carrier spam filters. The AI text generator produces campaign copy options.
- 5
Leads distribute through the bucket feature, which automatically assigns contacts to campaigns within defined timeframes, and multi-profile and multi-number support let a team or an agency run several identities from one account.
- 6
Replies land in a shared inbox with quick responses for common questions, and on Elite, Intent Automation classifies inbound response intent so an agent knows which replies are worth a call. The calling suite handles the phone leg, and the page builder captures new opt-ins from landing pages.
Feature breakdown
29 features in 5 modulesDrip automation
The core of the product and the reason for the name.- Drip campaigns
- Automated multi-step message series that nurture a lead over days or weeks without anyone remembering to follow up, which is the entire value proposition for an agent working a purchased list.
- Automation Studio
- Advanced automation workflow building on the Elite tier, for sequences more complex than a linear drip.
- Intent Automation
- Smart classification of inbound response intent on the Elite tier, so an agent can see which replies signal interest and which are polite deflections, and can route calls accordingly.
- Reminder drip
- Automated appointment, event, and meeting reminders, which is the highest-return automation for anyone whose revenue depends on people showing up.
- Scheduled messages
- Specific date and time delivery with automatic reply systems, which is how you keep sends inside permissible hours across time zones.
- Bucket feature
- Automated lead distribution and campaign assignment within defined timeframes, so a new batch of purchased leads routes into the right sequence without manual sorting.
Messaging and content
Bulk sending with variation, which is a deliverability strategy as much as a copy tool.- Two-way texting
- One-to-one conversations through a shared team inbox, so an automated drip that provokes a reply does not dead-end.
- Bulk texting
- Send to many subscribers at once, with per-segment pricing at roughly $0.012 which is the cheapest headline rate in this comparison set.
- Spintext
- AI-generated natural variations of the same message so bulk sends do not present identical content to carrier filters, which is a genuine deliverability technique rather than a copywriting flourish.
- AI text generator
- Produces multiple message options in seconds for campaign copy, useful for breaking a blank page and generating variants to test.
- MMS marketing
- Image and GIF attachments at five credits per message on Growth Gear and Elite, or ten on Spark Starter, so multimedia costs five to ten times a plain text.
- Extended text limit
- Send messages longer than 160 characters without splitting, though segment-based billing still applies to what actually leaves the network.
- Quick responses
- Saved keyword replies for frequently asked questions, delivering instant answers without an agent typing them.
List hygiene and compliance
The part that matters most when you work purchased lists.- DNC check
- Automatically filters Do Not Call registry numbers, landlines, and invalid contacts before sending, which is both a cost saving and the single most important regulatory control for this customer base.
- Landline Remover
- API-based filtering of invalid and landline numbers, drawn from the founder's separate landlineremover.com product, which improves both accuracy and effective cost per delivered message.
- Automatic opt-out keywords
- STOP and HELP handled automatically, suppressing opted-out contacts to maintain compliance and stop spending credits on people who said no.
- A2P 10DLC registration handled
- Brand and campaign registration submitted for you on a network the vendor describes as carrier-grade with reserved bandwidth; the $5 brand and $45 campaign fees are included free on Growth Gear and Elite.
- Reserved carrier bandwidth
- Dedicated throughput on the sending network, which is what keeps large drip sends from queueing behind other customers' traffic.
Calling and lead capture
The parts that turn a texting tool into a sales tool.- Calling suite
- Place calls to prospects directly from Textdrip, so the transition from a warm text reply to a conversation does not require switching devices.
- Page builder
- Build landing pages that collect phone numbers, emails, names, and SMS opt-ins without coding, which is how you generate first-party leads rather than only buying them.
- Multi-number support
- Run several sending numbers from one account, which spreads volume and separates campaigns or territories.
- Multi-profile
- Register multiple team member profiles inside one account, so an agency or a small team shares infrastructure without buying separate subscriptions.
- Credit sharing
- Distribute SMS credits across multiple Textdrip accounts, which is how downline structures and agency arrangements are managed.
Data, integrations, and access
Lightweight but present.- Contact segmentation
- Group audiences into targeted segments so a drip goes to the right subset rather than the entire database.
- Data import and export
- Move contacts, campaigns, tags, pipelines, and quick responses in and out of the system, which is unusually complete portability for a product at this price.
- Developer API
- Postman-documented API for custom integrations and automation, included on all plans rather than gated to a top tier.
- Native integrations
- ActiveCampaign, Calendly, Facebook, Flowlu, Google Sheets, HubSpot, Mailchimp, Pipedrive, Salesforce, Shopify, Stripe, and WooCommerce.
- Mobile and desktop apps
- iOS, Android, and macOS apps for managing campaigns and working replies away from a browser.
- Personalization
- Messages customized to individual recipients from contact data, which is what makes a drip sequence read as a person rather than a system.
Use cases
4 documentedInsurance agent working purchased leads
A batch of 2,000 purchased leads arrives weekly, a significant share are landlines or on the Do Not Call registry, and calling them all is physically impossible for one person.
DNC check and Landline Remover strip the unusable numbers before any credit is spent, buckets assign the remainder into drip sequences automatically, and Intent Automation flags the replies worth calling, so the agent's phone time goes to people who actually responded.
Small real estate team nurturing a long pipeline
Most leads are twelve to eighteen months from transacting, and manual follow-up dies after the second attempt every single time.
Long drip sequences run unattended for a year with spintext variation keeping deliverability intact, reminder drips handle showings and appointments, and the calling suite closes the loop when someone re-engages.
Agency or downline managing multiple agents
Ten agents each need their own number, their own campaigns, and their own credit budget, and buying ten separate subscriptions is wasteful and unmanageable.
Multi-profile and multi-number support run several identities from one account, credit sharing distributes budget across accounts, and data export keeps each agent's book portable if they leave.
Solo operator optimizing cost per touch
Every competing platform charges $25 to $75 a month with credits at 3 to 5 cents, which makes a high-volume nurture program unaffordable for one person.
Growth Gear at $34.99 a month with SMS at one credit and credits at roughly $0.012 puts 10,000 messages a month at around $155 all in, which is a third of what the credit-plan incumbents would charge for the same volume.
Pricing
from $19.99 per month on Spark Starter, or $15.99 per month billed annuallyLow-cost monthly subscriptions with an included credit allowance, where the tier determines how many credits each message consumes and whether A2P registration fees and advanced automation are included.
| Plan | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Spark Starter | $19.99 per month, or $15.99 billed annually at $191.88 per year |
The doubled credit multiplier makes this the most expensive plan per message. Read the multiplier before choosing it on price. |
| Growth Gear | $34.99 per month, or $27.99 billed annually at $335.88 per year |
Marked as most popular and it deserves to be. Halving the credit multiplier plus $50 of included registration fees makes it cheaper than Spark Starter at almost any real volume. |
| Elite | $74.99 per month, or $59.99 billed annually at $719.88 per year |
Worth the step up only if you need Automation Studio; the credit economics are identical to Growth Gear. |
Add-ons
- Credits (About $0.012 each, roughly $12 per 1,000): The cheapest headline segment rate in this comparison set.
- A2P 10DLC brand fee ($5): Charged on Spark Starter, included free on Growth Gear and Elite.
- A2P 10DLC campaign fee ($45): Charged on Spark Starter, included free on Growth Gear and Elite.
- Automation Studio and Intent Automation on Spark Starter ($10 to $24.50): Included at no cost on the higher tiers.
Billing notes
- The credit multiplier is the most important number on the pricing page and the easiest to miss. On Spark Starter an SMS costs two credits; on Growth Gear and Elite it costs one. That makes the cheapest plan literally double the per-message cost of the middle plan.
- Once you add the $5 brand fee, the $45 campaign fee, and $10 to $24.50 in add-on charges that Growth Gear includes free, Spark Starter is more expensive than Growth Gear for essentially any sustained usage.
- Credits run about $0.012 each, or roughly $12 per 1,000, which is the lowest headline rate in this comparison set by a wide margin.
- Billing is per segment. A plain GSM-7 text fits 160 characters per segment and 153 in multi-part sends, and any emoji or special character forces unicode encoding at 70 characters per segment, so the extended text limit feature does not exempt you from segment math.
- MMS costs five credits on the higher plans and ten on Spark Starter, so multimedia is five to ten times the price of plain text and should be a deliberate choice.
- Annual billing saves 20 percent across all three tiers.
- US carrier pass-through surcharges of roughly $0.003 to $0.005 per SMS segment apply industry-wide on A2P traffic and should be assumed alongside the credit rate.
- Credit rollover terms are not published on the pricing page. If your sending is seasonal, confirm rollover behavior in writing before committing.
Value assessment: On Growth Gear, Textdrip is the cheapest way in this comparison set to send a meaningful volume of text messages. Ten thousand SMS a month costs about $120 in credits plus the $34.99 subscription, roughly $155 all in, where EZ Texting on Boost would charge around $410 and SimpleTexting considerably more. That is a real advantage for an agent whose economics are defined by cost per lead touched. What you give up is breadth and polish: there is no ecommerce data, the automation is drips rather than journeys, the integration list is shallower than it looks, and this is a small young company with none of the compliance paperwork a procurement process expects. The pricing structure also contains a genuine trap, because Spark Starter's doubled credit multiplier plus $50 in registration fees makes the cheapest plan the most expensive one in practice. Read the multiplier, buy Growth Gear, and Textdrip is excellent value for exactly the customer it was built for.
Strengths & limitations
Strengths
- The cheapest real cost per message in this comparison set at roughly $0.012 per segment on Growth Gear, which is a third to a quarter of what the credit-plan incumbents charge.
- DNC checking and landline filtering built into the send path, which is both a direct cost saving and the most important regulatory control for anyone working purchased lead lists.
- A2P 10DLC brand and campaign fees included free on Growth Gear and Elite, where most competitors pass them through.
- Spintext message variation is a genuine deliverability technique rather than a copywriting feature, and few competitors at any price offer it.
- A calling suite alongside texting, which almost no platform at this price includes, plus a landing page builder for generating first-party opt-ins.
- API access on every plan rather than gated to a top tier, with Postman documentation and unusually complete data export covering contacts, campaigns, tags, pipelines, and quick responses.
- Multi-profile, multi-number, and credit sharing make agency and downline structures workable on a single subscription.
- A 14-day trial with 1,000 free credits is enough volume to test a real sequence rather than just tour the interface.
Limitations
- The Spark Starter tier is a pricing trap. Doubled credit multipliers plus $50 in registration fees plus paid add-ons make the cheapest plan more expensive than the middle plan at almost any real usage.
- No ecommerce data model, cart triggers, or revenue attribution, so online stores get nothing that matters to them.
- The automation layer is drip sequences and buckets rather than a branching visual journey builder, and the more capable Automation Studio sits behind the $74.99 Elite tier.
- US only, built around A2P 10DLC and the US Do Not Call registry, with no meaningful international coverage.
- A small, young, privately held company founded in 2019 with no published security certifications, formal data residency commitments, or SSO, which will stop regulated and enterprise buyers.
- Credit rollover terms are not published, which is a real gap for anyone with seasonal volume.
- The vendor's published performance statistics, including a claimed 92 percent open rate and 85 percent conversion rate on drip campaigns, are implausibly high and should be treated as marketing rather than as benchmarks.
- The integration list is broad in names but shallow in depth; there is no native CRM object sync of the kind Salesmsg and Sakari build.
Head-to-head comparisons
4 alternativesTextdrip vs Textmagic
from No platform fee; roughly $0.049 per US SMS on Textmagic routes, or about $0.01 per message when you connect your own carrier accountTextmagic sells prepaid credit that never expires with no subscription, unlimited seats, international reach, and a bring-your-own-carrier rate near $0.01 a message. Textdrip sells cheap subscriptions with US-specific lead-working tools: DNC checking, landline filtering, spintext, and a dialer. Choose Textmagic for a general multichannel inbox, irregular sending, or non-US contacts. Choose Textdrip if you are working US lead lists and every fraction of a cent per touch matters.
Full Textdrip vs Textmagic comparisonTextdrip vs Sakari
from $25 per month, with US segments at roughly $0.0304 each at that levelSakari costs roughly two to three times as much per segment but includes unlimited users, native HubSpot and Pipedrive object sync, and delivery to more than 160 countries. Textdrip is cheaper, US-only, and built for agents rather than for a CRM-driven organization. Pick Sakari if the messaging has to live inside a CRM the whole business runs on. Pick Textdrip if you are an agent or a small team optimizing purely for cost per lead touched.
Full Textdrip vs Sakari comparisonTextdrip vs Salesmsg
from $25 per month on Basic, including one seat and one phone numberBoth target sales teams and both include calling, but they sit at opposite ends of the price and depth spectrum. Salesmsg has native HubSpot and Salesforce sync, a power dialer, call recording and transcription, and AI qualification agents, with calling gated to a $277 tier. Textdrip has a simpler calling suite at a fraction of the price with no native CRM object sync. Take Salesmsg if a CRM is your system of record for a team. Take Textdrip if you are an individual agent working leads on a budget.
Full Textdrip vs Salesmsg comparisonTextdrip vs EZ Texting
from $25 per month on Launch, or $20 per month billed annuallyEZ Texting is three times more expensive per credit but far broader and more mature, with RCS, Stripe-backed payments and donations, translation, and twenty years of institutional weight behind it. Textdrip is cheaper, narrower, and built around DNC filtering and drip nurture for lead-buying agents. Pick EZ Texting if you are an established local organization that wants everything handled. Pick Textdrip if you are an agent whose economics live or die on cost per touch.
Full Textdrip vs EZ Texting comparisonImplementation & onboarding
- Setup time
- An account and a trial with 1,000 credits are live in minutes. Real sending waits on A2P 10DLC brand and campaign approval, which Textdrip submits for you and which typically takes one to four weeks industry-wide. Building a first drip sequence takes an afternoon.
- Learning curve
- Low. The product is narrow by design and an agent with no technical background can build a drip sequence and import a lead list on day one. The genuine learning is the credit multiplier and which tier you should actually be on, which is a pricing exercise rather than a product one and is where most new accounts make their expensive mistake.
- Onboarding
- Entirely self-serve with a 14-day trial, no contracts, and no setup fees. There is no forced sales call at any tier. Support is direct rather than assigned, which suits a customer base of individual agents.
- Migration notes
- Data import and export cover contacts, campaigns, tags, pipelines, and quick responses, which is unusually complete portability for a product at this price and means you are not locked in. Bring the consent record with any imported list rather than just the numbers, since a purchased list without provable consent is exactly the exposure DNC checking is meant to reduce and does not eliminate. Run DNC check and Landline Remover against any list before your first send, because doing it afterwards means you have already paid for the bad numbers.
Platform, API & security
- Platforms
- Web applicationiOS, Android, and macOS appsUS SMS and MMS deliveryLocal 10DLC numbers
- API
- Postman-documented REST API on all plans, plus native integrations with ActiveCampaign, Calendly, Facebook, Flowlu, Google Sheets, HubSpot, Mailchimp, Pipedrive, Salesforce, Shopify, Stripe, and WooCommerce.
- Compliance
- A2P 10DLC brand and campaign registration handled, with fees included free on Growth Gear and EliteAutomatic STOP and HELP opt-out keyword handlingUS Do Not Call registry filtering before sendLandline and invalid number filteringCarrier-grade network with reserved bandwidth
- Data residency
- US-hosted. No regional hosting options are advertised.
- SSO
- Not offered.
- Security notes
- No published SOC 2, ISO 27001, or equivalent certification. This is a small privately held company founded in 2019 and the security and compliance documentation a regulated buyer or a procurement process would expect does not exist. That is a reasonable tradeoff for an individual agent and a disqualifying one for an enterprise.
Support & resources
- Channels
- Live chatEmail supportHelp center
- Documentation
- Help center and Postman API documentation covering setup, drip campaigns, automation, compliance and 10DLC registration, and integrations, alongside a substantial blog of insurance and real estate text message templates.
- Community
- No formal user forum. The product spreads primarily through the insurance agent and lead-buyer community rather than through a public community platform.
Company
- Founded
- 2019
- Headquarters
- Holly, Michigan, United States
- Ownership
- Privately held and founder-led by CEO Philip Portman
- Founders
- Philip Portman
- Employees
- Not disclosed; a small privately held team
- Funding
- No disclosed venture funding. Portman has founded several related businesses including landlineremover.com, argosautomation.com, and recruitdrip.com, and Textdrip's Landline Remover feature draws on that adjacent product.
Timeline
- 2019Founded by Philip Portman in Holly, Michigan as an SMS automation platform aimed at insurance agents working purchased lead lists.
- 2021Expands beyond insurance into real estate, healthcare, hospitality, and ecommerce-adjacent use cases while keeping agents as the core customer.
- 2022Absorbs the A2P 10DLC transition and begins including brand and campaign registration fees on higher plans rather than passing them through.
- 2023Adds the calling suite and the page builder, turning a texting tool into a broader lead-working platform.
- 2025Ships AI text generation, spintext message variation, and Intent Automation response classification.
- 2026Restructures pricing into Spark Starter, Growth Gear, and Elite tiers with differing credit multipliers, and adds Automation Studio on Elite.
Integrations
- HubSpot
- Salesforce
- Pipedrive
- ActiveCampaign
- Mailchimp
- Calendly
- Google Sheets
- Shopify
- WooCommerce
- Stripe
- Flowlu
- REST API with Postman documentation
Frequently asked questions
12 questionsWhat is Textdrip?
Textdrip is a low-cost SMS automation platform built primarily for insurance agents, brokers, real estate agents, and small sales teams working lead lists. It combines drip campaigns, two-way texting, a calling suite, AI message generation and spintext variation, DNC and landline filtering, a landing page builder, and automated lead distribution, on plans from $19.99 a month with credits at roughly $0.012 each.
Which Textdrip plan should I actually buy?
Almost certainly Growth Gear at $34.99. The reason is the credit multiplier: on Spark Starter an SMS costs two credits, while on Growth Gear and Elite it costs one. Spark Starter also charges the $5 A2P brand fee and $45 campaign fee that the higher plans include free, and charges $10 to $24.50 for automation features the higher plans bundle. At any sustained volume, the $19.99 plan costs more than the $34.99 plan.
What does a message really cost?
Credits run about $0.012 each, roughly $12 per 1,000. On Growth Gear or Elite an SMS is one credit, so about $0.012 per segment; an MMS is five credits, so about $0.06. On Spark Starter those double to $0.024 and $0.12. US carrier pass-through surcharges of roughly $0.003 to $0.005 per SMS segment apply on A2P traffic across the industry and should be assumed on top.
How are message segments counted?
Per segment, not per message. A plain GSM-7 text fits 160 characters in one segment and 153 per segment across multi-part messages. Any emoji or special character forces the whole message into unicode encoding at 70 characters per segment. Textdrip's extended text limit feature lets you compose longer messages, but the carrier still bills the segments, so a long message with an emoji is expensive regardless of how it looks in the editor.
What does A2P 10DLC registration cost with Textdrip?
On Growth Gear and Elite it is free: the $5 brand fee and $45 campaign fee are both included, which is unusual and worth real money. On Spark Starter you pay both. Textdrip submits the registration for you on what it describes as a carrier-grade network with reserved bandwidth. Timelines are carrier-driven across the industry: brand approval typically clears in one to three business days and campaign approval in three to seven, so budget one to four weeks before you can send at volume.
What do DNC check and Landline Remover actually do?
They filter your list before you spend anything. DNC check removes numbers on the US Do Not Call registry, landlines, and invalid contacts; Landline Remover does the same through an API drawn from the founder's separate landlineremover.com product. For a customer base working purchased lead lists, this is both a direct saving (you stop paying to text landlines) and a compliance control. It reduces exposure rather than eliminating it, and it is not a substitute for having provable consent for the numbers you do text.
How does Textdrip handle TCPA compliance, opt-outs, and quiet hours?
STOP and HELP keywords are handled automatically and opted-out contacts are suppressed, DNC registry filtering runs before send, and message scheduling lets you control delivery times so sends stay inside the 8am to 9pm local window that TCPA guidance points at. There is no automatic quiet-hours enforcement engine that blocks non-compliant sends by default. Given that the core use case involves purchased lead lists, which is the highest-risk pattern in SMS marketing, your own counsel should review both your consent basis and your list sources before you send anything.
Does Textdrip do phone calls?
Yes, there is a calling suite for placing calls to prospects directly from the platform, which is unusual at this price. It is a simpler proposition than Salesmsg's power dialer with recording and transcription, but for an agent who wants to call the leads who replied to a drip, it removes the need for a second tool.
Do unused credits roll over?
Textdrip does not publish rollover terms on its pricing page, which is a genuine gap. If your volume is seasonal or unpredictable, confirm rollover behavior in writing before committing. For comparison in this category, SimpleTexting and EZ Texting roll credits one billing cycle, Sakari rolls them 90 days, and Textmagic credit never expires.
Should I trust Textdrip's published open and conversion rates?
No. The site publishes figures including 92 percent open rates, 78 percent response rates, and 85 percent conversion rates on drip campaigns, alongside a 98 percent platform open rate. SMS genuinely does have high open rates compared with email, but response and conversion figures in that range are not credible as general benchmarks and should be read as marketing rather than as numbers to plan against.
Can Textdrip send internationally?
It is built for US sending, around A2P 10DLC registration and the US Do Not Call registry, neither of which has meaning outside North America. If you need international coverage, Sakari reaches more than 160 countries and Textmagic publishes per-country rates with alphanumeric sender ID support where carriers permit it.
Who owns Textdrip and how stable is it?
Textdrip is privately held and founder-led, founded in 2019 by CEO Philip Portman and based in Holly, Michigan. There is no disclosed venture funding and headcount is not published. Portman also runs several adjacent businesses including landlineremover.com and recruitdrip.com. It is a young, small company with no published security certifications, which is a reasonable tradeoff for an individual agent and a disqualifier for a regulated or enterprise buyer.
Editorial verdict
Textdrip knows exactly who it is for and prices accordingly. For an insurance agent, broker, or small sales team working purchased or inbound lead lists, it is the cheapest credible option in this category by a wide margin, and the features that matter to that buyer are the ones it builds deepest: DNC and landline filtering before send, spintext variation for deliverability, unattended drip sequences, a calling suite, and A2P registration fees absorbed rather than passed through. Ten thousand messages a month lands around $155 all in on Growth Gear, roughly a third of what the credit-plan incumbents charge. Two things deserve caution. The Spark Starter tier is a trap, because doubled credit multipliers plus $50 in registration fees make the cheapest plan the most expensive one in practice, and the published open and conversion statistics are not believable. Beyond that, this is a small, young, US-only company with no security certifications, no ecommerce data, no native CRM sync, and no international story. If you are an agent optimizing cost per touch, buy Growth Gear. If you are an organization with a procurement process, look elsewhere.
Written by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Awards, when shown, are judged against the published criteria in our methodology.