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📣 ShrigmaMale

How to send lots of SMS for less than Twilio?


Not spam, all double opt-in. Even with 10DLC it's too much $, even on cheap providers like SignalWire. Email to text is unreliable and can't do above certain volumes (unless there's some way to get whitelisted I don't know?)

How can I do this for cheaper?

Edit: at request of a commenter here are some numbers.

Pricing varies by carrier but with my carrier mix it is between $0.0065 - $0.007 for 1 message on average. I need to send ~250k each month for now and also need lots of room to send more. These prices are SignalWire which is the cheapest I found so far. Bandwidth looks like the same. I think maybe Teli and Telnyx are a small amount cheaper, anybody here has used them and can say they are good?


  👤 MattGaiser Accepted Answer ✓
Can you provide some numbers? How many texts? What are you currently paying?

👤 CTOSian
There is Amazon SNS , YMMV btw... https://aws.amazon.com/sns/pricing/