SimpleTexting Review (2026)$29/mo Plus $10 for the Number

Pricing (2026)

✓ Pricing re-verified 3 Oct 2026

Credit-based by monthly volume, and the headline is not the plan price: the page's "estimated monthly cost" bundles a $10/mo local number into every figure. The credit plans themselves are $29 (500 credits), $49 (1,000), $79 (2,000), $109 (3,000), $229 (7,500), $399 (15,000), $549 (25,000) and $899 (50,000) a month, so the printed $39 to $909 range is those figures plus the number.

SMS = 1 credit, an extended message up to 306 characters = 2, MMS = 3; incoming SMS is free and incoming MMS costs 1 credit. Extra credits beyond the plan taper with the tier, from 5.5 cents at 500 to 2 cents at 50,000. Yearly billing takes 20% off the credit portion only — the entry tier becomes $23.20 of credits plus the same $10 number, i.e. $33.20 a month billed yearly at $398.40 — and grants the year's credits as one upfront bucket (6,000 at the entry tier) instead of a monthly allowance.

Plans change — always verify the live price on their site.

Category context: Communication & Voice. Across the 22 tools in this category that we researched with a public US-dollar price, the median entry price is about $30 a month (lowest paid plan as listed, per seat where the vendor prices per seat). SimpleTexting’s entry price of $29 a month sits roughly at that median. Compare pricing conditions in the Software Cost Atlas →

Correction after re-checking: Corrected 14 September 2026. The earlier reading treated the $29 on the toll-free solution page and the $39 on the pricing page as a contradiction and told buyers to budget $39. They are not in conflict: the pricing page's own cost breakdown splits its "estimated monthly cost" of $39.00 into $29 for 500 credits and $10 for a local number. The paid floor is the $29 plan; the $10 number, its $4 activation and the one-off $4 10DLC registration sit beside it. The full credit ladder is $29/$49/$79/$109/$229/$399/$549/$899 a month at 500/1,000/2,000/3,000/7,500/15,000/25,000/50,000 credits, with overage tapering from 5.5 to 2 cents. Yearly billing discounts the credit portion by 20% only — $23.20 plus the unchanged $10, billed yearly at $398.40 — and grants the year's credits upfront.

What the price did

We read SimpleTexting’s own pricing page on a schedule and keep every reading, so this is our record of the page — not a forecast, and not someone else’s summary. A change appears here only after we confirmed the new price on the page itself.

SimpleTexting’s pricing page, as we read it

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What SimpleTexting does

SMS marketing and business texting: run mass-text campaigns, two-way conversations and automations with compliance built in.

What buyers report about SimpleTexting

Hands-on: not tested by usReported by buyers: G2, GetApp and SelectHub, read August 2026

Themes from the buyer-review sites listed at the foot of this page, read in August 2026. We have not run SimpleTexting ourselves, so this is other buyers' experience rather than ours. We summarise it here because the complaints are usually the part a vendor page leaves out.

When the paid plan is worth it

There is no permanent free plan, so the paid floor has to earn itself back — and the first thing to get right is that the pricing page's $39 is not the plan. Its own cost breakdown splits it into $29 for 500 credits and $10 for a local number, which is why a solution page quoting "$29/month for 500 outgoing SMS messages" is not a contradiction. Tiers scale on volume beside one shared feature list, so paying more buys volume, not capability.

The spend justifies itself for a business with an opted-in list that texts on a predictable rhythm: incoming SMS replies cost nothing, and a bigger bundle drops the overage rate from 5.5 cents a credit at 500 to 2 cents at 50,000. Sporadic sending is the bad fit. What upgrading does not solve is the carrier layer, because no tier removes it: the $10 number, its $4 activation, the one-off $4 10DLC registration, $20 per extra seat and roughly a quarter of a cent per message in pass-through carrier fees sit outside every plan. Annual billing saves 20% on credits only, never on the number.

How to actually use SimpleTexting

Signup takes no credit card, and the 14-day trial is the whole evaluation window, so the number decision comes first. A local 10DLC number costs $10 a month plus a $4 activation fee, with a separate one-time $4 carrier registration on top, and the form asks for a legal company name, an EIN, a website, a customer support email and number, an opt-in method and two sample text messages. The usual stall is a mismatch between the stated use case and the submitted business details; the vendor says registration is often done in a day or less, and activation then takes minutes.

A toll-free number carries no additional monthly fee, but the pricing page warns carrier approval can take up to a week, and carriers cap unverified toll-free traffic until it clears. Once a number is live, the fastest route is a keyword opt-in with a welcome message and a compliance auto-reply. Then go to the Campaigns tab, New campaign, paste the message, choose a contact list, and send now, schedule it, or set it to repeat.

Distilled from SimpleTexting pricing page with its plan calculator read at every volume step and on both billing toggles (simpletexting.com/pricing, 14 September 2026), plus the 10DLC registration guide, the toll-free text messaging solution page and the vendor's first-SMS-campaign help article, read 4 August 2026. Calculator re-read 3 October 2026 in a headless browser at all eight volume steps ($29 to $899 of credits plus the $10 number, overage 5.5 to 2 cents) and on the yearly toggle ($23.20 plus $10, billed $398.40); simpletexting.com/llms.txt returns 404.

The natural comparison is EZ Texting or Klaviyo SMS — other SMS-marketing tools.

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Frequently asked questions

What does SimpleTexting cost?

The plan is $29 a month for 500 credits; the $39 the pricing page shows is that plan plus a $10 local number, which its own cost breakdown spells out. From there the credit tiers run $49 (1,000), $79 (2,000), $109 (3,000), $229 (7,500), $399 (15,000), $549 (25,000) and $899 (50,000) a month. An SMS spends one credit, an extended message up to 306 characters two, and an MMS three. Read on 14 September 2026 and unchanged on 3 October 2026.

What does it cost for a team, and for extra numbers?

Every paid plan already includes three user seats, which is more generous than most; beyond that it is $20 a month per seat. Numbers are separate: $10 a month each, with a local number carrying a $4 activation fee on top and a one-off $4 carrier registration for 10DLC compliance. Short codes are a different product entirely, starting at $1,000 a month and taking six to eight weeks to provision.

Does annual billing really save 20%?

On the credits, yes; on the bill, not quite. The 20% comes off the credit portion only — at the entry tier $29 of credits becomes $23.20 — while the $10 number is charged in full either way, so the real monthly equivalent is $33.20, billed yearly at $398.40. That is about 15% off the $39 the page prints, not 20%. Annual also hands you the whole year's credits upfront, 6,000 at the entry tier, instead of a monthly allowance: better for seasonal sending, worse if you over-estimated.

Is there a discount for nonprofits?

Yes, and it is stated on the page: nonprofits, churches and other tax-exempt organisations receive 15% off any of the monthly plans. That stacks against the 20% yearly discount as an either/or rather than both, so ask which applies before committing to a year.

Is this a hands-on review of SimpleTexting?

This is a researched assessment, not a hands-on test — where we've used a tool ourselves, we say so explicitly. We name what each tool is good and bad at, and we earn a commission only if you sign up, at no cost to you.

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