Guide · Business Texting
At 2,000 messages a month, the bundled-credit texting platforms collapse into a $79–$99 band
Four mainstream SMS vendors land within $20 of each other at this volume — and the one buyers ask about most, EZ Texting, can't reach the workload at all without jumping to its $3,000 tier.
Business texting bills as a flat monthly base with a bundled block of message credits — one credit is roughly one 160-character SMS segment — then meters anything beyond it. That makes the category easy to compare if you fix the volume, because the only thing that matters is which vendor’s tier brackets your number. So we fixed it at 2,000 outbound messages a month, a realistic load for a clinic running reminders or a shop sending review requests, and read each vendor’s lowest plan that actually covers it.
At that volume the mainstream credit vendors land almost on top of each other.
| Vendor | Plan | Monthly | Credits included | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SlickText | Business | $79 | 2,000 | Annual = 2 months free (~17%) |
| Textedly | Plus | $79 | 2,000 | + $8/mo telecom surcharge → $87 effective |
| SimpleTexting | 2,000 Credits | $89 | 2,000 | 3 user seats included; 20% off annual |
| Salesmsg | 2,500 Messages | $99 | 2,500 | Bundles calling on the same number |
The honest headline answer is $79 to $99 a month, and the two cheapest stickers — SlickText Business and Textedly Plus — are both exactly $79 for exactly 2,000 credits. They are not, however, the same $79.
The $79s diverge on the fine print
Textedly’s Plus plan carries an $8/mo telecom surcharge on every paid plan, so the real monthly is $87 ($79 + $8) — and its annual billing doesn’t cut the price at all; it grants 20% more messages (2,400/mo) instead. SlickText’s $79 is the cleaner number: unlimited contacts, free incoming texts, one-month rollover, and an annual option that is genuinely two months free, taking the effective rate to about $65.83/mo ($790 ÷ 12). On a like-for-like 2,000-credit basis, SlickText Business is the lowest true cost in the set.
Pay $10 more and SimpleTexting’s 2,000-credit plan at $89 buys headroom the others don’t bundle: 3 user seats (versus the single-seat default elsewhere) and a 20% annual discount that lands it at $71.20/mo ($89 × 0.80) — below Textedly’s all-in monthly. Salesmsg is the outlier at $99, but for that it gives you 2,500 credits, not 2,000, plus voice calling on the same number — it’s the only plan in this band that doubles as a phone line, which reframes the extra $20 as a bundle rather than a markup.
Why EZ Texting can’t answer this question
EZ Texting is one of the most-shopped names in business texting, which is exactly why the gap matters: its entire SMB ladder bundles the same 500 credits. Launch ($25), Boost ($75), and Scale ($125) all cap at 500/mo — the higher tiers buy features, not volume. A 2,000-message sender on EZ Texting would burn through the allowance four times over, and the next published step is Enterprise at $3,000/mo (200,000 credits). There is no tier between 500 and 200,000 credits on its live page, so for this specific workload EZ Texting simply doesn’t have a plan that fits — it’s structurally out of the running, not merely more expensive.
The per-message and per-seat alternatives
The bundled-credit group isn’t the whole market, and at 2,000 messages two other models are worth pricing honestly. Textla runs a pure per-message plan — $25/mo base plus $0.01/SMS — which works out to $45/mo ($25 + 2,000 × $0.01) for the same send, the cheapest figure here by a wide margin if you only need outbound blasts and no bundled seats. Avochato shows where per-segment pricing turns against you: its $0 Pay-as-You-Go plan at $0.08/segment costs $160 for 2,000 messages, and even its $210/mo Standard plan (which drops the rate to $0.03) lands at $270 ($210 + 2,000 × $0.03) — the per-seat and per-segment platforms in this dataset assume conversational, two-way volume, not one-way broadcast economics.
What to actually pay
For a straightforward 2,000-message-a-month sender, the answer is $79 — SlickText Business is the lowest clean bundled price, with Textedly Plus matching the sticker but landing at $87 once its surcharge is counted. Step up to $89–$99 only for a reason: SimpleTexting if you need multiple seats, Salesmsg if you want texting and calling on one number. And if your sends are pure outbound with no inbox to staff, Textla’s per-message model at roughly $45 undercuts the whole field. The one name not on this list is EZ Texting — at 2,000 messages, it has nothing to sell you between 500 credits and 200,000.