Guide · Business Texting
The most expensive business texting plans top out at $5,520 a month — and the credits aren't priced the way you'd guess
At the high end the headline number is set by EZ Texting's $3,000 Enterprise tier and Textedly's ~$5,520 ceiling, but per-credit the most expensive plan is the cheapest place to buy volume.
If you sort the published business-texting plans in our dataset by sticker price, the top of the list is short and steep. Textedly’s ladder runs up to roughly $5,520/mo for 240,000 messages, and EZ Texting’s Enterprise tier lists at $3,000/mo for 200,000 credits with a dedicated success manager. Both tower over the next vendor that publishes a self-serve high-volume figure: SimpleTexting tops out at $909/mo for 50,000 credits before going custom. Those are the three highest published numbers in the category, and the gap between them is the whole story.
Here is the published ceiling for every vendor in the dataset that lists a concrete top-end price rather than routing it to sales:
| Vendor | Top published plan | Monthly | Volume included | Per-credit / per-segment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Textedly | Top tier | ~$5,520 | 240,000 messages | ~$0.023/msg (+$8/mo telecom) |
| EZ Texting | Enterprise | $3,000 | 200,000 credits | $0.015/credit |
| SimpleTexting | 50,000 Credits | $909 | 50,000 credits | ~$0.018/credit |
| Salesmsg | 7,500 Messages | $249 | 7,500 credits | — |
| Avochato | Standard | $210 + usage | metered | $0.03/segment |
| Heymarket | Pro | $199/user | metered | $0.03/segment |
The most expensive plan is the cheapest unit of volume
The instinct is to read “$5,520” or “$3,000” as the premium option. Per message, it’s the opposite. Textedly’s ~$5,520 buys 240,000 messages — about $0.023 each — versus the $0.06 extra-credit rate on a small SimpleTexting plan or the $0.08/segment a low-volume Avochato sender pays. EZ Texting’s $3,000 Enterprise works out to $0.015 per credit, cheaper still, and undercuts even SimpleTexting’s own $909/50,000 ceiling (about $0.018 per credit). These plans are expensive because the number is large, not because the unit is. They are bulk pricing, and that is exactly who buys them: senders pushing six figures of texts a month.
EZ Texting’s structure makes the point bluntly. Its three self-serve SMB tiers — Launch ($25), Boost ($75), Scale ($125) — all bundle the same 500 credits; the higher tiers buy features, not volume. Then Enterprise jumps to $3,000 and 200,000 credits. There is nothing in between on the published page. That cliff is why a mid-volume buyer ends up either over-buying features or jumping straight to a sales conversation.
What the headline price doesn’t include
Two caveats sit underneath the sticker. Textedly applies an $8/mo telecom surcharge to every paid plan, and — unusually — its annual billing grants 20% more messages rather than a lower price, so there is no annual discount to net against the base. EZ Texting’s Enterprise is a published list price but explicitly “custom-negotiated above this,” which means $3,000 is a floor, not a ceiling. Neither EZ Texting nor Textedly states HIPAA support or a BAA on its pricing page.
That last point matters for any regulated buyer, because the highest-priced plans are not the compliant ones. Of the vendors here, the BAA is named only at Avochato, whose Standard tier is $210/mo plus $0.03/segment and whose Custom tier explicitly offers a signed BAA. SimpleTexting, SlickText, and Heymarket market HIPAA-compliant texting but don’t state BAA terms on the pricing page. So the path to a high-volume and compliant contract runs through Avochato’s quote-only Custom tier, not through the two visible price leaders.
A note on the prices you won’t find here
Several front-office brands a high-end buyer would shop — Podium, TextUs, Textline, Trumpia, and Text Request — publish no complete per-plan price on their live pages; they route to sales or render pricing as an image. TextUs publishes only a “$499/mo base” headline with its tiers quote-gated. We don’t record figures the vendor doesn’t publish, so they’re absent from the ranking by design, not oversight. Among vendors that do publish their top tier, Textedly’s ~$5,520 and EZ Texting’s $3,000 are the only two that clear the $1,000/mo line, and SimpleTexting’s $909 is the highest fully self-serve number below them.
So the honest answer to “what are the most expensive business texting plans” is: Textedly at roughly $5,520 for 240,000 messages and EZ Texting at $3,000 for 200,000 credits — both bulk plans whose per-message cost is actually the lowest in the category. You pay more in total to pay less per text. If your volume isn’t six figures a month, the expensive plans aren’t expensive for you; they’re simply not for you.