Guide · Business Texting
SlickText is $10/mo cheaper than SimpleTexting at every shared tier — but SimpleTexting bundles three seats and a steeper annual discount
At 500, 1,000, and 2,000 monthly credits SlickText's sticker price undercuts SimpleTexting by a flat $10 — yet SimpleTexting's 20% annual cut and three included seats quietly close the gap for teams.
Both vendors sell the same thing the same way: a flat monthly base that bundles a fixed allowance of message credits, where one credit is roughly one 160-character outbound SMS. That makes them genuinely comparable tier for tier — and on sticker price, the answer is clean. SlickText is exactly $10/mo cheaper than SimpleTexting at every overlapping credit level: $29 vs $39 at 500 credits, $49 vs $59 at 1,000, and $79 vs $89 at 2,000. If you pay month to month and use one login, SlickText wins outright.
The reason that headline isn’t the whole answer is two things SimpleTexting hands you in the base price that SlickText’s published plan does not: three user seats and a deeper annual discount.
The sticker comparison, tier for tier
| Monthly credits | SlickText | SimpleTexting | Sticker gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500 | $29 (Starter) | $39 (500 Credits) | SlickText −$10 |
| 1,000 | $49 (Professional) | $59 (1,000 Credits) | SlickText −$10 |
| 2,000 | $79 (Business) | $89 (2,000 Credits) | SlickText −$10 |
The $10 gap is consistent, not just a low-end teaser — it holds at 2,000 credits exactly as it does at 500. Above 2,000 the ladders diverge: SlickText’s next published step is Growth at $129/mo for 3,500 credits, while SimpleTexting fills in $119/mo for 3,000 credits before continuing up its own ladder. At that point you’re no longer buying the same volume, so the clean per-tier comparison ends.
What SimpleTexting puts in the base price
Two offsets matter, and both favor SimpleTexting once you move past a single-user, month-to-month account.
Seats. SimpleTexting bundles three user seats into every plan, with extra seats at +$20/mo. SlickText’s published pricing doesn’t advertise bundled seats at all. For a solo operator that’s irrelevant; for a front desk where two or three people share the inbox, SimpleTexting’s base price is effectively buying seats SlickText would charge for separately.
Annual discount. SimpleTexting takes 20% off an annual commitment. SlickText’s annual deal is “2 months free” — you pay ten months for twelve, which is ~17%. Applied to the 500-credit tiers, SlickText’s $29 falls to about $24.17/mo effective ($290/year), while SimpleTexting’s $39 falls to $31.20/mo ($374.40/year). So even with the steeper percentage, SimpleTexting’s higher starting point means SlickText still lands cheaper annually — roughly $7/mo less at 500 credits. At 2,000 credits the annual math runs $65.83/mo for SlickText (10 × $79 ÷ 12) against $71.20/mo for SimpleTexting ($89 × 0.80). SlickText keeps the cash-price lead at every tier; SimpleTexting’s steeper discount narrows it, it doesn’t erase it.
Where the gap actually closes
The break-even is about seats, not credits. SlickText is cheaper on the subscription line at every comparable volume, monthly or annual. But if your front desk needs more than one login, SimpleTexting’s three bundled seats are real value: by SimpleTexting’s own +$20/mo per extra seat rate, the two seats above a single user that come free in the base plan represent $40/mo of capacity you’d otherwise pay for — enough to swamp the $10 sticker gap and the ~$7 annual gap together. The decision rule is simple: one user, SlickText is cheaper, full stop; three users sharing the line, SimpleTexting’s bundle likely wins on total cost.
A few line items don’t appear in either base price and apply to both. SimpleTexting meters overage at 5.5 cents per extra credit and charges $10/mo per local number; both vendors pass through standard carrier and 10DLC registration costs. Heavy senders should price the overage rate, not just the bundle.
Compliance is a wash
For healthcare-adjacent buyers, neither vendor breaks the tie. Both SimpleTexting and SlickText publicly market HIPAA-compliant texting, and neither states BAA terms on its pricing page. If a signed BAA is a hard requirement, you’ll be talking to sales at either one — and in this dataset, the texting vendors that name an available BAA outright are Avochato and Textline, not these two.
The bottom line
For the same number of monthly texts, SlickText is the cheaper sticker — and the cheaper annual price — at 500, 1,000, and 2,000 credits, by a steady $10/mo and about $5–$7/mo respectively. SimpleTexting only pulls ahead when you need the seats it bundles three-deep into the base plan. Pick on headcount, not on the headline.