Pay Twilio, not a markup
A flat monthly plan. Your carrier bills you for each text at its own price.
*Twilio $0.0083 a text plus about $0.0043 in carrier fees, billed by Twilio.
Try the cost calculatorFrom sign-up to your first campaign
The setup steps you see on your dashboard, one at a time: business, carrier, number, contacts, send.
Read the quick startTextScaleHQ gives businesses and agencies a premium SMS marketing dashboard without forcing you into inflated bundled message pricing. Bring your own Twilio or Vonage, manage multiple businesses, and launch campaigns from one clean workspace.
You either pay bundled platform rates, live inside raw carrier tools, or buy credits that expire before you use them — while your bill grows with every contact you add.
Most SMS platforms mark up every text you send. The bigger you get, the more painful that markup becomes. TextScaleHQ separates software from carrier cost — flat software fee, carrier rates pass straight through.
Running SMS for multiple businesses or clients usually means one shared account with permission settings layered on top. TextScaleHQ gives each business its own workspace — separate contacts, separate numbers, separate reports.
Twilio and Vonage are great at delivering your texts. But they won't put your name and a STOP line on every text, hold messages until 8 AM where each person lives, or file your toll-free verification. TextScaleHQ does all three, and shows what every campaign delivered.
No sales call. No onboarding specialist. No "implementation fee." Connect your Twilio. If your number is already approved, you can send today. If it's new, we file the verification and you get your list ready while it's approved.
Name it the way it should read in texts and pick its time zone. Each business gets its own contacts, sending number and opt-outs, so agency clients never mix. Adding another location? Copy settings from one you already have.
How multiple businesses workPaste your Account SID and Auth Token and test the connection. STOP and START replies are pointed at us in one step. No number yet? Buy a toll-free number on your own Twilio account without leaving TextScaleHQ, with the price shown first. Vonage works too.
Read the Twilio setup guidePick Twilio or Vonage to see its keys
New number? We check your toll-free details and file the verification with the carriers. Approval usually takes a few business days, so drop in a CSV, put up a signup form and let the AI Promo Assistant draft your first month while you wait. Already approved in your Twilio or Vonage account? There's no wait at all.
More on contacts and importsPick who gets it, write your text and send a test to your own phone. Your business name and a STOP line are added for you, and you see the count and cost before it goes. Results stream in live and opt-outs are handled automatically.
More on campaignsPick a scenario or set your own numbers. The bigger you get, the more we save you.
Same 250,000 messages, monthly cost
How we calculate: US list prices checked October 2026. Twilio $0.0083 a text plus carrier fees of $0.0043 (the average of the AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon toll-free pass-through fees on Twilio's US pricing page), and a $2.15/mo Twilio toll-free number. Textmagic pay-as-you-go $0.049 a text (no carrier fees listed). EZ Texting: whichever published plan is cheapest at your volume, from Launch ($30/mo with its telecom fee, then $0.04 a text) to Scale ($125/mo, then $0.03), carrier fees included; at high volume, its Enterprise short code ($3,000/mo for 200,000 texts, then $0.01) plus carrier fees. SimpleTexting about $0.020 a text (its lowest extra-credit rate) and SlickText about $0.0188 (its 50,000-text plan divided by 50,000), plus carrier fees ($0.0042 a text at SlickText, passed through at cost). Textmagic BYOC $0.01 a text plus Twilio, carrier fees and number.
Estimates assume single-segment SMS (160 characters). Smaller plans on other platforms cost more per text, so their bars are conservative at low volume. Above 50,000 texts a month most platforms quote custom prices, and Twilio offers volume discounts through its sales team.
Carriers and texting laws are strict about who you text, when, and what every message says. TextScaleHQ builds those rules into every send, so you don’t have to remember them.
See everything that’s handled for youWhen someone texts STOP, they’re locked out of every send. Only they can rejoin, by texting START. Nobody can add them back by hand, by import or through an integration, and each step lands in their consent log.
Texts land between 8 AM and 8 PM where each person lives, worked out from their area code, and inside your own hours too. Texas numbers wait until 9 AM, and noon on Sunday. Anything still sending at 8 PM pauses until morning.
Anyone who got a campaign from you in the last 24 hours is left out. On by default, so a busy week never becomes two texts in a day.
Nobody can add an opted-out number back, by hand, by import or through Zapier. Only the person can rejoin, by texting START.
How and when each person joined is saved with their number, and kept for 4 years, even after you delete a business.
Every webform comes with the consent wording carriers look for, written for you. The box starts unticked, as it should.
Campaigns wait until your number is verified, so carriers don’t block them. Already approved in Twilio or Vonage? Send right away.
When someone texts HELP, they get your business name and a way to reach you. Messaging Setup walks you through it.
The AI Promo Assistant drafts a full SMS calendar for each business you run — 4 weeks on Starter, 12 on Growth, 52 on Pro. Themed week by week, paced so you never burn your list, and nothing sends until you review and schedule it. Writing plans yourself is always free.
Built for agencies, franchise operators, and anyone juggling SMS for multiple brands. Each business stays cleanly separated — its own contacts, its own sending number, its own opt-outs and reports.
More on multi-businessEvery plan gets the full toolkit below. Plans differ in how many contacts, businesses and AI plans you get.
60 starter texts by industry. Fill-ins like [OFFER] and [CODE] have to be filled in before anything sends.
Send to a tag and leave another out. Merge two tags, or download everyone in one.
See every scheduled send on a calendar. Repeat daily, weekly, every 2 weeks or monthly, with results for each run.
Webforms, keyword joins, an embed code and printable signs, each with a QR code. Every signup is counted by where it came from.
Delivered, opt-outs and what each campaign cost at your carrier’s price, with failure reasons in plain words.
Send a test to your own phone, see the count and cost before you confirm, and stop a send halfway.
The real cost of an SMS platform isn't the sticker price. It's what expires, what gets metered, and what costs extra once your business is already running on it.
| What matters | Bundled SMS platforms | TextScaleHQ |
|---|---|---|
| Messages you didn't send | On monthly plans, roll over a month at most, then expire. Salesmsg’s don’t roll over at all. | Nothing to expire. You never buy messages from us. |
| A busier month than usual | Extra texts at their rate: 5.5¢ each on SimpleTexting’s $29 plan | Same flat fee. Twilio bills you at cost. |
| Opening a second location | Extra numbers at $10/mo on SimpleTexting; EZ Texting sub-accounts start on its $125 plan | Two on Starter. Five on Growth. Unlimited on Pro. Paused ones don't count. |
| Deciding to leave | No refunds on fees already paid, under EZ Texting’s and SlickText’s terms | Cancel anytime. 30-day trial before you pay at all. |
| Who owns the phone number | Often they do. EZ Texting’s terms let it refuse to port your number out. | You do, from day one — your Twilio, your numbers, your registration, your history. |
| Planning next month's texts | Their AI drafts text ideas from a prompt you type | AI Promo plans weeks of texts from your offers, up to a year on Pro. You approve every text. |
Sources, checked October 2026: SimpleTexting rollover, SimpleTexting pricing, Salesmsg pricing, EZ Texting managed accounts, EZ Texting terms, SlickText terms, SimpleTexting AI Assist.
BYOC stands for Bring Your Own Carrier. Instead of buying message credits from us, you connect your own Twilio or Vonage account. We charge a flat monthly fee for the software, and you pay the carrier directly at its own rate. For US texts on Twilio that's $0.0083 a text plus carrier fees, about 1.3 cents all in.
Yes, or a Vonage account. Both are free to create, and connecting one under Messaging Setup takes a few minutes. No number yet? Buy a toll-free number on your own Twilio account without leaving TextScaleHQ ($2.15 a month, billed by Twilio), and we file its toll-free verification for you. Already have a 10DLC number you registered yourself? Connect it and send.
If your number is already approved in your Twilio or Vonage account (a verified toll-free number, or a 10DLC campaign you registered yourself), you can send as soon as you connect it. A new toll-free number has to be verified by the carriers before it can send, which usually takes a few business days. We check your details and file the verification for you. While you wait, import contacts, put up a signup form and draft your first campaigns. Campaigns wait until the number is verified, so nothing goes out from a number the carriers would block.
For US texts, Twilio charges $0.0083 a text, and the mobile carriers add a pass-through fee of about $0.004. That's roughly 1.3 cents a text, so 10,000 texts cost about $126. A toll-free number is $2.15 a month. No volume contracts, no minimums, and you can see every charge in your own Twilio console.
There's no inbox. TextScaleHQ handles the replies that matter: STOP, START and HELP, plus the keywords people text to join your list. Other replies aren't stored, which is why your texts never ask people to reply with anything else. If you need two-way conversations, use a different tool. If you need promos, offers and opt-in campaigns, we're built for exactly that.
Texts only arrive between 8 AM and 8 PM where each person lives, worked out from their area code, and inside your business's own 8 AM to 8 PM. Texas numbers wait until 9 AM, and until noon on Sunday. A campaign goes out in waves as 8 AM reaches each time zone, and one still sending at 8 PM pauses for the night and finishes in the morning. It's automatic; there's nothing to set up.
TextScaleHQ is built for texting customers in the US. Signup forms take US mobile numbers, and the numbers we buy and verify for you are US toll-free numbers. If most of your list is outside the US, check with us before you sign up.
As fast as your number allows. TextScaleHQ sets the sending speed for your number type and slows down when the carrier asks, so nothing gets dropped. On a big list, quiet hours matter more than speed: texts go out as 8 AM reaches each time zone.
Yes. If you've already registered a 10DLC campaign in your own Twilio or Vonage account, connect the number and send. We don't file 10DLC registrations ourselves. Toll-free is the kind we register for you.
Yes, automatically. When someone replies STOP (or STOPALL, UNSUBSCRIBE, CANCEL, END, QUIT or REVOKE), they're opted out of that business and left out of every future campaign from it. Opt-outs stay with the business they were sent to, which matters when you text for several brands or clients. Nobody can add an opted-out number back, by hand, by import or through Zapier; only the person can rejoin, by texting START. Opt-out and consent records are kept for 4 years, even after you delete a business.
Every plan includes a webhook that adds contacts from Zapier, Make, your CRM, your booking system or anything that can send an HTTPS request, with step-by-step guides for the common ones. There's no outbound API for creating campaigns yet.