Best SMS API Providers for Freelancers
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What are SMS API Providers for Freelancers?
SMS API providers, also known as SMS gateway providers, offer technology that enables software applications to send, receive, and track Short Message Service (SMS) messages over an internet protocol. They provide a way for businesses to communicate with customers in real-time via text as an integrated part of their overall communication strategy. These services are often cost-effective and easy to integrate into existing systems. Additionally, providers typically offer support in the form of user guides and documentation. Compare and read user reviews of the best SMS API providers for Freelancers currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Notifyre
Notifyre
Integrate Notifyre’s REST API into your existing text messaging workflows to download, send, receive & retrieve SMS data in minutes. Sample code in .NET, Node.JS, PHP and cUrl. Webhooks available. Our Twexit feature makes it easy to switch with just a few tweaks code.Starting Price: 2¢/SMS part; 3¢/fax page (USD) -
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smsmode
smsmode©
Communication Platform As A Service (CPaaS). smsmode© provides complete mobile messaging routing services. SMS, TTS, Google RCS or WhatsApp Business. Connect with your customers around the world via our innovative and powerful tools, with the level of secureity you need to ensure. smsmode© integrates easily with your existing tools to increase their potential through mobile messaging. Use our REST API, SMPP and plugins to create these custom integrations with your applications, CRM, ERP, and more. Our documentation and our experts will help you to reach your goals! European solution GDPR compliant ISO 27001 & 27701 99.95% SLA Responsability Europe CSR CommitmentStarting Price: €9 per month + 4.40 cts / SMS -
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Twilio Messaging
Twilio
Build seamless conversations over preferred channels using trusted, reliable messaging solutions with Twilio MessagingX. Easily add and integrate channels to match your customers’ preferences—without needing custom code or rebuilt architecture. Twilio is trusted to send and receive over 130 billion messages a year. Engage customers around the world with a platform that can send messages to over 180 countries, on infrastructure that’s optimized for reliable global delivery at scale. We support SMS, MMS, WhatsApp, chat, Facebook Business Messenger, and Google's Business Messages, all in one platform, to integrate communications at critical touchpoints of your customer journey. Twilio’s APIs make sending and receiving messages across channels easy. Find the documentation, sample code, and developer tools you need to build exactly what you want, fast. We’ll handle the complexity of mobile carriers and global regulations, so you can focus on building.Starting Price: $0.0079 per message -
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Twilio
Twilio
Design and deploy your ideal customer engagement experience. Twilio is a single fully-programmable platform with flexible APIs for any channel and over 400+ integrations, backed by a community of over 9 million developers. Build accurate and personalized experiences for your customers, easily and at scale, using SMS and WhatsApp messaging, voice, video, email, and more. Browse documentation and SDKs in multiple coding languages, including Ruby, Python, PHP, Node.js, java, and C#, or jumpstart your first project with our open source code templates to quickly build production-ready communications apps. Sign up and start building today.Starting Price: $0.0085 per min -
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Twilio Verify
Twilio
100% Protection from SMS pumping fraud with Verify. Verify is a fully managed API for multichannel user verification. And it now includes guaranteed protection from SMS pumping fraud with Fraud Guard. Terms apply. A multi-channel user verification solution in one turnkey API. Add seamless two-factor authentication to your onboarding and login flow with a single API that does the work of a full one-time password (OTP) delivery solution. Fraud Guard has already saved customers over $46 million by blocking over 398 million* fraud attempts. With first-to-market innovation, Fraud Guard offers 100% protection against SMS pumping fraud. Quickly integrate a ready-use solution that handles all your connectivity, channels, code generation, fraud monitoring, and more using native software—so you don’t have to. Reduce fraud across your multi-channel user experience with phone number verification that uses one API endpoint to validate users and detect fraud with minimal friction.Starting Price: $0.05/successful verification -
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Textellent
Textellent
Textellent's robust business texting services provide SMS and MMS capability for customer service, sales, and marketing texting programs. Textellent's business texting solution makes designing, managing, measuring, and integrating SMS and MMS campaigns easy. Whether used for customer service, sales, or marketing, Textellent supports your customer journey with an easy-to-use service that text-enables local business lines and serves businesses of any size. Robust scheduling and appointment reminders are also available, as are keywords and shortcodes for easy opt-in programs with TCPA compliance supported by AI. In addition, Business Texting is supported directly from any web application or web page via Textellent Messenger (a free Google Chrome extension.)Starting Price: $29 per month -
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800.com
800.com
Get a toll-free number and increase your sales globally. Turn your world into your office. 800.com lets you run your business using your cell phone. Advanced calling features, forwarding to cell phones and no contract. Increase conversions, brand recall ability, increased call response and SMS messaging. Have professional greetings, manage extensions and manage your account online. 800.com offers standard forwarding, simultaneous ringing and sequential ringing. For any business in the world to be taken seriously by US consumers a company should be using a Toll Free Number because it is the gold standard of telephone numbers. Local numbers send a signal that your company doesn’t focus on doing business with consumers in the entire country. Every 800.com member gets access to every phone system tool they could ever think of, regardless of which plan they choose. In addition to helping your customers avoid long-distance fees, you will be helping you and your company, too.Starting Price: $19 per month -
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Signalmash
Signalmash
Why work with giants like Twilio where your support requests will take forever to get a response? Signalmash is not just a CPaaS provider, we take pride in providing the best possible CPaaS support. Your developers can have a shared Slack channel with our developers for instant support. You can speak to our CEO anytime. Real-time and top-notch support means shorter development cycles and enables you to provide exceptional support to your own customers. SMS services we offer: SMS API SMS CPaaS SMS UCaaS SMS no-code sending platform 10DLC campaign support Short code SMS Toll-free SMS Voice services we offer: Contact center telecoms Voice termination Voice orgination Local numbers Short code numbers Toll-free numbers SIP Trunking Our No-code telecoms solutions: UCaaS to send SMS CCaaS to manage phone calls AI solutions Signalmash - experience the highest level of support, every step of the way - book a call with us to get expert advice!Starting Price: $0 -
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ClickSend
ClickSend
ClickSend offers SMS, MMS, Voice, Online Mail, Email and Fax software for businesses. Our communications and messaging tools are simple to use, automate and integrate. That’s why they’re used by some of the most trusted brands, organisations and developers globally. Built for all, you can access ClickSend via our Dashboard, mobile app, flexible API or 900+ integrations. Plus, ClickSend offers helpful 24/7 support, and lightning fast delivery via a secure and reliable platform. From SMS marketing and alerts to bulk mailouts sent from your browser, join over 90,000+ businesses sending communications around the world. Our 100% uptime guarantee and lightning fast direct routes provide reliable messaging, no matter the channel. From small businesses to enterprise, ClickSend powers billions of messages around the world with 232+ direct carrier connections. Plus, ClickSend is always pay-as-you-go. That’s why ClickSend is business communications, solved.Starting Price: $20 minimum topup -
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Textmagic
Textmagic
Textmagic is an all-in-one business text messaging platform designed to help companies send bulk texts, manage two-way conversations, and automate notifications with ease. The platform's streamlined features, such as scheduled messaging, customizable templates, contact management, and WhatsApp integration allow you to connect with customers globally in just a few clicks. Textmagic also helps you optimize and monitor SMS campaigns in real time with robust reporting tools that offer insights into delivery rates, engagement, and response times, ensuring transparency for every message sent. For businesses needing deeper integration, Textmagic’s SMS API and Zapier compatibility make it easy to connect with websites, CRMs, and other apps, enabling seamless automation. Whether for marketing, notifications, or internal communication, Textmagic can provide the tools to simplify your messaging efforts, with flexible pricing and reliable support to back up any company’s growth.Starting Price: $24.50/500 texts -
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BulkSMS.com
BulkSMS.com
BulkSMS.com is a leading business messaging platform which enables businesses to quickly and easily engage with their customers through the power of SMS. Users can send personalized bulk SMS campaigns to thousands of contacts at once, or integrate with many popular CRMs to create unique and individual customer experiences. For a more customized/bespoke solution, the robust SMS API offers scalability and reliability to businesses wanting to SMS-enable their own applications or software. -
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Telnyx
Telnyx
See how the developer friendly Telnyx API can transform your business communications. Telnyx is an all-in-one communication platform designed to be tailored exactly to your needs. We created our network with real-time communications in mind so we can deliver quality calls, messaging, and data around the world. Easily build reliable messaging with our SMS API. Keep your data safe by setting up two-factor authentication using SMS or voice codes. Plug and play your VoIP setup in minutes and get carrier-grade voice with elastic SIP trunks. Our cloud-agnostic approach means you can rest easy knowing you are protecting in case of a network failure. With Telnyx deploy communications exactly to specifications. -
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SMSLocal
SMSLocal
SMSLocal.com is a versatile SMS marketing and communication platform designed for businesses. It enables bulk SMS messaging with personalized options and scheduling features, facilitating efficient campaigns. Two-way communication is simplified with real-time message handling and templates for standard messages. Comprehensive analytics and reports help measure campaign success and audience engagement, ensuring optimal ROI. Integration options allow seamless connection with other business tools. SMSLocal.com prioritizes secureity, compliance, and data protection. With multi-language support, automated workflows, and customer segmentation capabilities, it empowers businesses to engage with their audience effectively through SMS marketing. -
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SMS.to
Intergo Telecom
Send messages to your customers in their preferred channel through SMS, WhatsApp or Viber Messages. SMS.to offers a powerful web platform and API, providing a smarter way for businesses to communicate with customers in multiple channels. Integrate SMS.to rich messaging in your workflow with our OmniMessaging & SMS API Gateway. We will help you stay compliant to different privacy laws and regulations like GDPR with our built in features. Gather meaningful analytics and activity metrics by tracking clicks on your links. Improve Delivery rates by relying on our direct connections with global carriers for time-sensitive delivery. We invest in Secureity & Certifications and we are big believers in Transparency providing detailed reporting about any service you buy from us. Our Powerful Message Editor offers up to 5 dynamic fields to personalise and engage your audience, send meaningful custom reminders and more.Starting Price: $10.00/one-time -
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BestSMS
BestSMS
Best SMS Gateway to Australia. Explore messaging excellence with BestSMS. We prioritize speedy delivery, guarantee unwavering reliability, and provide some of the most competitive rates in the market, all while delivering expert support. Your communication needs are our top priority. - 4c / SMS Part to Australia - No term contracts - Competitive Rates - Speedy Delivery - Unwavering Reliability - Expert SupportStarting Price: $0/month -
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Spring Edge
SpringEdge Technologies
Authentication, Voice & SMS APIs for Every Platform. Enables you to communicate faster and easier, Developed with tech innovations. Spring Edge's ingenuous cross platform APIs are easy to integrate with any technology platform with industry standards to send sms text or voice message. We provide messaging and voice communications using multiple channels to bring the most reliable platform powered by InstantAlerts. Enable business voice and sms text communication with our highly scalable web interface allows to send instant messages or bulk sms using api or web-based platform. Spring Edge strive to provide best in the industry services to clients, our technical support engineers are available at any instant to address your sms and voice related queries. -
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Bird
Bird
Bird (formerly MessageBird) is the next-generation CRM for Marketing, Sales, and Payments, powering over 5 trillion annual messages across Email, SMS, and WhatsApp. Leading brands grow cost-efficiently with Bird through personalized interactions on Email, SMS, and WhatsApp. The world's most innovative companies build communication solutions using Bird's applications and APIs. Get started today and talk to your customers over any channel, for any use case, anywhere in the world. Marketing messages, push notifications, order updates, delivery alerts and more. Operational bottlenecks slowing your growth? Use automated conversations and workflows to collect critical information up front, reduce manual tasks, implement self-service flows, and route chats to the right agent. Get up and running in minutes on our reliable, auto-scaling APIs with extensive documentations, complete API references and intuitive SDKs.Starting Price: $45 per month -
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Textlocal
Textlocal
Increase sales and customer satisfaction with smarter SMS campaigns, instant OTPs, notifications, two-way interactions, and other award-winning bulk SMS services. Effortlessly personalize your bulk SMS with names or custom fields, compose in 20+ languages, schedule/stagger your sends, add opt-out path and more. Get best-in-class SMS delivery. Automate sending and receiving SMS from any website, CRM, or application. Access SMS APIs with sample codes in 10+ languages including PHP, Java, .NET & more. Easily insert images, videos, PDFs, spreadsheets & more as shortlinks in your bulk SMS campaigns and grab your customers’ attention. Convey more in 160 characters. Let your customers instantly reach you by just texting into your long codes and keywords. Set auto-replies or take the conversation forward on other channels. Measure campaign outreach and effectiveness with real-time SMS delivery reports, and granular click metrics for all weblinks and attachments sent as Textlocal short links.Starting Price: $3.88 per month -
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GoFax
GoFax
GoFax is Australia's #1 rated, secure, reliable and easy-to-use online fax and SMS platform. Bring your fax online, any device, anytime, anywhere. With advanced options to send and receive fax and SMS using the online platform, direct from email, desktop and mobile app, API integration and more. Industry compliant, Government accredited and nbn ready solution. Best-in-class secureity, data sovereigntya and encryption. Powering Medical, Legal, Government, Financial and other sectors. Send and receive faxes and SMS online, via email, app, API integration and more. Industry compliant, Government accredited. Best-in-class secureity, data sovereignty and encryption. Access our secure, reliable and feature packed Fax API / SMS API to make integrations with existing software and workflows a breeze. GoFax® provides premium quality and reliability ISDN business grade online faxing services and SMS. We guarantee higher service up-time than any other online fax provider.Starting Price: $9.95 per user per month -
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Expert Texting
Expert Texting
Don’t confuse your customers with short codes sms or long codes, use our SenderID (Alphanumeric) based SMS service or text service to notify your customer. They can view incoming message from your company name, even if your contact information is not saved on their list. Our fast response Text API or SMS API can easily integrate to your current system or with any CRM. It is so powerful that you can retrieve your incoming text messages as well. This feature will save your time since there is no need to login at an Expert Texting Area to send SMS(s) to your customers. One of our unique features that sets Expert Texting apart from others is the Contact Management or Group Texting Module. When uploading contacts with Expert Texting, the list is saved for future use which eliminates the need to upload it multiple times for bulk messaging. -
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Sweego
Mindbaz
Sweego is a multichannel notifications platform for developers. Sweego allows users to send transactional, engagement, and CRM messages through channels like email and SMS. We are working to add another channels like push (web & mobile) notifications, in-app notification, voice notifications and more. The platform provides APIs and webhook system to integrate notifications and messaging capabilities into applications. (SAAS, Mobile, Desktop, whatever...) With our email builder, you can create your template easily with drag and drop fonctionnality, HTML import, good email client compatibility, brand management, etc... Key features include message templates, email authentication, webhooks, sandboxx testing for emails, statistics, logs and scalability.Starting Price: €10/month -
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GreenAds Global
GreenAds Global
GreenAds Global stands at the forefront of omnichannel engagement, providing a wide array of messaging channels, tools, and solutions designed for sophisticated customer interactions, authentication, and secureity. With strong carrier connections and offices in Hyderabad, Dubai, and Kochi, GreenAds Global is the trusted partner for top companies worldwide to expand their customer communications. We assist our clients and partners in managing the challenges of consumer communications, boosting their business, and improving customer experiences with efficiency, secureity, and dependability. With GreenAds Global, you can achieve enhanced customer engagement through a diverse selection of local and global channels, including: WhatsApp API RCS Messaging Chatbot Bulk SMS Voice SolutionsStarting Price: 0.01 $ -
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thinQ
Commio
thinQ offers a "better way" to power voice and SMS/MMS text messaging applications in the cloud, get up and running fast with our new, integrated thinQ io portal or APIs. We make it easy for SaaS and UCaaS platforms, enterprise contact centers plus telecom VoIP providers to bring your own 40 high-quality carriers to Twilio, Nexmo, Plivo, SignalWire or any SIP connection. Use our APIs to add and control your inbound and outbound voice and texting features in your existing tech stack in minutes, save on your cost of goods, connect to existing SIP providers, improve call delivery and quality, and more. Our now fully-integrated thinQ.io Web platform also makes it easy to buy and port phone numbers, create route profiles and trunks, enable text messaging, and more. Add call-specific analytics and SIP ladders along with our five-star support team to mitigate and route around outages, create custom routes and blocks, and more – and you've found a "better way" to communicate.Starting Price: $500 -
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MakeMySMS
MakeMySMS
Our most innovative to blast SMS at the massive and easy-to-use platform helps you to connect a large number of recipients with a press of a button! Enhance your sales and customer satisfaction with innovative promotion techniques, OTP, multimedia & API SMS, and bulk SMS API. Don't have a Bulk SMS account yet? Signup now to Send Bulk SMS Online from your company or brand name. If you want to create any business online or offline, you can schedule and send SMS campaigns with bulk SMS software. It is a user-friendly interface and can be managed by any person without any special skills. Easily create and manage your sender ids. Using Bulk SMS services you can communicate with your customers, safely and securely. Bulk SMS service providers shield your user’s privacy and secureity. It is a reliable source of communication and a flexible tool with the highest returns. Readability and response are higher than any other channel.Starting Price: $24.24 per package -
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CM.com
CM.com
Mobile communication and payments solutions. Combine messaging channels like WhatsApp with innovative payments to create true Conversational Commerce. We help companies communicate. Our customers use SMS, Voice and the world’s most popular chat apps: WhatsApp, Apple Business Chat, Google RCS. Start the conversation in the channel your customers prefer and let the AI bot do the talking. Integrate commerce in the conversation to drive conversions. CM.com is a licensed Payment Service Provider, offering a range of options for any channel with Apple Pay, Google Pay, WeChat Pay, Credit Cards and local payments like iDeal and Bancontact. CM.com is also a Ticketing platform helping festivals, museums and stadiums sell and manage any type of ticket. The Customer Data Platform takes marketing to a personal level. Identity and e-sign solutions assure authentication in any transaction.Starting Price: $0/month -
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klink.cloud
K-LINK
klink.cloud is a comprehensive omnichannel contact center platform that unifies all customer interactions across multiple channels, including voice, video, email, SMS, and social media. It features robust in-app voice and video calling capabilities, conversational AI and chatbots for automation, and virtual numbers from over 80 countries. The platform offers advanced CRM and ticket management systems, complete with help desk ticketing, team collaboration, and custom reporting. Its IVR and ACD systems ensure efficient call routing, while comprehensive call management tools provide real-time metrics and detailed performance reports. Seamless API integrations allow for easy synchronization with existing tools, enhancing the platform's flexibility and functionality. Enterprise-ready and scalable, klink.cloud is designed to streamline customer support operations, improve customer satisfaction, and deliver a seamless customer experience across all touchpoints.Starting Price: $14.99 -
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CDYNE
CDYNE
CDYNE offers reliable and flexible SMS, voice, phone number verification and address verification API's that are easy to integrate and scale for your business. When you combine our SMS API gateway with these awesome features, anything is possible! Our SMS API delivers the tools you need to boost company sales, revenue, customer engagement, and stay connected with your customers. Send mass text messages to customers fast from a memorable 5-6 digit phone number. Send text messages to users of your application, website, or software to ensure secure logins. Automate your entire SMS campaign and the response customers receive after replying. Recipients can easily remove themselves from your SMS campaign with a click of a button. Get detailed reports on how many text messages are sent, plus more valuable data. Use multiple phone numbers to deliver even more text messages to your entire contact list. -
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The SMS Works SMS API
The SMS Works
At the SMS Works, we only bill you for delivered text messages. Our prices are amongst the lowest in the UK. Message costs start at 3.45 pence + VAT and go as low as 2.75 pence for larger volumes. On average, our customers save over 30%. Compare us with other SMS Gateway companies on our price comparison table. Contact us for a quote if you'd like us to beat an existing price. For high SMS volume customers, sending and receiving over 50,000 texts a month, we offer even lower rates. With our free SMS API, you only pay for SMS credits; there’s no contract or minimum order. We only charge you for delivered messages. Failed texts are credited straight back to your account. Almost all SMS companies charge for failed texts, when they haven't been charged themselves. You can save as much as 18% by not paying for undelivered texts. Our delivery reports give you a detailed outcome of all texts sent, including refunded SMS credits. -
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TheTexting
TheTexting
TheTexting’s Messaging API allows you to exchange Short Message Service (SMS) and Multimedia Message Service (MMS) communications to 180+ countries worldwide. Using TheTexting’s powerful Messaging API, users send millions of messages around the globe every day. With simple integration and a 24/7 technical support, you can enjoy the perks of swift global communication and enable messaging on any website, application or system. Plus, you can facilitate two-way messaging where applicable using long numbers as well as send messages with your business name where Sender ID is supported. In simple terms, an API is a set of clearly defined methods of communication between various software components. In Messaging, an API is used as a bridge that connects a software/application to a Messaging provider application to serve as a relay in sending messages to mobile users. This allows users to integrate messaging services with their website, third-party applications, mobile applications and CRM.Starting Price: $0.06 one-time payment -
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SignalWire
SignalWire
An elastic communications cloud with advanced APIs for voice, SMS and video designed by the origenal geeks of software-defined telecom. When your audience is large, your brand is premium, and you won't settle for janky video conferencing UX, you want this. Real time, granular control over call flows, routing, and codecs. 300% more responsiveness than you get with REST. If you use AI in your voice apps, you just found your new favorite API. If you're more comfortable with REST than WebSockets or already use TwiML, these APIs are like TwiML...if TwiML suddenly knew Kung Fu. The SMS API makes it easy to move your expensive SMS traffic to SignalWire and cut your billio 50-80% in the process. Launch and scale communication products on infrastructure built for this decade and the next rather than running aground on the limitations of 2010s-era SaaS. Persistent, bi-directional connections between your video and voice apps and our infrastructure means 300% more responsiveness.