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SMS API Pricing

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SMS API pricing

Fair SMS Pricing For All

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Green tick SMS prices from 1.45 pence + VAT per text (see below)

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Simple, Low Cost SMS API Pricing

We believe our low cost SMS API is the cheapest SMS gateway in the UK.

SMS Volume

Delivered only price per text (excl. VAT)
1 - 500 1.45p with our text doubling offer (see below)
501 - 10,000 2.9p
10,001 - 24,999 2.8p
25,000 - 49,999 2.7p
50,000 - 99,999 2.6p
100,000 - 249,999 2.5p

Any volume above

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Texts sent outside the UK use 2 text credits

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New Customers - Double Your SMS Credits

Customers new to The SMS Works who buy over 500 text credits as their first purchase will receive an additional 500 text credits completely free.

Your initial text credit purchase is just 1.45 pence + VAT per text.
To double your credits, email the paid invoice for your initial purchase to support@thesmsworks.co.uk

Terms and conditions for the credits doubling offer

We are, on average, 33% cheaper than the competition

See the savings with our SMS API UK pricing comparison table

Company

Price

Saving

Are non-delivered texts re-credited?

The SMS Works

 2.9p Average 33%  
Esendex 7.0p 58%  
Text Local 4.9p 40%  
Clockwork 4.0p 27.5%  
Dragon Fly 3.9p 24%  
Bulk SMS 4.5p 34%  
Kapow 6.25p 53%  
Intellisms 4.4p 33%  
Fast SMS 3.5p 16%  
Click SMS 3.7p 20%  
SendMode 3.4p 13%  
FireText 4.9p 40%  
Text Anywhere 6.4p 54%  
Text Marketer 3.3p 11%  
Text Factore 4.9p 40%  
Red SMS 4.5p 34%  
Text Tank 3.5p 16%  
Green Text 3.6p 18%  
2sms 10p 71%  
Think Message 3.9p 24%  
Text Magic 4.0p 27.5%  

This is not an exhaustive list of SMS API providers.
Prices quoted are for 1000 text credits and exclude any introductory offers.

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Price Match Guarantee

We have good reason to think we have the cheapest SMS API costs in the UK.

If you’ve hunted down lower SMS pricing, let us know and we’ll go all out to beat the offer.

Business SMS – A changing industry

SMS Gateway prices in the UK have fallen by over 50% in the past decade or so. It wasn’t too long ago that you could expect to pay around 10 pence per credit for a small bundle of texts.

As prices have reduced, so the number of potential providers has also rocketed. 
There must be well over 50 potential UK SMS gateway providers now compared to a dozen or so at the turn of the millennium.

So while there’s more choice and at a lower price, there’s one SMS pricing oddity that’s remained resolutely resistant to change.

Users of SMS services typically have to pay for messages that are not delivered, while the providers themselves are not charged. So there’s a built in additional profit for the SMS provider.

This model is now being challenged by The SMS Works who are one of very few providers that refund credits for messages that have not landed on the handset.

It’s a far more open and fair approach that’s becoming increasingly popular as customers start to challenge the status quo.

Set up a free SMS API account with 50 free text credits and you’ll be sending through our SMS API in no time.

 

Terms and conditions for credit doubling offer

• The credit doubling offer only applies for first SMS credit purchases.

• This offer can’t be used in conjunction with any other offer of discount.

• Only one credit doubling per company. Additional offices, branches, or connected businesses won’t be able to use the credit doubling offer. 

How to claim the credit doubling offer

• Login to your account and purchase over 500 text credits at our standard rate.

• You will receive a paid invoice receipt by email. 

• Email this to support@thesmsworks.co.uk

• Additional credits will be added in around 24 hours