Hi all,
Looking for some advice for a cheaper Twilio alternative. For context,
I developed a site for my family that’s in medicine, it texts her patients their daily dose of whatever their protocol is set to on her website. It’s been a staple with her patients now as the doses can be a lot to remember. We are currently using twilio, but with hundreds of patients each getting texts every day, the cost is starting to add up.
I bought an android phone, and an extra phone plan, and set up an SMS gateway there but got banned from the mobile provider after a day of sending the text alerts. Was optimistic about that plan and the cost savings, did not expect such a rapid ban like that.
Any way I can keep the cost down for this that isn’t Twilio?
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what about Amazon SNS? i believe it’s $0.50 for one million sms messages
Which provider did you use and what sms gateway? Zender?
Might find infobid a good option.
You’re probably looking for Fonoster
Telnyx, they’re very well known, and they run their own network (so it’s extremely stable) and it’s pretty cheap. Plus you can use Hosted SMS if you want to add SMS capabilities to existing numbers, even land line numbers.
Fonoster is planning to become a Twilio alternative.
They don’t have SMS support yet however.
Twilio charges less than a cent for each message. A hundred messages is 79c. I’d be surprised to find any other solution that is dramatically cheaper. On AWS it would be 58c.
Those prices are in US, but I would be surprised if those services weren’t competitive in other markets.