The cheapest SMS is one you've already paid for.
Install our app on an Android phone with a SIM card. Your software sends SMS through that SIM by REST API — from your own number, to your own customers — and replies come back to your dashboard as conversations. In most of the world the messages themselves are already covered by the phone plan; what you pay us for is the software.
Why your own number beats a rented one
Replies come back
Messages from a shortcode cannot be answered. Yours arrive from a real number — when a customer replies, the reply shows up in your MySMSGate inbox and your software can read it through the API.
No one has to approve you
Carrier API platforms ask for sender-ID registration, business documents and review queues before the first message goes out. A SIM card in a phone is already a fully approved sender.
Your name on their screen
Customers who saved your number see the reminder under your name — not a five-digit code their phone has learned to file under promotions.
Who this is built for
A driving school
Lesson reminders the evening before, reschedules, exam dates. Students answer with questions and the office replies from the browser.
An auto workshop
«Your car is ready» the minute the job is closed — sent automatically by the shop's own system through the phone at the front desk.
A clinic
Appointment reminders from the number patients already know. Fewer no-shows, and nothing new for the receptionist to learn.
What they share: their own customer list, a reason to write regularly, and volumes a single SIM handles easily.
How it works
Install the app
From Google Play, on any Android phone with a working SIM. An old handset that stays plugged in at the office is perfect.
Pair it
Scan the QR code from your dashboard. That links the phone to your account — the whole setup step.
Send
One POST to /api/v1/send from your software, or a message typed in the dashboard. Delivery status and replies come back the same way.
Run the numbers: what «cheapest» really means
Per-message SMS APIs buy wholesale traffic from carriers and resell it, so their price tracks the destination: at published rates, from $0.008 to $0.39 per message depending on the country (checked August 2026). That is a real cost, honestly passed on — for traffic you may not need to buy at all.
Because you have probably already bought it. As of August 2026, unlimited texting is the standard mass-market phone plan in 12 countries we verified: the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, Norway, the Philippines, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand and Brazil (on Controle plans). Unlimited-text plans start around $15 a month in the US and about €10 in Germany; in the Philippines an unlimited-text promo is roughly $6 a month; Mexican prepaid bundles even cover texts to the US and Canada.
In another ten or so markets texts come by the thousand: typical Pakistani bundles include about 3,000 SMS for around $2.70 a month, Tanzania sells 10,000 SMS for about $0.57, and standard Indian plans include 100 SMS a day. Either way, the marginal price of one more message is zero or close to it.
So we charge for the software, not the messages. $10.00 a month turns one phone into a gateway; each additional phone is $5.00/month, and a lower price applies automatically at checkout in a number of lower-income countries. Send ten messages or ten thousand — the bill is the same, because our cost does not change either.
Carrier tariffs and provider rates above were checked in August 2026. Plans change — verify your own before relying on the numbers.
Honest about where this is not the cheapest
Spain is the known exception. Texts there are usually not bundled and cost about €0.10 each, while per-message APIs charge around $0.09 to Spain — sending from your own SIM would cost more, not less. Check your plan before subscribing.
Nigeria and South Africa don't bundle texts either — but the economics still work, just differently. A Nigerian SMS costs ₦6 from your own SIM, about $0.0045, versus $0.3868 at the published per-message API rate to Nigeria (August 2026) — roughly 80 times less, paid to your carrier instead of a reseller.
And if you send a handful of messages a month, per-message billing can genuinely be cheaper; if you need millions with guaranteed throughput and a registered brand sender, carrier platforms are the right tool. «Cheapest» depends on how you send — we would rather you know that up front.
A real phone sets the ceiling
This is a consumer SIM, not a carrier pipe. The US industry code (CTIA, 2023) describes a typical subscriber as sending at most 1,000 messages a day, at 15–60 per minute, with no more than 25 near-identical repeats of the same text; Indian plans cap texting at 100 a day outright. The honest zone is hundreds of messages a day — varied text, sent to your own customers.
One asterisk for the US: CTIA classifies business traffic as A2P regardless of volume, so even modest commercial sending formally falls under A2P rules there. Mass blasts to a purchased list are not what this product is for, and we won't pretend otherwise.
FAQ
Is this really the cheapest SMS API?
For a business texting its own customers from a country where texts are bundled into the phone plan — yes, and not through clever pricing: the messages themselves are already paid for. As of August 2026, unlimited texting is the standard mass-market plan in 12 countries we checked, including the US, the UK, Germany and the Philippines, so the marginal price of one more SMS is zero. What you pay for is the software that turns that allowance into an API: $10.00 a month per connected phone, with no per-message meter.
Why is there no per-message price?
Because we have no per-message cost. Per-message providers buy wholesale SMS termination from carriers and resell it, which is why their price follows the destination — from $0.008 to $0.39 per message depending on the country at published rates (August 2026). Your messages leave your own SIM on your own mobile plan, so there is no traffic for us to buy or resell. We charge for software, not for messages.
What does sending actually cost me on the carrier side?
Whatever your mobile plan says — in most markets, nothing extra. Unlimited-text plans start around $15 a month in the US and about €10 in Germany; in the Philippines an unlimited-text promo runs about $6 a month. In Pakistan typical bundles include about 3,000 SMS for around $2.70, in Tanzania 10,000 SMS cost about $0.57, and standard Indian plans include 100 SMS a day. Carrier prices checked August 2026 — plans change, so verify your own before relying on it.
Where is this NOT the cheapest option?
Three honest cases. Spain: texts there are usually not bundled and cost about €0.10 each, while per-message APIs charge Spain around $0.09 — with your own SIM you would pay more, so check your plan first. Very small volume: a handful of messages a month can be cheaper on per-message billing. Very large volume: millions of messages a month with guaranteed throughput and a registered brand sender is what carrier platforms are built for.
What about countries where texts are not included, like Nigeria?
The argument changes shape but survives. In Nigeria texts are paid per message at ₦6 — about $0.0045 — while the published per-message API rate to Nigeria is $0.3868 (August 2026), roughly 80 times more. You pay your own carrier pennies instead of paying a reseller dollars, and our subscription stays the same.
How does the free trial work?
14 days with unlimited sending. A card is added when the trial starts — the same model as a Google Play subscription — nothing is charged until it ends, and cancelling before then costs you nothing. After the trial: $10.00/month for the first connected phone and $5.00/month for each additional one; a lower price applies automatically at checkout in a number of lower-income countries.
Use the messages you're already paying for.
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