Twilio charges ~$0.0079/SMS, so 5,000 messages = $40/mo in fees alone plus 10DLC registration ($15+ per campaign), compliance paperwork, and your messages still get filtered because carriers treat A2P traffic as second-class. Get flagged? Twilio suspends your account and you start from scratch.
With TextLink you pay $25/mo for 3 SIM's and your carrier rate. Send 5,000 or 30,000, same price. No registration, no compliance forms, no middleman deciding whether your messages get delivered. Your texts come from a real phone number on a real carrier, so they land like a normal text because they are one.
Tribal Camping
We started using TextLink a few months ago for our e-commerce notifications and honestly didn’t expect it to replace our previous SMS provider this quickly. The setup was ridiculously simple — plugged in an Android device, inserted a SIM, and we were live the same day without dealing with all the usual compliance headaches.
What really stands out is deliverability. Messages actually land where they’re supposed to, without random filtering issues we constantly had before. The cost savings are also very noticeable compared to traditional SMS providers.
Big plus for the automated warmup — didn’t realize how important that was until we tried scaling volume. Everything just feels much more stable and predictable.
Support is fast and very hands-on, which is rare these days. Definitely recommend it to anyone tired of dealing with aggregators and complicated setup processes.
We are using TextLink for our restaurant chain. Thank you to the founders for helping us automatize our reservations reminders while still retaining a callable business number
I'm using TextLink to automate SMS for lead opt-ins. The level of simplicity and support from the founder is from another planet. Automated warmup tool saves a lot of trouble and gets me up to speed the same day
We use TextLink at our courier company to send delivery notifications to customers. Simple to set up, does exactly what it promises.