Starter
For your first email program.
$16USD / month
$192 billed yearly.
20,000 emails / month
Choose Starter- 5 brands · 3 seats
- 5 custom sending domains
- 500 email verifications/month
- $1.50 / 1,000 extra emails
Nitrosend is the best SlickText alternative for a business that wants its email run from AI and texting in the same place once it arrives, with the top score of 76.5 out of 100 of the seven reviewed here. It scores 9 out of 10 on working from your AI assistant, the heaviest test, where Omnisend scores 8, Textmagic and EZ Texting 7 and SimpleTexting 2. SlickText sells no email, and Nitrosend is email first: its texting is coming soon and is not open to customers today. Your AI assistant, whether Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Codex, writes the emails, and they come out in your brand's colors, fonts and voice. To run email from an assistant with Nitrosend, add its MCP server at api.nitrosend.com/mcp and sign in with OAuth: a campaign or a flow is saved as a draft and goes out only once it is approved, while a single transactional email sends on the call. Email costs $20 a month for 20,000 with unlimited contacts. Omnisend comes next at 61.5, then Textmagic at 53. If you need to send texts today, or only need more texting headroom, a dedicated SMS tool is the better pick, and the list below says which.
The ranking
Rank 1Nitrosend
76.5 out of 100Total
- Priced by
- Emails sent
- Free plan
- 5,000 emails, then 500 a month
- Entry plan
- $20 a month, 20,000 emails
- Works from your AI assistant9 out of 10Official MCP server writes and sends email campaigns, flows and single emails from the chat; campaigns and flows stay drafts until approved, and texting is coming soon (MCP registry).
- Emails in your brand, no designer9 out of 10Brand Kit scans the site for colors, fonts and voice, and applies them to every draft on every plan (docs).
- Price8.5 out of 10Unlimited contacts on every plan. $20 a month for 20,000 emails and $650 for a million emails on Scale including overage (pricing).
- Free plan7 out of 105,000 emails to start, then 500 a month, unlimited contacts. New accounts start at 100 recipients per rolling 24 hours (pricing).
- Receipts and newsletters on one plan9 out of 10Receipts, resets and newsletters share one allowance and one API on every plan. Texting is coming soon and is not open to customers yet (pricing).
- Editor for building by hand6 out of 10A block builder exists for editing by hand, but it is plainer, because the agent is the main way in.
- Integrations, support and track record5 out of 10Shopify, Stripe, HubSpot, Attio and Mailchimp, five bring-your-own sending providers, a Node SDK, a CLI and signed webhooks for transactional email, but a young product from a small team (docs).
Nitrosend
Ask your agent for the next campaign
Connect Nitrosend to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Codex, point Brand Kit at your site, and describe the next email campaign or flow. Texting is coming soon. Contacts are unlimited on every plan.
Free: 5,000 emails to start, then 500 a month. No credit card.
Start free
Rank 2Omnisend
61.5 out of 100Total
- Priced by
- Contacts emailed
- Free plan
- 250 contacts, 500 emails a month
- Entry plan
- $16 a month, 500 contacts
- Works from your AI assistant8 out of 10Official Claude connector and ChatGPT plugin, connected by OAuth, whose execute tool runs Send campaign, Create automation workflow and Enable automation workflow (docs).
- Emails in your brand, no designer7 out of 10Imports logo, colors and fonts from your Shopify, WooCommerce or BigCommerce store, not voice (Omnisend help).
- Price3 out of 10Billed by contacts. Standard is $132 a month at 10,000, and above 150,000 it is by quote (pricing).
- Free plan4 out of 10500 emails a month to up to 250 contacts, with 24/7 support (pricing).
- Receipts and newsletters on one plan6 out of 10Order and shipping emails run as automations on every plan, triggered by store events (Omnisend help).
- Editor for building by hand7 out of 104.6 of 5 across 1,245 reviews, but Limited Templates is a recurring complaint (G2).
- Integrations, support and track record8 out of 10335+ integrations, web push and 24/7 live chat support on every plan, and SMS on Pro (pricing).
Rank 3Textmagic
53 out of 100Total
- Priced by
- Texts and emails sent
- Free plan
- None, a free trial
- Text rate
- $0.049 to the US
- Works from your AI assistant7 out of 10Official MCP connector for Claude and ChatGPT with OAuth. It sends and schedules texts to your lists and confirms each send first (Textmagic).
- Emails in your brand, no designer3 out of 10AI writing and email templates. Nothing reads your brand from your site (pricing).
- Price4 out of 10$0.003 an email by its own FAQ, so $60 for 20,000 and $3,000 for a million. Its calculator shows $0.001 (pricing).
- Free plan1 out of 10No free plan. A free trial with a small credit, plus 10,000 emails as a one-time welcome bonus (pricing).
- Receipts and newsletters on one plan6 out of 10Texts, email campaigns and an SMS API for notifications from one account and one balance (pricing).
- Editor for building by hand7 out of 10A drag-and-drop email editor, AI templates, a text composer and an automation flow builder (pricing).
- Integrations, support and track record7 out of 10Used by more than 20,000 companies, publicly listed, with a shared inbox and integrations (Textmagic).
Rank 4Twilio
43.5 out of 100Total
- Priced by
- Texts sent, per segment
- Free plan
- None, a 30-day trial
- Text rate
- $0.0083 to the US
- Works from your AI assistant5 out of 10Twilio Labs publishes an MCP server that exposes the raw Twilio API. It sends one message at a time, with no campaign to send (GitHub).
- Emails in your brand, no designer1 out of 10Programmable Messaging sends whatever text your code builds. Nothing learns your brand (pricing).
- Price4 out of 10Email is SendGrid Marketing Campaigns, a second product: $60 a month at 10,000 contacts on Advanced, the first plan with automation, and a quote above 200,000 (pricing).
- Free plan1 out of 10No free plan. A 30-day trial with 100 free texts and no card (pricing).
- Receipts and newsletters on one plan4 out of 10Texts through the Messaging API, and email through SendGrid, a second product on its own plan and bill (pricing).
- Editor for building by hand4 out of 10No editor for texts. SendGrid Marketing Campaigns, sold separately, has design and code editors (pricing).
- Integrations, support and track record9 out of 10The reference API for programmable messaging, voice and email since 2008, at very large scale (Twilio).
Rank 5EZ Texting
39.5 out of 100Total
- Priced by
- Text credits
- Free plan
- None, a 14-day trial
- Entry plan
- $25 a month, 500 credits
- Works from your AI assistant7 out of 10Official hosted MCP server with OAuth, covering messaging, contacts, workflows and reports (MCP registry).
- Emails in your brand, no designer2 out of 10AI Compose and AI Reply write texts. Nothing reads your brand from your site (pricing).
- Price0 out of 10Sells no email, so it cannot be priced on this test (pricing).
- Free plan1 out of 10No free plan. A 14-day trial with no card (pricing).
- Receipts and newsletters on one plan3 out of 10Texts only, no email. Mass texts, workflows and API sends run from one account (pricing).
- Editor for building by hand7 out of 10Mass texting, workflows, conversational texting, text-to-pay and short codes (pricing).
- Integrations, support and track record6 out of 10Setup within one business day, an onboarding specialist on Scale, and a dedicated manager on Enterprise (pricing).
Rank 6SimpleTexting
31 out of 100Total
- Priced by
- Text credits
- Free plan
- None, a free trial
- Entry plan
- $29 a month, 500 credits, plus a number
- Works from your AI assistant2 out of 10No official MCP server or assistant app. Only a community-built MCP server wraps its API (pricing).
- Emails in your brand, no designer2 out of 10An AI Assist message generator writes texts. Nothing reads your brand from your site (pricing).
- Price0 out of 10Sells no email, so it cannot be priced on this test (pricing).
- Free plan1 out of 10No free plan. A free trial with no card, then a 30-day money-back guarantee (pricing).
- Receipts and newsletters on one plan3 out of 10Texts only, no email. Campaigns, auto-replies and API sends run from one account (pricing).
- Editor for building by hand7 out of 10Campaigns, drip sequences, keywords, MMS and segments, with unlimited contacts on every plan (pricing).
- Integrations, support and track record7 out of 10Running since 2010 and part of Sinch since 2021, with integrations and chat and phone support (pricing).
Rank 7Textedly
30 out of 100Total
- Priced by
- Messages a month
- Free plan
- 50 texts, no time limit
- Entry plan
- $29 a month, 500 messages
- Works from your AI assistant2 out of 10No MCP server or assistant app, first-party or listed. It lists an open API and Zapier, so an agent can reach it only through those (Textedly).
- Emails in your brand, no designer2 out of 10An AI message composer drafts texts. Nothing reads your brand from your site (Textedly).
- Price0 out of 10Sells no email yet, so it cannot be priced on this test. Email is listed as coming soon (pricing).
- Free plan3 out of 10A free account with 50 texts and one keyword, no card and no time limit (pricing).
- Receipts and newsletters on one plan3 out of 10Texts only for now. Email marketing is listed as coming soon (pricing).
- Editor for building by hand6 out of 10Every feature on every plan: mass texts, drip campaigns, web forms, short links and a shared inbox (pricing).
- Integrations, support and track record6 out of 10Running since 2015, with a shared inbox across channels and 3,000+ integrations by its own count (pricing).
How they compare
How each one scores
Scores out of 10, September 26, 2026| What we compared | Nitrosend | Omnisend | Textmagic | Twilio | EZ Texting | SimpleTexting | Textedly |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Works from your AI assistant20 points | 9 out of 10 | 8 out of 10 | 7 out of 10 | 5 out of 10 | 7 out of 10 | 2 out of 10 | 2 out of 10 |
| Emails in your brand, no designer10 points | 9 out of 10 | 7 out of 10 | 3 out of 10 | 1 out of 10 | 2 out of 10 | 2 out of 10 | 2 out of 10 |
| Price20 points | 8.5 out of 10 | 3 out of 10 | 4 out of 10 | 4 out of 10 | 0 out of 10 | 0 out of 10 | 0 out of 10 |
| Free plan10 points | 7 out of 10 | 4 out of 10 | 1 out of 10 | 1 out of 10 | 1 out of 10 | 1 out of 10 | 3 out of 10 |
| Receipts and newsletters on one plan10 points | 9 out of 10 | 6 out of 10 | 6 out of 10 | 4 out of 10 | 3 out of 10 | 3 out of 10 | 3 out of 10 |
| Editor for building by hand15 points | 6 out of 10 | 7 out of 10 | 7 out of 10 | 4 out of 10 | 7 out of 10 | 7 out of 10 | 6 out of 10 |
| Integrations, support and track record15 points | 5 out of 10 | 8 out of 10 | 7 out of 10 | 9 out of 10 | 6 out of 10 | 7 out of 10 | 6 out of 10 |
| Total scoreout of 100 | 76.5 out of 100,1st | 61.5 out of 100,2nd | 53 out of 100,3rd | 43.5 out of 100,4th | 39.5 out of 100,5th | 31 out of 100,6th | 30 out of 100,7th |
Here are the seven yes-or-no questions SlickText users usually ask before they move. A tick means the service does it, as described on its own pages today. A dash means the answer is not a clean yes or no.
7 services, side by side
Checked November 10, 2026QuestionNitrosendOmnisendTextmagicTwilioEZ TextingSimpleTextingTextedly
NitrosendOmnisendTextmagicTwilioEZ TextingSimpleTextingTextedlySend a campaign from the chatCan an agent send a marketing campaign, email or text, without anyone opening the web app?Nitrosend: Yes.Omnisend: Yes.Textmagic: Yes.Twilio: Not a yes or no.EZ Texting: Yes.SimpleTexting: No.Textedly: No.
| Service | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nitrosend | Yes. Yes, through the MCP server. Campaigns stay drafts until approved. |
| Omnisend | Yes. Yes. Its MCP server's execute tool runs Send campaign. |
| Textmagic | Yes. Yes, for texts, through its MCP connector, with each send confirmed. |
| Twilio | Not a yes or no. Its MCP server exposes the raw API, one message at a time. There is no campaign to send. |
| EZ Texting | Yes. Yes, through its hosted MCP server, which covers messaging and contacts. |
| SimpleTexting | No. No first-party route. |
| Textedly | No. No. |
Official MCP serverIs there a first-party MCP server?Nitrosend: Yes.Omnisend: Yes.Textmagic: Yes.Twilio: Yes.EZ Texting: Yes.SimpleTexting: No.Textedly: No.
| Service | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nitrosend | Yes. Yes. Listed as com.nitrosend/nitrosend on the official MCP registry. |
| Omnisend | Yes. Yes, as a ChatGPT plugin and a Claude connector. |
| Textmagic | Yes. Yes, with OAuth. |
| Twilio | Yes. Yes, from Twilio Labs. |
| EZ Texting | Yes. Yes, hosted, with OAuth. |
| SimpleTexting | No. No. |
| Textedly | No. No. |
Email and SMS on one contact recordDo email and text share one customer profile and one consent record?Nitrosend: No.Omnisend: Yes.Textmagic: Yes.Twilio: No.EZ Texting: No.SimpleTexting: No.Textedly: No.
| Service | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nitrosend | No. Not yet. Texting is coming soon and is not open to customers. |
| Omnisend | Yes. Yes. Email, texts and web push share one contact. |
| Textmagic | Yes. Yes. Contacts hold a phone number and an email address. |
| Twilio | No. No. Email is SendGrid, a separate product and bill. |
| EZ Texting | No. No. It sells no email. |
| SimpleTexting | No. No. It sells no email. |
| Textedly | No. No. Email is coming soon. |
SMS inside automated flowsCan an automated flow send a text as one of its steps?Nitrosend: No.Omnisend: Yes.Textmagic: Yes.Twilio: Not a yes or no.EZ Texting: Yes.SimpleTexting: Yes.Textedly: Yes.
| Service | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nitrosend | No. Not yet. Texting is coming soon and is not open to customers. |
| Omnisend | Yes. Yes. Automations send email and texts. |
| Textmagic | Yes. Yes, in automation flows. |
| Twilio | Not a yes or no. Twilio Studio builds messaging flows, with no marketing automation. |
| EZ Texting | Yes. Yes, in workflows. |
| SimpleTexting | Yes. Yes, drip campaigns and auto-replies. |
| Textedly | Yes. Yes, drip campaigns. |
Two-way textingCan customers reply, and can a person or agent answer them in the product?Nitrosend: No.Omnisend: Not a yes or no.Textmagic: Yes.Twilio: Yes.EZ Texting: Yes.SimpleTexting: Yes.Textedly: Yes.
| Service | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nitrosend | No. Not yet. Texting is coming soon and is not open to customers. |
| Omnisend | Not a yes or no. Not described on its pricing page. |
| Textmagic | Yes. Yes, in a shared inbox. |
| Twilio | Yes. Yes, through the API and Twilio Conversations. |
| EZ Texting | Yes. Yes, conversational texting. |
| SimpleTexting | Yes. Yes. Replies are free and land in its inbox. |
| Textedly | Yes. Yes, in its shared inbox. |
Published price per textIs a per-text US rate printed on the pricing page?Nitrosend: No.Omnisend: Yes.Textmagic: Yes.Twilio: Yes.EZ Texting: Yes.SimpleTexting: Yes.Textedly: Not a yes or no.
| Service | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nitrosend | No. No. Texting is not available yet, so there is no rate. |
| Omnisend | Yes. Yes. From $0.007 a text, in credit packs. |
| Textmagic | Yes. Yes. $0.049 a text to the US. |
| Twilio | Yes. Yes. $0.0083 a text to the US. |
| EZ Texting | Yes. Yes. Extra credits from 3 to 4 cents. |
| SimpleTexting | Yes. Yes. Credits from 5.5 cents, less on bigger plans. |
| Textedly | Not a yes or no. Message bundles, not a per-text rate. |
Free plan with no time limitIs there a free plan that does not expire?Nitrosend: Yes.Omnisend: Yes.Textmagic: No.Twilio: No.EZ Texting: No.SimpleTexting: No.Textedly: Yes.
| Service | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nitrosend | Yes. Yes. 5,000 emails to start, then 500 a month. |
| Omnisend | Yes. Yes, up to 250 contacts. |
| Textmagic | No. No. A free trial. |
| Twilio | No. No. A 30-day trial. |
| EZ Texting | No. No. A 14-day trial. |
| SimpleTexting | No. No. A free trial. |
| Textedly | Yes. Yes. 50 free texts to start, with no time limit. |
Yes answersOut of the questions that have a yes or no for that service3 of 7 yes for Nitrosend6 of 6 yes for Omnisend6 of 7 yes for Textmagic3 of 5 yes for Twilio5 of 7 yes for EZ Texting3 of 7 yes for SimpleTexting3 of 6 yes for Textedly
At a glance
7 services, the same 7 tests, 100 points in all. In order: Nitrosend 76.5, Omnisend 61.5, Textmagic 53, Twilio 43.5, EZ Texting 39.5, SimpleTexting 31, Textedly 30. Nitrosend has the best score on Works from your AI assistant, Emails in your brand, no designer, Price, Free plan and Receipts and newsletters on one plan. Every price and feature was read on each company's own pages on September 26, 2026.
When another service is the better pick
These scores measure email marketing run from an AI assistant, for a business that also sends texts. Nitrosend's texting is coming soon, so for texts you need to send today, every service below is ahead of it. Read these before you choose.
- Pick SimpleTexting if you want the same shape as SlickText with published overage. Contacts are unlimited, replies are free, and credits past your plan are billed at a printed rate, 5.5 cents each on the smallest plan, as its pricing page shows, instead of forcing a plan change. 10,000 texts cost about $326 a month with the number.
- Pick Textedly if you are already above 50,000 texts a month and want a printed price. Its pricing page lists plans to 300,000 messages, $1,920 a month for 100,000, and a free account with 50 texts and no time limit. Email is listed as coming soon.
- Pick Twilio if you have engineers and want the wholesale rate. It is $0.0083 a text plus carrier fees, so 100,000 texts are about $830 before those fees, and you build the campaign tools yourself. The Twilio alternatives page compares the APIs at that layer.
- Pick Textmagic if you want texts and email campaigns on one pay-as-you-go balance. Its MCP connector sends texts to your lists from Claude or ChatGPT and shows the recipients, the text and the cost before each send. At $0.049 a text it costs more per message than anything else here.
- Pick EZ Texting if you want a hosted MCP server on a texting-first tool. Its MCP server covers messaging, contacts and workflows, and account setup takes up to one business day.
- Pick Omnisend if you run a smaller store and want email, texts and web push in one automation. Texts start at $0.007 each for high-volume US sends, and it scores above Nitrosend on the editor and on integrations and support.
- Stay on SlickText if texting is the whole program and you send under 50,000 a month. Its ladder is fully published, its pricing page carries a G2 top-100 satisfaction badge from more than 1,900 reviews, and collecting numbers through popups and text-to-join keywords is the center of the product.
What each one costs in 2026
SlickText prices by monthly credits and publishes every step: $29 for 500, $49 for 1,000, $79 for 2,000, $129 for 3,500, $169 for 5,000, $319 for 10,000, $579 for 25,000 and $939 for 50,000. One text is one credit and one MMS is three, contacts are unlimited, and carrier fees are added. Above 50,000 the plan is Talk to Us. Those carrier fees are a separate line: SlickText's carrier fee page lists a blended $0.0042 for each US text and $0.0087 for each MMS, billed after the month ends, so the 10,000-credit plan carries about $42 in fees on top of $319. The tables price the alternatives. The first is the email side, at the volumes used on every email comparison on this site. The second is 10,000 US texts a month, which is not scored, because not every service publishes a rate. Nitrosend has no text rate because its texting is not available yet.
What sending costs
List prices, USD, monthly, September 26, 2026| Service | 20,000 emails a month | 1,000,000 emails a month |
|---|---|---|
| Nitrosend (pricing page) | $20Starter, contacts unlimited | $650Scale, contacts unlimited, including overage |
| Omnisend (pricing page) | $132Standard, paid monthly. The page opens on a 30% prepay discount | Ask salesBy quote. Published tiers stop at 150,000 contacts, $1,456 |
| Textmagic (pricing page) | $60$0.003 an email by its own FAQ. Its calculator shows $0.001 | $3,000$0.003 an email. The calculator stops at 500,000 |
| Twilio (pricing page) | $60SendGrid Marketing Campaigns Advanced, the first plan with automation. A second product and bill | Ask salesSendGrid quote above 200,000 contacts. A second product and bill |
| EZ Texting (pricing page) | No emailSells no email | No emailSells no email |
| SimpleTexting (pricing page) | No emailSells no email | No emailSells no email |
| Textedly (pricing page) | No emailSells no email | No emailSells no email |
At 20,000 emails a month, Nitrosend is $20. Twilio's email is SendGrid, a second product, at $60 for 10,000 contacts on Marketing Campaigns Advanced, the first plan with automation. Textmagic is $60 at $0.003 an email, and Omnisend $132. EZ Texting, SimpleTexting and Textedly sell no email, and Textedly lists it as coming soon.
At a million emails, Nitrosend is $650. Textmagic is $3,000 at the same per-email rate, and Omnisend and SendGrid move to a quote.
What 10,000 texts cost
List prices, USD, monthly, September 26, 2026| Service | 10,000 US texts a month |
|---|---|
| Nitrosend (pricing page) | Not yet availableTexting is coming soon. Email only today |
| Omnisend (pricing page) | $9010,588 US texts for $90, added to the Pro plan |
| Textmagic (pricing page) | $490$0.049 a text, plus a $10 number |
| Twilio (pricing page) | $83Lowest. $0.0083 a text, plus carrier fees and a number |
| EZ Texting (pricing page) | $407.50Boost, $75 with 500 credits, plus 9,500 at 3.5 cents |
| SimpleTexting (pricing page) | $326.507,500 credits for $229, 2,500 more at 3.5 cents, and a $10 number |
| Textedly (pricing page) | $299Business, 10,000 messages |
For 10,000 texts, Twilio is $83 before carrier fees, and the credit-based tools cost $299 to $408, against SlickText's $319.
How we scored
Every service gets a score out of 10 on the same seven tests. Each test is worth a set number of points, 100 in all. These are the tests and points used on every email marketing comparison on this site, applied here to a business that sends email and texts. Working from your AI assistant and price are worth the most, 20 points each. The editor and the integrations, support and track record share 30 points.
Each test is a question with one answer per service, checked against the service's own pages on September 26, 2026. A 10 means it does the job fully on its normal plans. A 5 means it does part of it, or only on a higher plan or in a second product.
Works from your AI assistant, 20 points. Can an agent inside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Codex compose a marketing campaign, test it, and send it, with no person opening the web app between the prompt and the send? An approval step the person answers in the chat counts as inside the agent. Moving into the web app to finish does not. Scored on one written rule for every vendor: a first-party server the vendor runs and that can send counts fully; a third-party wrapper (Zapier, Composio, Kanopi, community servers) counts for less; a server that only drafts or reads counts for less than one that sends.
Emails in your brand, no designer, 10 points. Does the product learn your logo, colors, fonts and voice from your own site and apply them to every email it drafts, on the plan most small teams start on?
Price, 20 points. What does email cost each month at 20,000 emails, a 10,000-contact list emailed twice, and at 1,000,000, a 500,000-contact list emailed twice? Scored on list prices in US dollars, paid monthly, at the cheapest plan that holds the contacts, covers the sends and includes automated emails such as a welcome series. Every ranking on this site uses the same fixed scale. At 20,000 emails, $20 or less scores 10, then $25 scores 9, $32 scores 8, $40 scores 7, $50 scores 6, $70 scores 5, $100 scores 4 and $140 scores 3. At 1,000,000, $500 or less scores 10, then $625, $800, $1,000, $1,250, $1,750, $2,500 and $3,500 step down the same way. Anything dearer, or a price given only by quote, scores 2. A free product scores 10. The score is the average of the two. A service that sells no email scores 0. Text message prices are shown in the price table but not scored, because not every service here publishes one. Nitrosend has no text rate because its texting is not available yet.
Free plan, 10 points. How far can a team get on the free plan before it has to pay: contacts, total sends, and the daily ceiling.
Receipts and newsletters on one plan, 10 points. Can receipts, password resets and newsletters go out from one account, on one bill, through one API?
Editor for building by hand, 15 points. For a person who wants to build the email themselves: how mature are the visual editor and the template library?
Integrations, support and track record, 15 points. How many tools does it plug into, what support comes with the plan, and how long has it been doing this at scale?
Scoring texting tools on email tests is a choice, and it decides the order. A service that sells no email scores 0 on price and low on the one-plan test, whatever its text rate. Text prices and inbox placement are not scored, and no test scores whether a service's texting is live. Nitrosend's texting is coming soon, so its score rests on the email side and the assistant alone, and the yes-or-no table marks its texting rows as not yet available. SlickText itself is not ranked, because this page is about what replaces it.
Where SlickText stops
The reasons to leave SlickText are structural. The price ladder is published and every feature is on every plan.
The first is the ladder. The effective rate improves as you climb, from about $0.058 a text at 500 credits to $0.0319 at 10,000 and $0.0188 at 50,000. Then it stops. There is no published plan above 50,000 credits a month, so at 100,000 texts SlickText cannot tell you the price without a call, and Twilio and Textedly can.
The second is email. SlickText sells none. The moment a text and an email need to know about each other, you run two systems, two contact records and two consent records, kept in sync by hand, by Zapier or by one of its email integrations. That is fine at 2,000 contacts and hard work at 50,000.
Credits also behave in ways that matter once software, rather than a person, is sending. SlickText's credit rules say that when a campaign needs more credits than the balance holds, SlickText fails the whole campaign rather than sending part of it, so a scheduled send to a segment that has grown since you built it can go out to nobody. Unused credits roll over for one more term and then expire, so time a move for when the rollover balance is spent. The same page warns that AI-written texts often contain curly quotes and long dashes, which change the encoding and use extra credits, a cost worth checking whichever tool your assistant writes for.
Can I keep SlickText for texting and run email somewhere else?
Yes, and many businesses do. The cost is not technical. Consent and engagement live in two places, so decide which system owns the contact record and sync one way into the other rather than both ways. The two systems also disagree on who a person is. SlickText's HubSpot integration needs a mobile number for every SlickText contact, while HubSpot needs an email address, and a phone number changed in HubSpot creates a new contact in SlickText rather than updating the old one.
What you lose with two tools is a flow that branches on both channels, so a customer who ignored the email gets a text and a customer who replied does not. Texts earn their cost in that position, as a step that knows what the email already did, more than as a separate blast to the whole list. SlickText itself points that way: its HubSpot integration lets you send texts as a step in a HubSpot workflow. If that branching is what you want, one tool for both channels is shorter than integrating two. The email automation workflows page covers building those flows.
If you move the texting too, carry each contact's status across, not just the number. SlickText records a status for every contact, Subscribed, Unsubscribed, Pending or Blocked, and an Unsubscribed contact cannot be set back to Subscribed by hand. Keep Unsubscribed, Pending and Blocked numbers out of any import, because many tools treat an imported number as consent to text it.
What does 10DLC registration cost, and do you need it?
You need to register whatever number you text from with the carriers before you send. SlickText assigns a toll-free number by default, registered through its own form, usually in under 48 hours, and allows one sending number per brand. 10DLC is the local-number route, which SlickText says takes about a week and costs $10 a month. On Twilio the 10DLC registry fees are itemized on its fee page: $46 one-time brand registration, $15 campaign vetting, and $1.50 to $10 a month per campaign by use case, as read on October 2, 2026. Textedly pays the registration cost for your first 10DLC number. Whichever service you pick, register before you set a launch date, because approval is not instant. The email marketing laws page covers the consent rules on the email side.
SlickText alternatives FAQ
For a business that needs email beside its texts, Nitrosend, with the top score here, 76.5 out of 100: email run from an AI assistant at $20 a month for 20,000, with texting coming soon. For more texting headroom alone, SimpleTexting bills extra credits at a published rate, Textedly publishes prices to 300,000 messages, and Twilio has the wholesale rate.
It publishes a full credit ladder, from $29 a month for 500 credits to $319 for 10,000 and $939 for 50,000. One text is one credit and one MMS is three, contacts are unlimited, and carrier fees are added. Annual plans add two free months of credits.
For structural reasons. The published ladder stops at 50,000 credits a month, and SlickText sells no email, so a business that needs both channels on one contact record has to run two systems.
Nitrosend, Omnisend and Textmagic, of the options here. Nitrosend is email with unlimited contacts, and its texting is coming soon. Omnisend is an email platform with texts added, priced per contact. Textmagic sells texts and email campaigns from one balance. Twilio's email is SendGrid, a separate product and bill.
Nitrosend, with 9 out of 10 on working from your AI assistant. Its official MCP server builds email and text campaigns and flows from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Codex as drafts that go out once approved, and sends a single transactional message on the call. Omnisend scores 8, because its MCP server connects by OAuth and can send a campaign and switch on an automation. Textmagic and EZ Texting score 7: Textmagic's MCP connector sends texts to your lists and shows the cost before each send, and EZ Texting runs a hosted MCP server. SimpleTexting has only a community-built server, and Textedly has none. SlickText's own AI Compose suggests drafts inside its editor, and a person then picks one and sends the campaign as usual.
With Nitrosend, yes for the email campaigns and flows, and its texting is coming soon. Connect its MCP server at api.nitrosend.com/mcp to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Codex, sign in with OAuth, and describe the job, for example "when my app records a new order, send a thank-you email, wait three days, then email a link to leave a review". The assistant saves that as a flow draft, and nothing reaches your contacts until it is approved. Until Nitrosend's texting opens, the texts stay on SlickText or another texting tool. Keyword sign-ups stay with a dedicated texting tool, as the next answer explains.
Not today. Nitrosend's texting is coming soon and is not open to customers yet, so it can take over your email but not the texts SlickText sends. For a keyword-led texting program, a dedicated tool is the better buy.
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