Compare the Top Free SMS API Providers as of July 2025

What are Free SMS API Providers?

SMS API providers, also known as SMS gateway providers, offer technology that enables software applications to send, receive, and track Short Message Service (SMS) messages over an internet protocol. They provide a way for businesses to communicate with customers in real-time via text as an integrated part of their overall communication strategy. These services are often cost-effective and easy to integrate into existing systems. Additionally, providers typically offer support in the form of user guides and documentation. Compare and read user reviews of the best Free SMS API providers currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    smsmode

    smsmode

    smsmode©

    Communication Platform As A Service (CPaaS). smsmode© provides complete mobile messaging routing services. SMS, TTS, Google RCS or WhatsApp Business. Connect with your customers around the world via our innovative and powerful tools, with the level of security you need to ensure. smsmode© integrates easily with your existing tools to increase their potential through mobile messaging. Use our REST API, SMPP and plugins to create these custom integrations with your applications, CRM, ERP, and more. Our documentation and our experts will help you to reach your goals! European solution GDPR compliant ISO 27001 & 27701 99.95% SLA Responsability Europe CSR Commitment
    Starting Price: €9 per month + 4.40 cts / SMS
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    SMSLocal

    SMSLocal

    SMSLocal

    SMSLocal.com is a versatile SMS marketing and communication platform designed for businesses. It enables bulk SMS messaging with personalized options and scheduling features, facilitating efficient campaigns. Two-way communication is simplified with real-time message handling and templates for standard messages. Comprehensive analytics and reports help measure campaign success and audience engagement, ensuring optimal ROI. Integration options allow seamless connection with other business tools. SMSLocal.com prioritizes security, compliance, and data protection. With multi-language support, automated workflows, and customer segmentation capabilities, it empowers businesses to engage with their audience effectively through SMS marketing.
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    Bird

    Bird

    Bird

    Bird (formerly MessageBird) is the next-generation CRM for Marketing, Sales, and Payments, powering over 5 trillion annual messages across Email, SMS, and WhatsApp. Leading brands grow cost-efficiently with Bird through personalized interactions on Email, SMS, and WhatsApp. The world's most innovative companies build communication solutions using Bird's applications and APIs. Get started today and talk to your customers over any channel, for any use case, anywhere in the world. Marketing messages, push notifications, order updates, delivery alerts and more. Operational bottlenecks slowing your growth? Use automated conversations and workflows to collect critical information up front, reduce manual tasks, implement self-service flows, and route chats to the right agent. Get up and running in minutes on our reliable, auto-scaling APIs with extensive documentations, complete API references and intuitive SDKs.
    Starting Price: $45 per month
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    Spring Edge

    Spring Edge

    SpringEdge Technologies

    Authentication, Voice & SMS APIs for Every Platform. Enables you to communicate faster and easier, Developed with tech innovations. Spring Edge's ingenuous cross platform APIs are easy to integrate with any technology platform with industry standards to send sms text or voice message. We provide messaging and voice communications using multiple channels to bring the most reliable platform powered by InstantAlerts. Enable business voice and sms text communication with our highly scalable web interface allows to send instant messages or bulk sms using api or web-based platform. Spring Edge strive to provide best in the industry services to clients, our technical support engineers are available at any instant to address your sms and voice related queries.
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    Textlocal

    Textlocal

    Textlocal

    Increase sales and customer satisfaction with smarter SMS campaigns, instant OTPs, notifications, two-way interactions, and other award-winning bulk SMS services. Effortlessly personalize your bulk SMS with names or custom fields, compose in 20+ languages, schedule/stagger your sends, add opt-out path and more. Get best-in-class SMS delivery. Automate sending and receiving SMS from any website, CRM, or application. Access SMS APIs with sample codes in 10+ languages including PHP, Java, .NET & more. Easily insert images, videos, PDFs, spreadsheets & more as shortlinks in your bulk SMS campaigns and grab your customers’ attention. Convey more in 160 characters. Let your customers instantly reach you by just texting into your long codes and keywords. Set auto-replies or take the conversation forward on other channels. Measure campaign outreach and effectiveness with real-time SMS delivery reports, and granular click metrics for all weblinks and attachments sent as Textlocal short links.
    Starting Price: $3.88 per month
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    Expert Texting

    Expert Texting

    Expert Texting

    Don’t confuse your customers with short codes sms or long codes, use our SenderID (Alphanumeric) based SMS service or text service to notify your customer. They can view incoming message from your company name, even if your contact information is not saved on their list. Our fast response Text API or SMS API can easily integrate to your current system or with any CRM. It is so powerful that you can retrieve your incoming text messages as well. This feature will save your time since there is no need to login at an Expert Texting Area to send SMS(s) to your customers. One of our unique features that sets Expert Texting apart from others is the Contact Management or Group Texting Module. When uploading contacts with Expert Texting, the list is saved for future use which eliminates the need to upload it multiple times for bulk messaging.
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    Sweego

    Sweego

    Mindbaz

    Sweego is a multichannel notifications platform for developers. Sweego allows users to send transactional, engagement, and CRM messages through channels like email and SMS. We are working to add another channels like push (web & mobile) notifications, in-app notification, voice notifications and more. The platform provides APIs and webhook system to integrate notifications and messaging capabilities into applications. (SAAS, Mobile, Desktop, whatever...) With our email builder, you can create your template easily with drag and drop fonctionnality, HTML import, good email client compatibility, brand management, etc... Key features include message templates, email authentication, webhooks, sandbox testing for emails, statistics, logs and scalability.
    Starting Price: €10/month
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    GreenAds Global

    GreenAds Global

    GreenAds Global

    GreenAds Global stands at the forefront of omnichannel engagement, providing a wide array of messaging channels, tools, and solutions designed for sophisticated customer interactions, authentication, and security. With strong carrier connections and offices in Hyderabad, Dubai, and Kochi, GreenAds Global is the trusted partner for top companies worldwide to expand their customer communications. We assist our clients and partners in managing the challenges of consumer communications, boosting their business, and improving customer experiences with efficiency, security, and dependability. With GreenAds Global, you can achieve enhanced customer engagement through a diverse selection of local and global channels, including: WhatsApp API RCS Messaging Chatbot Bulk SMS Voice Solutions
    Starting Price: 0.01 $
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    CM.com

    CM.com

    CM.com

    Mobile communication and payments solutions. Combine messaging channels like WhatsApp with innovative payments to create true Conversational Commerce. We help companies communicate. Our customers use SMS, Voice and the world’s most popular chat apps: WhatsApp, Apple Business Chat, Google RCS. Start the conversation in the channel your customers prefer and let the AI bot do the talking. Integrate commerce in the conversation to drive conversions. CM.com is a licensed Payment Service Provider, offering a range of options for any channel with Apple Pay, Google Pay, WeChat Pay, Credit Cards and local payments like iDeal and Bancontact. CM.com is also a Ticketing platform helping festivals, museums and stadiums sell and manage any type of ticket. The Customer Data Platform takes marketing to a personal level. Identity and e-sign solutions assure authentication in any transaction.
    Starting Price: $0/month
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    Textbelt

    Textbelt

    Textbelt

    Textbelt is a no-nonsense SMS API built for developers who just want to send SMS. Thousands of customers prefer Textbelt over other SMS providers for our ease of setup, simple, predictable pricing packages, and personal support. No recurring billing, unnecessary add-ons, or client libraries. Send 1 free text per day. Create your own key to send more messages afterward. Textbelt offers open-source and paid versions. An SMS provider you can trust. Textbelt has worked with thousands of developers and businesses since 2012. Delivery statuses are not standardized between mobile carriers. For example, some carriers will report SMS as "delivered" when they attempt transmission to the handset while other carriers actually report delivery receipts from the handsets. Textbelt lets you receive replies after you've sent an SMS. Replies are sent by webhook, meaning you will have to set up an HTTP or HTTPS route on your website that will process inbound SMS.
    Starting Price: $3 per 50 texts
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    Textr Team
    Increase customer engagement with an automated business phone system with all your calling and texting needs in one app. We have apps for all use cases, from personal to business. For individuals who carry multiple phones and wish to handle all business phone communication in one automated platform that is synced across all of their devices. Save thousands of dollars on a new device, phone plan, and phone number when starting your small business. We offer a lightweight CRM, IVR attendant, SMS campaign features, and more to boost business productivity. Textr Team is the perfect solution for freelancers and sole proprietors who want to message and call their clients or customers on one automated platform. Add your collaborators to Textr Team and cut down your business communication costs. The key to success is enabling your team with next-gen digital tools. Our outbound sales features allow your representatives to focus on clients and closing potential leads.
    Starting Price: $6.99 per month
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    Fast2SMS

    Fast2SMS

    Fast2SMS

    Bulk SMS service or bulk message means sending SMS to one or more recipients via software/API/web platforms such as Fast2SMS provides a platform to send online bulk SMS in India. Generally, in India to send bulk SMS you need DLT registration but with the Fast2SMS panel, you can also send SMS without DLT registration. Bulk SMS can be sent like an individual SMS to customers e.g. receiving an OTP, notification on a transaction. If any online or offline businesses want to create, schedule, and send SMS campaigns for marketing or notification then all those activities can be done from Fast2SMS bulk SMS software. Fast2SMS DLT SMS & Bulk SMS Service is used by various national companies, schools, colleges, organizations, developers, NGOs & government agencies for promotion, communication, transactional alerts, notifications, reminders, OTP, and feedback.
    Starting Price: $0.012 per SMS
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    Bandwidth

    Bandwidth

    Bandwidth.com

    You want the best quality voice, messaging, and more. To get them, you need the only API provider with its own nationwide network. You can eliminate the middleman, save on costs, give yourself more control, and build the application that your customers are craving. You’re not new to this, but you need a partner to help you reach the scale you know you’re capable of. Whether you’re bringing your own carrier or building your own solution from the ground up, Bandwidth has the tools you need to reach your maximum potential. Bandwidth is a communications platform with limitless flexibility. You need integrations, enterprise-class APIs, and tools to manage your communications stack intelligently. We are open where you need it the most, with optionality and control. Our global network is directly connected to where it matters most. Giving unmatched reliability. Bringing your customers closer. Scaling wherever your business takes you.
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    The SMS Works SMS API
    At the SMS Works, we only bill you for delivered text messages. Our prices are amongst the lowest in the UK. Message costs start at 3.45 pence + VAT and go as low as 2.75 pence for larger volumes. On average, our customers save over 30%. Compare us with other SMS Gateway companies on our price comparison table. Contact us for a quote if you'd like us to beat an existing price. For high SMS volume customers, sending and receiving over 50,000 texts a month, we offer even lower rates. With our free SMS API, you only pay for SMS credits; there’s no contract or minimum order. We only charge you for delivered messages. Failed texts are credited straight back to your account. Almost all SMS companies charge for failed texts, when they haven't been charged themselves. You can save as much as 18% by not paying for undelivered texts. Our delivery reports give you a detailed outcome of all texts sent, including refunded SMS credits.
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    SMSit

    SMSit

    SMSit

    SMSit is a self-service SMS platform that allows you send text messages via an online interface with advanced options for fully managed SMS campaigns including instant top-up of your SMS credits. Send text reminders in just seconds with our easy to use quick SMS feature which you can access anytime with a just a simple click of your mouse. Send bulk SMS message campaigns to your customers for marketing & promotions with real-time reporting and trackable links so you can measure results. With SMS you will get your message in front of the recipient immediately and you can also send automated messages for billing reminders using our API. Allow your customers to SMS keywords to text a response number for instant offers and collect the numbers for mobile marketing. A virtual number is used together with SMS keywords and allows you to receive inbound text messages so you can engage your customers with 2 way SMS conversations. Add SMS functionality to your website with our SMS API.
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    TxtSync

    TxtSync

    TxtSync

    We don’t think texting should be taxing. Which is why we’ve made SMS marketing easier, more reliable and more affordable than ever before. Using our intuitive web interface it’s a breeze to set up and track SMS marketing campaigns. Plus, you can use our SMS API or your existing products in sync with ours. Well, we are called TxtSync after all. We’ve made using SMS easier so you can focus on the important bit - the content. Whether it’s launching an SMS marketing campaign or chatting with customers, you’ll get it right every time. We offer the highest quality Tier 1 SMS that ensures reliable delivery. And at a fraction of the cost of competitors with UK SMS starting from 3.5p and discounts for high volumes. Start creating your SMS marketing campaigns with us. Make sending and receiving SMS part of your everyday workflow thanks to our Zapier or Microsoft Flow apps that give you the freedom to keep using your existing products. Or for more advanced integration try our RESTful SMS API.
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    Cellcast

    Cellcast

    Cellcast

    Cellcast – Australia's Leading SMS & MMS Platform, is an Australian-owned SMS, MMS, and voice communications platform designed to help businesses of all sizes manage customer communications and run marketing campaigns affordably. With no monthly fees, prepaid credits, and industry-low pricing, Cellcast is the perfect solution for sending bulk SMS, MMS, appointment reminders, and promotional messages. Key Features: - ✅ Wholesale Pricing (pay as you go) - ✅ SMS & MMS Gateway - ✅ Fast Delivery - ✅ Custom Sender ID - ✅ Email to SMS/SMS to Email - ✅ APIs for integration - ✅ Bulk SMS/MMS and scheduling - ✅ Two-way SMS Communication - ✅ Local Australian Support Sign up today and get FREE SMS + MMS credits to experience the power of Cellcast!
    Starting Price: $0
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    ITNIO TECH

    ITNIO TECH

    ITNIO TECH

    ITNIO TECH is a global communications platform offering a wide range of messaging and voice solutions designed to connect businesses with customers worldwide. Their services include Verification SMS, Notification SMS, Marketing SMS, Two-way SMS, and advanced voice products such as Global Virtual Numbers, Cloud Call Centers, Voice Verification, and AI Voice. With over 20 years of experience and partnerships with 100+ mobile network operators, ITNIO TECH supports messaging and voice delivery across more than 200 regions globally. Their omnichannel messaging platform provides reliable, low-latency communication that integrates easily via enterprise APIs. The company specializes in authentication, marketing, and notification solutions tailored for industries like FinTech, gaming, e-commerce, and logistics. ITNIO TECH prides itself on high uptime, global reach, and 24/7 expert support to help clients optimize customer engagement and business growth.
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