Text message marketing from the list you already email
Buy a number inside the app, register your sender for the countries you text, pick a segment and see the count and the cost before you confirm. Texts go only to people who opted in to SMS, only inside quiet hours, and can be a step in the same automation that sends your email. Paid in credits per message, no separate SMS plan.
What your texts would cost here
SMS is paid in credits per message at a rate that depends on the destination country, and the exact cost of a campaign is shown before you confirm it. Put in your contacts and monthly messages to compare against tools that sell SMS as a contact-tier add-on.
Free and unlimited on Brainito. This only prices the others.
- Storing 1,000 contacts
- $0
- Contacts are free on every plan.
- Credits per message
- Shown before you send
- Varies by country and carrier, so the exact credit price appears on the send screen.
Where to start
SMS messages are included from the Growth plan, which adds 1,600 credits a month. A modest month, one message to each of your 1,000 contacts, is 1,000 messages; the credit price per message is shown before you send, so you always know the cost first.
Credits never expire and pay for email, audits, SEO and the tools too.
SMS is included on the $50 plan and above. Plans from $20 a month, cancel any time. Most businesses spend $20 to $500 a month across email, SMS and the rest of the workspace.
What you get
Everything below runs in the same workspace as your email, on the same contacts and consent records.
Campaigns with the cost on screen first
Write the text, pick a segment, send a test to your own phone. The review step shows how many people will receive it and how many credits it will take before you confirm. Send now or schedule.
Learn moreNumbers bought inside the app
Search and buy a sending number for your country without leaving Brainito. Every number you own is listed with its registration status, and a campaign picks the local one for each destination.
Learn moreRegistration handled where it is required
The United States and Canada require 10DLC brand and campaign registration, or verification for a toll-free number. India requires a DLT entity and templates. The compliance wizard asks for what your country needs, and a campaign cannot be scheduled into a country you are not cleared for.
Learn moreQuiet hours, enforced
Marketing texts to US and Canadian numbers go out only between 8am and 9pm in the recipient's local time. A campaign scheduled outside the window waits for it. You do not have to remember the rule.
Learn moreShort links with click tracking
Long URLs are shortened in the message and every click is recorded against the contact and the campaign, so a text can be attributed to the order it led to.
Learn moreSMS consent on the contact
Consent is stored per contact and per channel. An upload with a phone column but no SMS consent column adds people for email only. Segments can filter on who can receive SMS, and every send checks it.
Learn moreText steps inside automations
Email first, wait, then text the people who did not open. Or text first for a flash sale and email the detail. The same 11 flow templates accept an SMS node, and a contact without opt-in is skipped with the reason recorded.
Learn moreCredits per message, no SMS plan
There is no separate SMS subscription. Each message is paid in credits at the rate shown before you send, from the balance that also pays for email, SEO and the site builder. Credits never expire.
Learn more
SMS here against a typical email tool with texting
| Brainito | Typical email tool | |
|---|---|---|
| How SMS is priced | Brainito:Credits per message, cost shown before sending | Typical email tool:An SMS add-on with its own monthly credit tier |
| Getting a number | Brainito:Bought and listed inside the app | Typical email tool:Provisioned by support or through a third party |
| US and Canada registration | Brainito:10DLC and toll-free wizard, with sends blocked until cleared | Typical email tool:Forms sent to support, approval tracked by email |
| Quiet hours | Brainito:Enforced in the recipient's local time | Typical email tool:A setting you turn on, or your own responsibility |
| Contacts and consent | Brainito:Same contacts as email, consent per channel | Typical email tool:A separate SMS list or a flag on the email list |
| Automation | Brainito:SMS as a node in the same flow as email and WhatsApp | Typical email tool:Separate SMS flows, or SMS only on higher tiers |
From zero to the first text
Buy a number and register
Pick your country and choose a number; it appears under Numbers with its status. The compliance wizard then asks for what that country requires, such as 10DLC brand and campaign details for the US and Canada, and tells you when you are cleared.
Bring contacts with SMS consent
Import a CSV with a phone column and an SMS consent column, or collect consent through your forms. Numbers are validated and the people without consent stay email-only.
Write it, check the cost, send or automate
Pick a segment, write the text, send a test to your own phone, see the count and the credits, confirm. Or add the text as a step in an automation that already runs on email.
Questions people ask
Text the people who already said yes.
Buy a number, register once, import your list with its consent, and send the first text from the workspace that already holds your email. 50 free credits when you start here, no card.
Goes with
- SMS and WhatsApp overviewBoth channels on the same contacts.
- Email marketingThe channel the contacts come from.
- For local businessesWhere a text beats an email.
- For ecommerceCart recovery by email and text.
- Acceptable use and anti-spam policyWhat you agree to when you send.
- PricingSMS from the $50 plan, credits never expire.