# What's the best SMS marketing tool for small businesses under 10,000 contacts that don't want to pay enterprise pricing?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">What's the best SMS marketing tool for small businesses under 10,000 contacts that don't want to pay enterprise pricing? From the small business grid in the <a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/sms-marketing">SMS marketing software</a> category, here are the tools that score well without the enterprise price tag:</p><ol>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/slicktext/reviews"><strong>SlickText</strong></a><strong> </strong>(4.8 stars, 1,800+ reviews)<strong>:</strong> Best for small teams that want keyword campaigns and automations without touching a developer. Reviewers describe getting full functionality at a price that scales with contact volume rather than charging for features they don't need yet.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/textedly/reviews"><strong>Textedly</strong></a><strong> </strong>(4.6 stars, 1,300+ reviews)<strong>:</strong> Best for getting campaigns out the door fast. Small business reviewers describe the setup as something a solo marketer can handle, and the high satisfaction score reflects how well it works for teams without dedicated SMS staff.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/attentive/reviews"><strong>Attentive</strong></a><strong> </strong>(4.5 stars, 1,300+ reviews)<strong>:</strong> Best for small ecommerce brands that are growing fast and want a platform that scales with them. Reviewers note that the pricing makes more sense once the list and revenue grow to match it.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/podium/reviews"><strong>Podium</strong></a><strong> </strong>(4.5 stars, 2,000+ reviews)<strong>:</strong> Best for local and service businesses that want SMS alongside review management. Small business reviewers describe it as a good fit for retail, dental, and home services contexts where customer communication spans more than just marketing.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/omnisend/reviews"><strong>Omnisend</strong></a><strong> </strong>(4.6 stars, 1,200+ reviews)<strong>:</strong> Best for small ecommerce businesses already using email. The combined email and SMS plans tend to work out cheaper than paying separately for two platforms, and the automation handles both channels from one place.</li>
</ol><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">Which of these have you used? And what made you stick with it or switch?</p>

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- Posted at: 3 months ago
- Author title: Writer
- Net upvotes: 2


## Comments
### Comment 1

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;Textedly was the one that let our one-person marketing team get campaigns out the door without needing anyone technical involved, and that ease of setup is honestly what made us stick with it rather than shopping around once we were up and running.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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- Posted at: 20 days ago
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### Comment 2

SlickText and Textedly come up here because the feature set actually matches what a solo marketer can operate. You&#39;re not paying for complexity built for an SMS team managing enterprise compliance. That matters more at this scale than it does for big companies that can absorb the overhead.

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- Posted at: 20 days ago
- Author title: Marketing Executive



### Comment 3

&lt;p&gt;Podium being in this list is a useful inclusion, because for a local or service business the marketing channel and the customer conversation are genuinely the same thing. Review requests, appointment reminders and promotions going out from one number is a different shape of problem from ecommerce campaign sending, and it&#39;s worth naming that those two use cases shouldn&#39;t be judged on the same criteria. On the ecommerce side, Omnisend bundling email and SMS is usually the version of this that makes the budget work at small list sizes.&lt;/p&gt;

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- Posted at: 21 days ago
- Author title: Tech Consultant



### Comment 4

&lt;p&gt;The pricing structure question is worth thinking through early, especially if you&#39;re in a growth phase. Modelling out what costs look like at a higher contact volume before you sign up saves a lot of friction later.&lt;/p&gt;

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- Posted at: 3 months ago
- Author title: Marketing Executive





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