Most SMS platforms make their pricing hard to compare on purpose. Contact-tier bundles, platform fees, carrier surcharges, overage penalties — by the time you finish the math, "affordable" texting is costing your business three to five cents per message.

Pinglo takes the opposite approach: one penny per text, and the price on the page is the price you pay.

The Pinglo pricing model in 60 seconds

Every text costs 1 credit, and every credit costs $0.01
Starter is $22/month and includes 250 credits every month
Professional is $44/month and includes 1,000 credits every month
Pay yearly and get roughly 17% off — about two months free
Need more? Top up credits any time at the same flat penny rate
No setup fees, no per-contact pricing, no platform surcharges

That is the whole model. There is no page two.

What the math looks like in practice

Say you send 1,000 promotional texts this month. On Pinglo, that is $10 of credits — and on Professional, your plan already includes 1,000 credits, so your all-in cost is the $44 subscription.

On legacy platforms like EZTexting or SimpleTexting, businesses routinely pay effective rates of 3 to 5 cents per message once contact tiers and add-ons are counted. The same 1,000-message month can run $50 to $90 or more before you have sent a single extra text. Across a year, growing businesses on Pinglo report saving up to 80% on their total SMS spend.

The cheapest platform is not the one with the lowest sticker price. It is the one whose pricing you can predict twelve months from now.

Honest billing, down to the segment

Long messages get split by carriers into segments, and every platform bills for them — but not every platform tells you. Pinglo bills exactly one credit per SMS segment and shows you the count, so a two-segment message costs two cents, visibly, in your usage ledger. Every credit you buy, spend, or get refunded is recorded in an auditable transaction ledger you can inspect at any time.

That transparency is not just a nice-to-have. It is why Pinglo customers do not open their invoice at the end of the month and find a number they cannot explain.

No contact-tier tax

Most SMS pricing punishes list growth: cross 500, 2,000, or 10,000 contacts and your monthly fee jumps — even if you send the same number of texts. Pinglo has no per-contact pricing at all. Store 50 contacts or 50,000; you pay for the messages you actually send, nothing else.

For growing lists, this is usually the single biggest line-item difference between Pinglo and the platform you are comparing it against.

Where the savings come from

Cheap pricing with weak infrastructure is a false economy, so it is fair to ask how Pinglo sustains a penny per text:

A modern, automated delivery stack with none of the legacy overhead older platforms carry
Self-serve onboarding with toll-free number provisioning built in — no sales calls priced into your plan
Credit-based billing that eliminates the billing disputes and manual reconciliation legacy vendors staff teams for
One flat rate instead of a pricing department engineering twelve tiers

Try the math on your own numbers

Take last month's message volume, multiply by $0.01, and add $22 or $44. Compare that with your current invoice. For most businesses the comparison takes about thirty seconds to settle.

Pinglo comes with a 14-day free trial including 100 free texts — no credit card required to start. Send your first campaign, look at the ledger, and see what a penny per text feels like.

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