Compare TextMagic and Twilio - Aug 2022

Shlomi LaviShlomi Lavi / Aug 01, 2022

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Bottom Line: Which is Better - TextMagic or Twilio?

Twilio is more expensive to implement (TCO) than TextMagic, and TextMagic is rated higher (85/100) than Twilio (81/100). Twilio offers users more features (5) than TextMagic (0).

Looking for the right SMS Marketing solution for your business? Buyers are primarily concerned about the real total cost of implementation (TCO), the full list of features, vendor reliability, user reviews, and the pros and cons. In this article we compare between the two software products:

TextMagic Vs. TWILIO

TextMagic: TextMagic is an SMS company based in the UK, with over 14 years’ experience in helping businesses improve communications and mobile marketing through sending and receiving text messages online.Delivering Text Messages since 2001.

TWILIO: Twilio powers the future of business communications, enabling phones, VoIP, and messaging to be embedded into web, desktop, and mobile software. We take care of the messy telecom hardware and expose a globally available cloud API that developers can interact with to build intelligent & complex communications systems. As your app’s usage scales up o...

Who is more expensive? TextMagic or Twilio?

The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of SMS Marketing software includes the software license, subscription fees, software training, customizations, hardware (if needed), maintenance and support and other related services. When calculating the TCO, it's important to add all of these ”hidden costs” as well. We prepared a TCO (Total Cost) calculator for TextMagic and Twilio.

TextMagic price starts at $0.04 per license , On a scale between 1 to 10 TextMagic is rated 2, which is much lower than the average cost of SMS Marketing software. Twilio price starts at $1 per hour , When comparing Twilio to its competitors, the software is rated 2 - much lower than the average SMS Marketing software cost.

Bottom line: TextMagic cost is around the same cost of Twilio.

Which software includes more/better features?

We've compared TextMagic Vs. Twilio based on some of the most important and required SMS Marketing features.

TextMagic: We are still working to collect the list of features for TextMagic.

Twilio: Basic Reports, Chat, Data Import/Export, Online Customer Support, VoIP.

Target customer size

TextMagic's typical customers include: SMBs, and Twilio's target customer size include: Medium and large size businesses.

TextMagic

ITQlick rating
(4.7/5)

starts at $0.04 per license

TextMagic is an award-winning cloud-based Marketing software, it is designed to support small and medium size business. TextMagic received a rating of 4.7 from ITQlick team. The software cost is considered affo...

Categories: Marketing, Mobile Marketing.

Twilio

ITQlick rating
(4.2/5)

starts at $1 per hour

Twilio software is a cloud communication platform with building blocks that help users to add voice, messaging and video to their web as well as mobile applications.

Categories: Data Analysis Tools, Automatic Call Distribution (ACD), Call Monitoring, Call Recording, Conference Calling.

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TextMagic: 0 Features

We are working to collect the list of features

Twilio: 5 Features

Basic Reports
Chat
Data Import/Export
Online Customer Support
VoIP
ITQlick rating ITQlick Rating is based on the software score (below) and aggregated online reviews
ITQlick score ITQlick Score is a 1 to 100, the calculation is based on pricing, and functionality Vs. alternative solutions
Pricing score pricing Score is a 1 to 10 (10 is high cost), based on the TCO (cost of licences, customizations, training, hardware when relevant) Vs. alternative solutions
License pricing license pricing (if provided by the software vendor)
Functionality score
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TextMagic
ITQlick rating
4.7/5
Score
85/100
Pricing
2/10
License pricing
$0.04 per license
Functionality
3
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Twilio
ITQlick rating
4.2/5
Score
81/100
Pricing
2/10
License pricing
$1 per hour
Functionality
16
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Flowroute
ITQlick rating
4.6/5
Score
91/100
Pricing
5.4/10
License pricing
Pricing not available
Functionality
3
Intercom
ITQlick rating
4.6/5
Score
86/100
Pricing
7/10
License pricing
$38 per feature/month
Functionality
5
TargetEveryOne
ITQlick rating
4.5/5
Score
85/100
Pricing
6/10
License pricing
$79 per month
Functionality
6

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Shlomi Lavi is an entrepreneur and founder of ITQlick.com. He holds a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Information Systems Engineering from Ben Gurion University in Israel. Shlomi brings 17 years of global IT and IS management experience as a consultant and implementation expert for small, medium and large-sized (global) companies. Shlomi’s goal is to share the best knowledge and news about information systems so you can make smarter buying decisions for your business.