Pricing · No subscription, ever

Pay for messages.
Nothing else.

No monthly fee. No tiers. No per-member charges. No feature gates. You load a wallet, SMSGO charges per message sent, and when your group is quiet you pay exactly $0.

📱 One text $0.03
✉️ One email $0.003
🚀 To start $5
Estimate your cost

What would your group cost?

Drag the sliders. The estimate covers invitations, replies, nudges, STATUS checks, and the "It's ON!" broadcast — the full life of each event.

30
Everyone on your roster who gets invited.
4
Weekly game = 4. Twice a week = 8.
15%
Email costs a tenth of a text — every email member makes your month cheaper.
Estimated monthly cost
$9.31 / mo
Messages per month 324
By text ($0.03) 275 · $8.26
By email ($0.003) 49 · $0.15
Cost per member $0.31 / mo
Estimates assume ~2.2 messages per member per event plus organizer broadcasts, at 1 segment per message. Emoji-heavy messages can use 2–3 segments. Your dashboard shows the exact cost before every send.
Reality check · our own group

Silver Spring Ultimate — 139 members, ~70 active, games twice a week — runs on SMSGO. A typical game costs $3–6.50 in messages, invitation to "It's ON!". That's about 7 cents per active player per game.

Typical groups

Three groups, real math.

Same formula as the calculator, assuming weekly events and everyone on text — the worst-case (most expensive) assumption. Email members only bring these numbers down.

Small · 12 members
Board game night
~$5
per month
  • Events / month4
  • Messages / month~166
  • Per member$0.41/mo
Medium · 30 members
Weekly pickup game
~$10
per month
  • Events / month4
  • Messages / month~324
  • Per member$0.32/mo
Large · 60 members
Big club, weekly events
~$18
per month
  • Events / month4
  • Messages / month~588
  • Per member$0.29/mo
Compare: Meetup Unlimited runs ~$240/year whether your group meets or not.
No feature gates

Every feature. Every plan.
(There's only one plan.)

Nothing is upsold, tiered, or locked. Every feature costs only the messages it sends.

Goal automation — "It's ON!" fires the moment you hit your number
Teams events — per-team Goals, digit-reply team selection
Auto-nudges — reminders to non-responders, only when you're below Goal
Waitlist auto-promote — cap events, next-in-line confirmed on a drop
Wave invitations — invite your core first, the bench only if needed
Polls — single-letter voting with live tallies
Best Fit Time and Place — members rank days, times & places
Text + email delivery — each member's choice, one combined count
PAY contributions — members chip in by text via Stripe
Unlimited members & groups — no caps at any size
STATUS self-serve — anyone checks the live count anytime
Full cost ledger — every message, every cent, exportable
How billing works

Load it. Use it. That's it.

01 / LOAD

Start with $5.

Sign up, load your wallet with $5 by card — that's 166 texts at $0.03 each, or a whole lot more if some members are on email. Top up any amount, anytime.

02 / USE

Every send shows its price first.

Before any message goes out, the preview shows recipients, the text/email split, and the exact cost. What you see is what you're charged. The wallet drains only as you send.

03 / SHARE

Members can chip in.

Anyone in your group texts PAY, gets a Stripe link, and their contribution lands in the group wallet. Off-season? The balance just sits there. Quiet months cost $0.

Pricing FAQ

The fine print, in plain English.

$5 loads your wallet with $5 — enough for 166 text segments at $0.03 each, or up to 1,666 emails at $0.003, or any mix. For a typical 20–30 person weekly group running on text, that's about two weeks of full activity: invitations, replies, nudges, STATUS checks, and "It's ON!" broadcasts. Smaller groups stretch to three weeks or more.
Really none. No monthly fee, no auto-renewal, no minimum spend after your first $5. The business model is simple: we charge a small margin on each message to cover carrier fees and keep the servers on. If you don't send messages, we don't make money — and you don't pay. That's the whole model.
Carriers split SMS into 160-character segments — a 200-character message counts as 2 segments, so 2 × $0.03. One catch worth knowing: emoji switch the message to a different encoding that fits only 70 characters per segment, so an emoji-heavy message can cost 2–3×. The compose screen shows a live character and segment counter, and the preview shows the exact total before you send — so there are never surprises.
Yes — incoming SMS replies are billed at the same $0.03 per segment as outgoing texts, and every reply shows its exact cost right next to it in your Messaging inbox. Your inbox banner totals your reply spend for the month. Most tools hide this cost in bundles and credits. We print it.
Broadcasts, new invitations, and scheduled messages pause until you top up — and we email you before you ever get there. But the moment that matters always fires: when your event hits its goal, the "It's ON!" confirmation still goes out, and member replies are always received and answered, even if your balance dips briefly below zero — because those are the messages your group is counting on. Top up and everything else resumes.
Email costs us almost nothing to deliver, so it costs you almost nothing: $0.003 per email vs $0.03 per text. But don't force it — texts get answered in minutes, email in hours. The best setup is letting each member pick their channel. Both land in the same headcount, and the pre-send preview shows the split so you always know the cost.
Sending pauses — nothing goes out that you can't pay for, and you'll never owe us money. Top up the wallet and sending resumes immediately. Your members, events, groups, and history are all kept; an empty wallet just means no new messages until you reload.
No. No feature costs anything beyond the messages it sends. A teams event with 40 invitations costs the same as a standard event with 40 invitations. A poll costs its invitations plus reply confirmations. That's it.
Yes — this is built in. Any member texts PAY and gets a secure Stripe link to contribute any amount ($3 minimum) straight into the group wallet. They get a receipt by text, and every contribution is logged on your dashboard. Many groups fully crowd-fund their messaging this way.
Inbound replies and the automatic confirmations SMSGO sends back are billed at the same per-segment rate — they're real carrier messages. This is why the calculator above builds replies into its estimate, and why the wallet ledger itemizes every message: you can always see exactly where each cent went.

Five dollars.
Then you'll know.

Load $5, run your next two weeks of events, and watch what happens when the Goal mechanism does the chasing for you. No subscription to cancel — if it's not for you, just stop.

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