Two SMS providers, compared on price, features and ratings, so you can pick fast.
Updated October 2026
THE VERDICT
AWS SNS wins on price and developer experience. Azure SMS wins on channel coverage and routing.
AWS SNS starts at $0.00645 versus Azure SMS's $0.0075. Pick based on volume and team, and the scorecard below breaks down where each one leads.
Winner cells are tinted, green where AWS SNS leads, violet where Azure SMS does.
FAQ
AWS SNS starts at $0.00645 versus Azure SMS's $0.0075. Compare your expected monthly volume against the per-message rates above.
Amazon SNS SMS is usage-based with no platform or subscription fee. Secondary pricing summaries put US A2P SMS at roughly $0.00581 per message segment, though AWS's own pricing page notes rates vary by destination country and carrier and change frequently, so the exact figure should be confirmed against current AWS pricing before quoting it. On top of per-message costs, US senders pay 10DLC and carrier fees such as $10 per month per campaign and $1 per month per phone number.
Official SMS SDKs are published for C#/.NET (via NuGet), JavaScript/Node.js (via npm), Python (via PyPI), and Java (via Maven), all wrapping the same versioned SMS REST API. Microsoft's supportability policy guarantees at least three years' notice before a documented REST API interface changes, and at least one year before an SDK's underlying assembly needs a minor-version update.
Yes. Many teams route different message types through different providers or fail over between them. Courier lets you send through both behind a single API and switch providers without changing your code.
Why not both?
Use both behind one API.
Route AWS SNS, Azure SMS, or both, and switch providers without changing your code. Courier sits in front of every channel.
Pricing, plans and feature availability as of October 2026 and may change. Ratings are aggregated from public review platforms.