An EZ Texting alternative for small teams
EZ Texting is built for mass texting — promotions, alerts, and announcements to contact lists that run into the hundreds. That’s a real need, and it’s not the same as texting the fourteen people on your schedule.
The mismatch is the pricing shape
EZ Texting’s entry plan includes room for around 500 contacts. If you have 500 contacts, that’s good value. If you have 14 employees, you’re paying for 486 empty slots — and the plan price barely moves whether you use them or not.
Airhorn charges per confirmed employee: a $5 base plus $0.75 each. Fourteen employees costs about $15.50 a month, and it goes downwhen someone leaves. The bill tracks the size of your team rather than the size of a list you don’t have.
Where EZ Texting genuinely wins
If you also text customers — promotions, appointment reminders, a loyalty list — EZ Texting does things Airhorn doesn’t: keyword sign-ups and shortcodes, MMS with images, scheduled campaigns, contact segmentation, delivery analytics, and integrations. A salon owner texting both staff and clients has a fair argument for one platform covering both, even at the higher price.
Airhorn does one thing: broadcast to a confirmed employee roster. If your needs are broader than that, the broader tool is the right call.
Compliance is the other difference
On a mass-texting platform, opt-in is a workflow you build. That’s the correct design for a marketing tool serving many use cases — but it means the consent language, the confirmation step, and the record of who agreed are all yours to get right.
Airhorn makes it the default path: add an employee, they get a confirmation text, and they cannot receive a broadcast until they reply YES. STOP and HELP are handled automatically and the opt-out is permanent. Fewer options, less to get wrong.
Side by side
| Airhorn | EZ Texting | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Texting an employee roster | Mass texting to contact lists |
| Starting price | $5/mo | $25/mo |
| Contact model | Up to 20 (Standard) / 100 (Plus) | Up to 500 contacts on entry plan |
| Pricing model | $0.75/mo per confirmed employee | Per message (~$0.01–0.03) |
| Opt-in confirmation | Required YES reply, built in | You design and manage it |
| STOP / HELP handling | Automatic | Manual setup |
| Extra managers | Included | +$10/mo per teammate |
| 10-employee estimate | ~$12.50/mo | $25+/mo |
EZ Texting figures reflect their published pricing and may have changed — check their site for current rates before deciding.
Which to choose
Choose EZ Texting if you text customers as well as staff, need keywords, MMS, or campaign analytics, or expect your contact list to grow into the hundreds.
Choose Airhornif the list is your staff and stays under about 100, you want opt-in and opt-out handled for you, and you’d rather your bill scale with headcount than with a contact tier.
Pay for your team, not for 500 contact slots
$5/mo plus $0.75 per confirmed employee. Opt-in and STOP handled automatically, unlimited managers, cancel anytime.
Free for 7 days and 60 messages — no credit card. Your trial starts when you send your first broadcast, not when you sign up.