Pricing
How much does the Linq iMessage API cost?
Linq does not publish pricing. Its pricing page offers a free sandbox and an enterprise tier reached through sales. Competitor comparison pages cite figures around $250 per line per month plus a four-figure setup fee — that is a rival's number on a page written to win the deal, so treat it as an order of magnitude rather than a quote.
Why we will not state a firm price
We have not been quoted, and repeating a competitor's figure as fact would be exactly the kind of unsourced claim this site exists to avoid. What is safe to conclude is the shape: this is the enterprise end, not the $20-a-month end.
What you can establish for free
- Open the sandbox. Free, with a temporary test number, and no sales conversation required.
- Send real messages and check delivery events before anyone quotes you.
- Then ask for pricing with a concrete volume and line count, which produces a more useful number than an open-ended enquiry.
What to get in writing
Before signing
- Monthly price per line, and the price of each additional line.
- Setup or onboarding fee.
- Minimum contract term.
- Whether RCS, SMS and voice are included or priced separately.
- What the SLA remedy is when the 99.95% is missed.
- What happens to your numbers if you leave.
Benchmark it against published rates
Vendors that publish prices are useful precisely as a benchmark for a quote you cannot verify. Photon lists $250 per dedicated line; Sendblue lists $100. The full comparison.
Further reading
Go deeper
Linq Blue iMessage API
Linq sells an enterprise iMessage API with a SOC 2 Type II report and an uptime SLA. Here is what the product actually does, what is public about pricing, and who it is genuinely the right fit for.
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Why iMessage providers charge per phone line rather than per message, what that means for a small sender, and how to work out whether a line pays for itself.
7 min readComparisonsLinq vs Sendblue
Enterprise compliance posture against public documentation and mid-market pricing. Which of these two you should choose is mostly decided by who has to approve the purchase.
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