- International coverage
- Delivery dashboard
- Easy to scale = 1 less headache
- They know the regulations (DND stuff)
I will go for the 3rd party solution just for sake of 1 less headache for me.
But you have to admin the price difference is massive for the french market. Maybe not that much in the US ?
I make an app that costs 15€ / months. It sends sms reminders and notifications to the user's clients. With twilio pricing, if their are more than 100 notifications/reminders a month I'm loosing money.
- The dashboard would be part of the server package
- In europe, any plan can now send sms to any European country for the same price
- The system would allow for multiple android phones to be connected for better redundancy and scale
- Most carriers say you should not use their personal plans for automated communication. But if you keep the number of sms low and use it for notifications only, you'll go under the radar and I think it's fair.