# Messente review (2026): is it worth it? > Business messaging API for SMS, Viber and WhatsApp Checked Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Messente is a messaging provider that sends SMS, Viber and WhatsApp messages through one API, and also offers one-time-password verification and phone number lookup. It is used for notifications, authentication and marketing messages by companies across Europe. Prices depend on destination country, channel and volume. - **Category:** SMS & Chat Marketing - **Made by:** Messente - **Website:** https://messente.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want a chatbot builder or shared inbox, as it has neither. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing Messente's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Key features - **SMS, Viber and WhatsApp in one API:** The same API sends SMS and rich messages on Viber and WhatsApp, with backup channels if one fails. - **Global SMS reach:** SMS goes to 197+ countries through partnerships with close to 1,000 mobile operators, with a stated 98% average delivery rate. - **Authentication messages:** Verigator sends one-time passwords for sign-up and two-factor checks, with custom or pre-registered sender IDs. - **Number Lookup:** Checks a database of phone numbers for validity before sending, to keep lists clean. - **Delivery controls:** Traffic priority, message validity times, GSM character auto-replace and an option to hide message content from Messente. - **Access management:** Multiple API keys with IP-based permissions, and roles and permissions for team members. ## Good for - Developers adding SMS, Viber or WhatsApp notifications to a product - Fintech and logistics teams in Europe sending verification codes and alerts ## Worth knowing - No plan prices are published: the page offers pay-as-you-go with no monthly fee, or a committed-volume plan priced through sales. - Per-message rates depend on the destination region and channel; WhatsApp and Viber rates are quoted by an account manager. - Number Lookup is listed at a €199 monthly fee plus €0.002 per number. - This is a messaging API and sending service, not an inbox or chatbot builder. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Messente is an API for sending SMS, Viber and WhatsApp, with pay-as-you-go and no monthly fee. But no per-message prices are published, WhatsApp and Viber rates come from an account manager, and it isn't an inbox or chatbot builder. - **Value for money: C.** No plan prices are published. Pay-as-you-go has no monthly fee, but per-message rates depend on region and channel, and Number Lookup is €199 a month plus €0.002 a number. - **Free plan and trial: F.** Nothing free. There's no monthly fee, but you pay for every message and no trial is listed. - **Features: C.** SMS, Viber and WhatsApp in one API, with authentication messages, number lookup and delivery controls. It does the sending job fully, but it's a smaller job: no inbox, no chatbot builder. - **Ease of use: D.** It's a messaging API, so someone has to write the code that calls it. No store rating on record. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web account and API, with Zapier listed. It's a sending service for other software to call rather than something with its own apps. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Messente's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among SMS and chat marketing tools - Messente's GPA of 1.6 is higher than 2 of the 77 other SMS and chat marketing tools we grade, and level with 13. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 19 of 77) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/chat-marketing ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Messente you would be making texts to thousands of numbers, registered with the carriers. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 62 of the 77 other SMS and chat marketing tools grade higher. - You could not: Texts to thousands of numbers, registered with the carriers. - You could not: The WhatsApp Business API, which Meta opens only through approved partners. - You could not: Texts from a business number, registered with the carriers. - You could not: Checking that an address exists without writing to it. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Zapier among them, and has an API. - You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: roles and permissions. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Zapier **Tags:** SMS marketing, WhatsApp messaging, Public API, Business texting, Email verification ## Alternatives - [Sinch](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sinch): Messaging, voice and email APIs plus campaign apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/messente-vs-sinch) - [Infobip](https://toolgpa.com/tools/infobip): Omnichannel messaging platform with SMS, WhatsApp, RCS and AI agents. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/infobip-vs-messente) - [ClickSend](https://toolgpa.com/tools/clicksend): Prepaid SMS and MMS sending by app, API or email, with no monthly fee. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/clicksend-vs-messente) - [CM.com](https://toolgpa.com/tools/cm-com): Messaging APIs, WhatsApp and SMS channels, and marketing automation. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cm-com-vs-messente) - [BulkSMS](https://toolgpa.com/tools/bulksms): Prepaid bulk SMS with web platform, API, RCS and incoming numbers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bulksms-vs-messente) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://messente.com/pricing - https://messente.com/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/messente Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).