SMS Fusion review
SMS Fusion is a Sydney-based Australian SMS gateway founded in 2016, stating its servers, disaster recovery and backup are wholly in Australia with no traffic leaving the country. It advertises a prepay rate from 4.9c, a floor rather than a published volume ladder.
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One of 44 brands reviewed. Not in the priced comparison: prices on published floor, not monthly volume.
- Only a "from" floor is published, not a volume-keyed rate
- Smaller public review presence than the larger Australian gateways in this comparison
Where SMS Fusion stands
SMS Fusion is a Sydney-based Australian SMS gateway founded in 2016, stating its servers, disaster recovery and backup are wholly in Australia with no traffic leaving the country. It advertises a prepay rate from 4.9c, a floor rather than a published volume ladder.
An Australian-registered company with its head office in Australia and support based here. How we classify this.
Sending under your own brand name also depends on the ACMA SMS Sender ID Register, separate from this site's own scoring. What the register requires.
What SMS Fusion publishes instead of a rate
SMS Fusion publishes no Australian per-message rate that maps onto a monthly volume, so this page carries no rate table and no cost calculator. Putting a figure here would mean quoting a price SMS Fusion does not publish. What it does publish is below.
SMS Fusion advertises a prepay rate "from 4.9c" with no setup fee, monthly fee or lock-in, which is a floor rather than a volume-keyed rate; no volume ladder is carried here on the same test applied elsewhere in this file.
| Feature | Published |
|---|---|
| API | not published |
| Email to SMS | not published |
| Two way | not published |
| SMPP | not published |
| Dedicated number | not published |
| Shared number | not published |
| Sender ID | not published |
"Not published" means the provider states nothing either way on its Australian pages. It is not the same as "No", and this page does not turn one into the other.
A floor price, not a rate card
SMS Fusion is a Sydney-based Australian SMS gateway, founded in 2016. Its own marketing states that its servers, disaster recovery and backup facilities are wholly in Australia, with no traffic leaving the country, a stronger data-residency claim than most of the global platforms in this comparison publish.
Its pricing page advertises a rate "from 4.9c" with no setup fee, no monthly fee and no lock-in contract. That is a floor, the same pattern already established elsewhere in this comparison for Notifyre and Esendex: it tells a reader the lowest a message could cost, not what a given monthly volume actually pays, because no volume-keyed ladder was published on the pages read. No rate is carried in the tables above for that reason, on the same test applied to those two providers.
Compare SMS Fusion with another provider
| Measure | SMS Fusion | Cellcast |
|---|---|---|
| Overall out of 10 | not published | 9.0 |
| Rate at 1K | priced on published floor | 3.70c |
| Rate at 15K | priced on published floor | 3.10c |
| Rate at 125K | priced on published floor | 2.83c |
| Rate at 250K | priced on published floor | 2.83c |
| Cost at 15,000 a month | not published | $465 |
| Carrier routes | not published | not published |
| Uptime | not published | "100% uptime SLA" and a "100% delivery rate guarantee"; no SLA document, credit schedule or remedy is published behind either |
| Dedicated number | not published | Yes |
| Shared number | not published | Yes |
| Alpha sender ID | not published | Yes |
| Email to SMS | not published | Yes |
| SMPP | not published | not published |
| Two way | not published | Yes |
| Support | not published | 8am to 8pm AEST staffed, with 24/7 emergency tickets; phone, email and SMS |
| Head office | Sydney, New South Wales | South Melbourne, Victoria |
| Public reviews | not published | 4.2/5 from 6 reviews on Trustpilot |
Verification log
Every figure on this page comes from a page the provider or a named third party publishes. The site does not open accounts or send test traffic, so this is the record of what was read and when.
| Checked | Date read | What it said |
|---|---|---|
| Published rate card | SMS Fusion advertises a prepay rate "from 4.9c" with no setup fee, monthly fee or lock-in, which is a floor rather than a volume-keyed rate; no volume ladder is carried here on the same test applied elsewhere in this file. |