Linq Blue pricing, and why there isn’t a number
Linq publishes a free sandbox and an Enterprise tier priced by a custom quote. That is a legitimate way to sell, and it means a comparison table with a dollar figure next to Linq is showing you something nobody published. Here is how to price it yourself.
A quote worksheet for one team and a peak day
Use the same worksheet for Linq and its alternatives. The figures below are a hypothetical sales-team scenario, not a claim about Linq’s limits or prices. Leave the price blank until the provider returns a quote.
Swipe across the table to see every column.
| Requirement | Example brief | Answer to obtain |
|---|---|---|
| Senders and staff | 3 dedicated lines; 6 teammates | Monthly cost, seat rules, additional-line cost |
| Conversation direction | Business-initiated follow-up to opted-in leads | Explicit outbound entitlement |
| Traffic | 300 new contacts/day normally; 900 at peak | Per-line and account limits; reset and overflow rules |
| Channels | iMessage required; SMS fallback evaluated separately | Channel-specific price and delivery behavior |
| Integration | Pipedrive; replies create assigned activities | Included connector actions vs custom work |
| Exit | Export contacts and relevant history | Number ownership, export format, notice period |
Example evaluation brief. Replace every workload value with your measured needs.
What Linq publishes
As of September 13, 2026, Linq’s pricing page presents two tiers: a free sandbox that needs no credit card and only an email verification to start building, and an Enterprise production tier fronted by a “Talk to an Expert” call to action. No dollar figure appears for production.
The page positions the product as a cost-effective alternative to pay-per-message solutions and describes Enterprise as supporting API or CRM integration across iMessage, RCS, SMS, and Voice, scaling to millions of messages. It publishes no entitlement table alongside that claim.
- Free sandbox — no credit card, verify your email, start building
- Enterprise — API or CRM integration across iMessage, RCS, SMS, and Voice
- Production pricing — not published; contact sales
- No published per-line, per-message, or per-seat entitlements
Why third-party price tables for Linq are unreliable
Comparison articles routinely print a monthly figure beside Linq. Because Linq does not publish one, those numbers come from somewhere else — an old quote, a competitor’s estimate, or an outright guess — and they are frequently reproduced without a source or a date.
A third-party figure may reflect a real historical quote, but it does not establish what your account will pay. Ask for its date and configuration, then request a current quote for your own scenario.
What “talk to an expert” pricing usually means
Quote-based pricing is not a red flag on its own. It typically signals that the deal shape varies enough — lines, channels, volume, integration scope, implementation effort — that a single published number would misprice most customers.
It does have consequences for you as a buyer. You cannot budget before a sales conversation, you cannot compare on price without one, and you have no public anchor to negotiate against. Plan the evaluation accordingly: get the quote early, not after you have already invested in a technical trial.
Build the quote request yourself
Write one scenario before you contact any vendor and send the identical scenario to each. This is the only way to get comparable numbers out of a quote-based process, and it takes about twenty minutes.
Be specific about peak rather than average. A quote built on your average month will be repriced when your peak arrives.
- Number of lines at peak, and what drives adding one
- Whether you initiate conversations or only answer them
- Monthly outbound messages and expected inbound replies
- Channels needed — iMessage only, or RCS, SMS, and Voice too
- Teammates who need inbox access
- CRM systems that must be integrated, and by whom
- Contract length and what happens at cancellation
- Support response commitment when delivery degrades
Ask what the unit is before you ask what it costs
The first question is not “how much”, it is “what am I buying a unit of”. Per line, per message, per conversation, per seat, and per platform-plus-implementation are five different cost curves, and they diverge sharply at scale.
Linq’s positioning against pay-per-message solutions suggests it is not selling a per-message unit, but positioning is not a contract. Get the unit named in writing, with the overage behavior beside it.
Multi-channel changes the comparison
Linq describes Enterprise as spanning iMessage, RCS, SMS, and Voice. If you genuinely need all four, comparing it against an iMessage-only provider on price alone understates what you would otherwise assemble and operate yourself.
If you need iMessage only, the reverse applies: you may be buying a platform sized for a problem you do not have. Decide which case you are in before the first call, because it determines whether a higher quote is expensive or a bargain.
Make a Linq vs Blooio comparison measurable
A public monthly price can shorten budgeting; a guided contract may include work your team would otherwise build. Neither establishes the better total cost without a common scope. Compare the quoted production configuration, rather than a sandbox against a dedicated outbound line.
For the worksheet above, ask both vendors to demonstrate one new conversation, a reply associated with the correct deal, and a rep taking over after automation pauses. Then compare the cost of that complete result, including implementation and recovery. The existing head-to-head page keeps the vendor-specific terms together.
Use the free sandbox for what it can settle
A no-credit-card sandbox is genuinely useful, and you should use it — but be clear about what it can and cannot tell you. It settles whether the API is pleasant, whether the documentation is accurate, and whether your integration is straightforward.
It cannot settle the questions that decide the contract: production limits, outbound rights, deliverability at volume, support responsiveness during an incident, or price. Run the sandbox and the quote request in parallel rather than in sequence.
Terms to pin down before signing
In a quote-based deal, the terms that are cheapest to negotiate before signing are the ones most expensive to discover afterwards. Number ownership and data export lead that list every time.
Ask the same questions of every vendor. In the absence of a published price, precision in the answers is the main signal you have about how the relationship will run.
- What is the unit, and what is the overage rate?
- What are the per-line daily and monthly conversation limits?
- Is outbound permitted on the quoted tier, in writing?
- Who owns the number if we leave, and can it be ported?
- Can we export full conversation history, and in what format?
- What is the contract length, and what is the exit notice?
- What is the contractual support response during a delivery incident?
Where Miss Blue sits
Miss Blue publishes its prices: $39 per month for a shared testing number and $99 per month per dedicated number, with unlimited commercial usage, contacts, team access, the Message Center, and API access included on the dedicated plan. Optional managed Conversational AI is $100 per month plus a one-time $250 setup fee; a specific area-code request is a one-time $205 fee where inventory permits. Enterprise pricing is custom.
The displayed $39 and $99 figures are current 50%-off sale rates against regular prices of $78 and $198, locked in while the plan remains active. If you want a published number you can budget against today, that is the difference. If you need iMessage, RCS, SMS, and Voice in one platform with implementation attached, a quote-based vendor may fit better — but get the quote before you build.
Quick answers
How much does Linq Blue cost?+
Linq does not publish a production price. Its pricing page presents a free sandbox and an Enterprise tier behind a “Talk to an Expert” call to action. Any dollar figure you see elsewhere did not come from Linq’s published page. Retrieved September 13, 2026.
Is there a free Linq tier?+
Yes — a sandbox requiring no credit card, just email verification, intended for building against the API. It will not answer questions about production limits, outbound rights, or price.
Why do comparison sites list a price for Linq?+
Because a table with a blank cell looks incomplete. Those figures come from old quotes, competitor estimates, or guesses, and are usually printed without a source or date. Treat only a written quote from Linq as real.
What should I ask for in a quote?+
The unit being priced and its overage rate, per-line conversation limits, whether outbound is permitted in writing, number ownership at exit, data export format, contract length, and the contractual support response during a delivery incident.