Avochato vs Heymarket

Avochato is a business messaging service for teams handling customer conversations through SMS and MMS. It supports two-way messaging in a shared team inbox, with automated sequences, scheduled messages, and inbound keywords. The service is available on Android, iOS, and the web. Its Pay as you Go plan has no platform fee and costs nothing, with SMS segments in the United States and Canada charged at $0.08 each. Standard costs $210 a month and lowers that segment rate to $0.03 in those countries. Both plans include five users; each additional user costs $42 per month. The Custom plan has no listed price and offers volume discounts for 15,000 or more segments per month, higher API throughput limits, and dedicated account management. Avochato is listed as paid with a pricing note of From $0/mo, but there is no free plan. Its plans give teams different platform-fee and messaging-rate arrangements.

Heymarket gives teams shared inboxes for business SMS, email, and messaging apps, with access from desktop or mobile. Team members can read and respond to texts and emails in centralized inboxes. Automations can use keywords, timing, or message sentiment to reply, assign chats, or add contacts to campaigns. Campaign tools include scheduled texts, drip campaigns, templates, and custom fields. AI agents can answer FAQs from an approved knowledge base, schedule appointments, and extract lead information for CRM syncing. The Chrome Extension can text numbers found on webpages or in CRMs, and the integration catalog includes Salesforce, HubSpot, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Zapier, Zendesk, Aircall, Shopify, Twilio, and Clio. Security features listed include SAML single sign-on, multifactor authentication, adjustable session duration, and configurable data retention; Heymarket says messages are encrypted at rest and in transit. Standard starts at $49 per user/month billed annually, with a two-user minimum, and a 14-day trial; there is no free plan. Standard excludes group messaging, call forwarding, email, Facebook Messenger, and Apple Messages for Business. Pricing lists 1,000 monthly credits at $0.03 per credit; longer texts use multiple credits.