Messeo vs Testelium
A factual comparison of Messeo and Testelium: price, whether unused tests roll over, free tests, and what each result shows.
Testelium and Messeo both test whether an SMS reached a real number. This page compares what each one publishes about price, expiry, free tests and the result. Testelium's figures are theirs, from the pages linked below.
| Messeo | Testelium | |
|---|---|---|
| Coverage | The countries and networks Messeo can test right now are listed on the coverage page. That list moves as suppliers change it. | Testelium's features page describes tests to real local numbers. It does not publish a country count on that page. |
| Price of a test | Priced in EUR per credit. One test on a Messeo number costs 1 credit. The price per credit is on each plan. | Priced in EUR, as a bundle. On the monthly terms on its pricing page, unused tests do not roll over: €199 for 500 tests (€0.40), €339 for 1,000 (€0.34), €739 for 3,000 (€0.25) and €1,049 for 5,000 (€0.21). A two-way test is listed at €1. Yearly bundles are listed at different per-test prices. |
| Do paid tests expire? | Credits you buy do not expire. | On the monthly plan, the tests in a bundle are for that month. Unused tests do not roll over. Yearly bundles last the year of the plan. |
| Free tests | An approved account gets 5 free tests per month, used on tests to Messeo numbers. | The pricing page does not list an ongoing free monthly allowance. It mentions a welcome bonus without stating how many tests that is. |
| Your own numbers | A test to a number you supply is free. It does not use a credit or a monthly free test. | Testelium's site describes adding your own number and sending a test to it. The pricing page does not show that test as free. |
| How a test is sent | Connect a vendor over HTTP/HTTPS or SMPP, or use Manual Testing. You can schedule hourly, daily, weekly or monthly, at a minute you choose or at a random minute. | REST API and SMPP, and tests can be scheduled. The features page also describes sender ID checks, delivery time, an SMSC check, two-way testing and raw PDU data. |
| What the result shows | Whether the handset got the message, the sender ID and text it saw, and an AI reading of the result. An AI response costs 0.1 credit. | Delivery status, sender ID, content, delay, and a comparison with the supplier's delivery report, including when the supplier marks a message delivered and the handset did not get it. |
| Sharing a result | A read-only link, valid for 48 hours, with no login. Results are not white-labelled. | Testelium's features and pricing pages do not describe a no-login share link or white-label results. |