Kudosity

Overview

Kudosity is the new name of Burst SMS, an Australian business messaging company with teams in Australia and the Philippines. It says it is trusted by over 35,000 businesses and serves marketers through a web app and developers through REST APIs. It is an authorised ACMA Sender ID agent for Australia's sender ID register.

Key features

• SMS API with contact lists, keywords and replies, plus MMS
• Dedicated virtual numbers for two-way messaging
• WhatsApp messaging; the RCS API is in beta
• Webhooks for events such as inbound SMS
• SDKs for Python, JavaScript and PHP, and a sandbox
• Open-source kudosity-mcp server on npm with 19 tools to send SMS, MMS and WhatsApp and manage contacts and webhooks, plus a hosted docs MCP
• LangChain, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Code and OpenClaw plugins
• Salesforce, Oracle and Zoho integrations and Zapier
• SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001

Pricing

Australian SMS is pay as you go from 8.0¢ AUD ex GST per message part, falling to 2.9¢ at high volume. MMS, RCS and WhatsApp prices are on request. A 14-day trial is available.

How it compares to Linq

Kudosity has no iMessage. Both offer SMS and RCS, though Kudosity's RCS is in beta. Both publish an MCP server and hold SOC 2 Type II. Kudosity bills per message part, while Linq charges a flat monthly fee from $260.

Best for

Australian businesses and developers sending SMS campaigns and alerts, including from AI agents.

Sources

• kudosity.com
• kudosity.com/pricing
• kudosity.com/trial
• kudosity.com/developer-trial
• kudosity.com/security
• kudosity.com/about-us
• developers.kudosity.com/llms.txt
• developers.kudosity.com/docs/rcs-beta.md
• developers.kudosity.com/docs/mcp.md
• developers.kudosity.com/docs/ai-agents/llms.txt
• developers.kudosity.com/reference/transmit-sms-api/llms.txt
• developers.kudosity.com/reference/transmit-message-api/llms.txt
• github.com/kudosity/mcp