Pontaltech

Overview

Pontaltech is a São Paulo company that sells business messaging in Brazil: SMS, RCS, the WhatsApp Business API and email, plus Play!, an AI voice agent. It says it sends more than 4 billion messages a year for over 400 customers and is a Google RCS partner and Meta Business Partner. The docs are in Portuguese.

Key features

• SMS API with Basic Auth for conventional, concatenated, Flash and OTP messages
• Delivery receipts by webhook, plus reply callbacks and a reply endpoint for inbound messages
• RCS Basic, Single and Conversational with a verified brand profile, carousels and buttons, sent as SMS when a phone cannot receive RCS
• Easy RCS sends RCS Basic and SMS together; Easy WhatsApp turns SMS sends into WhatsApp Utility messages
• Pointer web platform with reports, a reply panel and link tracking
• Play! AI voice agent and a chatbot

Pricing

Not published. SMS packages of up to 25,000 messages are ordered through a request form, and other products are quoted on request.

How it compares to Linq

Pontaltech has no iMessage, which is Linq's main channel. Both offer SMS and RCS with fallback to SMS. Pontaltech also sells WhatsApp and email; Linq's WhatsApp is a separate beta API. Linq lists flat monthly plans from $260 for Pro; Pontaltech does not publish prices. Pontaltech's public API docs cover SMS only.

Best for

Companies that message customers in Brazil at volume over SMS, RCS and WhatsApp.

Sources

• pontaltech.com.br
• pontaltech.com.br/en/home
• pontaltech.com.br/plataforma-sms
• pontaltech.com.br/rcs
• pontaltech.com.br/whatsapp
• pontaltech.com.br/play
• docs.pontaltech.com.br/welcome
• docs.pontaltech.com.br/api-reference/pt/best-practices