The short version. Useful for an initial agent evaluation, with a clear check before dedicated deployment.
A low-friction evaluation route.
Photon offers a free tier for up to ten users and Pro at $25 monthly for up to 100. Both use managed shared numbers. A developer can investigate the product within that scope, but a procurement team should avoid extrapolating the shared-number price into a dedicated business deployment.
The dedicated-line proposal.
Business is $250 per line monthly and lists group messaging and 50 new contacts each day. Unlimited-user language depends on Auto Scale. Request the exact scaling and billing behavior and ask what changes for existing conversations when the number arrangement changes.
Our buying note.
The platform also presents Spectrum for multi-channel agents and an open-source self-hosting path. Keep those operating choices distinct in the decision record. A managed subscription and a Mac installation place maintenance responsibility in different hands. Blue Ledger has reviewed the public offering, without benchmarking its infrastructure or verifying security claims.
Sources & further reading
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