What is a Tier 1 SMS Aggregator?

A Tier 1 SMS aggregator provides direct, unmediated connection to mobile carriers, ensuring the absolute fastest path for text message delivery.

The most comprehensively connected direct connect aggregator in North America.

Vibes' direct carrier connections on all channels (short code, 10DLC, toll-free and RCS) and our hands-on personal service pair the business messaging reach and reliability you expect with the trusted long-term relationship you deserve.

We're leading the North American RCS revolution and are the easiest direct connect aggregator - for users, devs and AI agents.

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>6

Billion

Messages Sent Per Month

3

Weeks

Short Code Provisioning

24/7

US-Based Vibes Customer Service

94%+

SMS Program Approval Rate with Carriers on First Submission

Eliminate the hops.

Vibes delivers industry-leading throughput and the absolute shortest path from “sent” to “seen”. Because we’ve built our business on reliable, high-speed text message routing & aggregation for over two decades, Vibes ensures your text messages take the fastest path from you to consumers, with no extra hops to slow them down.

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Vibes direct SMS connections - Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile + 65 others

What is a Direct Connect SMS/RCS Aggregator?

A direct connect aggregator (sometimes referred to as a Tier 1 aggregator) provides a direct, unmediated connection between wireless carriers and any business or application trying to send a large volume of text messages on short code, 10DLC, toll-free and RCS. As opposed to messaging middlemen, direct-connect aggregators ensure messages take the absolute fastest path from businesses to the consumers they're communicating with.

The only independent direct connect aggregator in North America.

All we do is mobile messaging. We don’t do voice or email. We’ve built our business on reliable, high-speed text message routing and aggregation for over two decades. When you partner with Vibes for SMS and RCS routing, you can be sure that your messages take the fastest path from you to consumers, without sending through your competitors.

We're delivering over 6 billion messages per month for our customers and partners.

Trusted, longtime carrier connections you can count on.

When you evaluate an aggregator, the questions to ask are who routes your traffic; whether that connection is direct, and which sender types it covers: short code, 10DLC, toll-free and RCS. In North America, Vibes, Sinch, Infobip and Tata are the only four companies with direct SMS connections to every US carrier.

Our longtime relationships with Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and 65+ regional carriers means we know everyone’s rules, and we bring the “one-stop-shop” experience to ensure that text campaigns run smoothly and correctly.

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RCS agent creation, provisioning, compliance, and carrier delivery — all in one place.

Vibes is the only independent direct connect aggregator in the US that is also a direct RCS provider - one who offers the fastest RCS agent registration and approval process in the industry.

Vibes’ one-of-a-kind RCS API also gives businesses the ability to launch their RCS campaigns without requiring the migration of any existing short code, 10DLC or toll-free numbers, and be up & running faster with Vibes than with any other RCS provider.

Vibes was an early access partner with Google, and we handle agent creation, brand verification and carrier approval.

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"Partnering with Vibes has significantly enhanced our technology operations. Their messaging solutions are efficient and secure, and their support is exceptional. If you're in need of a dependable technology partner, I highly recommend giving Vibes a look."

Dylan Fernando

Head of Carrier Relations,
CPaas, 8x8

"Vibes have been a critical asset to Songwhale as we navigate the upcoming post shared-short code world. Our large investment in Toll-Free and 10DLC has us very optimistic for our future with Vibes. Vibes is proactive, nimble, knowledgeable and always available to talk, with a level of domain experience that's truly a cut above the rest."

Jon Greenlee

CTO,
Songwhale

"Vibes epitomizes their tagline "if we're doing our job, you won't even notice us" with flawless execution. Not a single message is lost, and their exceptional customer support ensures any hiccups are swiftly addressed. Vibes sets the gold standard in the industry, and partnering with them has been a game-changer for us."

Thomas Blume

Director of Operations,
eGain

"We've been fortunate for our long-standing partnership with Vibes to ensure our messages get delivered timely and without incident for the thousands of business customers leveraging our software daily. Vibes provides prompt customer service when support tickets are submitted and they have worked closely with us on competitive pricing as our volumes have grown."

Omer Samiri

CEO,
iVision Mobile

"Our company has been with Vibes for the better part of a decade, and they are consistently one of the best aggregators we work with. In an industry as large as the one we work in, it's easy to feel like a just another account number - but, their unparalleled customer service and account support is what really sets Vibes apart."

Jose Manchola

Commercial Project Manager,
IDT

Vibes Connect hub for short code, toll-free, 10DLC and RCS

A2P messaging for every sender type in North America.

Vibes is an A2P SMS provider with direct connections across short code, 10DLC and toll-free to every US carrier. Vibes is also an RCS provider that handles agent creation, brand verification and carrier approval.

As one central hub for short code, RCS, toll-free and 10DLC, Vibes Connect has the quickest turnaround times in the industry, so we ensure your mobile numbers are provisioned 3x faster, program briefs get approved 2x faster, and we increase throughput when your business requires it.

If we’re doing our job, you won’t even notice us.

Vibes provides our partners with the peace of mind that their messages are delivered quickly, consistently, reliably and at a fair price across every single carrier, with geo-redundant data centers with active-active failover. We even proactively help partners get over compliance hurdles to help you seamlessly enable the good actors while policing the bad actors.

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Deliver texts for 20% less.

Our low-code APIs make it easy to setup and start sending texts. With 3 days to establish your direct SMS connections and the organization for procuring your mobile number, you'll be sending texts through Vibes' high-performance network in no time, at a price that's hard to beat.

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Vibes AI stops non-compliant messaging dead in its tracks.

Looking for truly compliant SMS, MMS and RCS that follows all carrier rules, and won’t get you fined? Vibes Connect is packed with machine learning that automatically polices bad traffic, and makes sure that only safe, compliant messaging makes it through. It’s one less thing for you to worry about, thanks to Vibes’ intelligent ability to shut down non-compliant short and long codes.

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Let's talk about how you can use Vibes' fast, reliable and consistent direct connect SMS and RCS aggregation services for your business.

One central hub for short codes, toll-free, RCS and 10DLC. We ensure your mobile numbers are provisioned 3x faster and program briefs get approved 2x faster.

Reliable, high-speed text messaging. As a directly connected SMS aggregator and longtime industry expert, Vibes has a direct path to every North American carrier. Vibes is also a direct RCS provider who handles agent creation, brand verification and carrier approval.