If you want a clean decision, score providers against outcomes—not feature lists.
Scoring categories
- Reliability under real message load
- Support quality and escalation speed
- Security posture and isolation model
- Pricing transparency
- Setup speed + migration risk
30-minute validation test
- Send real test traffic in your target channel.
- Trigger one tool-driven workflow.
- Simulate one failure and recovery.
- Check where support gets involved.