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BlueBot or Linq?

Linq is a developer platform of hosted iMessage lines for companies and AI agents, with SDKs in TypeScript, Python and Go, a CLI and an agent store.

BlueBot sends from your own number through Messages on your own Mac and costs $17.99 a month. We read every fact below on Linq’s own pages on November 13, 2026, and each one links to where we read it.

BlueBot: $17.99$17.99 a month, plus tax where it applies, after a 7-day trial.BlueBot pricing
Linq: $260Pro from $260 a month; a free Hobby plan for 20 contacts.Linq pricing

Side by side

How the two compare

Each answer says what we found and links to the page we found it on. Checked November 13, 2026.

BlueBot and Linq, fact by fact
	BlueBot	Linq
Price a month	$17.99 $17.99 a month, plus tax where it applies, after a 7-day trial. BlueBot pricing	$260 Pro from $260 a month; a free Hobby plan for 20 contacts. Linq pricing
Model	A Mac app that sends through Messages on your own Mac.	Hosted iMessage lines for companies and AI agents.
Whose number	Yours.	A Linq line.
API	Yes A REST API with an idempotency key on every POST, metadata echoed on every webhook and a page for every error code. BlueBot API reference	Yes A REST API with an OpenAPI file, idempotency keys, a trace id on every answer and SDKs in TypeScript, Python and Go. Linq docs
Webhooks	Signed, retried Signed to the Standard Webhooks scheme and retried with backoff for 72 hours, with a log of every delivery that you can replay. BlueBot webhooks	Yes, signed Signed to the Standard Webhooks scheme and retried with backoff for up to 30 minutes. Linq iMessage docs
Zapier	Its own app BlueBot’s own Zapier app has a Send Text action and instant triggers for incoming texts and every change of state. BlueBot for Zapier	Not for texting Linq’s Zapier app is for its digital business cards, with a New Contact Created trigger. It doesn’t send texts. Linq on Zapier
MCP	Hosted, OAuth Hosted, and an assistant signs in with OAuth, so there’s no key to paste. BlueBot MCP server	With a plugin An MCP server comes in its linq-ai plugin for Claude Code, Cursor and Codex, with two tools: search_docs and execute. Linq’s linq-ai plugin

Price a month

BlueBot: $17.99
$17.99 a month, plus tax where it applies, after a 7-day trial.
BlueBot pricing
Linq: $260
Pro from $260 a month; a free Hobby plan for 20 contacts.
Linq pricing

Model

BlueBot: A Mac app that sends through Messages on your own Mac.
Linq: Hosted iMessage lines for companies and AI agents.

Whose number

BlueBot: Yours.
Linq: A Linq line.

API

BlueBot: Yes
A REST API with an idempotency key on every POST, metadata echoed on every webhook and a page for every error code.
BlueBot API reference
Linq: Yes
A REST API with an OpenAPI file, idempotency keys, a trace id on every answer and SDKs in TypeScript, Python and Go.
Linq docs

Webhooks

BlueBot: Signed, retried
Signed to the Standard Webhooks scheme and retried with backoff for 72 hours, with a log of every delivery that you can replay.
BlueBot webhooks
Linq: Yes, signed
Signed to the Standard Webhooks scheme and retried with backoff for up to 30 minutes.
Linq iMessage docs

Zapier

BlueBot: Its own app
BlueBot’s own Zapier app has a Send Text action and instant triggers for incoming texts and every change of state.
BlueBot for Zapier
Linq: Not for texting
Linq’s Zapier app is for its digital business cards, with a New Contact Created trigger. It doesn’t send texts.
Linq on Zapier

MCP

BlueBot: Hosted, OAuth
Hosted, and an assistant signs in with OAuth, so there’s no key to paste.
BlueBot MCP server
Linq: With a plugin
An MCP server comes in its linq-ai plugin for Claude Code, Cursor and Codex, with two tools: search_docs and execute.
Linq’s linq-ai plugin

“Not found” means we looked on Linq’s site and in its docs and didn’t find it, though it may still exist. Everything a Mac can and can’t do through BlueBot is on one page of the docs.

Pricing

What Linq charges

We read these on Linq’s own pages on November 13, 2026. BlueBot has one plan: $17.99 a month after a 7-day trial, plus any tax.

Hobby: free for 20 contacts, through the CLI. Linq pricing
Pro: from $260 a month, with iMessage apps, payments, group chats, zero data retention and a 7-day free trial without a card. Live location is $79 a month more. Linq pricing
Enterprise: custom, with SLAs, forward-deployed engineers and SSO. Linq pricing

Strengths

Each one is better at something.

Where Linq is better

Hosted lines at high volume, starting group chats, and iMessage apps and payments.

Its lines are built for volume: it recommends up to 7,000 messages per line a day. Linq iMessage docs
It starts group chats of up to 31 people, sends polls and tapbacks, and supports iMessage apps and payments with Apple Pay and Stripe. Linq iMessage docs
SDKs in TypeScript, Python and Go, each with automatic retries, and a CLI. Linq docs
A free Hobby plan for 20 contacts, and a 7-day Pro trial without a card. Linq pricing

Where BlueBot is better

$17.99 a month, against $260 a month for Linq Pro. Linq pricing
A Zapier app that sends texts. Linq’s Zapier app is for its business cards. Linq on Zapier
Texts come from your own number, the one people already have saved, and BlueBot sees the messages you type by hand on your Mac or iPhone too. A hosted line sees only what goes through it. What a Mac can and can’t do

Who should pick which

Which one to pick

Linq

Pick Linq if you’re building an AI agent product that needs hosted lines at volume, group chats, payments or iMessage apps.

BlueBot

Pick BlueBot if one number you already own is enough, and you want Zapier, webhooks and Claude on it for $17.99 a month.

Try it on your own number.

You need a card to start the trial. After 7 days it’s $17.99 a month plus any tax, and you can cancel from your billing page at any time.

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