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BlueBot or Sendblue?

Sendblue sells dedicated hosted iMessage lines with a self-serve API, and a sales-led plan for outbound teams. It connects to Salesforce, HubSpot, HighLevel, Close and Follow Up Boss, and ships SDKs, a CLI and an MCP server.

BlueBot sends from your own number through Messages on your own Mac and costs $17.99 a month. We read every fact below on Sendblue’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
Sendblue: $100$100 a month per dedicated line (AI Agent plan); outbound plans are custom.Sendblue 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 Sendblue, fact by fact
	BlueBot	Sendblue
Price a month	$17.99 $17.99 a month, plus tax where it applies, after a 7-day trial. BlueBot pricing	$100 $100 a month per dedicated line (AI Agent plan); outbound plans are custom. Sendblue pricing
Model	A Mac app that sends through Messages on your own Mac.	Hosted iMessage lines with a self-serve API.
Whose number	Yours.	A dedicated Sendblue 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 Node and Python SDKs and a CLI. Sendblue API 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, shared secret Secured with a shared secret sent in a header rather than an HMAC signature, and retried 3 times after a server error. Sendblue webhooks
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	Yes Triggers for new messages, calls and lead assignments, and actions to send an iMessage and add a tag. Sendblue on Zapier
MCP	Hosted, OAuth Hosted, and an assistant signs in with OAuth, so there’s no key to paste. BlueBot MCP server	Yes, with npx An MCP server you run on your own computer with npx and your API key and secret. Sendblue MCP

Price a month

BlueBot: $17.99
$17.99 a month, plus tax where it applies, after a 7-day trial.
BlueBot pricing
Sendblue: $100
$100 a month per dedicated line (AI Agent plan); outbound plans are custom.
Sendblue pricing

Model

BlueBot: A Mac app that sends through Messages on your own Mac.
Sendblue: Hosted iMessage lines with a self-serve API.

Whose number

BlueBot: Yours.
Sendblue: A dedicated Sendblue 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
Sendblue: Yes
A REST API with Node and Python SDKs and a CLI.
Sendblue API 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
Sendblue: Yes, shared secret
Secured with a shared secret sent in a header rather than an HMAC signature, and retried 3 times after a server error.
Sendblue webhooks

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
Sendblue: Yes
Triggers for new messages, calls and lead assignments, and actions to send an iMessage and add a tag.
Sendblue on Zapier

MCP

BlueBot: Hosted, OAuth
Hosted, and an assistant signs in with OAuth, so there’s no key to paste.
BlueBot MCP server
Sendblue: Yes, with npx
An MCP server you run on your own computer with npx and your API key and secret.
Sendblue MCP

“Not found” means we looked on Sendblue’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 Sendblue charges

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

Free Sandbox: a shared number and 10 verified contacts, who text first. Sendblue’s site
AI Agent: $100 a month per dedicated line. Enterprise and Blue Ocean, for outbound, are priced on request. Sendblue’s site
AI Agent allows 1,000 inbound contacts a day and 200 follow-ups a day. Sendblue limits
Blue Ocean allows 50 new contacts per line a day, and 15 an hour. Sendblue limits

Strengths

Each one is better at something.

Where Sendblue is better

Hosted lines need no Mac, and it can port a number in.

It can port your existing number onto its line, which takes 3 to 5 days. Sendblue’s site
It works inside Salesforce, HubSpot, HighLevel, Close and Follow Up Boss. Sendblue’s site
It sends tapbacks to messages you received, typing indicators, image carousels and 13 message effects, and it starts group chats. Sendblue docs
It has seats for a team, and a power dialer with FaceTime calls. Sendblue’s site
Its free sandbox needs no credit card. Sendblue’s site

Where BlueBot is better

$17.99 a month, against $100 a month per dedicated line. Sendblue’s site
Webhooks carry an HMAC signature to the Standard Webhooks scheme. Sendblue sends a shared secret in a header. Sendblue webhooks
Every POST takes an Idempotency-Key, so a retried request never sends twice. Sendblue documents none. Sendblue docs
The MCP server is hosted, so an assistant signs in with OAuth rather than holding your API secret. Sendblue MCP
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

Sendblue

Pick Sendblue if you need hosted lines for a sales team, want texting inside Salesforce or HubSpot, or need calling, carousels and message effects.

BlueBot

Pick BlueBot if you text from one number you already own and want the API, webhooks, Zapier and MCP on it for a fraction of a dedicated line.

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