A comparison with Pingram’s Managed A2P 10DLC specifically, not Pingram as a whole.
Pingram's Managed A2P 10DLC is a done-for-you filing: a specialist registers your brand and campaign, bundled into Pingram's own SMS platform. Ekas is a compliance layer that sits on top of the provider you already use and gets registrations approved across 10DLC, RCS, and Toll-Free. It comes down to whether you want to send through Pingram, or keep your own stack. Here is where each one wins.
The matchup
A carrier-agnostic compliance engine that checks a registration, returns the exact fix, and files it on the provider you already use.
A done-for-you 10DLC filing by a specialist, bundled into Pingram's own SMS sending platform.
Comparing · Managed A2P 10DLC
The Ekas column reflects what we ship today. The Pingram column reflects public information as of our last review.
| Ekas | Pingram | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A carrier-agnostic compliance engine that checks a registration, returns the exact fix, and files it on the provider you already use. | A done-for-you 10DLC filing by a specialist, bundled into Pingram's own SMS sending platform. |
| Where it runs | On top of the provider you already use, from Twilio to Bandwidth to Sinch. You keep your own carrier relationships. | Only when you send through Pingram. The registration is tied to their platform, not your CPaaS. |
| Channels | 10DLC, RCS, and Toll-Free, each carried through to filing. | 10DLC only. Toll-free numbers are sold but not verified for you, and there is no RCS. |
| What your customer fills in | A short form. They give an EIN, a website, and campaign details, and Ekas prepares the rest. | A manual intake. The customer supplies the full brand, campaign, and sample-message details for a specialist to file. |
| Built to embed | A hosted flow under your brand, an API, an embeddable widget, or MCP tools for your AI agents. | A dashboard and REST API tied to Pingram's sender. No embeddable widget or MCP for the registration. |
| If it gets rejected | Follow the fixes and the rejection doesn't count toward your quota, and Ekas covers the provider's registration fee. | The specialist handles resubmissions, but nothing is guaranteed. |
| Many customers at once | One dashboard for every customer registration, its status, and its open issues. | The managed service files one brand at a time. Onboarding many customers is a different Pingram product. |
| Pricing | Volume-based compliance pricing, from $500/month for up to 50 registrations. | No separate charge. Registration is $0 and bundled into Pingram's SMS spend, from a free tier up. |
| Best for | Platforms and CPaaS providers who need many customers approved the first time, on the stack they already run. | A single business that wants one cheap vendor to send its SMS and file its 10DLC, with a person handling it. |
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Pingram is a messaging platform first. Its managed 10DLC comes bundled with sending your SMS through Pingram, filed for you by a specialist, with no separate registration fee. For a single business or a solo developer who wants to start texting and would rather a person handle the paperwork, that is a clean, cheap package: numbers, sending, STOP and HELP handling, and the 10DLC filing in one account from around $20 a month. Ekas is a compliance layer, not a sender, so a business that just wants to send a few texts would still need to wire up a provider on top of it. When the job is to send SMS and make the compliance go away, and routing through Pingram is fine, Pingram is the simpler fit.
Ekas doesn't move your messaging. It sits on top of the provider you already use and files there, so you keep your own carrier relationships and rates. Pingram's managed 10DLC only works if Pingram becomes your sender. That one difference decides most of the rest.
Ekas also covers 10DLC, RCS, and Toll-Free rather than 10DLC alone, pulls most of the business data so your customer fills in a short form instead of a full intake, and backs the result with a guarantee: a rejection after following the fixes doesn't count against your quota, and Ekas covers the provider fee. It runs as a hosted flow, an API, a widget, or MCP tools, and shows every customer's registration in one dashboard. Pingram files one brand at a time, by hand, with no guarantee.
Choose Pingram’s managed 10DLC when you are a single business that wants one inexpensive vendor to both send your SMS and file your registration, ideally with a person doing it for you, and you are happy to route your messaging through Pingram. Choose Ekas when you want to keep your own provider, need RCS and Toll-Free alongside 10DLC, and are a platform getting many customers approved the first time, with a short form, an embeddable flow, and a guarantee behind the result.
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