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Registration June 15, 2026 · Gary Vogt

What A2P 10DLC Registration Actually Costs in GoHighLevel

Short version: GoHighLevel's A2P 10DLC registration is a $24.50 one-time fee (Brand + Campaign, with Fast Track approval included) plus a small monthly carrier fee — $2.21/month for a Sole Proprietor without an EIN, or $11.03/month for every other tier. Toll-Free registration is free. For most agencies, that's the whole bill.

The one-time fee: $24.50

When you register a brand and campaign in the GHL Trust Center, you pay a single $24.50 charge that covers both the Brand Registration and the Campaign Registration, with Fast Track processing bundled in (it targets approval within about three working days). It's the same $24.50 whether you're a Sole Proprietor or an EIN-backed Standard brand.

It's non-refundable — but you pay it once. If your campaign gets rejected, resubmitting is free: TCR re-reviews without a new charge. So a rejection costs you time, not money — which is its own kind of expensive, as we cover in the true cost of campaign rejections.

The monthly fee

On top of the one-time charge, carriers bill a recurring monthly campaign fee, passed through by GoHighLevel:

• $2.21/month — Sole Proprietor brands registered without an EIN. The cheapest tier.
• $11.03/month — every other tier (Low Volume Standard, High Volume Standard, and even a Sole Proprietor brand that has an EIN).

The extras most guides skip

• Additional campaign: a $15 vetting fee to add a second campaign under an existing brand. This is not a resubmission fee — resubmitting a rejected campaign is free.
• Vetting appeal: if your brand comes back "Unverified," a manual appeal runs about $11.
• Toll-Free: registration is free, and it's often used as an interim path while 10DLC vetting is in flight.

What this isn't

These are GoHighLevel's pass-through registration fees — the carrier and TCR cost of getting your client's SMS approved. They're separate from any tool you use to prepare the submission. Easy A2P, for instance, is an optional pre-submission review (a 3-credit free trial, then $39/month) that catches the rejection triggers before you spend the $24.50 and wait — but it isn't part of the GHL registration bill itself.