Elfsight rates strongly, 4.8 to 5.0 stars across review sites with over 1,000 reviews combined, and it is genuinely cheap: Basic at $6/month, Pro at $12/month, Premium at $24/month.
What it is important to be clear about: Elfsight is a display widget. It shows reviews a business already has on its own website, it does not request new reviews or follow up with customers. Some Reddit discussion echoes this, questioning whether a paid widget is worth it when the core feature is replicable. That makes it a different category of tool entirely from a review-request platform, not really a head-to-head competitor.
Collect the reviews, then display them
Trophy Jar does both halves: it requests the review automatically, then shows the best ones through its own widgets, a carousel, wall of love, badge and live feed, so there is nothing separate to display in the first place.
Every Trophy Jar plan, including the lowest one at $9 a month for the first two months (then $29), includes sending review requests by text or email, the customer’s choice. Local numbers are available in both the US and Canada, with numbers for almost any other country available to purchase too. For US numbers, Trophy Jar handles 10DLC brand and campaign registration end to end, so there is no paperwork for the business to file.
Transparent pricing, SMS included from day one: See Trophy Jar pricing