My wife and I have the 1400 family plan. We have a la carte texting for $10 apiece. I got the 1400 family plan since that qualifies me for friends and family. I use my phone for work quite often so actually do talk on it. 95% of the people we know have VZ for a carrier so I got us each the $10 text plan. That way we can text to VZ for free and have 500 messages to text others. Worked out cheaper for us than Talk and Text.
Obviously your mileage may vary as your needs are different.
Obviously your mileage may vary as your needs are different.