We differentiate between the length of a single message and the length of a single SMS. A standard SMS can contain up to 160 characters, depending on the alphabet used in your SMS. But you can send one complete message with a total of up to 1377 characters via our platform, this will need 9 SMS messages to send.
For a concatenated SMS the costs of each extra SMS will be charged. The table below illustrates the amount of SMS needed to send a message that corresponds to each amount of characters.
|
Number of SMS |
Maximum GSM characters |
Maximum Unicode characters |
|
1 |
160 |
70 |
|
2 |
306 |
134 |
|
3 |
459 |
201 |
|
4 |
612 |
268 |
|
5 |
765 |
335 |
|
6 |
918 |
402 |
|
7 |
1071 |
469 |
|
8 |
1224 |
536 |
|
9 |
1377 |
603 |
Not all countries support concatenated SMS and might handle multi-part SMS in different ways. You can check if the country you want to send messages to does or doesn't support concatenated SMS in our country info & restrictions.
If you’re sending a message from the Dashboard, there is a counter that indicates the amount of SMS and characters you’ve used in the bottom right-hand corner of the text box where you enter the message.
