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Sending messages via HTTP API

  • Protocol: HTTP.
  • Use cases: A2P SMS termination, transactional and bulk messaging.
  • Authentication: Token.
  • IP security: Source IP whitelisting not required.
  • Host and port: contact support or your account manager.
  • Message concatenation: enabled by default. (limits message part to 153 for GSM-7 coded messages and 63 charchters for Unicode non GSM-7 bit coded messages due to SMS protocols. )

Key Features

  • ๐Ÿ“ฉ Send SMS messages via API
  • ๐Ÿ“Š Scaleable and high throughput

Message length and encoding

  • A single SMS can carry 140 octets. Since each octet is 8 bits, this gives 140 x 8 = 1120 bits. Using GSM-7 encoding, which packs 7 bits per character, the total number of characters per SMS is 1120 รท 7 = 160 characters..

Standard SMS:

Length Octets Coding
160 charchters 140 octates GSM-7 bit

Non Standard SMS GSM-7 bit coding:

Length Octets Coding
Over 160 charchters AND Over 140 octates GSM-7 bit

Non Standard SMS Unicode non GSM-7 bit coding:

Length Octets Coding
Over 70 charchters AND Over 140 octates AND non GSM-7 bit

Delivery reports

  • see Delivery reports section