We differentiate between a single message’s length and a single text message’s length. Depending on the alphabet used in your SMS, a standard SMS can contain up to 160 characters. But you can send a complete message using our platform that contains a total of 1377 characters, which will require 9 SMS posts.
For a concatenated SMS the costs of each additional 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.