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Cost per segment by country

Note: These prices are subject to change based on the pricing of our vendors.
We will not notify you of pricing changes. Prices will be reflected here.

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Country	Cost per segment	Country	Cost per segment
AN	19.79 cents	Afghanistan	63.85 cents
Albania	18.72 cents	Algeria	43.78 cents
American Samoa	31.98 cents	Andorra	22.39 cents
Angola	25.31 cents	Anguilla	32.15 cents
Antarctica	17.85 cents	Antigua & Barbuda	21.95 cents
Argentina	15.9 cents	Armenia	31.86 cents
Aruba	26.11 cents	Australia	8.76 cents
Austria	16.64 cents	Azerbaijan	65.91 cents
Bahamas	8.93 cents	Bahrain	6.19 cents
Bangladesh	54.77 cents	Barbados	33.15 cents
Belarus	42.86 cents	Belgium	17.85 cents
Belize	46.55 cents	Benin	41.12 cents
Bermuda	34.92 cents	Bhutan	68.12 cents
Bolivia	37.66 cents	Bosnia & Herzegovina	14.28 cents
Botswana	16.97 cents	Brazil*	10.18 - 11.05 cents
British Virgin Islands	35.9 cents	Brunei	11.05 cents
Bulgaria	24.92 cents	Burkina Faso	37.96 cents
Burundi	63.87 cents	Cambodia	39.7 cents
Cameroon	33.3 cents	Canada	1.34 cents
Cape Verde	38.06 cents	Cayman Islands	42.09 cents
Central African Republic	76.8 cents	Chad	49.25 cents
Chile	12.61 cents	China	6.56 cents
Christmas Island	8.76 cents	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	8.76 cents
Colombia	8.93 cents	Comoros	70.98 cents
Congo - Brazzaville	47.94 cents	Congo - Kinshasa	38.95 cents
Cook Islands	23.73 cents	Costa Rica	7.14 cents
Croatia	18.63 cents	Cuba	14.28 cents
Cyprus	14.69 cents	Czechia	11.32 cents
Côte d’Ivoire	52.56 cents	Denmark	8.91 cents
Djibouti	27.61 cents	Dominica	35.33 cents
Dominican Republic	17.24 cents	Ecuador	42.43 cents
Egypt	67.3 cents	El Salvador	32.22 cents
Equatorial Guinea	29.39 cents	Eritrea	19.82 cents
Estonia	16.29 cents	Eswatini	38.0 cents
Ethiopia	58.23 cents	Falkland Islands	23.12 cents
Faroe Islands	11.49 cents	Fiji	30.92 cents
Finland	14.64 cents	France	13.57 cents
French Guiana	31.31 cents	French Polynesia	30.55 cents
French Southern Territories	32.49 cents	Gabon	44.78 cents
Gambia	28.22 cents	Georgia	27.01 cents
Germany	15.98 cents	Ghana	52.11 cents
Gibraltar	18.55 cents	Greece	10.54 cents
Greenland	6.97 cents	Grenada	41.85 cents
Guadeloupe	31.72 cents	Guam*	1.34 - 11.68 cents
Guatemala	42.47 cents	Guernsey	7.87 cents
Guinea	33.13 cents	Guinea-Bissau*	33.13 - 43.13 cents
Guyana	34.34 cents	Haiti	40.05 cents
Honduras	41.82 cents	Hong Kong SAR China	11.59 cents
Hungary	15.47 cents	Iceland	11.24 cents
India	14.14 cents	Indonesia	75.04 cents
Iran	60.08 cents	Iraq*	29.27 - 57.82 cents
Ireland	12.5 cents	Isle of Man	7.87 cents
Israel	36.69 cents	Italy	15.76 cents
Jamaica	47.92 cents	Japan	14.28 cents
Jersey	7.87 cents	Jordan	52.46 cents
Kazakhstan	48.48 cents	Kenya	34.15 cents
Kiribati	24.74 cents	Kuwait	43.88 cents
Kyrgyzstan	54.03 cents	Laos	40.61 cents
Latvia	12.16 cents	Lebanon	61.52 cents
Lesotho	43.88 cents	Liberia	32.28 cents
Libya	67.73 cents	Liechtenstein	5.68 cents
Lithuania*	9.27 - 12.16 cents	Luxembourg	13.91 cents
Macao SAR China*	6.56 - 10.03 cents	Madagascar	63.38 cents
Malawi	56.22 cents	Malaysia	44.1 cents
Maldives	39.07 cents	Mali	55.89 cents
Malta	11.05 cents	Marshall Islands	27.01 cents
Martinique	23.82 cents	Mauritania	43.91 cents
Mauritius	27.15 cents	Mayotte	32.49 cents
Mexico	18.34 cents	Micronesia	12.5 cents
Moldova	15.74 cents	Monaco	31.55 cents
Mongolia	47.43 cents	Montenegro	19.33 cents
Montserrat	25.65 cents	Morocco	38.15 cents
Mozambique	51.09 cents	Myanmar (Burma)	57.09 cents
Namibia	10.64 cents	Nepal	42.06 cents
Netherlands	16.42 cents	New Caledonia	29.94 cents
New Zealand	17.85 cents	Nicaragua	19.65 cents
Niger	50.51 cents	Nigeria	65.75 cents
Niue	32.78 cents	Norfolk Island*	4.79 - 8.76 cents
North Macedonia	12.65 cents	Northern Mariana Islands	11.68 cents
Norway	11.07 cents	Oman	29.02 cents
Pakistan	56.27 cents	Palau*	16.97 - 32.78 cents
Palestinian Territories*	36.69 - 65.77 cents	Panama	29.44 cents
Papua New Guinea	128.25 cents	Paraguay	20.54 cents
Peru	42.09 cents	Philippines	34.02 cents
Poland	7.33 cents	Portugal	8.04 cents
Puerto Rico	7.14 cents	Qatar	37.71 cents
Romania	12.53 cents	Russia*	48.48 - 120.63 cents
Rwanda	44.66 cents	Réunion	32.49 cents
Samoa	40.27 cents	San Marino	18.63 cents
Saudi Arabia	29.27 cents	Senegal	44.1 cents
Serbia	48.67 cents	Seychelles	37.64 cents
Sierra Leone	31.91 cents	Singapore	7.4 cents
Slovakia	15.01 cents	Slovenia	32.9 cents
Solomon Islands	16.0 cents	Somalia	45.14 cents
South Africa	12.87 cents	South Korea	8.4 cents
South Sudan	40.78 cents	Spain	14.88 cents
Sri Lanka	67.35 cents	St. Kitts & Nevis	32.01 cents
St. Lucia	34.56 cents	St. Pierre & Miquelon	25.62 cents
St. Vincent & Grenadines	43.95 cents	Sudan	62.56 cents
Suriname	33.51 cents	Svalbard & Jan Mayen	11.07 cents
Sweden	10.35 cents	Switzerland	12.33 cents
Syria	62.92 cents	São Tomé & Príncipe	22.22 cents
Taiwan	11.7 cents	Tajikistan	76.59 cents
Tanzania	73.71 cents	Thailand	5.19 cents
Timor-Leste	34.51 cents	Togo	59.25 cents
Tonga	27.69 cents	Trinidad & Tobago	40.78 cents
Tunisia	58.28 cents	Turkey	5.19 cents
Turkmenistan	54.96 cents	Turks & Caicos Islands	31.2 cents
Tuvalu	26.89 cents	U.S. Virgin Islands*	3.4 - 7.14 cents
Uganda	44.73 cents	Ukraine	29.7 cents
United Arab Emirates	18.56 cents	United Kingdom	7.87 cents
United States	1.34 cents	Uruguay	14.48 cents
Uzbekistan	77.71 cents	Vanuatu	35.14 cents
Venezuela	18.55 cents	Vietnam	26.38 cents
Wallis & Futuna	18.7 cents	Western Sahara	38.15 cents
XK	35.94 cents	Yemen	40.65 cents
Zambia	55.72 cents	Zimbabwe	42.18 cents
Åland Islands	14.64 cents

(*) In this country, the price of a text message segment depends on the recipient's carrier.

Segments and Billing

A message longer than 160 characters, or 70 characters if special characters are used, will be broken into multiple text message segments.

A message of 240 characters will be sent and billed as 2 messages if no special characters are used, or as 4 messages if there are special characters. See below for a more detailed explanation.

The way messages are broken up into individual segments also can depend on the country and carrier.

Each SMS segment is billed for. If a text is broken into 3 segments you are billed for 3 SMS.

SMS billing occurs at the end of the billing cycle for the total cost. The rates can be found above.

Administrator text message notifications about new purchases are not counted towards your usage of text messages.

✅ Standard Characters (GSM-7)

Includes most letters, numbers, punctuation, and basic symbols.

Limit:

1 segment = up to 160 characters
Messages longer than 1 segment = 153 characters per segment

⚠️ Special Characters or Emojis (UCS-2)

If your message includes any of the following it switches to a different encoding (UCS-2), which uses more space.

Emojis (😊,🎉, etc) and unusual symbols (𝕾𝖔𝖈𝖎𝖆𝖑 𝖒𝖊𝖉𝖎𝖆 𝖘𝖙𝖞𝖑𝖊)
Accented letters (e.g., é, ñ, ø, ł)
Special symbols (e.g., €, —)
Non-Latin scripts (e.g., 中文, عربى)

Limit:

1 segment = up to 70 characters
Messages longer than 1 segment = 67 characters per segment