Paste your message to see how many SMS parts it uses and what each send will cost you, before you send it to thousands of people.
Characters
93
SMS parts
1
Encoding
GSM-7
Left in this part
67
Standard SMS alphabet: 160 characters in one SMS, 153 per part once it splits.
Every SMS part is billed separately. A 161-character message costs twice as much as a 160-character one, and a single emoji can cut a message from 160 characters to 70, tripling the cost of a long campaign. Checking before you send keeps every message in as few parts as possible.
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160 characters if the message only uses the standard GSM-7 alphabet, or 70 if it contains any Unicode character such as an emoji, a curly quote or a non-Latin letter.
Messages over the single-SMS limit are split into parts that the phone joins back together. Each part loses a few characters to joining information, so parts hold 153 GSM-7 characters or 67 Unicode characters, and every part is billed as one SMS.
One character outside the GSM-7 alphabet switches the whole message to Unicode. The usual culprits are emoji and the curly quotes, long dashes and ellipsis that word processors insert. The counter lists them and can swap them for standard characters.
Yes. In GSM-7 these count as two characters each: ^ { } \ [ ] ~ | and €. In Unicode, most emoji count as two.
Yes. Spaces and line breaks each count as one character.
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