SMS API for Albania: bulk SMS to +355 numbers
Albania
Calling code +355
- Per SMS segment
- $0.01357
- Messages for $100
- 7,369
- Local language
- Albanian
- Encoding
- GSM-7 or Unicode
What a bulk SMS send to Albania costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.01357 | $0.02714 |
| 1,000 | $13.57 | $27.14 |
| 10,000 | $135.70 | $271.40 |
| 100,000 | $1,357.00 | $2,714.00 |
Number format in Albania
Mobile numbers in Albania have 9 digits after +355. Locally they are written with a leading 0 (067 212 3456); in the API that 0 is dropped, so the same number goes in the to field as +355 67 212 3456.
Alphabet and segments
Texts in Albanian fit 160 GSM-7 characters per segment until they use ë and ç: those letters are outside GSM-7 and turn the message into Unicode at 70 characters per segment (67 per part). For short alerts, write them without those letters to keep one segment; for longer texts, the console names each letter that changed the encoding.
Time zone and timing
Albania changes its clocks: Tirane is on UTC+1 in January and UTC+2 in July. 09:00 in Tirane is 08:00 UTC in January and an hour earlier in UTC while summer time runs, so give send_at with the local offset (for example +01:00 in winter) and the API does the conversion.
Send to Albania with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (AL) and the price. A delivered or failed event follows on your webhook, and a failed message is refunded.
For a list, send the same text to up to 10,000 numbers with POST /v1/batches, or a personal text per number in messages.
curl https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $BULKSMSAPI_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"to": "+355672123456", "text": "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes."}'const res = await fetch("https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages", {
method: "POST",
headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.BULKSMSAPI_KEY}`, "Content-Type": "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify({ to: "+355672123456", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.01357", country: "AL"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+355672123456", "text": "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes."}).encode(),
headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + os.environ["BULKSMSAPI_KEY"], "Content-Type": "application/json", "User-Agent": "northwind-app/1.0"},
method="POST",
)
with urllib.request.urlopen(req) as res:
print(json.load(res)["price"]) # "0.01357"What developers send to Albania
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SMS to Albania: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Albania?
How many SMS to Albania does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Albania numbers for the API?
Should SMS use Albanian or English for tourism?
Are there regions where SMS delivery is slower?
Start sending to Albania
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Albania at $0.01357 per segment, from the console or with one API call.