SMS API for Austria: bulk SMS to +43 numbers
Austria
Calling code +43
- Per SMS segment
- $0.00707
- Messages for $100
- 14,144
- Local language
- German
- Encoding
- GSM-7
What a bulk SMS send to Austria costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.00707 | $0.01414 |
| 1,000 | $7.07 | $14.14 |
| 10,000 | $70.70 | $141.40 |
| 100,000 | $707.00 | $1,414.00 |
Number format in Austria
Mobile numbers in Austria have 9 digits after +43. Locally they are written with a leading 0 (0664 123456); in the API that 0 is dropped, so the same number goes in the to field as +43 664 123456.
Alphabet and segments
German text stays inside the GSM-7 alphabet, so one segment to Austria holds 160 characters and each part of a longer text 153. Watch for curly quotes and emoji copied from other tools: one of them moves the whole text to Unicode at 70 characters per segment, and POST /v1/estimates shows the encoding before you send.
Time zone and timing
Austria changes its clocks: Vienna is on UTC+1 in January and UTC+2 in July. 09:00 in Vienna 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 Austria with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (AT) 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": "+43664123456", "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: "+43664123456", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.00707", country: "AT"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+43664123456", "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"]) # "0.00707"What developers send to Austria
Booking confirmations
After reserving a hotel in Vienna, guests receive an SMS with check-in details and booking reference.
Payment reminders
Banks in Salzburg send SMS reminders for upcoming loan payments or credit card dues.
Delivery updates
Couriers in Graz send SMS notifications when a package is out for delivery or delayed.
Event tickets
After booking a concert in Innsbruck, attendees receive an SMS with their ticket QR code.
More countries in Western Europe
SMS to Austria: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Austria?
How many SMS to Austria does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Austria numbers for the API?
Which language should SMS be in for Austria?
Are there seasonal peaks in SMS traffic?
Start sending to Austria
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Austria at $0.00707 per segment, from the console or with one API call.