SMS API for Finland: bulk SMS to +358 numbers
Finland
Calling code +358
- Per SMS segment
- $0.01667
- Messages for $100
- 5,998
- Local language
- Finnish and Swedish
- Encoding
- GSM-7
What a bulk SMS send to Finland costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.01667 | $0.03334 |
| 1,000 | $16.67 | $33.34 |
| 10,000 | $166.70 | $333.40 |
| 100,000 | $1,667.00 | $3,334.00 |
Number format in Finland
Mobile numbers in Finland have 9 digits after +358. Locally they are written with a leading 0 (041 2345678); in the API that 0 is dropped, so the same number goes in the to field as +358 41 2345678.
Alphabet and segments
Finnish and Swedish text stays inside the GSM-7 alphabet, so one segment to Finland 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
Finland changes its clocks: Helsinki is on UTC+2 in January and UTC+3 in July. 09:00 in Helsinki is 07:00 UTC in January and an hour earlier in UTC while summer time runs, so give send_at with the local offset (for example +02:00 in winter) and the API does the conversion.
Send to Finland with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (FI) 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": "+358412345678", "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: "+358412345678", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.01667", country: "FI"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+358412345678", "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"]) # "0.01667"What developers send to Finland
Appointment reminders
Patients in Helsinki receive SMS notifications about upcoming doctor appointments at local clinics.
Delivery updates
Customers in Turku get SMS alerts when their online orders are out for delivery with estimated arrival times.
Security alerts
Banking users in Espoo receive SMS notifications for suspicious login attempts on their accounts.
Event confirmations
Attendees in Tampere receive SMS confirmations for their bookings at local concerts or events.
More countries in Nordic and Baltic
SMS to Finland: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Finland?
How many SMS to Finland does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Finland numbers for the API?
How do seasonal changes affect SMS traffic?
Start sending to Finland
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Finland at $0.01667 per segment, from the console or with one API call.