SMS API for France: bulk SMS to +33 numbers
France
Calling code +33
- Per SMS segment
- $0.01247
- Messages for $100
- 8,019
- Local language
- French
- Encoding
- GSM-7 or Unicode
What a bulk SMS send to France costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.01247 | $0.02494 |
| 1,000 | $12.47 | $24.94 |
| 10,000 | $124.70 | $249.40 |
| 100,000 | $1,247.00 | $2,494.00 |
Number format in France
Mobile numbers in France have 9 digits after +33. Locally they are written with a leading 0 (06 12 34 56 78); in the API that 0 is dropped, so the same number goes in the to field as +33 6 12 34 56 78.
Alphabet and segments
Texts in French fit 160 GSM-7 characters per segment until they use â, ê, î, ô, û, ç, ë and ï: 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
France changes its clocks: Paris is on UTC+1 in January and UTC+2 in July. 09:00 in Paris 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 France with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (FR) 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": "+33612345678", "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: "+33612345678", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.01247", country: "FR"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+33612345678", "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"]) # "0.01247"What developers send to France
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SMS to France: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to France?
How many SMS to France does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write France numbers for the API?
Should messages be in French or English?
Are there peak times for SMS traffic?
Start sending to France
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to France at $0.01247 per segment, from the console or with one API call.