SMS API for Greece: bulk SMS to +30 numbers
Greece
Calling code +30
- Per SMS segment
- $0.00987
- Messages for $100
- 10,131
- Local language
- Greek
- Encoding
- Unicode (UCS-2)
What a bulk SMS send to Greece costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.00987 | $0.01974 |
| 1,000 | $9.87 | $19.74 |
| 10,000 | $98.70 | $197.40 |
| 100,000 | $987.00 | $1,974.00 |
Number format in Greece
Mobile numbers in Greece have 10 digits after +30 and no trunk prefix, so the local form 691 234 5678 becomes +30 691 234 5678 in the to field.
Alphabet and segments
Text in Greek is always Unicode, so a message to Greece written in Greek carries 70 characters in one segment and 67 in each part of a longer one. Codes and alerts written in English or plain Latin letters fit 160 characters, which halves the cost of a long notice.
Time zone and timing
Greece changes its clocks: Athens is on UTC+2 in January and UTC+3 in July. 09:00 in Athens 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 Greece with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (GR) 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": "+306912345678", "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: "+306912345678", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.00987", country: "GR"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+306912345678", "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"]) # "0.00987"What developers send to Greece
Booking confirmations
Travel agencies in Athens send SMS confirmations for hotel reservations and flight bookings.
Order updates
E-commerce stores in Thessaloniki notify customers about the dispatch and delivery of their purchases.
Exam schedules
Universities in Patras send SMS reminders to students about upcoming exam dates and locations.
Event reminders
Cultural venues in Heraklion notify attendees about concert times and ticket details.
More countries in Southern Europe
SMS to Greece: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Greece?
How many SMS to Greece does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Greece numbers for the API?
Should SMS messages be sent in Greek or English?
Are there peak times for SMS traffic?
Start sending to Greece
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Greece at $0.00987 per segment, from the console or with one API call.