SMS API for Hungary: bulk SMS to +36 numbers
Hungary
Calling code +36
- Per SMS segment
- $0.01417
- Messages for $100
- 7,057
- Local language
- Hungarian
- Encoding
- GSM-7 or Unicode
What a bulk SMS send to Hungary costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.01417 | $0.02834 |
| 1,000 | $14.17 | $28.34 |
| 10,000 | $141.70 | $283.40 |
| 100,000 | $1,417.00 | $2,834.00 |
Number format in Hungary
Mobile numbers in Hungary have 9 digits after +36. Locally they are written with a leading 06 (06 20 123 4567); in the API that 06 is dropped, so the same number goes in the to field as +36 20 123 4567.
Alphabet and segments
Texts in Hungarian fit 160 GSM-7 characters per segment until they use á, í, ó, ő, ú and ű: 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
Hungary changes its clocks: Budapest is on UTC+1 in January and UTC+2 in July. 09:00 in Budapest 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 Hungary with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (HU) 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": "+36201234567", "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: "+36201234567", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.01417", country: "HU"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+36201234567", "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"]) # "0.01417"What developers send to Hungary
Payment receipts
Online stores in Budapest or Pécs notify customers via SMS when their payments are processed successfully.
Delivery alerts
Courier services inform customers in Győr or Miskolc when their orders are out for delivery or delayed.
Appointment reminders
Clinics in Szeged or Debrecen send SMS reminders for doctor visits or test results.
Event tickets
Event organizers in Budapest or Sopron send SMS confirmations for concert tickets or festival schedules.
More countries in Central and Eastern Europe
SMS to Hungary: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Hungary?
How many SMS to Hungary does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Hungary numbers for the API?
Start sending to Hungary
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Hungary at $0.01417 per segment, from the console or with one API call.