SMS API for Ireland: bulk SMS to +353 numbers
Ireland
Calling code +353
- Per SMS segment
- $0.01417
- Messages for $100
- 7,057
- Local language
- English
- Encoding
- GSM-7
What a bulk SMS send to Ireland 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 Ireland
Mobile numbers in Ireland have 9 digits after +353. Locally they are written with a leading 0 (085 012 3456); in the API that 0 is dropped, so the same number goes in the to field as +353 85 012 3456.
Alphabet and segments
English text stays inside the GSM-7 alphabet, so one segment to Ireland 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
Ireland changes its clocks: Dublin is on UTC+0 in January and UTC+1 in July. 09:00 in Dublin is 09:00 UTC in January and an hour earlier in UTC while summer time runs, so give send_at with the local offset (for example +00:00 in winter) and the API does the conversion.
Send to Ireland with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (IE) 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": "+353850123456", "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: "+353850123456", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.01417", country: "IE"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+353850123456", "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 Ireland
Login codes
When a user in Cork logs into their online banking account, they receive a one-time passcode by SMS for secure access.
Flight updates
Passengers flying from Dublin Airport get SMS alerts about gate changes or delays on their booked flights.
Exam results
Students in Galway receive their university exam results via SMS as soon as they are published online.
Order confirmations
Customers in Limerick get an SMS when their online purchase is dispatched, with tracking details included.
More countries in Western Europe
SMS to Ireland: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Ireland?
How many SMS to Ireland does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Ireland numbers for the API?
What language should SMS messages be in for Ireland?
How do SMS campaigns handle Irish holidays?
Start sending to Ireland
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Ireland at $0.01417 per segment, from the console or with one API call.