SMS API for Italy: bulk SMS to +39 numbers
Italy
Calling code +39
- Per SMS segment
- $0.00877
- Messages for $100
- 11,402
- Local language
- Italian
- Encoding
- GSM-7
What a bulk SMS send to Italy costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.00877 | $0.01754 |
| 1,000 | $8.77 | $17.54 |
| 10,000 | $87.70 | $175.40 |
| 100,000 | $877.00 | $1,754.00 |
Number format in Italy
Mobile numbers in Italy have 10 digits after +39 and no trunk prefix, so the local form 312 345 6789 becomes +39 312 345 6789 in the to field.
Alphabet and segments
Italian text stays inside the GSM-7 alphabet, so one segment to Italy 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
Italy changes its clocks: Rome is on UTC+1 in January and UTC+2 in July. 09:00 in Rome 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 Italy with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (IT) 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": "+393123456789", "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: "+393123456789", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.00877", country: "IT"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+393123456789", "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"]) # "0.00877"What developers send to Italy
Order updates
E-commerce stores in Florence text customers when their purchases ship, including tracking numbers and expected delivery dates.
Delivery notices
Courier companies in Naples send SMS alerts to drivers with optimized routes and package pickup instructions each morning.
Tour bookings
Museums in Rome text visitors their Colosseum entry times and QR codes the day before their scheduled visit.
More countries in Southern Europe
SMS to Italy: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Italy?
How many SMS to Italy does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Italy numbers for the API?
Should we send SMS in Italian or English?
Are there regional differences in SMS usage?
Start sending to Italy
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Italy at $0.00877 per segment, from the console or with one API call.