SMS API for Kosovo: bulk SMS to +383 numbers
Kosovo
Calling code +383
- Per SMS segment
- $0.00847
- Messages for $100
- 11,806
- Local language
- Albanian
- Encoding
- GSM-7 or Unicode
What a bulk SMS send to Kosovo costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.00847 | $0.01694 |
| 1,000 | $8.47 | $16.94 |
| 10,000 | $84.70 | $169.40 |
| 100,000 | $847.00 | $1,694.00 |
Number format in Kosovo
Mobile numbers in Kosovo have 8 digits after +383. Locally they are written with a leading 0 (043 201 234); in the API that 0 is dropped, so the same number goes in the to field as +383 43 201 234.
Alphabet and segments
Texts in Albanian fit 160 GSM-7 characters per segment until they use ë and ç: 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
Kosovo changes its clocks: Pristina is on UTC+1 in January and UTC+2 in July. 09:00 in Pristina 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 Kosovo with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (XK) 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": "+38343201234", "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: "+38343201234", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.00847", country: "XK"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+38343201234", "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"]) # "0.00847"What developers send to Kosovo
Payment notifications
Banks in Pristina send SMS to customers confirming successful transactions and account balances.
Delivery updates
E-commerce platforms notify customers with SMS when packages are out for delivery.
Appointment reminders
Clinics send SMS to patients a day before scheduled visits to reduce no-shows.
Public announcements
Government agencies broadcast SMS to residents about weather alerts or public health updates.
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SMS to Kosovo: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Kosovo?
How many SMS to Kosovo does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Kosovo numbers for the API?
What language should SMS be in?
How to reach expatriates effectively?
Start sending to Kosovo
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Kosovo at $0.00847 per segment, from the console or with one API call.