SMS API for Malta: bulk SMS to +356 numbers
Malta
Calling code +356
- Per SMS segment
- $0.01557
- Messages for $100
- 6,422
- Local language
- Maltese and English
- Encoding
- GSM-7 or Unicode
What a bulk SMS send to Malta costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.01557 | $0.03114 |
| 1,000 | $15.57 | $31.14 |
| 10,000 | $155.70 | $311.40 |
| 100,000 | $1,557.00 | $3,114.00 |
Number format in Malta
Mobile numbers in Malta have 8 digits after +356 and no trunk prefix, so the local form 9696 1234 becomes +356 9696 1234 in the to field.
Alphabet and segments
Texts in Maltese and English fit 160 GSM-7 characters per segment until they use ċ, ġ, ħ and ż: 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
Malta changes its clocks: Malta is on UTC+1 in January and UTC+2 in July. 09:00 in Malta 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 Malta with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (MT) 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": "+35696961234", "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: "+35696961234", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.01557", country: "MT"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+35696961234", "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"]) # "0.01557"What developers send to Malta
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Tourist updates
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Government notices
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Event reminders
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SMS to Malta: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Malta?
How many SMS to Malta does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Malta numbers for the API?
Should messages be in English or Maltese?
How do I reach tourists and expatriates?
Start sending to Malta
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Malta at $0.01557 per segment, from the console or with one API call.