SMS API for Slovakia: bulk SMS to +421 numbers
Slovakia
Calling code +421
- Per SMS segment
- $0.00907
- Messages for $100
- 11,025
- Local language
- Slovak
- Encoding
- GSM-7 or Unicode
What a bulk SMS send to Slovakia costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.00907 | $0.01814 |
| 1,000 | $9.07 | $18.14 |
| 10,000 | $90.70 | $181.40 |
| 100,000 | $907.00 | $1,814.00 |
Number format in Slovakia
Mobile numbers in Slovakia have 9 digits after +421. Locally they are written with a leading 0 (0912 123 456); in the API that 0 is dropped, so the same number goes in the to field as +421 912 123 456.
Alphabet and segments
Texts in Slovak fit 160 GSM-7 characters per segment until they use á, č, ď, ľ, ň, ô, š, ť and ž: 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
Slovakia changes its clocks: Bratislava is on UTC+1 in January and UTC+2 in July. 09:00 in Bratislava 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 Slovakia with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (SK) 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": "+421912123456", "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: "+421912123456", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.00907", country: "SK"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+421912123456", "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"]) # "0.00907"What developers send to Slovakia
Payment confirmations
Banks in Bratislava send SMS notifications to customers confirming successful transactions from their accounts.
Delivery updates
E-commerce platforms notify customers in Slovakia when their orders are dispatched or out for delivery in cities like Košice.
Exam schedules
Universities in Slovakia send SMS reminders to students about exam dates and locations for their courses.
Appointment reminders
Healthcare providers send SMS reminders to patients about upcoming visits to clinics or hospitals.
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SMS to Slovakia: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Slovakia?
How many SMS to Slovakia does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Slovakia numbers for the API?
What language should SMS messages use in Slovakia?
Are there regions with specific SMS needs in Slovakia?
Start sending to Slovakia
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Slovakia at $0.00907 per segment, from the console or with one API call.