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SMS segment counter.
Paste a message to see its encoding, how many segments it uses and what it costs. Find the curly quote or emoji that doubles the price, and fix it in one click.
Hi Amina, your order #1842 is ready – collect it before 6 pm. We’re open until 7 😊
switches to UCS-2 counts as two
- Encoding
- UCS-2
- Characters
- 83
- Segments
- 2
- Left in this part
- 51
Estimated cost per recipient$0.07842 × $0.0392 default SMS rate, including the 12% fee
3 characters switch this message to UCS-2
–’😊 Each part now holds 67 characters instead of 153.
Swap curly quotes and dashes for plain ones
Still UCS-2 because of other characters, such as emoji.
The rules
How SMS length is counted.
- GSM-7
- Up to 160 characters in one message. Longer messages split into parts of 153.
- UCS-2
- Used when any character is outside GSM-7, such as emoji or curly quotes. Up to 70 characters, then parts of 67.
- Extended characters
- € [ ] { } ~ ^ | and \ are in GSM-7 but count as two characters.
- Billing
- Each segment is billed. A three-part message costs three times a single one.
Common questions
Why did one emoji double my cost?
An emoji isn’t in the GSM-7 alphabet, so the whole message switches to UCS-2, which fits 70 characters instead of 160.
Are Luganda and Swahili messages more expensive?
Usually not. Both are written in the Latin alphabet, which GSM-7 covers. Watch for curly apostrophes copied from documents.
Does the counter match my bill?
It uses the same segment rules as SavaraFlow’s quotes. Your live quote uses your workspace’s configured rate for the destination.
Send it for real.
Quote and send SMS from the console or the API.