Send SMS to Slovenia
from $0.0140/msg

Pricing: smsroute.cc vs. Twilio, Vonage, MessageBird, Plivo, and Sinch

smsroute.cc offers the lowest per-message cost in the market. The table below compares our rate ($0.0140 USD) to five major competitors for SMS to Slovenian numbers:

At 10,000 SMS per year, smsroute.cc saves you $140 compared to $280 with Twilio. Scale to 100,000 annual SMS, and the gap reaches $1,400. All competitors require KYC; smsroute.cc does not. All competitors charge monthly minimums or setup fees; smsroute.cc does not. Only smsroute.cc accepts crypto payment, enabling pseudonymous, instantaneous account setup.

Latency and Delivery: 195ms p50, 98.8% Success Rate

smsroute.cc maintains direct interconnect with Telekom Slovenije, Vodafone Slovenia, Telia Slovenia, and Tusmobil. This peering arrangement ensures:

195 milliseconds median latency (p50). Half of all messages arrive within 195ms. This reflects low-latency EU infrastructure, direct operator routing, and minimal queueing. SMS sent during quiet hours (08:00–20:00 CET) typically hit this mark.

345 milliseconds at the 95th percentile (p95). 95% of messages arrive within 345ms, accounting for temporary operator congestion, handset power states, and network variability.

98.8% delivery success rate. Across all four operators, smsroute.cc achieves a 98.8% final delivery rate. The remaining 1.2% reflects handset non-delivery (e.g., device off, subscriber unavailable, number invalid), operator filtering of known spam sources, and rare network faults. smsroute.cc provides detailed delivery reports (delivered, undelivered, failed, pending) for each message; you can investigate and retry failed messages programmatically.

99.9% uptime. smsroute.cc maintains 99.9% platform availability. Redundant EU infrastructure, automated failover, and continuous monitoring ensure your SMS campaigns are never blocked by our systems.

Delivery success depends on consent compliance, Sender ID registration, timing (quiet hours), and message content. Senders who follow GDPR + ePrivacy Law guidelines consistently achieve the full 98.8% rate. Those violating quiet hours or sending without consent experience higher failure rates and operator filtering.

GDPR + ePrivacy Law: Consent, Timing, and Sender ID Requirements

AKOS (Agencija za komunikacijska omrežja in storitve) oversees telecommunications and SMS compliance in Slovenia. The regulator enforces both GDPR Chapter III (lawful processing) and the Slovenian ePrivacy Law, which transposes the EU ePrivacy Directive. Under these frameworks, marketers must:

Obtain explicit, written consent before sending. Unlike some jurisdictions where pre-checked boxes are valid, Slovenian consent must be affirmative, with clear evidence of the recipient's action (e.g., clicking a checkbox, replying "YES" via SMS, signing a form). Passive consent (silence, pre-ticked boxes) is invalid.

Respect quiet hours: 08:00–20:00 CET, Monday to Friday. SMS sent outside this window may be queued or rejected by operators. No messages are permitted on Sundays. Compliant campaigns schedule sends within these windows. Transactional messages (e.g., password resets, order confirmations) may have slightly more flexibility, but AKOS guidance still recommends respecting quiet hours whenever possible.

Register and declare your Sender ID. Sender IDs must be alphanumeric, no longer than 11 characters, and registered in the AKOS registry or with your operator. Examples: "MyShop", "AlertCorp", "BankXYZ". Numeric-only Sender IDs (e.g., "12345") may be rejected or flagged as spam. Unregistered Sender IDs may encounter filtering or delays.

Maintain a consent audit trail. AKOS has published enforcement actions against senders lacking documented consent. Store the timestamp of consent, the channel (web form, phone call, in-person), the recipient's identifier, and the exact text of the opt-in offer. This record is your defense in case of a complaint or regulator inquiry.

Senders who comply early—registering Sender IDs with AKOS, collecting timestamped consent, and scheduling sends within quiet hours—avoid the majority of enforcement risk. Those operating without these controls face increasing scrutiny as AKOS extends its monitoring of commercial SMS traffic.

Frequently Asked Questions

Related

import fetch from "node-fetch";

const apiKey = process.env.SMSROUTE_API_KEY;

const res = await fetch("https://api.smsroute.cc/v1/messages", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${apiKey}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    to: "+3865551234567",
    from: "smsroute",
    text: "Your verification code is 384921",
  }),
});

console.log(await res.json());

import requests

api_key = "YOUR_API_KEY"
headers = {
    "Authorization": f"Bearer {api_key}",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

payload = {
    "to": "+38640123456",
    "from": "MyShop",
    "text": "Your order #12345 is ready. Thank you!"
}

response = requests.post("https://api.smsroute.cc/send", json=payload, headers=headers)
print(response.json())

curl -X POST https://api.smsroute.cc/send \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "to": "+38640123456",
    "from": "MyShop",
    "text": "Your order #12345 is ready. Thank you!"
  }'

package main

import (
    "bytes"
    "encoding/json"
    "fmt"
    "io"
    "net/http"
    "os"
)

func main() {
    payload, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]string{
        "to":   "+3865551234567",
        "from": "smsroute",
        "text": "Your verification code is 384921",
    })

    req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST",
        "https://api.smsroute.cc/v1/messages",
        bytes.NewBuffer(payload))
    req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("SMSROUTE_API_KEY"))
    req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")

    resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
    if err != nil { panic(err) }
    defer resp.Body.Close()

    body, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
    fmt.Println(string(body))
}

<?php
$apiKey = getenv('SMSROUTE_API_KEY');

$payload = json_encode([
    'to'   => '+3865551234567',
    'from' => 'smsroute',
    'text' => 'Your verification code is 384921',
], JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE);

$ch = curl_init('https://api.smsroute.cc/v1/messages');
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_POST => true,
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
        'Authorization: Bearer ' . $apiKey,
        'Content-Type: application/json',
    ],
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $payload,
]);

echo curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);