Email in, API key out, about thirty seconds. No phone verification. No government ID. No business docs. No credit card. Fund your account with crypto from $5 and send SMS to any of 149 countries from $0.004 per message.

The four steps

1
Enter an email
That's the entire form. Pick any mailbox you control — personal, work, alias, catch-all. We send a single confirmation link; once clicked, your account exists.
2
Confirm — that's it
No phone number at signup. No passport, no selfie, no utility bill, no corporate filings. We are a crypto-only gateway operating under AML rules tied to the payment channel, not to identity dossiers on the sender.
3
Top up with crypto
Minimum $5. Your dashboard generates a fresh deposit address. USDT on TRC-20 clears in about a minute; Solana clears in seconds; Bitcoin and Monero also supported.
4
Grab your API key and send
API keys are issued immediately on account creation; you can use them before the first top-up to test the request shape. First billable send draws from your credited balance.

Why no card payment?

smsroute is a crypto-only gateway. We do not accept Visa, Mastercard, American Express, SEPA, ACH, or bank wires. That is deliberate. Card rails add 3-5% per transaction between acquirer fees, chargeback reserves, and card-not-present risk pricing, and on a $0.004 product that overhead dwarfs the message cost itself. Removing the card rail is how we can pass wholesale carrier rates through to you instead of subsidising Stripe.

Crypto also keeps signup frictionless in all 149 destination countries. A user in Lagos, Manila, or Buenos Aires can fund a balance in under a minute with no bank relationship to a US or EU card network, and the privacy posture is stronger — your top-up does not produce a card-statement line item or a merchant-of-record invoice in a third-party payment processor's database.

Accepted cryptocurrencies

USDTTRC-20 · ERC-20
BTCBitcoin mainnet
ETHEthereum mainnet
LTCLitecoin
XMRMonero
SOLSolana

USDT on TRC-20 is the default recommendation — fees under a dollar and one-minute confirmation. Monero is recommended when your threat model includes on-chain privacy for the top-up itself. Full confirmation-time and fee table lives on the pricing page.

Your first send

Once your email is confirmed and you have credited balance, your dashboard surfaces an API key. Keep it server-side — never ship it in a mobile app binary or a browser bundle. Here is the minimal send request against the REST endpoint:

curl -X POST https://api.smsroute.cc/v1/messages \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "to": "+4915112345678",
    "from": "YourBrand",
    "body": "Your smsroute account is ready. Reply STOP to opt out."
  }'

The response returns a message_id, a segments count, the billed price in USD, and a delivery-receipt webhook URL you can subscribe to. Full endpoint reference, SDKs, and language-specific quickstarts are on the developer docs.

Heads-up on compliance. smsroute is a transit provider — you remain the sender of record. If you are sending to Germany, make sure you have § 7 UWG double opt-in on your recipient list; in the US, TCPA and 10DLC registration apply; in the UK, PECR; in India, DLT template registration is mandatory. Per-country compliance notes live on each destination's country page.
Ready to ship? Create your smsroute account — email only, no KYC at signup, then top up with crypto and send.

What happens after signup

Your dashboard gives you one live API key, one test-mode key for dry-run requests that don't touch real carriers, a delivery-receipt log searchable by destination and status, and a crypto top-up panel that generates fresh deposit addresses per payment. There is no billing portal to configure, no seat licensing, no subscription tier to pick. You're charged per delivered message at the per-country rate on the pricing grid. Unused balance persists indefinitely.

If you hit the volume threshold (100,000+ messages/month to a single country), email support@smsroute.cc for direct-route pricing — typical discounts 5-15% off retail.

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