What is the character limit for SMS?

Although it can vary depending on region, in most cases, after 161 characters another SMS will be added and charged.

Generally speaking, an SMS can be sent up to a maximum of 918 characters as a 6 part message, the maximum length of two-part, three-part, four-part, five-part and six-part concatenated text messages is 306 (2 x 153), 459 (3 x 153), 612 (4 x 153), 765 (5 x 153) and 918 (6 x 153) characters, respectively.


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