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Learn about Talkpush's Telco Pricing for WhatsApp, SMS, and Live Calls

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Written by Carolina Navarro
Updated over 3 weeks ago

Updated May 2, 2025

Talkpush Prepaid Telecommunication Services

Talkpush offers the option to activate telecommunication services to clients in most parts of the world. You can refer to the following service rates. These services must be purchased before their usage (prepaid plans).

Country Name

SMS rate (€)

Voice rate (€)

WhatsApp

Australia

0.052305

0.079805

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Austria

0.09944

0.15939

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Brazil

0.060841

0.119548

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Bulgaria

0.147895

0.368874

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Canada

0.008085

0.014575

Cost plus 8% surcharge

China

0.04301

0.235213

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Colombia

0.053328

0.052602

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Costa Rica

0.042658

0.149941

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Dominican Republic

0.090112

0.140382

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Denmark

0.055902

0.40997

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Egypt

0.334543

0.21153

Cost plus 8% surcharge

France

0.081048

0.152669

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Georgia

0.166221

0.492745

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Germany

0.101332

0.117975

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Greece

0.062975

0.112024

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Guatemala

0.246235

0.225313

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Hong Kong

0.071951

0.10725

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Honduras

0.240603

0.259127

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Hungary

0.092422

0.096778

Cost plus 8% surcharge

India

0.082742

0.075229

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Indonesia

0.440374

0.160545

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Jamaica

0.242968

0.320375

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Japan

0.085316

0.153703

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Jordan

0.271964

0.273009

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Kosovo

0.207009

0.846252

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Latvia

0.072622

0.557865

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Morocco

0.222838

1.013496

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Mexico

0.120549

0.050094

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Malaysia

0.231726

0.067056

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Nicaragua

0.11286

0.419991

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Netherlands

0.09812

0.25047

Cost plus 8% surcharge

New Zealand

0.106645

0.137599

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Panama

0.175912

0.266299

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Philippines (Standard)

0.197758

0.222464

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Philippines (Premium)

0.197758

0.222464

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Peru

0.159203

0.071731

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Poland

0.04378

0.157223

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Portugal

0.050886

0.43263

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Romania

0.074855

0.029601

Cost plus 8% surcharge

South Africa

0.097713

0.272107

Cost plus 8% surcharge

South Korea

0.050171

0.065494

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Spain

0.088869

0.125235

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Sweden

0.06193

0.156541

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Thailand

0.030976

0.095634

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Trinidad and Tobago

0.243661

0.31878

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Turkey

0.030976

0.29271

Cost plus 8% surcharge

United States

0.01122

0.014454

Cost plus 8% surcharge

United Kingdom

0.053229

2.688444

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Uruguay

0.090167

0.259688

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Vietnam

0.15763

0.36696

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Morocco

0.222838

1.013496

Cost plus 8% surcharge

El Salvador

0.22

0.245575

Cost plus 8% surcharge

Discount Rates for Bulk Purchases

Country Name

Add 500K SMS (€)

Add 1M SMS (€)

Add 3M SMS (€)

Add 10,000 minutes (€)

Add 20,000 minutes (€)

Australia

0.0499

0.0490

0.0485

0.0784

0.0762

Austria

0.0949

0.0931

0.0922

0.1565

0.1521

Brazil

0.0581

0.0570

0.0564

0.1174

0.1141

Bulgaria

0.1412

0.1385

0.1371

0.3622

0.3521

Canada

0.0077

0.0076

0.0075

0.0143

0.0139

China

0.0411

0.0403

0.0399

0.2309

0.2245

Colombia

0.0509

0.0499

0.0494

0.0516

0.0502

Costa Rica

0.0407

0.0399

0.0396

0.1472

0.1431

Dominican Republic

0.0860

0.0844

0.0836

0.1378

0.1340

Denmark

0.0534

0.0523

0.0518

0.4025

0.3913

Egypt

0.3193

0.3133

0.3102

0.2077

0.2019

France

0.0774

0.0759

0.0752

0.1499

0.1457

Georgia

0.1587

0.1556

0.1541

0.4838

0.4703

Germany

0.0967

0.0949

0.0940

0.1158

0.1126

Greece

0.0601

0.0590

0.0584

0.1100

0.1069

Guatemala

0.2350

0.2306

0.2283

0.2212

0.2151

Hong Kong

0.0687

0.0674

0.0667

0.1053

0.1024

Honduras

0.2297

0.2253

0.2231

0.2544

0.2473

Hungary

0.0882

0.0865

0.0857

0.0950

0.0924

India

0.0790

0.0775

0.0767

0.0739

0.0718

Indonesia

0.4204

0.4124

0.4083

0.1576

0.1532

Jamaica

0.2319

0.2275

0.2253

0.3146

0.3058

Japan

0.0814

0.0799

0.0791

0.1509

0.1467

Jordan

0.2596

0.2547

0.2522

0.2680

0.2606

Kosovo

0.1976

0.1938

0.1920

0.8309

0.8078

Latvia

0.0693

0.0680

0.0673

0.5477

0.5325

Morocco

0.2127

0.2087

0.2066

0.9951

0.9674

Mexico

0.1151

0.1129

0.1118

0.0492

0.0478

Malaysia

0.2212

0.2170

0.2149

0.0658

0.0640

Nicaragua

0.1077

0.1057

0.1047

0.4124

0.4009

Netherlands

0.0937

0.0919

0.0910

0.2459

0.2391

New Zealand

0.1018

0.0999

0.0989

0.1351

0.1313

Panama

0.1679

0.1647

0.1631

0.2615

0.2542

Philippines (Standard)

0.1888

0.1852

0.1834

0.2184

0.2124

Philippines (Premium)

0.1888

0.1852

0.1834

0.2184

0.2124

Peru

0.1520

0.1491

0.1476

0.0704

0.0685

Poland

0.0418

0.0410

0.0406

0.1544

0.1501

Portugal

0.0486

0.0476

0.0472

0.4248

0.4130

Romania

0.0715

0.0701

0.0694

0.0291

0.0283

South Africa

0.0933

0.0915

0.0906

0.2672

0.2597

South Korea

0.0479

0.0470

0.0465

0.0643

0.0625

Spain

0.0848

0.0832

0.0824

0.1230

0.1195

Sweden

0.0591

0.0580

0.0574

0.1537

0.1494

Thailand

0.0296

0.0290

0.0287

0.0939

0.0913

Trinidad and Tobago

0.2326

0.2282

0.2259

0.3130

0.3043

Turkey

0.0296

0.0290

0.0287

0.2874

0.2794

United States

0.0107

0.0105

0.0104

0.0142

0.0138

United Kingdom

0.0508

0.0498

0.0494

2.6396

2.5662

Uruguay

0.0861

0.0844

0.0836

0.2550

0.2479

Vietnam

0.1505

0.1476

0.1462

0.3603

0.3503

Morocco

0.2127

0.2087

0.2066

0.9951

0.9674

El Salvador

0.2100

0.2060

0.2040

0.2411

0.2344

If you are interested in purchasing an SMS or voice minutes, please contact your Account Manager.

Terminology

Definition

Condition

Message

Each SMS message contains 160 characters in length. If the message contains more than 160 characters, the SMS shall be segmented into multiple messages according to the local carrier segmentation criteria.

Messages are charged by unites of messages SENT.

  • Any SMS sent outside the country's vicinity will incur additional charges.

  • Any excess SMS units cannot be carried over upon renewal of your contract.

  • Additional long code has a $100 fee per long code per annum.

Voice call

Voice conversation with two endpoints in real-time.

Voice fees are based on EFFECTIVE MINUTES used.

  • Any calls made outside the country's vicinity will incur additional charges.

  • Any excess SMS units cannot be carried over upon contract renewal.

  • Additional long code has a $50 fee per long code per annum

Some considerations:

  • Your Account Manager will be in charge of invoicing the charges of your Telco Plan.

  • Your Account Manager will notify you once you've consumed 50% of your prepaid credits.

  • The charges above are applied for usage within the country. Any charges incurred outside the country will be charged in accordance with the standard pricing.

  • WhatsApp Messages are counted by the Total number of messages (received, sent, template, all messages in WhatsApp).

  • Once an account has replenished its SMS credits (after reaching the credit limit), Talkpush does not retry sending the pending SMS (resulting from when the account had no SMS credits remaining). This is to avoid the sudden charges upon credit limit replenishment.

  • The maximum SMS body length is 140 bytes, which equates to 160 GSM-encoded characters (7 bits each) or 70 unicode-encoded characters (2 bytes each).If you are seeing a maximum message length of only 70 characters, this is an indication that you are requesting unicode encoding. The majority of accented French characters are included in the GSM character set. If you are sending in a Western European language we would recommend forcing the message body type to text (that is, not including the &type=unicode in your API request).


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