Middle East
SMS to QatarOne rate for Qatar, $0.0149, from the first message to the millionth. Unicode segments for the local script, registered name or shared sender, handset receipts. Funded in crypto, without identity checks.
01Rate
Sending to Qatar costs $0.0149 per segment, which places it 3rd of 15 in Middle East and 46th of 228 overall, 60% below what the region costs on average.
| Messages | Cost | Elsewhere from |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $14.90 | $32.00 |
| 10,000 | $149.00 | $320.00 |
| 100,000 | $1,490.00 | $3,200.00 |
| 1,000,000 | $14,900.00 | $32,000.00 |
Closest in price nearby: Bahrain ($0.0149), Oman ($0.0210), United Arab Emirates ($0.0074).
02Route notes
Traffic to Qatar terminates on Ooredoo and Vodafone. They deliver alphanumeric senders only after registration; until then your messages leave from a shared numeric sender, and support prepares the registration file with you. Delivery rates and receipt behaviour are measured per operator, and the report names the reason whenever one of them rejects a message.
Expect Unicode encoding for Qatar: 70 characters (67 per part when concatenated) per part rather than 160. Long confirmations are still fine, they simply use more segments, and the cost preview reflects it.
Marketing campaigns are held outside 07:00 to 21:00 local time by default. Transactional messages such as codes and receipts bypass the window. Numbers are dialled with +974, for example +974 579 517 191.
Delivery receipts are available on this route: every message ends as delivered, failed or expired, with the carrier code on failures.
03Sender ID
Registration comes first in this destination: an unregistered brand name is swapped for a shared numeric sender so the message still lands, and your registered name takes over once the operators approve it.
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Sender types explained Sender ID rule of every country, in one tableQatarregistered name or shared sender04At a glance
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06Questions, answered
All major networks: Ooredoo and Vodafone. Delivery is measured per operator and the report names the one that failed when a message does not land.
Messages written in the local script are Unicode, so a single segment holds 70 characters (67 per part when concatenated). Latin-only text stays in GSM-7 at 160 characters (153 per part when concatenated). The composer shows which encoding applies as you type. Up to 6 parts per message.
Operators in Qatar return handset delivery receipts, so delivered means the phone received the message, usually within seconds.
$0.0149 per 160-character segment, the 3rd cheapest of 15 Middle East destinations. The lower price published by the crypto-paid gateways we track is $0.0320, so ours is about 53% lower. No setup or monthly fee, and the rate is locked for the life of a campaign.
Registration comes first in this destination: an unregistered brand name is swapped for a shared numeric sender so the message still lands, and your registered name takes over once the operators approve it.
By default between 07:00 and 21:00 local time. The window is editable per campaign; codes and alerts can bypass it.
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