SMS pricing in Vietnam
SMS to Vietnam costs from $0.036 per message (indicative list rate, reviewed 2026-09-24) over 3 direct operators (Viettel, Vinaphone, Mobifone); sender IDs are registered with the AIS in 7-14 business days.
Across 3 direct operators · regulator AIS
How much does SMS to Vietnam cost?
SMS to Vietnam costs from $0.036 per message (indicative list rate, reviewed 2026-09-24) over 3 direct operators. Direct binds, registered sender IDs and AIS-approved routes. List-tier rates shown — Growth, Volume and Enterprise discounts apply automatically.
| Operator | Rate (USD per SMS) | Send window |
|---|---|---|
Viettel Direct bind · A2P registered | $ 0.0405 per SMS | — |
Vinaphone Direct bind · A2P registered | $ 0.0383 per SMS | — |
Mobifone Direct bind · A2P registered | $ 0.0360 per SMS | — |
- Brand names (sender IDs) for advertising SMS are issued through the national brand-name system run by the Authority of Information Security under Decree 91/2020/ND-CP; operators block names it has not issued.
- Vietnamese diacritics supported in UCS-2.
- Long messages (>160 GSM-7 chars) split into segments — billed per segment.
- Concatenation, Unicode and Latin all priced identically per segment.
- Delivery receipts (DLRs) included — no per-DLR fee.
SMS in Vietnam: routes, rules and timing.
The same operator, regulator and timing data as our Vietnam coverage page, so both pages always agree.
| Regulator | Authority of Information Security (AIS) |
|---|---|
| Operator routes | 3 · Viettel, Vinaphone, Mobifone |
| Sender-ID lead time | 7-14 business days |
| Typical OTP latency | 3.2 s |
| Mobile subscribers | 127M |
| Dialling code · MCC | +84 · 452 |
| Time to launch | Live in 8–19 business days from test-access request to production (set by the sender-ID lead time) |
| Billing currencies | USD · VND |
| Published SMS band | USD 0.025 – 0.05 |
SMS to Vietnam: common questions
Which operators carry SMS to Vietnam, and at what rate?
What does the SMS price include?
Do I need to register a sender ID in Vietnam?
How do I get test access for Vietnam?
Tiers upgrade automatically — the moment you cross the line.
Your effective rate is recalculated every billing cycle from the volume you sent that month. No paperwork, no renegotiation. Discounts apply automatically.
List rate. No commitment, no minimums.
Auto-applies on traffic above 100K/mo.
Includes monthly route review + Slack channel.
Direct operator pricing, signed SLAs, optional private cloud.
| Tier | Monthly volume | Discount | Effective rate (USD per SMS) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pay-as-you-go | 0 – 100K messages / month | List rate | $ 0.0360 |
| Growth | 100K – 1M messages / month | −12% | $ 0.0317 |
| Volume | 1M – 5M messages / month | −26% | $ 0.0266 |
| Enterprise | 5M+ messages / month | −40% | $ 0.0216 |
More on Vietnam
Above 1M / month, pricing becomes a conversation.
Per-country rate cards negotiated against your traffic mix, dedicated SMPP binds, named account management, signed delivery SLAs and optional on-premise or private-cloud deployment. Most quotes come back within two business days.
- Custom per-country rate cards
- Dedicated SMPP binds (capacity agreed per bind, up to 30,000 SMS/s per node)
- Named account manager + on-call engineer
- Signed delivery SLA — 99.99% uptime
- On-prem or private-cloud deployment
- Quarterly route review and benchmark
Launch SMS in Vietnam on approved routes.
Test access on request, with a reply within one business day. Live in 8–19 business days from test-access request to production (set by the sender-ID lead time). Billed in AED, SAR, USD, EUR or GBP.
$ curl -X POST https://api.broadnet.me/sms/sendSms -H "Authorization: Bearer $BROADNET_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"senderId":"BroadNet","destinationNumber":"447700900123","message":"Hello from BroadNet","messageType":"TEXT"}'