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# SMS character counter

See how many characters and text messages your SMS will use.
Message text

- No sending, no carrier API, no country rules. The segmentation math only. Some gateways re-encode or split differently; the page shows the 3GPP baseline.
- ZWJ emoji families count their raw code points: what phones actually send, not a “nice” emoji count.
Paste, drop, or type to begin. Everything stays on this device.

## More text tools

- [Word & character count](/text/word-count)
- [Unicode inspector](/text/unicode)
[All text tools](/text)

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Canonical HTML: https://nutter.tools/text/sms/
Markdown version: https://nutter.tools/text/sms/index.md
Plain-text version: https://nutter.tools/text/sms/index.txt
Agent index: https://nutter.tools/llms.txt