{"id":1331,"date":"2025-02-26T01:14:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T19:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=1331"},"modified":"2025-02-26T01:28:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T19:58:16","password":"","slug":"how-do-long-codes-and-short-codes-compare","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/kb\/how-do-long-codes-and-short-codes-compare\/","title":{"rendered":"How do Long Codes and Short Codes compare?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\">Long Codes<\/a> are 10-digit mobile numbers (e.g., 919876543210) used for two-way messaging, cost-effective and ideal for customer support or low-volume campaigns. Short Codes are 5-6 digit numbers (e.g., 56161), designed for high-volume, automated interactions like contests or voting, with faster delivery but higher costs. Choose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/long-code-sms-services\/\">Long Codes<\/a> for personal touch, Short Codes for scale\u2014both available through our <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\">SMS gateway<\/a><\/strong> at SMSGatewayCenter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long Codes are 10-digit mobile numbers (e.g., 919876543210) used for two-way messaging, cost-effective and ideal for customer support or low-volume campaigns. Short Codes are 5-6 digit numbers (e.g., 56161), designed for high-volume, automated interactions like contests or voting, with faster delivery but higher costs. Choose Long Codes for personal touch, Short Codes for scale\u2014both available [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[1329],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-1331","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-two-way-sms"],"year_month":"2026-07","word_count":62,"total_views":0,"reactions":{"happy":0,"normal":0,"sad":0},"author_info":{"name":"admin","author_nicename":"admin","author_url":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Two-way SMS","term_url":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/kb-cat\/two-way-sms\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}