Send Sms Free from laravel application

hey, think you're going to struggle with this one really... the best one I've used is ClockWork API - https://www.clockworksms.com/

@webdevb first thanks for the response. I went to the main website but i found that it is not free ? I would like to point out one more thing about my question is that the networks covered in my country have an expensive pricing service comparably to the other countries in the word so that the client would not be satisfied at the end of the story !!

@MWDeveloper as the flag we are in same country the solution in you case it to buy a SMS Gateway and a SIM telephonic and working with a AT commads , the advantage of this way you have always a owner Gateway then SMS cost free in subscription , can you asking for more information bro ? check this : http://www.smssolutions.net/tutorials/gsm/sendsmsat/

@Ftoi am very glad to receive a reply from you. please can you tell me how do all that cost ?

@MWDeveloper Do you really think such a service exists? Why is a telecoms provider going to allow developers to send SMS messages for free from their web applications?

@martinbean I do really know that "Twilio" and other services are very good choices for some countries . Unfortunately the networks providers make it a bit expensive. anyway thanks guys.

@MWDeveloper the modem SMS i'm used *Wavecom" cost between 30$ - 50$ we can work with them a long time +3 years , the subscription in telecoms for get SMS cost 5$/month at orange 'new offers' that's all

@MWDeveloper

Yes there is, but it depends on carrier and you would have to know the carrier.

http://www.developphp.com/video/PHP/Send-SMS-Text-Messages-to-Mobile-Phone-PHP-Tutorial

You would definitely have to write a small program to do the texting. However, most third-party SMS gateway providers do not permit you to test their services for free. Luckily, https://www.thetexting.com/ is one of the very few which gives you some free credit to test the integration.

You can use the SMS companies present in your country for competitve prices. For integration, you can use Laravel SMS API plugin (https://packagist.org/packages/gr8shivam/laravel-sms-api) which works with nearly all SMS providers that provide an API.

You can use this Laravel package: https://github.com/intergo/sms.to-laravel-lumen they offer cheap international SMS service. Just follow the guides and pay as you go. You can get a custom price for high volume as well.

Hi @mwdeveloper,

And yes @martinbean it exists to some extend. I’ll describe it below and just as a disclaimer it allows me to send some 10k text per month per SIM card, depending on your mobile operator tariffs, in my case my operator allows up to 10k text per month for 20e per month ;-)

They way it works is to figure out a 3g dongle that they sell that will work with Gammu linux instance, then you need to “unlock this dongle” so the network will see it as a phone and not as a modem. Then to use it with laravel you need to use this package: https://github.com/laravel-notification-channels/gammu

Obviously it is pretty hard to set up but in my case works like a charm for last 5+ years by now.

Good luck!

10k text per month for 20e per month

@aurawindsurfing still not free ;)

@martinbean pretty close tough 🤪

A project that I worked on used Twilio: https://www.twilio.com/pricing