# SMS Limit Change for Free Dev Orgs

**URL:** <https://devforum.okta.com/t/sms-limit-change-for-free-dev-orgs/19909>\
**Category:** General Announcements\
**Created:** [March 21, 2022, 7:11pm UTC](https://devforum.okta.com/t/sms-limit-change-for-free-dev-orgs/19909 "2022-03-21T19:11:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![community\_admin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/oktadev/user_avatar/devforum.okta.com/community_admin/32/3784_2.png) [@community\_admin](https://devforum.okta.com/u/community_admin)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2022, 7:11pm UTC](https://devforum.okta.com/t/sms-limit-change-for-free-dev-orgs/19909/1 "2022-03-21T19:11:22Z")

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**What’s changing?**  
Over the past 12 months, Okta has seen some incredible growth - we have added new products, features, companies, employees, and users. To balance growing costs of SMS while maintaining our dedication to allowing access to all Okta has to offer, _we will be changing the monthly number of free SMS each developer org is allotted each month to 100 messages/month on April 4th, 2022._

**How can you optimize your free org for this change?**  
If SMS is your primary factor for authentication or authorization, you can make any of these changes to your policies to accommodate for the new SMS limit.

**1. To Change your Application Sign-on Policy:**

- Okta Admin Console \> Applications \> Applications \> Sign on Tab.
- Select the application that has SMS enabled as a factor. Either enable another factor or disable SMS as a factor.

**2. To Deactivate SMS Authentication:**

- Okta Admin Console \> Security \> Multifactor \> Factor Types \> SMS \> Switch dropdown from Active to Deactivate

**3. To Change Factor Enrollment Policies:**

- Okta Admin Console \> Security \> Multifactor \> Factor Enrollment \> Select Edit button \> Change SMS Authentication Dropdown from Required to Optional OR Disabled \> Select Update Policy

**Best Practice Tip:**  
It’s a better experience for your customers if you use multiple authentication factors for them to choose from besides just SMS.

**Please reply in the thread with any questions.**

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**Author:** ![community\_admin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/oktadev/user_avatar/devforum.okta.com/community_admin/32/3784_2.png) [@community\_admin](https://devforum.okta.com/u/community_admin)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2022, 7:12pm UTC](https://devforum.okta.com/t/sms-limit-change-for-free-dev-orgs/19909/2 "2022-03-21T19:12:39Z")

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