The invention provides a short message distribution method and system. The method includes the following steps that: when a plurality of short message channels are adopted to distribute short messages, the monitoring logs of the plurality of short message channels are generated; monitoring data which indicate at least one performance monitoring indicator of each short message channel are determined according to the generated monitoring logs; each short message channel is scored on the basis of the monitoring data of the short message channel; and load configuration is re-performed among the plurality of short message channels according to the scoring results of the plurality of short message channels, and short messages are distributed according to the load configuration.