Usually, the emission of low-energy photons in electron-positron (or electron-ion) bunch collisions is calculated with the same approach as for synchrotron radiation (beamstrahlung). However, for soft photons (E < E c where E c is a critical photon energy), when the coherence length of the radiation becomes comparable to the bunch length, the beamstrahlung approximation becomes invalid. In this paper, we present results of our calculation for this region based on approximation of classical currents. We consider several colliders with dense bunches. The number of low-energy photons dN emitted by N e electrons per bunch crossing in the energy interval dE is dN ¼ gN e dE =E , where is the finestructure constant, and the function g, which depends on the bunch parameters, typically is of order unity for modern colliders. In particular, for the International Linear Collider, we find that E c ¼ 83 keV and g ¼ 5:5 at a vanishing beam axis displacement, and g ¼ 0:88, E c ¼ 0:24 keV for KEKB. We also calculate the specific dependence of dN on the impact parameter between the two beam axes. In principle, the latter aspect allows for online monitoring of the beam axis displacement.