SMS API for Aruba: bulk SMS to +297 numbers
Aruba
Calling code +297
- Per SMS segment
- $0.01387
- Messages for $100
- 7,209
- Local language
- Dutch
- Encoding
- GSM-7
What a bulk SMS send to Aruba costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.01387 | $0.02774 |
| 1,000 | $13.87 | $27.74 |
| 10,000 | $138.70 | $277.40 |
| 100,000 | $1,387.00 | $2,774.00 |
Number format in Aruba
Mobile numbers in Aruba have 7 digits after +297 and no trunk prefix, so the local form 560 1234 becomes +297 560 1234 in the to field.
Alphabet and segments
Dutch text stays inside the GSM-7 alphabet, so one segment to Aruba holds 160 characters and each part of a longer text 153. Watch for curly quotes and emoji copied from other tools: one of them moves the whole text to Unicode at 70 characters per segment, and POST /v1/estimates shows the encoding before you send.
Time zone and timing
Aruba keeps UTC-4 all year with no clock change, so 09:00 in Aruba is always 13:00 UTC. send_at takes UTC or any ISO 8601 offset, and the console scheduler converts from your own time zone.
Send to Aruba with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (AW) and the price. A delivered or failed event follows on your webhook, and a failed message is refunded.
For a list, send the same text to up to 10,000 numbers with POST /v1/batches, or a personal text per number in messages.
curl https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $BULKSMSAPI_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"to": "+2975601234", "text": "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes."}'const res = await fetch("https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages", {
method: "POST",
headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.BULKSMSAPI_KEY}`, "Content-Type": "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify({ to: "+2975601234", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.01387", country: "AW"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+2975601234", "text": "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes."}).encode(),
headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + os.environ["BULKSMSAPI_KEY"], "Content-Type": "application/json", "User-Agent": "northwind-app/1.0"},
method="POST",
)
with urllib.request.urlopen(req) as res:
print(json.load(res)["price"]) # "0.01387"What developers send to Aruba
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SMS to Aruba: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Aruba?
How many SMS to Aruba does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Aruba numbers for the API?
What languages should messages use in Aruba?
When are peak SMS periods in Aruba?
Start sending to Aruba
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Aruba at $0.01387 per segment, from the console or with one API call.