SMS API for Belgium: bulk SMS to +32 numbers
Belgium
Calling code +32
- Per SMS segment
- $0.01867
- Messages for $100
- 5,356
- Local language
- French
- Encoding
- GSM-7 or Unicode
What a bulk SMS send to Belgium costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.01867 | $0.03734 |
| 1,000 | $18.67 | $37.34 |
| 10,000 | $186.70 | $373.40 |
| 100,000 | $1,867.00 | $3,734.00 |
Number format in Belgium
Mobile numbers in Belgium have 9 digits after +32. Locally they are written with a leading 0 (0450 00 12 34); in the API that 0 is dropped, so the same number goes in the to field as +32 450 00 12 34.
Alphabet and segments
Texts in French fit 160 GSM-7 characters per segment until they use â, ê, î, ô, û, ç, ë and ï: those letters are outside GSM-7 and turn the message into Unicode at 70 characters per segment (67 per part). For short alerts, write them without those letters to keep one segment; for longer texts, the console names each letter that changed the encoding.
Time zone and timing
Belgium changes its clocks: Brussels is on UTC+1 in January and UTC+2 in July. 09:00 in Brussels is 08:00 UTC in January and an hour earlier in UTC while summer time runs, so give send_at with the local offset (for example +01:00 in winter) and the API does the conversion.
Send to Belgium with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (BE) 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": "+32450001234", "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: "+32450001234", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.01867", country: "BE"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+32450001234", "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"]) # "0.01867"What developers send to Belgium
Pharmacy alerts
Hospitals in Antwerp notify patients when prescriptions are ready for collection via SMS.
Parcel tracking
Logistics firms update customers about delivery time slots across Flanders and Wallonia.
Train delays
Rail services inform commuters about schedule changes on Brussels routes through text messages.
Event tickets
Music festivals in Ghent send electronic passes and gate entry instructions to attendees.
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SMS to Belgium: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Belgium?
How many SMS to Belgium does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Belgium numbers for the API?
Should Belgian SMS use Dutch, French, or both?
How do public holidays affect SMS traffic?
Start sending to Belgium
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Belgium at $0.01867 per segment, from the console or with one API call.