SMS API for Belize: bulk SMS to +501 numbers
Belize
Calling code +501
- Per SMS segment
- $0.01557
- Messages for $100
- 6,422
- Local language
- English
- Encoding
- GSM-7
What a bulk SMS send to Belize costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.01557 | $0.03114 |
| 1,000 | $15.57 | $31.14 |
| 10,000 | $155.70 | $311.40 |
| 100,000 | $1,557.00 | $3,114.00 |
Number format in Belize
Mobile numbers in Belize have 7 digits after +501 and no trunk prefix, so the local form 622-1234 becomes +501 622 1234 in the to field.
Alphabet and segments
English text stays inside the GSM-7 alphabet, so one segment to Belize 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
Belize keeps UTC-6 all year with no clock change, so 09:00 in Belize is always 15:00 UTC. send_at takes UTC or any ISO 8601 offset, and the console scheduler converts from your own time zone.
Send to Belize with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (BZ) 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": "+5016221234", "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: "+5016221234", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.01557", country: "BZ"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+5016221234", "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"]) # "0.01557"What developers send to Belize
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SMS to Belize: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Belize?
How many SMS to Belize does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Belize numbers for the API?
What language should SMS messages be in?
Are there seasonal peaks in SMS traffic?
Start sending to Belize
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Belize at $0.01557 per segment, from the console or with one API call.