SMS API for Bolivia: bulk SMS to +591 numbers
Bolivia
Calling code +591
- Per SMS segment
- $0.02067
- Messages for $100
- 4,837
- Local language
- Spanish
- Encoding
- GSM-7 or Unicode
What a bulk SMS send to Bolivia costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.02067 | $0.04134 |
| 1,000 | $20.67 | $41.34 |
| 10,000 | $206.70 | $413.40 |
| 100,000 | $2,067.00 | $4,134.00 |
Number format in Bolivia
Mobile numbers in Bolivia have 8 digits after +591 and no trunk prefix, so the local form 71234567 becomes +591 71234567 in the to field.
Alphabet and segments
Texts in Spanish fit 160 GSM-7 characters per segment until they use á, í, ó and ú: 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
Bolivia keeps UTC-4 all year with no clock change, so 09:00 in La Paz 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 Bolivia with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (BO) 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": "+59171234567", "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: "+59171234567", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.02067", country: "BO"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+59171234567", "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"]) # "0.02067"What developers send to Bolivia
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Delivery alerts
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SMS to Bolivia: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Bolivia?
How many SMS to Bolivia does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Bolivia numbers for the API?
What language should SMS messages use in Bolivia?
How does SMS perform in rural Bolivia?
Start sending to Bolivia
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Bolivia at $0.02067 per segment, from the console or with one API call.