SMS API for Brazil: bulk SMS to +55 numbers
Brazil
Calling code +55
- Per SMS segment
- $0.00247
- Messages for $100
- 40,485
- Local language
- Portuguese
- Encoding
- GSM-7 or Unicode
What a bulk SMS send to Brazil costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.00247 | $0.00494 |
| 1,000 | $2.47 | $4.94 |
| 10,000 | $24.70 | $49.40 |
| 100,000 | $247.00 | $494.00 |
Number format in Brazil
A Brazilian mobile number is +55, a two-digit area code (DDD), the digit 9 and eight more digits: +55 11 96123 4567. Leave out the 0 and the long-distance carrier code that people add at home; store numbers with +55 and the DDD and they price as Brazil.
Alphabet and segments
Texts in Portuguese fit 160 GSM-7 characters per segment until they use á, â, ã, ç, ê, í, ó, ô, õ 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
Brazil spans several time zones, from UTC-5 in Eirunepe to UTC-2 in Noronha (January offsets). A send_at of 12:00 UTC lands at 09:00 in Sao Paulo in January; for a nationwide reminder, split the list by region and give each batch its own send_at.
Send to Brazil with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (BR) 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": "+5511961234567", "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: "+5511961234567", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.00247", country: "BR"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+5511961234567", "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"]) # "0.00247"What developers send to Brazil
Payment alerts
Banks in São Paulo send SMS alerts for successful payments, such as credit card bills or loan repayments.
Order updates
E-commerce platforms notify customers in Rio de Janeiro about order statuses, such as shipped or out for delivery.
Appointment reminders
Clinics in Belo Horizonte send SMS reminders for medical appointments, reducing missed visits.
Event confirmations
Event organizers in Brasília send SMS confirmations for ticket purchases and event details.
More countries in South America
SMS to Brazil: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Brazil?
How many SMS to Brazil does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Brazil numbers for the API?
What language should SMS messages use in Brazil?
How does SMS handle Brazil's regional diversity?
Start sending to Brazil
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Brazil at $0.00247 per segment, from the console or with one API call.