SMS API for Bulgaria: bulk SMS to +359 numbers
Bulgaria
Calling code +359
- Per SMS segment
- $0.02547
- Messages for $100
- 3,926
- Local language
- Bulgarian
- Encoding
- Unicode (UCS-2)
What a bulk SMS send to Bulgaria costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.02547 | $0.05094 |
| 1,000 | $25.47 | $50.94 |
| 10,000 | $254.70 | $509.40 |
| 100,000 | $2,547.00 | $5,094.00 |
Number format in Bulgaria
Mobile numbers in Bulgaria have 8 digits after +359. Locally they are written with a leading 0 (043 012 345); in the API that 0 is dropped, so the same number goes in the to field as +359 43 012 345.
Alphabet and segments
Text in Cyrillic is always Unicode, so a message to Bulgaria written in Bulgarian carries 70 characters in one segment and 67 in each part of a longer one. Codes and alerts written in English or plain Latin letters fit 160 characters, which halves the cost of a long notice.
Time zone and timing
Bulgaria changes its clocks: Sofia is on UTC+2 in January and UTC+3 in July. 09:00 in Sofia is 07:00 UTC in January and an hour earlier in UTC while summer time runs, so give send_at with the local offset (for example +02:00 in winter) and the API does the conversion.
Send to Bulgaria with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (BG) 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": "+35943012345", "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: "+35943012345", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.02547", country: "BG"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+35943012345", "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"]) # "0.02547"What developers send to Bulgaria
Order confirmations
Online stores notify customers in Sofia when their orders are processed, with estimated delivery dates.
Bank alerts
Banks send SMS to clients in Plovdiv about successful transactions or low account balances.
Flight updates
Travel agencies inform tourists in Varna about changes to their flight schedules or boarding times.
Appointment reminders
Medical clinics in Burgas send SMS reminders to patients about upcoming doctor visits.
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SMS to Bulgaria: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Bulgaria?
How many SMS to Bulgaria does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Bulgaria numbers for the API?
Should SMS be sent in Bulgarian or English?
Are there regional differences in SMS usage?
Start sending to Bulgaria
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Bulgaria at $0.02547 per segment, from the console or with one API call.