SMS API for Cuba: bulk SMS to +53 numbers
Cuba
Calling code +53
- Per SMS segment
- $0.01697
- Messages for $100
- 5,892
- Local language
- Spanish
- Encoding
- GSM-7 or Unicode
What a bulk SMS send to Cuba costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.01697 | $0.03394 |
| 1,000 | $16.97 | $33.94 |
| 10,000 | $169.70 | $339.40 |
| 100,000 | $1,697.00 | $3,394.00 |
Number format in Cuba
Mobile numbers in Cuba have 8 digits after +53. Locally they are written with a leading 0 (05 1234567); in the API that 0 is dropped, so the same number goes in the to field as +53 5 1234567.
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
Cuba changes its clocks: Havana is on UTC-5 in January and UTC-4 in July. 09:00 in Havana is 14:00 UTC in January and an hour earlier in UTC while summer time runs, so give send_at with the local offset (for example -05:00 in winter) and the API does the conversion.
Send to Cuba with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (CU) 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": "+5351234567", "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: "+5351234567", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.01697", country: "CU"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+5351234567", "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"]) # "0.01697"What developers send to Cuba
Appointment confirmations
Hospitals in Havana send SMS confirmations to patients after scheduling medical appointments or lab tests.
Travel updates
Tour agencies in Varadero notify visitors via SMS about changes to their flight or hotel bookings.
Public service alerts
Government agencies in Santiago de Cuba send SMS alerts about weather warnings or community events.
Event reminders
Cultural centers in Trinidad send SMS reminders to locals about upcoming concerts and exhibitions.
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SMS to Cuba: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Cuba?
How many SMS to Cuba does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Cuba numbers for the API?
What language should SMS messages use in Cuba?
Can SMS reach tourists in Cuba?
Start sending to Cuba
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Cuba at $0.01697 per segment, from the console or with one API call.