SMS API for Ecuador: bulk SMS to +593 numbers
Ecuador
Calling code +593
- Per SMS segment
- $0.02377
- Messages for $100
- 4,206
- Local language
- Spanish
- Encoding
- GSM-7 or Unicode
What a bulk SMS send to Ecuador costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.02377 | $0.04754 |
| 1,000 | $23.77 | $47.54 |
| 10,000 | $237.70 | $475.40 |
| 100,000 | $2,377.00 | $4,754.00 |
Number format in Ecuador
Mobile numbers in Ecuador have 9 digits after +593. Locally they are written with a leading 0 (099 123 4567); in the API that 0 is dropped, so the same number goes in the to field as +593 99 123 4567.
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
Ecuador spans several time zones, from UTC-6 in Galapagos to UTC-5 in Guayaquil (January offsets). A send_at of 14:00 UTC lands at 09:00 in Guayaquil in January; for a nationwide reminder, split the list by region and give each batch its own send_at.
Send to Ecuador with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (EC) 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": "+593991234567", "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: "+593991234567", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.02377", country: "EC"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+593991234567", "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"]) # "0.02377"What developers send to Ecuador
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Exam schedules
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SMS to Ecuador: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Ecuador?
How many SMS to Ecuador does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Ecuador numbers for the API?
Should SMS be in Spanish only?
Are there seasonal peaks in SMS traffic?
Start sending to Ecuador
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Ecuador at $0.02377 per segment, from the console or with one API call.