SMS API for El Salvador: bulk SMS to +503 numbers
El Salvador
Calling code +503
- Per SMS segment
- $0.01277
- Messages for $100
- 7,830
- Local language
- Spanish
- Encoding
- GSM-7 or Unicode
What a bulk SMS send to El Salvador costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.01277 | $0.02554 |
| 1,000 | $12.77 | $25.54 |
| 10,000 | $127.70 | $255.40 |
| 100,000 | $1,277.00 | $2,554.00 |
Number format in El Salvador
Mobile numbers in El Salvador have 8 digits after +503 and no trunk prefix, so the local form 7012 3456 becomes +503 7012 3456 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
El Salvador keeps UTC-6 all year with no clock change, so 09:00 in El Salvador is always 15:00 UTC. send_at takes UTC or any ISO 8601 offset, and the console scheduler converts from your own time zone.
Send to El Salvador with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (SV) 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": "+50370123456", "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: "+50370123456", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.01277", country: "SV"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+50370123456", "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"]) # "0.01277"What developers send to El Salvador
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SMS to El Salvador: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to El Salvador?
How many SMS to El Salvador does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write El Salvador numbers for the API?
Should SMS messages be in Spanish or English?
How does SMS perform during holiday seasons?
Start sending to El Salvador
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to El Salvador at $0.01277 per segment, from the console or with one API call.