SMS API for Guatemala: bulk SMS to +502 numbers
Guatemala
Calling code +502
- Per SMS segment
- $0.00847
- Messages for $100
- 11,806
- Local language
- Spanish
- Encoding
- GSM-7 or Unicode
What a bulk SMS send to Guatemala costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.00847 | $0.01694 |
| 1,000 | $8.47 | $16.94 |
| 10,000 | $84.70 | $169.40 |
| 100,000 | $847.00 | $1,694.00 |
Number format in Guatemala
Mobile numbers in Guatemala have 8 digits after +502 and no trunk prefix, so the local form 5123 4567 becomes +502 5123 4567 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
Guatemala keeps UTC-6 all year with no clock change, so 09:00 in Guatemala 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 Guatemala with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (GT) 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": "+50251234567", "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: "+50251234567", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.00847", country: "GT"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+50251234567", "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"]) # "0.00847"What developers send to Guatemala
Payment confirmations
Banks in Guatemala City send SMS alerts to customers confirming successful transactions or bill payments.
Delivery updates
Courier services in Quetzaltenango notify customers about the status of their package deliveries.
Appointment reminders
Clinics in Antigua send SMS reminders to patients about upcoming medical appointments.
Service alerts
Utility companies in Escuintla notify customers about planned outages or maintenance work.
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SMS to Guatemala: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Guatemala?
How many SMS to Guatemala does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Guatemala numbers for the API?
Which language should SMS messages be sent in?
How can SMS reach rural areas effectively?
Start sending to Guatemala
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Guatemala at $0.00847 per segment, from the console or with one API call.