SMS API for Jamaica: bulk SMS to +1 numbers
Jamaica
Calling code +1
- Per SMS segment
- $0.01277
- Messages for $100
- 7,830
- Local language
- English
- Encoding
- GSM-7
What a bulk SMS send to Jamaica 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 Jamaica
Jamaica uses the North American Numbering Plan: +1, a three-digit area code and a seven-digit number, such as +1 876 210 1234. The API reads the area code (876 here) to price the number as Jamaica rather than the United States, so keep the full eleven digits in your list.
Alphabet and segments
English text stays inside the GSM-7 alphabet, so one segment to Jamaica holds 160 characters and each part of a longer text 153. Watch for curly quotes and emoji copied from other tools: one of them moves the whole text to Unicode at 70 characters per segment, and POST /v1/estimates shows the encoding before you send.
Time zone and timing
Jamaica keeps UTC-5 all year with no clock change, so 09:00 in Jamaica is always 14:00 UTC. send_at takes UTC or any ISO 8601 offset, and the console scheduler converts from your own time zone.
Send to Jamaica with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (JM) 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": "+18762101234", "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: "+18762101234", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.01277", country: "JM"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+18762101234", "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 Jamaica
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Fee reminders
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SMS to Jamaica: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Jamaica?
How many SMS to Jamaica does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Jamaica numbers for the API?
What language should we use for SMS in Jamaica?
Are there seasonal peaks in SMS traffic?
Start sending to Jamaica
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Jamaica at $0.01277 per segment, from the console or with one API call.