SMS API for Nicaragua: bulk SMS to +505 numbers
Nicaragua
Calling code +505
- Per SMS segment
- $0.01357
- Messages for $100
- 7,369
- Local language
- Spanish
- Encoding
- GSM-7 or Unicode
What a bulk SMS send to Nicaragua costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.01357 | $0.02714 |
| 1,000 | $13.57 | $27.14 |
| 10,000 | $135.70 | $271.40 |
| 100,000 | $1,357.00 | $2,714.00 |
Number format in Nicaragua
Mobile numbers in Nicaragua have 8 digits after +505 and no trunk prefix, so the local form 8123 4567 becomes +505 8123 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
Nicaragua keeps UTC-6 all year with no clock change, so 09:00 in Managua 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 Nicaragua with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (NI) 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": "+50581234567", "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: "+50581234567", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.01357", country: "NI"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+50581234567", "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"]) # "0.01357"What developers send to Nicaragua
Payment confirmations
Mobile banking apps in Managua send SMS receipts to users after successful transactions, confirming the amount and recipient.
Booking updates
Travel agencies in Granada send SMS notifications to clients with changes to their flight or hotel reservations.
Promotional offers
Retail stores in León notify customers via SMS about special discounts and sales events.
More countries in Central America
SMS to Nicaragua: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Nicaragua?
How many SMS to Nicaragua does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Nicaragua numbers for the API?
What language should SMS messages be sent in?
Are there seasonal peaks in SMS traffic?
Start sending to Nicaragua
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Nicaragua at $0.01357 per segment, from the console or with one API call.