SMS API for Paraguay: bulk SMS to +595 numbers
Paraguay
Calling code +595
- Per SMS segment
- $0.00417
- Messages for $100
- 23,980
- Local language
- Spanish
- Encoding
- GSM-7 or Unicode
What a bulk SMS send to Paraguay costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.00417 | $0.00834 |
| 1,000 | $4.17 | $8.34 |
| 10,000 | $41.70 | $83.40 |
| 100,000 | $417.00 | $834.00 |
Number format in Paraguay
Mobile numbers in Paraguay have 9 digits after +595. Locally they are written with a leading 0 (0961 456789); in the API that 0 is dropped, so the same number goes in the to field as +595 961 456789.
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
Paraguay keeps UTC-3 all year with no clock change, so 09:00 in Asuncion is always 12:00 UTC. send_at takes UTC or any ISO 8601 offset, and the console scheduler converts from your own time zone.
Send to Paraguay with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (PY) 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": "+595961456789", "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: "+595961456789", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.00417", country: "PY"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+595961456789", "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"]) # "0.00417"What developers send to Paraguay
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SMS to Paraguay: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Paraguay?
How many SMS to Paraguay does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Paraguay numbers for the API?
Which language should I use for SMS in Paraguay?
How can I reach both urban and rural audiences?
Start sending to Paraguay
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Paraguay at $0.00417 per segment, from the console or with one API call.