SMS API for Portugal: bulk SMS to +351 numbers

Portugal, located in southwestern Europe with Lisbon as its capital, has a diverse economy including tourism, agriculture, and technology. Businesses like airlines, e-commerce platforms, and healthcare providers send text messages to customers. These messages are triggered by flight updates, order confirmations, and appointment reminders. SMS is chosen because it reaches all mobile phones instantly, works without internet, and is widely used by locals and tourists.

Portugal

Calling code +351

Per SMS segment
$0.00417
Messages for $100
23,980
Local language
Portuguese
Encoding
GSM-7 or Unicode

What a bulk SMS send to Portugal costs

Every message is priced at $0.00417 per segment to Portugal. Texts over 160 GSM-7 or 70 Unicode characters are split into segments, so a two-segment text costs twice as much.
Messages1 segment2 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 Portugal

Mobile numbers in Portugal have 9 digits after +351 and no trunk prefix, so the local form 912 345 678 becomes +351 912 345 678 in the to field.

Alphabet and segments

Texts in Portuguese fit 160 GSM-7 characters per segment until they use á, â, ã, ç, ê, í, ó, ô, õ 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

Portugal spans several time zones, from UTC-1 in Azores to UTC+0 in Lisbon (January offsets). A send_at of 09:00 UTC lands at 09:00 in Lisbon in January; for a nationwide reminder, split the list by region and give each batch its own send_at.

Send to Portugal with one request

The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (PT) 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": "+351912345678", "text": "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes."}'

What developers send to Portugal

Common integrations that call the SMS API for recipients in Portugal.

Flight updates

Airlines send SMS notifications to passengers in Lisbon about flight delays or gate changes.

Order confirmations

E-commerce stores in Porto send SMS confirmations to customers after they place an order.

Appointment reminders

Clinics in Faro send SMS reminders to patients a day before their scheduled appointments.

Event reminders

Event organizers send SMS reminders to attendees in Coimbra about upcoming concerts or festivals.

SMS to Portugal: questions

More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.

How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Portugal?

Each message segment to Portugal costs $0.00417. A plain text of up to 160 characters is one segment, so 1,000 one-segment messages cost $4.17 and 10,000 cost $41.70. Failed messages are refunded to the balance.

How many SMS to Portugal does a $100 top-up send?

$100 covers about 23,980 one-segment messages to Portugal at $0.00417 each. The first top-up adds a bonus on top, which raises that number. The balance is shared by every country, so the same top-up also pays for messages anywhere else on the list.

How do I write Portugal numbers for the API?

Send them in international format with the plus sign: +351 912 345 678 becomes "+351912345678" in the to field. The API also accepts spaces, dashes and a 00 prefix and cleans them, and numbers that cannot be read are listed in set_aside instead of being charged.

Start sending to Portugal

Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Portugal at $0.00417 per segment, from the console or with one API call.

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