SMS API for Suriname: bulk SMS to +597 numbers
Suriname
Calling code +597
- Per SMS segment
- $0.00907
- Messages for $100
- 11,025
- Local language
- Dutch
- Encoding
- GSM-7
What a bulk SMS send to Suriname costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.00907 | $0.01814 |
| 1,000 | $9.07 | $18.14 |
| 10,000 | $90.70 | $181.40 |
| 100,000 | $907.00 | $1,814.00 |
Number format in Suriname
Mobile numbers in Suriname have 7 digits after +597 and no trunk prefix, so the local form 741-2345 becomes +597 741 2345 in the to field.
Alphabet and segments
Dutch text stays inside the GSM-7 alphabet, so one segment to Suriname 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
Suriname keeps UTC-3 all year with no clock change, so 09:00 in Paramaribo 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 Suriname with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (SR) 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": "+5977412345", "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: "+5977412345", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.00907", country: "SR"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+5977412345", "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"]) # "0.00907"What developers send to Suriname
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Service alerts
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SMS to Suriname: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Suriname?
How many SMS to Suriname does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Suriname numbers for the API?
Should SMS messages be in Dutch or English?
How does SMS perform in the interior regions?
Start sending to Suriname
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Suriname at $0.00907 per segment, from the console or with one API call.