SMS API for Uruguay: bulk SMS to +598 numbers
Uruguay
Calling code +598
- Per SMS segment
- $0.00957
- Messages for $100
- 10,449
- Local language
- Spanish
- Encoding
- GSM-7 or Unicode
What a bulk SMS send to Uruguay costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.00957 | $0.01914 |
| 1,000 | $9.57 | $19.14 |
| 10,000 | $95.70 | $191.40 |
| 100,000 | $957.00 | $1,914.00 |
Number format in Uruguay
Mobile numbers in Uruguay have 8 digits after +598. Locally they are written with a leading 0 (094 231 234); in the API that 0 is dropped, so the same number goes in the to field as +598 94 231 234.
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
Uruguay keeps UTC-3 all year with no clock change, so 09:00 in Montevideo 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 Uruguay with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (UY) 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": "+59894231234", "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: "+59894231234", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.00957", country: "UY"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+59894231234", "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"]) # "0.00957"What developers send to Uruguay
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SMS to Uruguay: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Uruguay?
How many SMS to Uruguay does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Uruguay numbers for the API?
What language should SMS messages be in for Uruguay?
Are SMS messages effective during holidays in Uruguay?
Start sending to Uruguay
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Uruguay at $0.00957 per segment, from the console or with one API call.