SMS API for Afghanistan: bulk SMS to +93 numbers
Afghanistan
Calling code +93
- Per SMS segment
- $0.03117
- Messages for $100
- 3,208
- Local language
- Dari and Pashto
- Encoding
- Unicode (UCS-2)
What a bulk SMS send to Afghanistan costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.03117 | $0.06234 |
| 1,000 | $31.17 | $62.34 |
| 10,000 | $311.70 | $623.40 |
| 100,000 | $3,117.00 | $6,234.00 |
Number format in Afghanistan
Mobile numbers in Afghanistan have 9 digits after +93. Locally they are written with a leading 0 (070 123 4567); in the API that 0 is dropped, so the same number goes in the to field as +93 70 123 4567.
Alphabet and segments
Text in Arabic script is always Unicode, so a message to Afghanistan written in Dari carries 70 characters in one segment and 67 in each part of a longer one. Codes and alerts written in English or plain Latin letters fit 160 characters, which halves the cost of a long notice.
Time zone and timing
Afghanistan keeps UTC+4:30 all year with no clock change, so 09:00 in Kabul is always 04:30 UTC. send_at takes UTC or any ISO 8601 offset, and the console scheduler converts from your own time zone.
Send to Afghanistan with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (AF) 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": "+93701234567", "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: "+93701234567", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.03117", country: "AF"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+93701234567", "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"]) # "0.03117"What developers send to Afghanistan
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SMS to Afghanistan: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Afghanistan?
How many SMS to Afghanistan does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Afghanistan numbers for the API?
Should messages use Pashto, Dari, or both?
How reliable is SMS delivery in remote areas?
Start sending to Afghanistan
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Afghanistan at $0.03117 per segment, from the console or with one API call.