SMS API for Azerbaijan: bulk SMS to +994 numbers

Azerbaijan, located at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, has an economy driven by oil, gas, and agriculture. Logistics firms, banks, and government services integrate SMS for notifications and alerts. Messages trigger for payment confirmations, cargo tracking updates, and public service announcements. SMS is preferred here as it works reliably across rural areas and cities like Baku without requiring internet access.

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Azerbaijan

Calling code +994

Per SMS segment: $0.05557
Messages for $100: 1,799
Local language: Azerbaijani
Encoding: GSM-7 or Unicode

What a bulk SMS send to Azerbaijan costs

Every message is priced at $0.05557 per segment to Azerbaijan. Texts over 160 GSM-7 or 70 Unicode characters are split into segments, so a two-segment text costs twice as much.

Messages	1 segment	2 segments
1	$0.05557	$0.11114
1,000	$55.57	$111.14
10,000	$555.70	$1,111.40
100,000	$5,557.00	$11,114.00

Number format in Azerbaijan

Mobile numbers in Azerbaijan have 9 digits after +994. Locally they are written with a leading 0 (040 123 45 67); in the API that 0 is dropped, so the same number goes in the to field as +994 40 123 45 67.

Alphabet and segments

Texts in Azerbaijani fit 160 GSM-7 characters per segment until they use ə, ç, ğ, ı and ş: 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

Azerbaijan keeps UTC+4 all year with no clock change, so 09:00 in Baku is always 05:00 UTC. send_at takes UTC or any ISO 8601 offset, and the console scheduler converts from your own time zone.

Send to Azerbaijan with one request

The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (AZ) 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.

Messages reference Batches reference

curl https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BULKSMSAPI_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"to": "+994401234567", "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: "+994401234567", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.05557", country: "AZ"

import json, os, urllib.request

req = urllib.request.Request(
    "https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
    data=json.dumps({"to": "+994401234567", "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"])  # "0.05557"

What developers send to Azerbaijan

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

Oilfield alerts

Energy companies notify shift workers in Sumqayit about schedule changes or safety briefings via SMS.

Farm updates

Agricultural cooperatives in the Mugan Plain text farmers about grain prices and collection times.

Bank transfers

Baku-based banks send transaction confirmations to customers across Azerbaijan through SMS.

Cargo tracking

Logistics firms update clients about shipment arrivals at the Port of Baku by text.

More countries in Central Asia and Caucasus

Prices close to Azerbaijan in the same region. All 8 countries in Central Asia and the Caucasus

Uzbekistan$0.05307 per SMS

Kyrgyzstan$0.05107 per SMS

Tajikistan$0.04827 per SMS

Kazakhstan$0.04537 per SMS

Georgia$0.02547 per SMS

Armenia$0.01417 per SMS

Turkmenistan$0.00727 per SMS

SMS to Azerbaijan: questions

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

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

Each message segment to Azerbaijan costs $0.05557. A plain text of up to 160 characters is one segment, so 1,000 one-segment messages cost $55.57 and 10,000 cost $555.70. Failed messages are refunded to the balance.

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

$100 covers about 1,799 one-segment messages to Azerbaijan at $0.05557 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 Azerbaijan numbers for the API?

Send them in international format with the plus sign: +994 40 123 45 67 becomes "+994401234567" 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.

How formal should business SMS be in Azerbaijan?

Messages should use clear, polite Azerbaijani or Russian. Formal tone is expected for banking and government communications.

Are there regions needing special SMS consideration?

Mountainous areas like Quba benefit from SMS as mobile data coverage can be limited outside cities.

Start sending to Azerbaijan

Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Azerbaijan at $0.05557 per segment, from the console or with one API call.

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