SMS API for Bahrain: bulk SMS to +973 numbers
Bahrain
Calling code +973
- Per SMS segment
- $0.00907
- Messages for $100
- 11,025
- Local language
- Arabic and English
- Encoding
- Unicode (UCS-2)
What a bulk SMS send to Bahrain 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 Bahrain
Mobile numbers in Bahrain have 8 digits after +973 and no trunk prefix, so the local form 3600 1234 becomes +973 3600 1234 in the to field.
Alphabet and segments
Text in Arabic is always Unicode, so a message to Bahrain written in Arabic 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
Bahrain keeps UTC+3 all year with no clock change, so 09:00 in Bahrain is always 06:00 UTC. send_at takes UTC or any ISO 8601 offset, and the console scheduler converts from your own time zone.
Send to Bahrain with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (BH) 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": "+97336001234", "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: "+97336001234", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.00907", country: "BH"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+97336001234", "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 Bahrain
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SMS to Bahrain: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Bahrain?
How many SMS to Bahrain does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Bahrain numbers for the API?
What language should SMS be sent in?
Are there peak times for SMS traffic?
Start sending to Bahrain
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Bahrain at $0.00907 per segment, from the console or with one API call.