SMS API for Burkina Faso: bulk SMS to +226 numbers
Burkina Faso
Calling code +226
- Per SMS segment
- $0.01247
- Messages for $100
- 8,019
- Local language
- French
- Encoding
- GSM-7 or Unicode
What a bulk SMS send to Burkina Faso costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.01247 | $0.02494 |
| 1,000 | $12.47 | $24.94 |
| 10,000 | $124.70 | $249.40 |
| 100,000 | $1,247.00 | $2,494.00 |
Number format in Burkina Faso
Mobile numbers in Burkina Faso have 8 digits after +226 and no trunk prefix, so the local form 70 12 34 56 becomes +226 70 12 34 56 in the to field.
Alphabet and segments
Texts in French fit 160 GSM-7 characters per segment until they use â, ê, î, ô, û, ç, ë and ï: 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
Burkina Faso keeps UTC+0 all year with no clock change, so 09:00 in Ouagadougou is always 09:00 UTC. send_at takes UTC or any ISO 8601 offset, and the console scheduler converts from your own time zone.
Send to Burkina Faso with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (BF) 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": "+22670123456", "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: "+22670123456", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.01247", country: "BF"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+22670123456", "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"]) # "0.01247"What developers send to Burkina Faso
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SMS to Burkina Faso: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Burkina Faso?
How many SMS to Burkina Faso does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Burkina Faso numbers for the API?
What language should SMS be sent in?
Are there seasonal peaks in SMS traffic?
Start sending to Burkina Faso
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Burkina Faso at $0.01247 per segment, from the console or with one API call.