SMS API for Burundi: bulk SMS to +257 numbers
Burundi
Calling code +257
- Per SMS segment
- $0.01037
- Messages for $100
- 9,643
- Local language
- French
- Encoding
- GSM-7 or Unicode
What a bulk SMS send to Burundi costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.01037 | $0.02074 |
| 1,000 | $10.37 | $20.74 |
| 10,000 | $103.70 | $207.40 |
| 100,000 | $1,037.00 | $2,074.00 |
Number format in Burundi
Mobile numbers in Burundi have 8 digits after +257 and no trunk prefix, so the local form 79 56 12 34 becomes +257 79 56 12 34 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
Burundi keeps UTC+2 all year with no clock change, so 09:00 in Bujumbura is always 07:00 UTC. send_at takes UTC or any ISO 8601 offset, and the console scheduler converts from your own time zone.
Send to Burundi with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (BI) 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": "+25779561234", "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: "+25779561234", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.01037", country: "BI"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+25779561234", "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"]) # "0.01037"What developers send to Burundi
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SMS to Burundi: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Burundi?
How many SMS to Burundi does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Burundi numbers for the API?
What language should SMS be sent in?
Are there seasonal peaks in SMS traffic?
Start sending to Burundi
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Burundi at $0.01037 per segment, from the console or with one API call.