SMS API for Central African Republic: bulk SMS to +236 numbers

The Central African Republic, a landlocked country in Central Africa with its capital in Bangui, is known for its agriculture and mining industries. Software products sending SMS include mobile money services, healthcare providers, and NGOs. Messages are triggered by events like money transfers, health alerts, and community updates. SMS is chosen because it works on basic phones and reaches users in both urban and rural areas.

Central African Republic

Calling code +236

Per SMS segment
$0.00677
Messages for $100
14,771
Local language
French
Encoding
GSM-7 or Unicode

What a bulk SMS send to the Central African Republic costs

Every message is priced at $0.00677 per segment to the Central African Republic. Texts over 160 GSM-7 or 70 Unicode characters are split into segments, so a two-segment text costs twice as much.
Messages1 segment2 segments
1$0.00677$0.01354
1,000$6.77$13.54
10,000$67.70$135.40
100,000$677.00$1,354.00

Number format in Central African Republic

Mobile numbers in the Central African Republic have 8 digits after +236 and no trunk prefix, so the local form 70 01 23 45 becomes +236 70 01 23 45 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

The Central African Republic keeps UTC+1 all year with no clock change, so 09:00 in Bangui is always 08:00 UTC. send_at takes UTC or any ISO 8601 offset, and the console scheduler converts from your own time zone.

Send to Central African Republic with one request

The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (CF) 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": "+23670012345", "text": "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes."}'

What developers send to the Central African Republic

Common integrations that call the SMS API for recipients in the Central African Republic.

Money alerts

Users in Bangui receive SMS notifications confirming their mobile money transactions and balances.

Health reminders

Patients in Berbérati get texts reminding them of upcoming clinic visits and vaccination schedules.

Community updates

Residents in Bambari receive SMS alerts about community meetings and event times.

Delivery notices

Customers in Bouar are notified by SMS about the status of their online orders and delivery times.

SMS to Central African Republic: questions

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

How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to the Central African Republic?

Each message segment to the Central African Republic costs $0.00677. A plain text of up to 160 characters is one segment, so 1,000 one-segment messages cost $6.77 and 10,000 cost $67.70. Failed messages are refunded to the balance.

How many SMS to the Central African Republic does a $100 top-up send?

$100 covers about 14,771 one-segment messages to the Central African Republic at $0.00677 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 Central African Republic numbers for the API?

Send them in international format with the plus sign: +236 70 01 23 45 becomes "+23670012345" 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.

Start sending to The Central African Republic

Create an account, top up from $40 and send to the Central African Republic at $0.00677 per segment, from the console or with one API call.

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