SMS API for Cote d'Ivoire: bulk SMS to +225 numbers
Cote d'Ivoire
Calling code +225
- Per SMS segment
- $0.01357
- Messages for $100
- 7,369
- Local language
- French
- Encoding
- GSM-7 or Unicode
What a bulk SMS send to Cote d'Ivoire costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.01357 | $0.02714 |
| 1,000 | $13.57 | $27.14 |
| 10,000 | $135.70 | $271.40 |
| 100,000 | $1,357.00 | $2,714.00 |
Number format in Cote d'Ivoire
Mobile numbers in Cote d'Ivoire have 10 digits after +225 and no trunk prefix, so the local form 01 23 45 6789 becomes +225 01 23 45 6789 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
Cote d'Ivoire keeps UTC+0 all year with no clock change, so 09:00 in Abidjan 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 Cote d'Ivoire with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (CI) 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": "+2250123456789", "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: "+2250123456789", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.01357", country: "CI"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+2250123456789", "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"]) # "0.01357"What developers send to Cote d'Ivoire
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SMS to Cote d'Ivoire: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Cote d'Ivoire?
How many SMS to Cote d'Ivoire does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Cote d'Ivoire numbers for the API?
Should SMS messages be in French or local languages?
How can SMS reach rural areas effectively?
Start sending to Cote d'Ivoire
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Cote d'Ivoire at $0.01357 per segment, from the console or with one API call.