SMS API for Eritrea: bulk SMS to +291 numbers
Eritrea
Calling code +291
- Per SMS segment
- $0.01667
- Messages for $100
- 5,998
- Local language
- Tigrinya, Arabic and English
- Encoding
- Unicode (UCS-2)
What a bulk SMS send to Eritrea costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.01667 | $0.03334 |
| 1,000 | $16.67 | $33.34 |
| 10,000 | $166.70 | $333.40 |
| 100,000 | $1,667.00 | $3,334.00 |
Number format in Eritrea
Mobile numbers in Eritrea have 7 digits after +291. Locally they are written with a leading 0 (07 123 456); in the API that 0 is dropped, so the same number goes in the to field as +291 7 123 456.
Alphabet and segments
Text in Ge'ez and Arabic is always Unicode, so a message to Eritrea written in Tigrinya 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
Eritrea keeps UTC+3 all year with no clock change, so 09:00 in Asmara 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 Eritrea with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (ER) 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": "+2917123456", "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: "+2917123456", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.01667", country: "ER"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+2917123456", "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"]) # "0.01667"What developers send to Eritrea
Payment alerts
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Delivery updates
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Public announcements
Government services in Asmara send SMS notifications about public health campaigns or community events.
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SMS to Eritrea: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Eritrea?
How many SMS to Eritrea does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Eritrea numbers for the API?
Should SMS be in Tigrinya or Arabic?
How to reach users in remote areas?
Start sending to Eritrea
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Eritrea at $0.01667 per segment, from the console or with one API call.