SMS API for Gabon: bulk SMS to +241 numbers
Gabon
Calling code +241
- Per SMS segment
- $0.01187
- Messages for $100
- 8,424
- Local language
- French
- Encoding
- GSM-7 or Unicode
What a bulk SMS send to Gabon costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.01187 | $0.02374 |
| 1,000 | $11.87 | $23.74 |
| 10,000 | $118.70 | $237.40 |
| 100,000 | $1,187.00 | $2,374.00 |
Number format in Gabon
Mobile numbers in Gabon have 8 digits after +241 and no trunk prefix, so the local form 06 03 12 34 becomes +241 06 03 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
Gabon keeps UTC+1 all year with no clock change, so 09:00 in Libreville 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 Gabon with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (GA) 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": "+24106031234", "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: "+24106031234", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.01187", country: "GA"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+24106031234", "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"]) # "0.01187"What developers send to Gabon
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SMS to Gabon: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Gabon?
How many SMS to Gabon does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Gabon numbers for the API?
What language should messages be in?
How reliable is SMS in rural areas?
Start sending to Gabon
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Gabon at $0.01187 per segment, from the console or with one API call.