SMS API for Guinea: bulk SMS to +224 numbers
Guinea
Calling code +224
- Per SMS segment
- $0.01357
- Messages for $100
- 7,369
- Local language
- French
- Encoding
- GSM-7 or Unicode
What a bulk SMS send to Guinea 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 Guinea
Mobile numbers in Guinea have 9 digits after +224 and no trunk prefix, so the local form 601 12 34 56 becomes +224 601 12 34 56 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
Guinea keeps UTC+0 all year with no clock change, so 09:00 in Conakry 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 Guinea with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (GN) 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": "+224601123456", "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: "+224601123456", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.01357", country: "GN"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+224601123456", "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 Guinea
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Delivery updates
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SMS to Guinea: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Guinea?
How many SMS to Guinea does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Guinea numbers for the API?
What language should SMS messages be in?
How can SMS reach both residents and visitors?
Start sending to Guinea
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Guinea at $0.01357 per segment, from the console or with one API call.