SMS API for Kyrgyzstan: bulk SMS to +996 numbers
Kyrgyzstan
Calling code +996
- Per SMS segment
- $0.05107
- Messages for $100
- 1,958
- Local language
- Kyrgyz and Russian
- Encoding
- Unicode (UCS-2)
What a bulk SMS send to Kyrgyzstan costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.05107 | $0.10214 |
| 1,000 | $51.07 | $102.14 |
| 10,000 | $510.70 | $1,021.40 |
| 100,000 | $5,107.00 | $10,214.00 |
Number format in Kyrgyzstan
Mobile numbers in Kyrgyzstan have 9 digits after +996. Locally they are written with a leading 0 (0700 123 456); in the API that 0 is dropped, so the same number goes in the to field as +996 700 123 456.
Alphabet and segments
Text in Cyrillic is always Unicode, so a message to Kyrgyzstan written in Kyrgyz 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
Kyrgyzstan keeps UTC+6 all year with no clock change, so 09:00 in Bishkek is always 03:00 UTC. send_at takes UTC or any ISO 8601 offset, and the console scheduler converts from your own time zone.
Send to Kyrgyzstan with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (KG) 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": "+996700123456", "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: "+996700123456", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.05107", country: "KG"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+996700123456", "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"]) # "0.05107"What developers send to Kyrgyzstan
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SMS to Kyrgyzstan: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Kyrgyzstan?
How many SMS to Kyrgyzstan does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Kyrgyzstan numbers for the API?
Which language should we use for SMS in Kyrgyzstan?
Are there seasonal peaks in SMS traffic?
Start sending to Kyrgyzstan
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Kyrgyzstan at $0.05107 per segment, from the console or with one API call.