SMS API for Laos: bulk SMS to +856 numbers
Laos
Calling code +856
- Per SMS segment
- $0.00847
- Messages for $100
- 11,806
- Local language
- Lao
- Encoding
- Unicode (UCS-2)
What a bulk SMS send to Laos costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.00847 | $0.01694 |
| 1,000 | $8.47 | $16.94 |
| 10,000 | $84.70 | $169.40 |
| 100,000 | $847.00 | $1,694.00 |
Number format in Laos
Mobile numbers in Laos have 10 digits after +856. Locally they are written with a leading 0 (020 23 123 456); in the API that 0 is dropped, so the same number goes in the to field as +856 20 23 123 456.
Alphabet and segments
Text in Lao is always Unicode, so a message to Laos written in Lao 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
Laos keeps UTC+7 all year with no clock change, so 09:00 in Vientiane is always 02:00 UTC. send_at takes UTC or any ISO 8601 offset, and the console scheduler converts from your own time zone.
Send to Laos with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (LA) 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": "+8562023123456", "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: "+8562023123456", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.00847", country: "LA"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+8562023123456", "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"]) # "0.00847"What developers send to Laos
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SMS to Laos: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Laos?
How many SMS to Laos does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Laos numbers for the API?
What language should messages be in?
Are there peak times for sending messages?
Start sending to Laos
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Laos at $0.00847 per segment, from the console or with one API call.