SMS API for Lesotho: bulk SMS to +266 numbers
Lesotho
Calling code +266
- Per SMS segment
- $0.00817
- Messages for $100
- 12,239
- Local language
- English
- Encoding
- GSM-7
What a bulk SMS send to Lesotho costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.00817 | $0.01634 |
| 1,000 | $8.17 | $16.34 |
| 10,000 | $81.70 | $163.40 |
| 100,000 | $817.00 | $1,634.00 |
Number format in Lesotho
Mobile numbers in Lesotho have 8 digits after +266 and no trunk prefix, so the local form 5012 3456 becomes +266 5012 3456 in the to field.
Alphabet and segments
English text stays inside the GSM-7 alphabet, so one segment to Lesotho holds 160 characters and each part of a longer text 153. Watch for curly quotes and emoji copied from other tools: one of them moves the whole text to Unicode at 70 characters per segment, and POST /v1/estimates shows the encoding before you send.
Time zone and timing
Lesotho keeps UTC+2 all year with no clock change, so 09:00 in Maseru is always 07:00 UTC. send_at takes UTC or any ISO 8601 offset, and the console scheduler converts from your own time zone.
Send to Lesotho with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (LS) 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": "+26650123456", "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: "+26650123456", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.00817", country: "LS"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+26650123456", "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"]) # "0.00817"What developers send to Lesotho
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SMS to Lesotho: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Lesotho?
How many SMS to Lesotho does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Lesotho numbers for the API?
Should messages be in English or Sesotho?
Are there seasonal peaks in SMS traffic?
Start sending to Lesotho
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Lesotho at $0.00817 per segment, from the console or with one API call.