SMS API for Liberia: bulk SMS to +231 numbers
Liberia
Calling code +231
- Per SMS segment
- $0.01127
- Messages for $100
- 8,873
- Local language
- English
- Encoding
- GSM-7
What a bulk SMS send to Liberia costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.01127 | $0.02254 |
| 1,000 | $11.27 | $22.54 |
| 10,000 | $112.70 | $225.40 |
| 100,000 | $1,127.00 | $2,254.00 |
Number format in Liberia
Mobile numbers in Liberia have 9 digits after +231. Locally they are written with a leading 0 (077 012 3456); in the API that 0 is dropped, so the same number goes in the to field as +231 77 012 3456.
Alphabet and segments
English text stays inside the GSM-7 alphabet, so one segment to Liberia 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
Liberia keeps UTC+0 all year with no clock change, so 09:00 in Monrovia 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 Liberia with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (LR) 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": "+231770123456", "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: "+231770123456", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.01127", country: "LR"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+231770123456", "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"]) # "0.01127"What developers send to Liberia
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SMS to Liberia: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Liberia?
How many SMS to Liberia does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Liberia numbers for the API?
Should messages be in English or local languages?
Are there peak times for SMS traffic?
Start sending to Liberia
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Liberia at $0.01127 per segment, from the console or with one API call.