SMS API for Mali: bulk SMS to +223 numbers
Mali
Calling code +223
- Per SMS segment
- $0.04797
- Messages for $100
- 2,084
- Local language
- French
- Encoding
- GSM-7 or Unicode
What a bulk SMS send to Mali costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.04797 | $0.09594 |
| 1,000 | $47.97 | $95.94 |
| 10,000 | $479.70 | $959.40 |
| 100,000 | $4,797.00 | $9,594.00 |
Number format in Mali
Mobile numbers in Mali have 8 digits after +223 and no trunk prefix, so the local form 65 01 23 45 becomes +223 65 01 23 45 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
Mali keeps UTC+0 all year with no clock change, so 09:00 in Bamako 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 Mali with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (ML) 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": "+22365012345", "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: "+22365012345", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.04797", country: "ML"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+22365012345", "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"]) # "0.04797"What developers send to Mali
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SMS to Mali: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Mali?
How many SMS to Mali does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Mali numbers for the API?
What language should SMS messages be in for Mali?
Are there seasonal peaks in SMS traffic in Mali?
Start sending to Mali
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Mali at $0.04797 per segment, from the console or with one API call.