SMS API for Niger: bulk SMS to +227 numbers
Niger
Calling code +227
- Per SMS segment
- $0.01277
- Messages for $100
- 7,830
- Local language
- French
- Encoding
- GSM-7 or Unicode
What a bulk SMS send to Niger costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.01277 | $0.02554 |
| 1,000 | $12.77 | $25.54 |
| 10,000 | $127.70 | $255.40 |
| 100,000 | $1,277.00 | $2,554.00 |
Number format in Niger
Mobile numbers in Niger have 8 digits after +227 and no trunk prefix, so the local form 93 12 34 56 becomes +227 93 12 34 56 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
Niger keeps UTC+1 all year with no clock change, so 09:00 in Niamey is always 08:00 UTC. send_at takes UTC or any ISO 8601 offset, and the console scheduler converts from your own time zone.
Send to Niger with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (NE) 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": "+22793123456", "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: "+22793123456", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.01277", country: "NE"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+22793123456", "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"]) # "0.01277"What developers send to Niger
Payment confirmations
Mobile banking apps in Niamey send SMS receipts to users after successful transactions, confirming the amount and recipient.
Delivery updates
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Exam schedules
Universities in Maradi notify students via SMS about exam dates, venues, and important instructions.
Agricultural alerts
Farm cooperatives in Agadez send SMS updates to members about weather forecasts and market prices.
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SMS to Niger: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Niger?
How many SMS to Niger does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Niger numbers for the API?
What language should SMS messages be sent in?
Are there seasonal peaks in SMS traffic?
Start sending to Niger
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Niger at $0.01277 per segment, from the console or with one API call.