SMS API for Republic of the Congo: bulk SMS to +242 numbers
Republic of the Congo
Calling code +242
- Per SMS segment
- $0.01277
- Messages for $100
- 7,830
- Local language
- French
- Encoding
- GSM-7 or Unicode
What a bulk SMS send to the Republic of the Congo 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 Republic of the Congo
Mobile numbers in the Republic of the Congo have 9 digits after +242 and no trunk prefix, so the local form 06 123 4567 becomes +242 06 123 4567 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
The Republic of the Congo keeps UTC+1 all year with no clock change, so 09:00 in Brazzaville 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 Republic of the Congo with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (CG) 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": "+242061234567", "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: "+242061234567", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.01277", country: "CG"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+242061234567", "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 the Republic of the Congo
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SMS to Republic of the Congo: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to the Republic of the Congo?
How many SMS to the Republic of the Congo does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Republic of the Congo numbers for the API?
Start sending to The Republic of the Congo
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to the Republic of the Congo at $0.01277 per segment, from the console or with one API call.