SMS API for South Sudan: bulk SMS to +211 numbers
South Sudan
Calling code +211
- Per SMS segment
- $0.01127
- Messages for $100
- 8,873
- Local language
- English
- Encoding
- GSM-7
What a bulk SMS send to South Sudan 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 South Sudan
Mobile numbers in South Sudan have 9 digits after +211. Locally they are written with a leading 0 (0977 123 456); in the API that 0 is dropped, so the same number goes in the to field as +211 977 123 456.
Alphabet and segments
English text stays inside the GSM-7 alphabet, so one segment to South Sudan 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
South Sudan keeps UTC+2 all year with no clock change, so 09:00 in Juba 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 South Sudan with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (SS) 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": "+211977123456", "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: "+211977123456", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.01127", country: "SS"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+211977123456", "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 South Sudan
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SMS to South Sudan: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to South Sudan?
How many SMS to South Sudan does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write South Sudan numbers for the API?
Which language is best for SMS in South Sudan?
How reliable is SMS during the rainy season?
Start sending to South Sudan
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to South Sudan at $0.01127 per segment, from the console or with one API call.