SMS API for Sudan: bulk SMS to +249 numbers
Sudan
Calling code +249
- Per SMS segment
- $0.01787
- Messages for $100
- 5,595
- Local language
- Arabic and English
- Encoding
- Unicode (UCS-2)
What a bulk SMS send to Sudan costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.01787 | $0.03574 |
| 1,000 | $17.87 | $35.74 |
| 10,000 | $178.70 | $357.40 |
| 100,000 | $1,787.00 | $3,574.00 |
Number format in Sudan
Mobile numbers in Sudan have 9 digits after +249. Locally they are written with a leading 0 (091 123 1234); in the API that 0 is dropped, so the same number goes in the to field as +249 91 123 1234.
Alphabet and segments
Text in Arabic is always Unicode, so a message to Sudan written in Arabic carries 70 characters in one segment and 67 in each part of a longer one. Codes and alerts written in English or plain Latin letters fit 160 characters, which halves the cost of a long notice.
Time zone and timing
Sudan keeps UTC+2 all year with no clock change, so 09:00 in Khartoum 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 Sudan with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (SD) 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": "+249911231234", "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: "+249911231234", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.01787", country: "SD"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+249911231234", "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"]) # "0.01787"What developers send to Sudan
Mobile payments
When a user in Khartoum sends money via mobile banking, they receive an SMS confirming the transaction and the new balance.
Order updates
Customers in Sudan receive SMS notifications when their online orders are shipped from warehouses in Khartoum.
Health alerts
Clinics in Sudan send SMS reminders to patients about upcoming appointments or vaccination schedules.
Event tickets
Attendees in Khartoum get SMS confirmations with QR codes for entry to concerts or sports events.
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SMS to Sudan: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Sudan?
How many SMS to Sudan does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Sudan numbers for the API?
What language should SMS messages be in for Sudan?
How can SMS reach rural areas in Sudan?
Start sending to Sudan
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Sudan at $0.01787 per segment, from the console or with one API call.