Africa
SMS to BeninBulk campaigns and API messages to Benin at one published rate, the 18th cheapest in Africa. Your name as the sender; quiet hours 08:00 to 20:00 local time. Paid in crypto, no identity checks.
01Rate
Sending to Benin costs $0.0196 per segment, which places it 18th of 56 in Africa and 86th of 228 overall, 36% below what the region costs on average.
| Messages | Cost | Elsewhere from |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $19.60 | $42.00 |
| 10,000 | $196.00 | $420.00 |
| 100,000 | $1,960.00 | $4,200.00 |
| 1,000,000 | $19,600.00 | $42,000.00 |
Closest in price nearby: Chad ($0.0196), Gabon ($0.0196), Mozambique ($0.0200).
02Route notes
The route reaches subscribers of MTN, Moov Africa and Celtiis. All of them deliver alphanumeric senders as typed, so your brand name appears on the handset without registration. Each operator is monitored separately; when one degrades it shows on the status page under Routes: Middle East & Africa.
GSM-7 covers everyday Benin traffic: 160 characters (153 per part when concatenated) per part. Watch for smart quotes and emoji, which force Unicode and halve the segment length.
Marketing campaigns are held outside 08:00 to 20:00 local time by default. Transactional messages such as codes and receipts bypass the window. Numbers are dialled with +229, for example +229 090 033 104.
Benin gives full handset receipts, which makes list hygiene easy: unknown numbers are flagged at the first send.
03Sender ID
Alphanumeric senders pass as typed here. Brand names, product names and short codes of letters all work, without a registration file, and the numeric fallback only kicks in when an operator rejects the name.
Alphanumeric delivered
Sender types explained Sender ID rule of every country, in one tableBeninyour name as the sender04At a glance
05Nearby
06Questions, answered
Operators in Benin return handset delivery receipts, so delivered means the phone received the message, usually within seconds.
$0.0196 per 160-character segment, the 18th cheapest of 56 Africa destinations. The lower price published by the crypto-paid gateways we track is $0.0420, so ours is about 53% lower. No setup or monthly fee, and the rate is locked for the life of a campaign.
Alphanumeric senders pass as typed here. Brand names, product names and short codes of letters all work, without a registration file, and the numeric fallback only kicks in when an operator rejects the name.
By default between 08:00 and 20:00 local time. The window is editable per campaign; codes and alerts can bypass it.
All major networks: MTN, Moov Africa and Celtiis. Delivery is measured per operator and the report names the one that failed when a message does not land.
Latin text is sent in GSM-7, 160 characters (153 per part when concatenated) per segment. Add an emoji or a non-Latin character and the whole message switches to Unicode at 70 characters (67 per part when concatenated). The composer shows the count before you send. Up to 6 parts per message.
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