Africa
SMS to KenyaOne rate for Kenya, $0.0353, from the first message to the millionth. GSM-7 segments, registered name or shared sender, handset receipts. Funded in crypto, without identity checks.
01Rate
Kenya is the 42nd cheapest of the 56 Africa destinations we serve. Its $0.0353 rate is 16% above the average for the region, and only 169 of our 228 destinations are priced lower.
| Messages | Cost | Elsewhere from |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $35.30 | $76.00 |
| 10,000 | $353.00 | $760.00 |
| 100,000 | $3,530.00 | $7,600.00 |
| 1,000,000 | $35,300.00 | $76,000.00 |
Closest in price nearby: Djibouti ($0.0349), Algeria ($0.0372), Madagascar ($0.0326).
02Route notes
The route reaches subscribers of Safaricom, Airtel and Telkom. They deliver alphanumeric senders only after registration; until then your messages leave from a shared numeric sender, and support prepares the registration file with you. Each operator is monitored separately; when one degrades it shows on the status page under Routes: Middle East & Africa.
The GSM-7 alphabet fits Kenya traffic in segments of 160 characters (153 per part when concatenated). A transactional message with a code and a link usually fits in one segment.
Quiet hours for Kenya are set to 08:00 to 20:00 local, editable per campaign. Import numbers in E.164 with the +254 prefix, like +254 240 678 939; local formats are normalised when the country is known.
Kenya gives full handset receipts, which makes list hygiene easy: unknown numbers are flagged at the first send.
03Sender ID
Alphanumeric senders must be registered with the local operators before they are delivered. Until then messages go out from a shared numeric sender. Support prepares the registration file with you where the destination allows foreign senders.
Registration required
Sender types explained Sender ID rule of every country, in one tableKenyaregistered name or shared sender04At a glance
05Nearby
06Questions, answered
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: Safaricom, Airtel and Telkom. 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.
Operators in Kenya return handset delivery receipts, so delivered means the phone received the message, usually within seconds.
$0.0353 per 160-character segment, the 42nd cheapest of 56 Africa destinations. The lower price published by the crypto-paid gateways we track is $0.0760, so ours is about 54% lower. No setup or monthly fee, and the rate is locked for the life of a campaign.
Alphanumeric senders must be registered with the local operators before they are delivered. Until then messages go out from a shared numeric sender. Support prepares the registration file with you where the destination allows foreign senders.
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