SMS Rates

Public international rate card — supported countries and indicative TZS pricing, no authentication required.

Public reference data powering pricing pages: the countries SendAfrica delivers to and the indicative price per SMS in Tanzanian Shillings. No login, no API key — safe to call straight from the browser.

#Full rate card

GET/v1/ratesPublic

200 OK

json

{
  "success": true,
  "data": [
    { "name": "Nigeria",      "iso2": "NG", "dial_code": "+234", "rate_tzs": 21 },
    { "name": "Egypt",        "iso2": "EG", "dial_code": "+20",  "rate_tzs": 26 },
    { "name": "Tanzania",     "iso2": "TZ", "dial_code": "+255", "rate_tzs": 35 },
    { "name": "South Africa", "iso2": "ZA", "dial_code": "+27",  "rate_tzs": 52 }
  ],
  "timestamp": "2026-07-23T06:29:00Z"
}

Field	Type	Meaning
`name`	string	Country name as published
`iso2`	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code
`dial_code`	string	E.164 calling code with `+`
`rate_tzs`	number	Indicative price per SMS in TZS

#Single country lookup

GET/v1/rates/{country}Public

{country} matches ISO2 code or name, case-insensitively — GET /v1/rates/KE and GET /v1/rates/kenya return the same thing. Unknown countries return 404 country_not_supported.

#Fetch and render

rates.js

javascript

async function loadRates() {
  const res = await fetch("https://api.sendafrica.online/v1/rates");
  const { data: countries } = await res.json();

  return countries
    .map(c => `${c.name} (${c.dial_code}) — TZS ${c.rate_tzs}/SMS`)
    .join("\n");
}

Cache it

The list is small (~27 rows) and changes rarely — fetch once on page load and cache client-side (sessionStorage) rather than re-fetching per render. Always treat the live endpoint as the source of truth over any snapshot table.

#Snapshot of popular corridors

Country	ISO2	Dial code	Rate (TZS)
Nigeria	NG	+234	21
Egypt	EG	+20	26
Tanzania	TZ	+255	35
South Africa	ZA	+27	52
Zambia	ZM	+260	84
Uganda	UG	+256	130
Ghana	GH	+233	186
Rwanda	RW	+250	210
Kenya	KE	+254	306
Ethiopia	ET	+251	310

Credits vs TZS

For non-Tanzania destinations, credits charged per part = ceil(rate_tzs / 35) rounded up (e.g. Namibia's TZS 112 → 4 credits = TZS 140 effectively). Use this formula rather than straight division when comparing.

Notifications

Webhooks