Africa's Talking

Africa's Talking is a pan-African communications platform that exposes a unified set of REST APIs for SMS, USSD, Voice, Airtime, Mobile Data, and Payments. Developers authenticate with an apiKey and username and reach mobile subscribers across Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, and other African markets through carrier integrations.

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APIs

Africa's Talking SMS API

Send single and bulk SMS, monetize content with premium SMS, manage premium subscriptions and checkout tokens, and fetch inbox messages via the messaging endpoint authenticated ...

Africa's Talking USSD API

Build interactive USSD menus driven by HTTP callbacks. Africa's Talking POSTs session state (sessionId, serviceCode, phoneNumber, text) to your callback URL and your response be...

Africa's Talking Voice API

Make outbound calls, transfer and queue calls, and upload media files. Incoming and outgoing calls trigger HTTP callbacks to which you respond with Voice XML actions such as Say...

Africa's Talking Airtime API

Programmatically distribute mobile airtime to one or many recipients across supported African carriers, with per-recipient currency, amount, and retry control.

Africa's Talking Mobile Data API

Disburse mobile data bundles in bulk to subscribers, specifying quantity, unit (MB or GB), and validity (Day, Week, or Month) per recipient against a registered payment product.

Africa's Talking Payments API

Collect and disburse money over mobile money rails, including mobile C2B checkout, B2C disbursement to customers, and B2B business-to-business transfers, with per-country curren...

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Africastalking Plans Pricing

2 plans

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Rate Limits

Africastalking Rate Limits

5 limits

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Africastalking Finops

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opencollection: 1.0.0
info:
  name: Africa's Talking API
  version: version1
request:
  auth:
    type: apikey
    key: apiKey
    value: '{{apiKey}}'
    in: header
items:
- info:
    name: SMS
    type: folder
  items:
  - info:
      name: Send SMS
      type: http
    http:
      method: POST
      url: https://api.africastalking.com/version1/messaging
      body:
        type: form-urlencoded
        data: username={{username}}&to=+254711XXXYYY&message=Hello&bulkSMSMode=1
    docs: Send single or bulk SMS to one or more recipients.
  - info:
      name: Fetch Messages
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.africastalking.com/version1/messaging?username={{username}}&lastReceivedId=0
    docs: Fetch inbox messages sent to your short codes or sender IDs.
- info:
    name: Premium SMS
    type: folder
  items:
  - info:
      name: Create Checkout Token
      type: http
    http:
      method: POST
      url: https://api.africastalking.com/checkout/token/create
      body:
        type: form-urlencoded
        data: phoneNumber=+254711XXXYYY
    docs: Create a checkout token required to create a premium SMS subscription.
  - info:
      name: Create Subscription
      type: http
    http:
      method: POST
      url: https://api.africastalking.com/version1/subscription/create
      body:
        type: form-urlencoded
        data: username={{username}}&shortCode=12345&keyword=premium&phoneNumber=+254711XXXYYY&checkoutToken=CkTkn_SampleCkTknId123
    docs: Subscribe a phone number to a premium SMS product.
- info:
    name: Airtime
    type: folder
  items:
  - info:
      name: Send Airtime
      type: http
    http:
      method: POST
      url: https://api.africastalking.com/version1/airtime/send
      body:
        type: form-urlencoded
        data: username={{username}}&recipients=[{"phoneNumber":"+254711XXXYYY","currencyCode":"KES","amount":"100"}]
    docs: Distribute airtime to one or more recipients.
- info:
    name: Voice
    type: folder
  items:
  - info:
      name: Make Call
      type: http
    http:
      method: POST
      url: https://voice.africastalking.com/call
      body:
        type: form-urlencoded
        data: username={{username}}&from=+254711XXXYYY&to=+254733YYYZZZ
    docs: Initiate an outbound call from a registered number.
  - info:
      name: Queue Status
      type: http
    http:
      method: POST
      url: https://voice.africastalking.com/queueStatus
      body:
        type: form-urlencoded
        data: username={{username}}&phoneNumbers=+254711XXXYYY
    docs: Get the number of queued calls on registered numbers.
  - info:
      name: Upload Media
      type: http
    http:
      method: POST
      url: https://voice.africastalking.com/mediaUpload
      body:
        type: form-urlencoded
        data: username={{username}}&url=https://example.com/media.mp3&phoneNumber=+254711XXXYYY
    docs: Upload a media file for playback in voice actions.
- info:
    name: Mobile Data
    type: folder
  items:
  - info:
      name: Send Mobile Data
      type: http
    http:
      method: POST
      url: https://bundles.africastalking.com/mobile/data/request
      body:
        type: json
        data: '{"username":"{{username}}","productName":"MyDataProduct","recipients":[{"phoneNumber":"+254711XXXYYY","quantity":50,"unit":"MB","validity":"Day"}]}'
    docs: Disburse mobile data bundles to recipients.
- info:
    name: Payments
    type: folder
  items:
  - info:
      name: Mobile Checkout (C2B)
      type: http
    http:
      method: POST
      url: https://payments.africastalking.com/mobile/checkout/request
      body:
        type: json
        data: '{"username":"{{username}}","productName":"MyPaymentProduct","phoneNumber":"+254711XXXYYY","currencyCode":"KES","amount":100.5}'
    docs: Initiate a customer-to-business mobile money checkout.
  - info:
      name: Mobile B2C
      type: http
    http:
      method: POST
      url: https://payments.africastalking.com/mobile/b2c/request
      body:
        type: json
        data: '{"username":"{{username}}","productName":"MyPaymentProduct","recipients":[{"phoneNumber":"+254711XXXYYY","currencyCode":"KES","amount":100,"reason":"SalaryPayment"}]}'
    docs: Send money from your wallet to mobile subscribers.
  - info:
      name: Mobile B2B
      type: http
    http:
      method: POST
      url: https://payments.africastalking.com/mobile/b2b/request
      body:
        type: json
        data: '{"username":"{{username}}","productName":"MyPaymentProduct","provider":"Mpesa","transferType":"BusinessPayBill","currencyCode":"KES","amount":1000,"destinationChannel":"123456","destinationAccount":"AcmeLtd"}'
    docs: Send money from your business to another business.