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Robase is an SMS API for sending one-time passcodes and transactional messages across Africa, with the same routing, automatic failover in 6 markets (NG, KE, GH, ZA, BJ, CI), and prepaid credits for both. This is not a programmable-email platform. There is no public email HTTP API. Account mail (signup verification, receipts, invites) stays internal.

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Start here

Quickstart

Create a key and send your first OTP or transactional SMS.

API reference

The five public endpoints, with a live playground.

SDKs

Official clients for Node.js, Go, and PHP.

Changelog

What shipped, dated from git history.

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What you can build

OTP verification

Send a code with POST /v1/otp/send and check it with POST /v1/otp/verify.

Transactional SMS

Receipts, alerts, and order updates on POST /v1/sms/send.

AI agents

Hosted MCP at https://api.robase.dev/mcp with an Agent API key.

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Coverage we can defend

Prepaid routes (source: the pricing table): Eight priced markets from the live rate table (GET /v1/pricing) and robase.dev/pricing. Canada and other +1 numbers use the US route operationally and are not listed as priced markets (Canada is on the rate table at 10 credits). Additional destinations are added as priced routes. Ask if you need a country that is not on the table. We do not publish a delivery-rate percentage. Credits are refunded when every upstream provider fails, or when anti-spam blocks a send before it reaches a carrier.

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Why Robase

POST /v1/otp/send for one-time passcodes and POST /v1/sms/send for transactional messages. Same keys (robe_ + 64 hex), same credits, same failover.
Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Benin, and Ivory Coast retry a fallback upstream if the primary rejects or times out. The United Kingdom and United States routes are currently single-provider.
Failures return { "error": { "type": "...", "message": "..." } }. Match on error.type: it is stable. error.message is prose and may be translated.
Naira-first credits with Paystack and Flutterwave top-ups. Nigeria is 1 credit → ₦6/message. No monthly fee.

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Official SDKs

There is no Python client. Any other language can call https://api.robase.dev directly.

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