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title: "Afriroute: Messaging APIs in Africa"
description: "Run SMS, WhatsApp, email, voice, USSD and mobile money via APIs; freemium includes 100 SMS/month. Sandbox-first, audit-ready AI."
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updated_at: "2026-09-25T12:52:11.258Z"
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# Afriroute: Messaging APIs in Africa

Run SMS, WhatsApp, email, voice, USSD and mobile money via APIs; freemium includes 100 SMS/month. Sandbox-first, audit-ready AI.

## Breadcrumbs

- [Communication & Social](/categories/communication-social)
- [AfriRoute](/afriroute)

## Summary

Unified APIs for messaging, payments, and governed AI

A CPaaS and customer engagement platform for enterprises and developers to run SMS, WhatsApp, email, voice, USSD, payments, and governed AI workflows via APIs.

## Product details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Website | https://afriroute.ai/ |
| Tagline | Unified APIs for messaging, payments, and governed AI |
| Primary country | Ethiopia |
| Platforms | Web, API |
| Average rating |  |
| Published reviews | 0 |
| Verified listing | No |

## About the product

AfriRoute is an AI-powered communications and payments infrastructure platform for telecoms, banks, enterprises, partners, and software developers operating in regulated and high-reliability environments.

Key capabilities include:
- **Unified communications APIs** for **SMS, WhatsApp, Telegram, email, voice, and USSD**, with **policy-based routing**, **fallback routes**, **sender management**, **delivery receipts**, and **regional routing**.
- **Payments and airtime rails** through APIs for **mobile money and card processing**, plus **collections, disbursements, and reconciliation webhooks**, alongside **airtime and data bundle distribution**.
- **Verification (OTP) workflows** across **SMS, WhatsApp auth templates, and voice fallback**, including production readiness checks and references to partner seams such as **Microsoft Entra**, **Google Firebase**, and **Meta/WhatsApp**.
- **Governed AI agents** for customer support and automation, including **AI chatbots and voice AI**, **human handoff**, **context persistence**, **transcription**, **call summaries**, **sentiment analysis**, plus **routing optimization** and **fraud and abuse detection** with **confidence thresholds**, **human override**, and **kill switches**.

Available on **Web** (dashboard, onboarding, sandbox tools) and via **APIs/SDKs** with developer documentation at https://afriroute.ai/docs.

It targets **B2B teams** in banking and fintech, telecommunications, government, healthcare, logistics, retail and e-commerce, plus technology partners building integrations.

Notable for its **sandbox-first onboarding with approval-gated production access**, and its emphasis on **audit-ready governance** (tenant isolation, RBAC, audit trails, approvals, evidence exports) designed for African market realities such as USSD and multi-country routing. Pricing is positioned as **freemium**, starting with **100 SMS per month** in the free tier, with upgrades for higher volumes, AI agents, governance controls, and committed SLAs.

## Features

- [Communication & Social](/categories/communication-social): Category
- [B2B](/tags/b2b): Product feature or technology
- [Conversational AI](/tags/conversational-ai): Product feature or technology
- [Messaging](/tags/messaging): Product feature or technology
- [Ethiopia](/countries/ethiopia): Market
- [Kenya](/countries/kenya): Market
- [Nigeria](/countries/nigeria): Market
- [South Africa](/countries/south-africa): Market

## Related pages

- [Alternatives](/afriroute/alternatives)
- [Reviews](/afriroute/reviews)
- [Transparency](/afriroute/transparency)

## Access and citation

- [Canonical HTML page](https://liners.com/afriroute)
- [Markdown route index](/sitemap.md)
- [Agent access guide](/llms.txt)