WhatsApp API PricingWhatsApp Business API Pricing Calculator
Estimate your monthly WhatsApp messaging costs and plan your budget with ease.
Calculate your WhatsApp Business messaging costs
All incoming messages are free
The WhatsApp Business API Calculator is a useful tool for estimating the cost of using the WhatsApp Business Platform (API). The estimate helps you understand your approximate monthly WhatsApp messaging costs.
As of July 1, 2025, Meta switched from a per-conversation-based to a template-based pricing model, making it simpler to forecast your monthly costs.
You are only billed for outgoing template messages. All incoming user-initiated messages are completely free.
How to classify a template message?
- Businesses are only charged per delivered template message.
- Marketing: promotional messages, updates, including to customers that started the conversation.
- Utility: transaction messages, including alerts, to customers that started the conversation.
- Non-delivered templates are not billed, counter resets at the start of each month.
Understanding the 24-Hour Customer Service Window
When a user messages your business, a 24-hour customer service window opens. Within this window, you can send any type of message and they're completely free.
- Free-form messages and utility template messages are free
- Marketing and authentication template messages are charged
Once a window closes, you can only send approved template messages — utility, authentication, or marketing — to re-engage.
The prices listed are subject to change by Meta and may vary based on the customer's location. For the latest rates, refer to Meta's official pricing page.
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To get the most accurate pricing, check the Meta pricing sheet or the WhatsApp rate card on their documentation pages. *Prices are in USD
Which templates are charged?
WhatsApp Business API charges vary by template category. Understand what's charged and what's free before you estimate your monthly bill.
Marketing
Promotional offers, product launches, re-engagement campaigns, seasonal sales, and any business-initiated outreach to drive revenue.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Message templates are pre-approved messages required to start a conversation on WhatsApp Business API when the customer hasn't messaged you first within the 24-hour customer service window. They must be submitted to and approved by Meta, and are used for: marketing, transactional and utility, authentication, service notifications.
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