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WhatsApp Business API pricing calculator

Enter how many WhatsApp Business API messages you send each month. The calculator applies Meta’s published rate for each country and shows the monthly and yearly total. It runs in your browser and asks for no email.

Calculate your monthly cost

Each number gets 1,000 free service messages a month.

Meta’s own USD rate card, no conversion.

Saudi Arabia

Estimated Meta charge

46.99 USD

per month

About 563.88 USD per year

1,000 of 1,000 free service messages applied.

Biggest cost: Marketing messages.

Rates as of 1 October 2026, from Meta’s pricing page.

Checked against Meta’s rate-card files on 21 October 2026. Meta can next change prices on 1 January 2027.

Cost breakdown

CountryCategoryMessagesFreeRate per messageCost
Saudi ArabiaMarketing messages50000.0576 USD28.80 USD
Saudi ArabiaUtility messages1,00000.0107 USD10.70 USD
Saudi ArabiaAuthentication messages20000.0107 USD2.14 USD
Saudi ArabiaService messages (replies)1,5001,0000.0107 USD5.35 USD

How this is counted

  • Each phone number gets 1,000 free service messages a month. If you message several countries, the free messages are shared between them in proportion to your service volume, because Meta does not say which messages count first.
  • The calculator uses the list rate for every message. Meta lowers utility and authentication rates at high monthly volumes, so a very large sender pays less than shown.
  • Authentication messages sent to some countries by a business registered elsewhere use Meta’s higher authentication-international rate, which this calculator does not apply.

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This is an estimate from Meta’s published list rates. Meta’s invoice is the final figure, in the currency set on your account. Taxes, your provider’s fees, bank conversion fees and Meta Business Agent charges are not included. Authentication messages sent to some countries by a business registered elsewhere use Meta’s higher authentication-international rate, which this calculator does not apply. Messages sent in a free entry point window are free, and the calculator does not deduct them. The rate depends on the country code of the customer’s number. BottleTech is not affiliated with Meta. WhatsApp is a trademark of Meta.

How Meta charges

Meta charges for each message it delivers. Every message falls into one of five categories.

  • Marketing: offers, launches and reminders to buy.
  • Utility: order confirmations, delivery updates and appointment reminders.
  • Authentication: one-time passcodes.
  • Service: your free-form replies to a customer who wrote to you in the last 24 hours.
  • Meta Business Agent: replies written by Meta’s own AI agent, charged by the token. The calculator leaves these out.

Since 1 October 2026 Meta charges for service messages after the first 1,000 each month on each business phone number. It also charges for utility templates sent inside the 24-hour window. Meta prices Jordan, Bahrain, Lebanon and Yemen together as “Rest of Middle East”.

Read our guide to the WhatsApp Business app and the API if you have not chosen between them yet.

WhatsApp Business API rates by country (from 1 October 2026)

Meta’s list rate per message, as published in its rate-card files. Rates as of 1 October 2026.

USD

Meta list rate per message in USD, effective from 1 October 2026
CountryMarketingUtilityAuthenticationService
Saudi Arabia0.05760.01070.01070.0107
United Arab Emirates0.05760.01570.01570.0157
Egypt0.06440.00360.00360.0036
Kuwait0.07920.04400.04400.0440
Qatar0.03410.01200.01200.0120
Oman0.03410.02470.02470.0247
Iraq0.03410.00790.00790.0079
India0.01180.00140.00140.0014
Pakistan0.04730.01500.01500.0150
Turkey0.01090.00090.00090.0009
Rest of Middle East (Bahrain, Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen)0.03920.00910.00910.0091
Other (countries with no rate of their own or regional rate on Meta’s card)0.06040.00770.00770.0077

SAR

Meta list rate per message in SAR, effective from 1 October 2026
CountryMarketingUtilityAuthenticationService
Saudi Arabia0.21590.04010.04010.0401
United Arab Emirates0.21590.05880.05880.0588
Egypt0.24130.01350.01350.0135
Kuwait0.29690.16490.16490.1649
Qatar0.12780.04500.04500.0450
Oman0.12780.09260.09260.0926
Iraq0.12780.02960.02960.0296
India0.04420.00520.00520.0052
Pakistan0.17720.05630.05630.0563
Turkey0.04080.00340.00340.0034
Rest of Middle East (Bahrain, Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen)0.14700.03410.03410.0341
Other (countries with no rate of their own or regional rate on Meta’s card)0.22630.02880.02880.0288

AED

Meta list rate per message in AED, effective from 1 October 2026
CountryMarketingUtilityAuthenticationService
Saudi Arabia0.21150.03930.03930.0393
United Arab Emirates0.21150.05760.05760.0576
Egypt0.23640.01320.01320.0132
Kuwait0.29080.16150.16150.1615
Qatar0.12520.04400.04400.0440
Oman0.12520.09070.09070.0907
Iraq0.12520.02900.02900.0290
India0.04330.00510.00510.0051
Pakistan0.17370.05510.05510.0551
Turkey0.04000.00330.00330.0033
Rest of Middle East (Bahrain, Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen)0.14400.03340.03340.0334
Other (countries with no rate of their own or regional rate on Meta’s card)0.22180.02830.02830.0283

Common questions

Meta charges for each message it delivers to a customer. The rate depends on the message category and on the country code of the customer’s number. Messages that customers send to you are free.
Marketing messages are offers, launches and reminders to buy. Utility messages are order confirmations, delivery updates and appointment reminders. Authentication messages carry one-time passcodes. Service messages are your free-form replies to a customer who wrote to you in the last 24 hours. Each category has its own rate.
Only some of them. Each business phone number gets 1,000 free service messages a month, and Meta charges from the 1,001st. Meta also charges for utility templates sent inside the 24-hour customer service window from 1 October 2026. Messages sent in a free entry point window, which a Click to WhatsApp ad opens, are free. The calculator does not deduct those messages. Meta explains the window on its pricing page.
Meta delivers service messages inside the free 1,000 a month and stops delivering them after that. Add a payment method in Meta’s Billing Hub to keep service messages flowing.
Meta does not list Jordan as a market of its own. It prices Jordan, Bahrain, Lebanon and Yemen together as “Rest of Middle East”. Pick Jordan in the calculator and it uses that rate. The rate follows the country code of the customer’s number, so a Jordanian business that messages +966 numbers pays the Saudi rate.
Meta’s invoice is in the currency set on your messaging account. Saudi riyal, UAE dirham and US dollar are among the supported currencies, each with its own rate card, and the calculator reads that card. The Jordanian dinar is not among them. For dinars the calculator converts Meta’s USD rates at 0.709 dinar per dollar, the midpoint of the band the Central Bank of Jordan publishes. Your bank or card does the real conversion.
No. A provider that connects you to the API adds its own subscription or per-message fee on top of Meta’s charge. The calculator also leaves out taxes, bank conversion fees and Meta Business Agent, Meta’s own AI agent, which Meta charges by the token. Ask your provider which Meta charges it passes on at cost.
Meta changes prices only on 1 January, 1 April, 1 July or 1 October, and gives at least one month’s notice of a rate-card change. These rates took effect on 1 October 2026. We last compared them with Meta’s rate-card files on 21 October 2026. The next date Meta can change prices is 1 January 2027.

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