WhatsApp cost calculator
What a month on WhatsApp really costs.
Your Nateq bill plus an estimate of what Meta charges your own WhatsApp Business Account, by country.
Media fee and transcription past your pool. Excludes carrier minutes on your own trunk.
Team seats
5 × $29 · billed $1,740 a year
$145
Subscription / month
$145
AI resolutions
AI 500: $49 + 300 × $0.18
$103
Pay as you go
$160
AI 500
$103
AI 2,000
$149
AI 6,000
$379
AI 18,000
$899
AI 500 is the cheapest option from 246 to 1,055 resolutions. Billed monthly, with no annual discount.
Estimated wallet usage / month
$103
With the founding offer: $101.50 subscription and $72.10 wallet usage a month for your first 12 months.
True monthly cost
What the month actually costs, Meta included.
Your Nateq bill, plus an estimate of what Meta charges your own WhatsApp Business Account. Meta bills that account directly, to the payment method on your Meta account; it is not part of your Nateq invoice and is not added to the Nateq total below.
- Nateq plan: Team5 × $29 · AI 500: $49 + 300 × $0.18
- $248
- WhatsApp messages (Meta)Paid to Meta directly, no markup from Nateq1,600 service messages − 1,000 free = 600 × $0.0107 (the recipient country's utility rate)
- $6.42
- WhatsApp templates (Meta)Paid to Meta directly, no markup from Nateq0 templates at Meta's rates: marketing $0.0576, utility $0.0107 (charged inside the 24-hour window too), authentication $0.0107. Messages inside a 72-hour free entry point window (Click-to-WhatsApp ads, Page call-to-action) are free. Effective October 1, 2026 — Meta official rate card — last checked 2026-09-24
- $0
- WhatsApp calls from customers (Meta)Paid to Meta directly, no markup from NateqFree from Meta at any length. Only your Nateq AI voice minutes apply.
- $0
- WhatsApp calls to customers (Meta)Paid to Meta directly, no markup from Nateq0 min, billed by Meta per minute by country and volume tier. See Meta's calling rate card
- Not in total
Nateq monthly total
Your Nateq plan and AI voice. Meta's WhatsApp charges are shown above as an estimate and billed by Meta separately.
$248
With the founding offer: $173.60/mo for your first 12 months.
Estimated Meta charges, billed by Meta to your own account
Requires a payment method on your Meta account. Without one, Meta stops delivering replies after the free 1,000 service messages per number each month.
≈ $6.42
Weighing this against Meta's own AI on WhatsApp? See Nateq vs Meta Business Agent, with the cost per resolved conversation in each market.
- An estimate of your recurring bill. How call minutes are billed depends on how the call travels:
- Customers calling your WhatsApp number: free from Meta. Only your Nateq AI voice minutes apply.
- You calling customers on WhatsApp: billed by Meta to your WhatsApp Business Account per minute, by the recipient's country, in 6-second pulses with volume tiers.
- Phone calls: over your own SIP trunk, your carrier bills the minutes and Nateq adds a media and routing fee of $0.013 per minute.