Is a WhatsApp chatbot free?
The software can be free on an entry plan, but a chatbot needs the WhatsApp Business API, where Meta charges per message you send; and a bot that automates the consumer app instead is free until the number is banned.
The software can be free on an entry plan, but a chatbot needs the WhatsApp Business API, where Meta charges per message you send; and a bot that automates the consumer app instead is free until the number is banned.
The software can be free — several providers have a free plan, and Linkubit's gives 30 AI replies a month at ₹0 — but a chatbot runs on the WhatsApp Business API, where Meta charges per message: from 1 October 2026, ₹0.115 for each reply the bot sends inside the customer's window, in India before GST, and the template rates outside it. A "free WhatsApp bot" that drives the consumer app or an unofficial client is free until Meta bans the number.
The bigger cost is usually the bot's own limits: a flow answers what you predicted, and a customer's first message rarely is. An assistant that reads the message costs about the same per reply and answers the question that was asked.
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