Meta Business Agent on WhatsApp: What It Is and What It Costs

Meta Business Agent for WhatsApp

Meta's own AI agent, running inside your WhatsApp conversations

It answers your customers in your brand’s voice, acts on your own systems, and hands the conversation to your team when it needs to. Available now on WOZTELL.

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Meta Business Agent on WhatsApp: What It Is and What It Costs

What is Meta Business Agent?

Meta Business Agent is an AI agent built by Meta that runs inside your WhatsApp conversations

Native to the thread, so there’s no app switch, no web widget and no redirect. You give it your business knowledge, your brand voice and access to your systems.

  • What it knows — your business information, FAQs, website and uploaded documents
  • How it responds — skills you configure that set its tone, priorities and brand voice
  • What it can do — your APIs and webhooks: look up an order, book an appointment, confirm a payment
  • Handoff — thread control passes to your team, with the conversation history intact
Once enabled, Meta Business Agent becomes the primary responder on that number. Everything around it is yours to design.

Enterprises already building with Meta Business Agent

Kavak

Used-car marketplace, LATAM
Built upper-funnel agents that open conversations with new arrivals from Click-to-WhatsApp ads and re-engage customers who had gone quiet. Once real intent appears, the conversation passes to Kavak's own AI agents to continue the journey.

Sem Parar

Toll payments, Brazil
Drivers enter a licence plate, see outstanding tolls and pay by card or PIX inside the conversation. Drivers without a payment tag can buy one in the same thread.

Trendyol

Ecommerce, Turkey
Order events trigger a message, and a customer reply activates the agent for product discovery across a catalogue of roughly 7 to 8 million items, with side-by-side comparison and a deep link into the app for checkout. Available in Arabic and English.

Meta Business Agent on WhatsApp: What It Is and What It Costs
Meta Business Agent on WhatsApp: What It Is and What It Costs
Meta Business Agent on WhatsApp: What It Is and What It Costs
Thinking about a deployment like these?

Why deploy Meta Business Agent now: WhatsApp pricing is changing

When a customer messages you, a 24-hour window opens. It resets each time they write again. Inside that window, any reply that isn’t a pre-approved template is a service message, whether a human or your AI sent it. Outside it, you can only send templates.

From 1 October 2026, each one is charged at your market’s utility and authentication rate.

So running your own AI on WhatsApp means paying two bills instead of one: a service message charge from Meta, plus a token fee from your AI provider.

Meta Business Agent on WhatsApp: What It Is and What It Costs
Meta Business Agent on WhatsApp: What It Is and What It Costs

Where Meta Business Agent sits

Category Charged
Marketing · Utility · Authentication Per message, template only
Service — human or your own AI Per message, from 1 Oct 2026
Meta Business Agent Per token — AI and delivery in one charge

Agent replies are their own category, so no service message fee applies on top.

Not sure what October does to your numbers?

Meta runs the agent. WOZTELL runs everything around it

Meta

The agent, the model, the reach into WhatsApp.

Meta Business Agent on WhatsApp: What It Is and What It Costs
WOZTELL

Integration, connectors, entry points, campaigns, handoff design, analytics and governance.

Meta Business Agent on WhatsApp: What It Is and What It Costs
You

Your brand, your business rules, your systems.

Meta Business Agent on WhatsApp: What It Is and What It Costs

Entry points (Click-to-WhatsApp and organic)

Systems integration

Campaigns and re-engagement

Handoff and escalation design

Compliance and business verification

Questions we get asked

The Meta Business Agent Platform runs on the Cloud API, so your number needs to be managed through the WhatsApp Business Platform rather than the app alone. Meta offers a separate, simpler AI agent inside the WhatsApp Business app for smaller businesses. That one has no API access, so it can’t connect to your systems, take action on your data or hand off into your CRM.
You control the agent’s name, its persona, its behavioural instructions, the knowledge it draws on and the systems it connects to.
The same as utility and authentication messages there, and there are no volume tiers on service messages.
It keeps working, and from October you’ll pay for its replies as service messages on top of what your AI provider charges. Which setup makes sense depends on your volumes and how complex your conversations are. That’s a conversation worth having with us.

Find out what Meta Business Agent means for your business

Tell us your monthly conversation volume and where your customers are.
We’ll tell you what October changes and whether a Meta Business Agent deployment makes sense for you.
Shall we talk?
Meta Business Partner and WhatsApp Business Solution Provider

Meta Business Partner and WhatsApp Business Solution Provider