WhatsApp Business Platform gets costlier from today: What Indian businesses need to know about new messaging charges

Mint - Oct 1, 2026

Meta has changed WhatsApp Business Platform pricing as of 1 October, making service messages chargeable in India after the monthly free quota. Indian businesses get 1,000 free service messages per phone number each month, after which they will pay ₹0.115 per delivered message.

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