WhatsApp Business API pricing in Saudi Arabia
What Meta charges per WhatsApp message to Saudi numbers, and what a month costs for a clinic in Dammam, a restaurant in Riyadh and a car dealer.
Updated 7 November 2026
Meta's rates in Saudi Arabia
Per delivered message, from Meta's USD rate card for Saudi Arabia effective 1 October 2026.
| Message | What it's for | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Marketing | Offers and announcements, to customers who opted in | $0.0576 |
| Utility | Booking reminders, order and delivery updates | $0.0107 |
| Service | Replies inside the 24-hour window, after 1,000 free a month per number | $0.0107 |
| Authentication | One-time passwords to Saudi numbers, from a business based there | $0.0107 |
| Authentication (international) | One-time passwords to Saudi numbers from a business based abroad | $0.0598 |
Utility messages are charged at this rate up to 100,000 a month and authentication up to 300,000; Meta's lower volume rates apply after that. Source: Meta
What a month costs in Saudi Arabia
At Meta's list rates, for three sizes of business, with one WhatsApp number each.
- A clinic in Dammam
For a clinic in Dammam with 400 chats a month and about 3 replies each, 1,200 replies are 200 paid after the free 1,000: $2.14. Adding 700 reminders and updates ($7.49) brings Meta's bill to about $9.63 a month.
- A restaurant in Riyadh
For a restaurant in Riyadh with 2,000 chats a month and about 3 replies each, 6,000 replies are 5,000 paid after the free 1,000: $53.50. Adding 2,500 reminders and updates ($26.75) and 800 offers ($46.08) brings Meta's bill to about $126.33 a month.
- A car dealer with three showrooms
For a car dealer with three showrooms with 5,000 chats a month and about 5 replies each, 25,000 replies are 24,000 paid after the free 1,000: $256.80. Adding 6,000 reminders and updates ($64.20) and 10,000 offers ($576.00) brings Meta's bill to about $897.00 a month.
How Meta bills Saudi businesses
Meta bills your own WhatsApp Business account, not HeyKiko, and HeyKiko adds nothing to Meta's fees.
- Updates cheaper than in the UAE
A utility message to a Saudi number is $0.0107, against $0.0157 in the UAE; marketing is $0.0576 in both.
- Marketing several times utility
At $0.0576, a marketing message costs about 5 times a utility message; send reminders and order updates as utility templates.
- Foreign OTP senders pay a little more
One-time passwords to Saudi numbers from a business abroad are $0.0598 each, against $0.0107 from inside the Kingdom.
- Free conversations after an ad
When a buyer messages from a Click-to-WhatsApp ad and you reply, Meta doesn't charge for your messages to that buyer for up to 7 days.
Questions about WhatsApp pricing in Saudi Arabia
Straight answers before you budget.
From 1 October 2026, Meta charges $0.0576 per marketing message and $0.0107 per utility or authentication message to Saudi numbers. Service replies are free for the first 1,000 a month per number, then $0.0107 each.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE share a $0.0576 marketing rate; Bahrain, Jordan and Lebanon pay $0.0392.
No. Meta bills your WhatsApp account directly and HeyKiko adds nothing.
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