# WhatsApp Business API pricing in Saudi Arabia

> Meta's WhatsApp Business API rates for Saudi Arabia from 1 October 2026, per message, with what a month costs for a clinic, a restaurant and a car dealer.

Canonical: https://heykiko.io/whatsapp-api-pricing/saudi-arabia
Last updated: 2026-11-07

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.

## 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](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp/pricing)

## What a month costs in Saudi Arabia

- 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.
- 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.
- 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.

Source: [Meta: WhatsApp Business Platform pricing](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp/pricing)

## Questions about WhatsApp pricing in Saudi Arabia

### How much does a WhatsApp Business API message cost in Saudi Arabia?

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.

### How do Saudi rates compare with the rest of the Gulf?

Saudi Arabia and the UAE share a $0.0576 marketing rate; Bahrain, Jordan and Lebanon pay $0.0392.

### Does HeyKiko add a margin to WhatsApp fees?

No. Meta bills your WhatsApp account directly and HeyKiko adds nothing.

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