Yes! You can opt to stay within the free tier for as long as you want to. It’s a great way to get a feel for the platform before deciding to upgrade to take advantage of the more advanced features.

According to the Facebook pricing model, the use of WhatsApp API is an additional charge on top of paying for Social Automate AI. The pricing breaks down as the following:

• You’re charged for each new conversation
• Conversations are priced depending on the country code of the contact’s WhatsApp phone number and the conversation category. There are 4 categories of conversations: Service (initiated by contact*), Marketing, Utility, and Authentication (initiated by business**).
• Your business’s first 1000 Service conversations each month are FREE. After 1000 conversations have been used, further Service conversations are paid.
• Conversations driven by Click-to-WhatsApp ads and the button on your Facebook Business page / IG account are free.

* A Contact-initiated conversation is when a business starts a conversation by replying to a contact’s message. This type of conversation includes any time a business replies to a contact within the 24-hour messaging window. Businesses can send an unlimited number of messages of any type during this window.

** A Business-initiated conversation is when a business starts a conversation by sending a message to the contact for the first time or 24 hours after the contact’s last message (24-hour messaging window). Business-initiated conversations must be sent via a Message Template.

You need an OpenAI account with token credits to use AI tools, like AI Chatbots, with your API key.