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Wati is one of the best known tools for the WhatsApp Business API: a shared inbox, broadcasts and chatbots on one number. People look for an alternative for three reasons, usually: the price of the plan they actually need, the AI agent sold as an extra, or a feature that only comes in a bigger plan.
So first, what Wati costs, from its own pricing page on 11 September 2026. Growth is $49 a month for visitors from Nigeria, Kenya and the Philippines, and ₹2,999 a month for visitors from India, with 3 users. The plan cards list chatbots from Pro, at $99 or ₹6,499 a month. The Astra AI agent is an add-on "priced separately", and its price is not on the page. Below are ten alternatives, cheapest first, with the same kind of source for every price.
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The cheapest Wati alternatives with a published price are Periskope ($25 per user a month, but it does not use the official WhatsApp Business API), AiSensy ($45), Zoko ($49.99), Interakt ($55), CertuAI ($75, with the AI agent included) and respond.io ($99, or $79 paid yearly). Wati itself starts at $49 a month outside India and ₹2,999 in India, with its AI agent sold separately.
Who wrote this list. CertuAI wrote it, and CertuAI is on it, at number 5. The order comes from the rule explained under "How we checked", not from a judge outside the company. Every other price comes from that company's own pricing page, with the address and the date we checked it right next to it. Check them and decide for yourself.
10 options, with the price each company publishes. 2 of them do not publish a price we could check, so they show as price on request.
| # | Name | Price | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Periskope | $25 per user | A team that runs a lot of WhatsApp groups and wants them organised, without applying for the Business API. |
| 2 | AiSensy | $45 or ₹1,500 | A business in India that mainly sends broadcasts and wants a low monthly fee. |
| 3 | Zoko | $49.99 (Starter) | A Shopify-style online store that wants campaigns and order questions on WhatsApp. |
| 4 | Interakt | $55 (Growth) | A team that wants unlimited agent logins without paying per person. |
| 5 | CertuAI | $75 (Start) | Someone leaving Wati because they want an AI agent that answers by itself, without building chatbot flows or buying an add-on. |
| 6 | respond.io | $99 (Starter) | A support or sales team of five to ten people who need rules for who answers what. |
| 7 | Gallabox | $150 or ₹2,999 (Basic) | A sales team in India or the Gulf that wants AI to qualify leads. |
| 8 | Trengo | €349 (Boost) | A team of ten that answers on several channels, not only WhatsApp. |
| 9 | DoubleTick | On request | A sales team that is happy to book a demo and get a quote. |
| 10 | SleekFlow | Depends on country | A business selling in several countries that wants one inbox for all of them. |
On a phone, swipe the table sideways. Prices change: each entry below has the address and the date we checked it.
Starter $25 per user a month, Pro $35 per user a month, each including 1 user, and the first connected phone is free. Enterprise is custom, with a minimum of 50 users or phones. The page mentions billing in US dollars, Indian rupees and Brazilian reais.
Price published at https://www.periskope.app/pricing, checked on 2026-09-11.
Outside India: Basic $45 a month, Pro $99. In India, on aisensy.com/pricing: Basic ₹1,500 a month, Pro ₹3,200, with 1 owner and 5 agents included on Basic and ₹750 a month for each extra agent. Chatbot and AI agent builders are add-ons on top: the AI agent is $50 or ₹1,350 a month with 1,000 AI messages.
Price published at https://aisensy.com/pricing/usd, checked on 2026-09-11.
Starter $49.99 a month with as many agents as you like and a markup of $0.015 per conversation. Plus $79.99 a month with 5,000 conversations and no markup, Elite $139.99. Each AI agent is an add-on at $24.99 a month plus a fee per result. 7-day free trial.
Price published at https://www.zoko.io/pricing, checked on 2026-09-11.
On the page for visitors outside India: Growth $55 a month and Advanced $69 a month, plus taxes, with unlimited agents. Save 8% paying quarterly and 20% yearly. WhatsApp AI Agents add-on $74.99 a month with 100 AI messages, then $0.011 each.
Price published at https://www.interakt.shop/pricing-us/, checked on 2026-09-11.
Start $75 a month: the AI agent on one WhatsApp number connected by scanning a QR code (like WhatsApp Web), up to 800 AI replies a month, with the CRM included. Pro $120 a month: the official WhatsApp Business API from Meta, up to 2,500 AI replies, a landing page and room for 5 people on the team (Start has 3). Monthly plans start with a 7-day trial on a card. The annual plan costs 10 months and has no trial.
Price published at https://certu.com.br/en/planos, checked on 2026-09-11.
Starter $99 a month with 5 users, or $79 a month paid yearly ($948). Growth $199 a month with 10 users, or $159 a month paid yearly ($1,908). The page says WhatsApp fees are not included in any plan, and AI usage is included on Growth and above.
Price published at https://respond.io/pricing, checked on 2026-09-11.
Basic ₹2,999, $150 or AED 549 a month billed quarterly, or ₹2,399, $112 or AED 412 a month billed yearly, with 3 users and 500 AI credits. Essential ₹6,999, $331 or AED 1,214 a month billed quarterly. There is no month-to-month option.
Price published at https://gallabox.com/pricing, checked on 2026-09-11.
Boost €349 a month on monthly billing or €299 a month on yearly billing, with 10 users and 500 conversations a month. Pro €599 a month, or €499 on yearly. Extra conversations with an AI surcharge cost €0.30 each on monthly billing.
Price published at https://www.trengo.com/pricing, checked on 2026-09-11.
Price on request
DoubleTick's pricing page lists Starter, Pro and Enterprise with no price, and sends you to book a demo. On 11 September 2026 the same page said AI agents are "built into every plan" and, in the plan cards, "not available" on Starter and on Pro. Ask them which is true for the plan you are offered.
Price on request
SleekFlow's pricing page picks the currency from the country you visit from. When we opened it on 11 September 2026 it showed us prices in Brazilian reais, including on its US and Singapore pages. We do not publish a number converted from another country's price, so open the page from where you are.
The rule for the order. Cheapest published starting price first. A price per person is counted for one person. Prices in dollars come first because Wati's own price outside India is in dollars; a price only in another currency (Trengo, in euros) comes after them, because we do not convert. Companies with no price we could check go last.
That rule puts CertuAI fifth, behind Periskope, AiSensy, Zoko and Interakt. Periskope is cheaper but is not a Business API provider, and CertuAI's $75 Start is not either: it connects by QR code, and CertuAI on the official Business API starts at $120 (Pro). AiSensy's $45 does not include a chatbot or AI agent, and on Zoko and Interakt the AI agent is an add-on on top of the plan. If you want the AI agent inside the plan price, CertuAI is the cheapest on this list that does it.
We opened each company's own pricing page on 11 September 2026 and wrote down the price, the address of the page and the date. We did not use prices from review sites, from sales calls or from memory. We did not convert any currency: every price is shown in the currency the company shows it in, and $ always means US dollars.
Some pricing pages change with the country you visit from. Wati's page loads its price list from Wati's own servers by country: it gives rupees for India and US dollars for Nigeria, Kenya and the Philippines, and we show both. Interakt sends visitors from outside India to a separate page in dollars, which is the only one we could open. When a page showed us different numbers depending on how we opened it, the entry says price on request and tells you why, instead of picking one.
Meta, the company that owns WhatsApp, charges separately for messages a business starts, such as marketing messages and reminders sent from a template. The rate depends on the country and on the kind of message. None of the prices on this page include those fees unless the entry says so in the company's own words. Ask each provider how they count and pass them on.
CertuAI's price comes from its plans page, which is the same price the checkout charges. There is no display price that differs from the price you pay.
Prices change. If you are reading this months from now, open the address under each entry before you decide anything.
Chatfuel is a strong choice if your customers are on Instagram as much as on WhatsApp; it is on our best AI agents list. Kommo is a sales CRM with WhatsApp built in and is on our WhatsApp CRM list.
Tidio and ManyChat come up in this search too. We did not put a price next to them because their pricing pages showed us prices that depend on the country you visit from, and we could not see the price for India, Nigeria, Kenya or the Philippines.
The AI is an extra. On Wati, the Astra AI agent is an add-on priced separately, and the page does not show the price. If an AI that answers by itself is the reason you want a WhatsApp tool, you cannot know the full cost up front.
Chatbots start at Pro. Growth is the entry plan, but the chatbot builder comes with Pro, at $99 or ₹6,499 a month. Many small businesses start on Growth and find the feature they wanted is one plan up.
Users and contacts. Growth includes 3 users. A bigger team moves up a plan or pays for extra users. Check the plan you will need in six months, not today.
Is it an official WhatsApp Business API provider, or does it connect through WhatsApp Web? Both exist, and they behave differently.
Is the chatbot or AI agent in the price I am looking at, or is it an add-on? If it is an add-on, what does it cost and how many replies does it include?
Do you add anything on top of what Meta charges for WhatsApp messages? Some tools pass Meta's fees through unchanged; others add a markup per message or per conversation.
Can I move my existing number and my contacts? Ask before you pay, not after.
Yes. Among official WhatsApp Business API tools with a published price, AiSensy starts at $45 a month outside India and ₹1,500 in India, against Wati's $49 and ₹2,999. Periskope is cheaper still at $25 per user, but it does not use the official Business API. CertuAI is $75 with the AI agent included, connected by QR code, and $120 on the official Business API. That is more than Wati's $49, but Wati's AI agent is priced separately.
On this list, CertuAI includes the AI agent in the $75 Start plan, with up to 800 AI replies a month. respond.io includes AI usage from its Growth plan at $199 a month ($159 paid yearly). On AiSensy, Zoko, Interakt and Wati itself, the AI agent is an add-on.
On 11 September 2026, Wati's pricing page gave visitors from India Growth at ₹2,999 a month, Pro at ₹6,499 and Business at ₹18,499, or ₹26,388 a year for Growth. Its AI agent, Astra, is an add-on priced separately.
Usually yes, but the steps depend on the new provider. Ask the new provider to explain the move before you cancel Wati, so customers can keep writing to the same number.
Usually not. Meta, the company that owns WhatsApp, charges separately for messages a business starts, like marketing messages and reminders. The rate depends on the country and on the kind of message. Each entry says what the company itself writes about this. Before you sign, ask the provider how they count those messages and whether they add anything on top.
No. Nobody paid to be on it, and no link on this page earns CertuAI a commission. CertuAI is on the list because CertuAI wrote the list, and the page says so right under the title.
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