Wati and WaliChat overlap heavily. This page goes on what a feature grid never shows: what a month adds up to, and what a move actually breaks.
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Up here because this is the order the two arrive in, rather than the order a pricing page presents them. Every rate, country and date behind the three figures is itemised further down. See the working
WaliChat is a WhatsApp platform: one per-number subscription carrying a multi-agent inbox, campaigns, a contacts CRM, no-code automation and the whole REST API. Measured against Wati the shared ground is wide, and admitting that costs us nothing. Four things send teams our way instead: a number can go live from a QR scan with no Meta application, the developer surface is a product rather than a footnote, WhatsApp is the entire product instead of one tab among several, and an agency can sell all of it under its own name.
One disclosure before the detail: this comparison is published by one of the two products in it. The Wati column is limited to what Wati says about itself, and every line about WaliChat is checkable inside the trial.
Naming the two invoices is easy, and most comparison pages stop there and point at a pricing page. This is the multiplication instead: the rate behind each figure, the quantity it was multiplied by, and underneath it the line that moves when the template category changes, plus the month that never gets billed at all.
| What is being charged | Rate | How many | This month |
|---|---|---|---|
| WaliChat Professional, covering the inbox, apps, campaigns, CRM and API for 3 people answering | $39.90 | 1 number | $39.90 |
| Utility templates you start, delivered to Spain, billed by Meta | $0.0200 | 1,000 | $20.00 |
| What leaves the account | $59.90 | ||
Nothing moved on our side of the invoice. Meta's line roughly tripled because the category changed, and a marketing template costs the same through every provider on earth. That is why a single headline price tells you about the half a vendor controls and nothing about the half it does not.
This is the only figure two platforms can honestly be compared on, so ask what each one contains. Here it buys the shared inbox, the agent apps, broadcast campaigns, the contacts database and API access. The Flows builder starts a tier up, on Business at $69.90 a month, which is better said here than discovered in week two.
Then put the question this table cannot settle for you to both vendors: does the amount Meta charges reach your bill untouched, or does a margin get added somewhere in between? Silence on that point while your card is still in your pocket is itself a reply, and it is the one to act on.
Our plan prices are read live from the same data /pricing renders, so this sum moves when the price does, and the figure is the same in euros or dollars exactly as it is there. Meta's Spain rates were read from the fee estimator on this site on 11 August 2026, from the schedule in force since January 2026, in the currency shown; Meta revises them, and every country carries its own.
The middle line counts only conversations you begin. A utility template sent within 24 hours of a customer writing to you is not billed, so a support-led month lands under this total rather than over it.
Everything above is table stakes. These four are worth spending a trial on, because they are the ones you cannot cheaply change your mind about later.
WaliChat runs numbers on Meta's official API, and numbers paired by scanning a linked-device code in the WhatsApp Business app. Nothing queues behind that second door, which is how a team starts replying the same day, and a number that moves to the API later stays on the same platform.
A plan is priced against a WhatsApp number and carries the inbox, the phone apps, broadcast campaigns, the contact database and every API endpoint. Separately from that, Meta charges its own fees, exactly as it does through every provider. That second invoice is why this page prints the fees instead of waving at them.
A REST API with ready-made samples in the languages your team already writes, a webhook for every inbound event, a tester that runs inside the docs, Zapier, Make and n8n for everything you would rather not code, and an MCP server so an AI assistant can work the account itself. The inbox settles year one. This settles year two.
Agencies and consultancies can run WaliChat as their own product: the interface, the address bar and the customer relationship all belong to you, and the client never meets our brand. Put it to every vendor on the shortlist early, because it almost never appears on a feature page.
The Wati column holds three kinds of answer: "Yes" where a capability is advertised on their public pages, their own wording where they publish the detail, and "Not advertised" where we could not find it described. Read that third answer as a question to put to their sales team, never as evidence of a gap. Both columns were checked on 11 August 2026, and since products change weekly, ours deserves at least as hard an audit as theirs.
| What you are comparing | WaliChat | Wati |
|---|---|---|
| Getting a number live | ||
| Official WhatsApp Business API | Yes | Yes |
| Number linked by QR scan, no application | Yes | Not advertised |
| Keeps the chats already on the number | Yes, via Coexistence | Not advertised |
| Networks the platform covers | WhatsApp only | WhatsApp and Instagram |
| The shared inbox | ||
| Multi-agent inbox on one number | Yes | Yes |
| Departments, labels, notes, quick replies | Yes | Advertised as Team Inbox |
| iOS and Android apps for agents | Yes | Yes |
| Automation and AI | ||
| No-code builder for chat automation | Yes, Flows | Yes |
| AI agent answering on its own | Yes | Yes |
| AI skills that call your systems mid-chat | Yes | Not advertised |
| Template sends to a segmented list | Yes | Yes |
| Developers and extensibility | ||
| REST API and inbound webhooks | Yes | Yes |
| Live API tester in the docs | Yes | Not advertised |
| MCP server for AI assistants | Yes | Not advertised |
| Zapier, Make and n8n | Yes | Yes, app directory |
| Commercials | ||
| Priced per WhatsApp number | Yes, everything inside the plan | Published on their site |
| Meta's fees billed apart from the plan | Yes | Published on their site |
| White-label reseller programme | Yes | See their partner programme |
| Trial | 7 days, billing details later | Published on their site |
Comparing two inboxes decides this year. The year after that is almost always an integration: the CRM, the shop, or the internal tool that ought to be sending its own messages. That is where a platform either keeps up or quietly gets worked around. Ours also lets an AI agent call your systems mid-conversation and answer with the real result instead of a description of one.
Feature lists agree with everybody. These four put a real difference on screen inside an hour, and none of them needs a developer. Run the same four on both platforms in the same week, and you will learn more than any table on this page can tell you, ours included.
A WhatsApp number changes provider routinely. What surprises people is which parts refuse to travel with it.
Either the number your customers have been writing to for years, or a fresh one. A QR-linked number is taking messages within the hour; an API number moves at Meta's pace rather than ours.
Upload contacts and their labels in bulk. Afterwards each conversation creates or updates its own contact record, so nobody is keeping a second list by hand.
Flows, canned answers and routing live as settings rather than as records, so they are re-created rather than moved. Re-create the ten that matter, not the ninety somebody made once.
Keep the old endpoint answering until the new number is sending. Nothing throws an error when there is a gap; inbound messages simply vanish while every dashboard looks healthy.
Two things survive no move between providers, ours included: approved templates sit with the WhatsApp Business Account and usually face Meta's review a second time, and the conversation archive inside your current platform stays inside it. Pull the exports your books need while you still have an account there.
There are teams this platform does not serve well. It is cheaper for everybody if that surfaces on this page instead of in week three.
The number travels; the furniture around it does not. Approved templates are the property of the WhatsApp Business Account rather than of any platform, so they normally face Meta's review again; flows and saved replies are configuration and get rebuilt; and conversation history held in another vendor's database stays with that vendor. Budget an afternoon for the rebuild, and export your records before the cut-over rather than after it.
The subscription plus Meta. The arithmetic near the top of this page works one month through in full: an entry plan on a single number, a thousand template messages to one country, and the total underneath. Your own country and message mix move Meta's half considerably, so put your volumes through the fee estimator before you budget anything.
Yes. You pair the number the way the WhatsApp Business app pairs a linked device: scan a code and it is on. That route keeps the chats already on the number and has no application behind it. The official API is the other route, and it is the one carrying WhatsApp calling. A team can begin on one and switch to the other without leaving the platform.
Whatever lives on the phone arrives with the number when you connect it. A conversation archive held inside another platform's database generally does not travel, and the same is true in either direction, between any pair of vendors. Export it first if your records need it.
Anywhere Instagram, Messenger or email carry real volume. WaliChat is deliberately one network taken far, so a team fielding three busy ones is better served by a product built for three. We would rather write that here than have you find it in week three.
Yes. The reseller programme hands you the whole thing: your brand inside the interface, your own address bar, your invoice reaching the client. Our name appears nowhere in front of them.
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