Wabery
WhatsApp API infrastructure for AI agents, automations, Flows, webhooks, and inboxes
The core loop (send, receive, verify webhooks, retry, inspect conversations) is one-shottable for a single business using Meta's WhatsApp Cloud API. What you cannot one-shot is the reason managed WhatsApp providers exist as products: production messaging infrastructure must stay reliable, secure, monitored, and compliant, while onboarding other businesses requires Meta business verification, app review, and approval for the relevant Tech Provider and Meta Business Partner capabilities. The honest DIY move is to build for your own verified WhatsApp Business Account and phone number; matching Wabery as a multi-tenant provider means operating that infrastructure and completing Meta's approval process.
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What you give up
- Meta Business Partner status and approved Tech Provider onboarding path
- turnkey onboarding for multiple customer businesses and phone numbers
- managed queues, retries, monitoring, security, and production reliability
- WhatsApp Flows builder, encryption, and data-exchange hosting
- hosted functions, MCP tooling, and a production team inbox
Why people still pay
The REST endpoints are the easy part. Wabery packages Meta onboarding, secure multi-tenant infrastructure, durable event delivery, Flows plumbing, monitoring, and ongoing API and policy changes into a service that is ready for production. A DIY gateway is reasonable for one business; becoming an approved and reliable provider for other businesses is a company, not a weekend project.
Your build guide
The stack, security requirements, and agent rules for a focused replacement.
Before you start
- Runtime and tools: TypeScript, Node, PostgreSQL and a database-backed job worker with a small React run inspector.
- Before starting: Credentials for only the chosen integrations, their current API documentation, example payloads and an always-on worker for schedules.
Use these project rules and optional skill references alongside the prompt. Review each skill before adding it to your agent; the AGENTS.md export includes the same guidance.
Project rule — domain: Store Conversation, OutboundMessage, ProviderMessageID, WebhookEvent and Receipt; deduplicate provider events and reconcile out-of-order delivery updates without regressing final status.
Project rule — scope and recovery: Confirm current Meta business, template and messaging-window rules before enabling sends. Keep credentials server-side and approval tied to exact recipient/content; no multi-tenant onboarding or policy-bypass claims.
Project rule — acceptance: Receive delivered before sent and replay the webhook, then timeout an outbound request; preserve the strongest valid state and avoid blind duplicate sending.
Project rule — delivery: document real setup commands and permissions; do not claim a build, accuracy level, performance result or security certification that has not been demonstrated.
Recommended skill: supabase-postgres-best-practices — review this PostgreSQL domain schema, uniqueness constraints, transaction boundaries and access-scoped queries; Supabase hosting is not required. Follow the maintainer's installation instructions and match its requirements to the chosen runtime.
Recommended skill: sharp-edges — review configuration and API defaults against the app-specific invariants and recovery boundaries above; this is not a security certification. Follow the maintainer's installation instructions and match its requirements to the chosen runtime.
Implementation plan
Phase 1
Pin the working slice and create its example input: For one verified WhatsApp business number, send approved messages, ingest verified delivery events and review conversation history in an authenticated inbox. Confirm setup: Credentials for only the chosen integrations, their current API documentation, example payloads and an always-on worker for schedules.
Phase 2
Implement persistence and write-time invariants before decorating the UI: Store Conversation, OutboundMessage, ProviderMessageID, WebhookEvent and Receipt; deduplicate provider events and reconcile out-of-order delivery updates without regressing final status.
Phase 3
Connect the working view to real saved state. Persist trigger identity, step input version and external receipts before marking success. Retry bounded transient failures; unknown write outcomes require reconciliation. Do not promise exactly-once execution across external services.
Phase 4
Expose the app-specific limits and recovery path in context: Confirm current Meta business, template and messaging-window rules before enabling sends. Keep credentials server-side and approval tied to exact recipient/content; no multi-tenant onboarding or policy-bypass claims.
Phase 5
Walk through this concrete acceptance case and preserve its exported evidence: Receive delivered before sent and replay the webhook, then timeout an outbound request; preserve the strongest valid state and avoid blind duplicate sending. Finish the README and backup/restore instructions; report unfinished capabilities explicitly.
Build the following focused alternative to Wabery. This is a deliberately limited personal or small-team substitute, not parity with the paid service. WORKING SLICE For one verified WhatsApp business number, send approved messages, ingest verified delivery events and review conversation history in an authenticated inbox. SETUP AND ARCHITECTURE Use TypeScript, Node, PostgreSQL and a database-backed job worker with a small React run inspector. Prerequisites: Credentials for only the chosen integrations, their current API documentation, example payloads and an always-on worker for schedules. Before integrating anything, record actual versions and permissions, plus model files or provider limits only where used, in the README; make unavailable dependencies visible rather than simulating success. DOMAIN MODEL AND INVARIANTS Store Conversation, OutboundMessage, ProviderMessageID, WebhookEvent and Receipt; deduplicate provider events and reconcile out-of-order delivery updates without regressing final status. IMPLEMENTATION CONTRACT Persist trigger identity, step input version and external receipts before marking success. Retry bounded transient failures; unknown write outcomes require reconciliation. Do not promise exactly-once execution across external services. Provide an input/setup view, the main work view, and a review/export view appropriate to this workflow. Preserve the last saved state if a job or save fails. Include empty, loading, permission-denied, partial and retryable-error states. Log identifiers and error categories without secret values or unnecessary private content. APP-SPECIFIC BOUNDARY AND RECOVERY Confirm current Meta business, template and messaging-window rules before enabling sends. Keep credentials server-side and approval tied to exact recipient/content; no multi-tenant onboarding or policy-bypass claims. ACCEPTANCE SCENARIO Receive delivered before sent and replay the webhook, then timeout an outbound request; preserve the strongest valid state and avoid blind duplicate sending. Also reopen the app after an interrupted operation, confirm the saved record/export remains inspectable, and document the recovery action. These are implementation acceptance requirements, not a claim that this guide has been tested. DELIVERY Deliver a runnable repository with migrations or project-format versioning, a non-sensitive example, environment/permission setup, the exact manual acceptance steps, and a backup/export-and-restore walkthrough. Implement the working slice before optional integrations; list any deferred paid-product capabilities honestly. Do not add capabilities outside the working slice just to resemble the original product. PROJECT RULES FOR AGENTS.md Keep the domain invariants above executable at the write boundary. Propose scope changes before adding providers or permissions. Never fabricate source evidence, publish results, identity matches or successful delivery. Preserve user originals and require an explicit confirmation for destructive changes or external publication.
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Wabery pricing
| plan | monthly | annual (per mo) | what you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| free | $0/workspace | $0/workspace | 500 messages/month; all product features. |
| 125k messages | $15/workspace | — | 125,000 messages/month; all product features. |
| 600k messages | — | — | 600,000 messages/month; all product features.Exact public price was not exposed by the live selector. |
| 3.5m+ messages | — | — | 3,500,000+ messages/month; all product features.Exact public price was not exposed by the live selector. |
free tier500 messages/month; all features
billingmonthly and cancel anytime; no annual plan published
hidden costsMeta's WhatsApp conversation/message charges are billed directly to the connected WhatsApp Business Account and are not included; AI-model tokens are also separate.
pricing sources checked 2026-08-14 · pricing source ↗
Questions about Wabery
Can you build your own Wabery with AI?
Partly. The core loop (send, receive, verify webhooks, retry, inspect conversations) is one-shottable for a single business using Meta's WhatsApp Cloud API. What you cannot one-shot is the reason managed WhatsApp providers exist as products: production messaging infrastructure must stay reliable, secure, monitored, and compliant, while onboarding other businesses requires Meta business verification, app review, and approval for the relevant Tech Provider and Meta Business Partner capabilities. The honest DIY move is to build for your own verified WhatsApp Business Account and phone number; matching Wabery as a multi-tenant provider means operating that infrastructure and completing Meta's approval process.
What does the Wabery build prompt cover?
The prompt starts with this scope: For one verified WhatsApp business number, send approved messages, ingest verified delivery events and review conversation history in an authenticated inbox. Full-product capabilities excluded from the comparison include: Meta Business Partner status and approved Tech Provider onboarding path; turnkey onboarding for multiple customer businesses and phone numbers; managed queues, retries, monitoring, security, and production reliability. Follow the implementation plan and its prerequisites before expanding the build.
How do I use the prompt, AGENTS.md and agent skills?
Start with the Wabery prerequisites and stack, then copy the prompt into your coding agent. Save the project rules as AGENTS.md in the project root. Linked skills are optional packages or source instructions for specific tasks; review their current contents and install only those matching the chosen stack. A skill does not supply API credentials or verify the finished app.
How long will this Wabery project take?
The catalogue estimate is multi-day for the limited scope. Setup, integration approvals, debugging, deployment and ongoing maintenance can add time. This is an estimate, not a delivery guarantee.
What would I give up by replacing Wabery?
Meta Business Partner status and approved Tech Provider onboarding path; turnkey onboarding for multiple customer businesses and phone numbers; managed queues, retries, monitoring, security, and production reliability; WhatsApp Flows builder, encryption, and data-exchange hosting; hosted functions, MCP tooling, and a production team inbox. The REST endpoints are the easy part. Wabery packages Meta onboarding, secure multi-tenant infrastructure, durable event delivery, Flows plumbing, monitoring, and ongoing API and policy changes into a service that is ready for production. A DIY gateway is reasonable for one business; becoming an approved and reliable provider for other businesses is a company, not a weekend project.
What price is this guide comparing against?
The recorded 125K messages plan is $15 reference price (monthly capacity), checked 2026-07-30. Check the linked pricing source before buying. Building your own also has hosting, API and maintenance costs; the recorded amount is not a guaranteed saving.
What can I use instead of building Wabery?
Whatomate: The missing inbox, flow builder and API for Meta's Cloud API; Meta still sends the bill. Check each option's license, hosting needs and feature limits.