Facebook Plans Pricing
Facebook (Meta) Graph and Marketing APIs are free to use; commercial value is monetized through ad spend rather than per-call API fees. Access is gated by App Review tiers (Development, Standard, Advanced) which determine rate-limit ceilings, not price. Apps requiring elevated permissions or higher throughput upgrade by completing App Review and Business Verification.
Facebook Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for Facebook on the APIs.io network, in the API Commons Plans shape.
It defines 4 plans, covering freemium and usage-based tiers, with named plans including Development Access, Standard Access, Advanced Access, WhatsApp Business Platform — Conversation-Based Pricing.
This profile was written by API Evangelist and has not been verified against a page the provider published; treat every figure as unconfirmed until a dated transcription replaces it.
Tagged areas include Advertising, Content Publishing, Messaging, Social Media, and Social Networking.
generated, dated 2026-05-05.
Plans
Default tier for newly created apps. Free, but rate limits and permission scopes are restricted until the app passes App Review and graduates to Standard or Advanced Access.
- Public Documentation
- App Dashboard
- Test Users
- Restricted Permission Scopes
- Facebook Graph API
- Instagram API
- Threads API
- Messenger Platform API
Granted after App Review approves the relevant feature (e.g. Ads Management Standard Access). Free; rate limits are tighter than Advanced Access.
- App Review Approval
- Production-Ready Permissions
- Facebook Marketing API
- Facebook Graph API
Highest BUC tier. Free; granted after Business Verification and App Review for the corresponding feature. Rate ceilings rise dramatically (e.g. Ads Management base jumps from 300/hour to 100,000/hour).
- Business Verification
- Full Permission Scopes
- Higher Throughput Ceilings
- Facebook Marketing API
- Facebook Graph API
- WhatsApp Business API
WhatsApp Business Platform charges per 24-hour conversation, by category and country. Free service conversations within the customer service window. See the WhatsApp Business pricing page for current per-country rates.
- WhatsApp Business API
- Per-country pricing
- Free service conversations within 24h customer-service window
Sources
- https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/overview/rate-limiting
- https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/get-started
- https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-api/overview/authorization
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