Maytapi's pricing page is unusually clear about what you are buying: $24 a month per phone, unlimited messaging and API calls included, no hidden fees. For 10 or more numbers, they tell you to email for a discount, which says a lot — below ten, there isn't one.
That is honest pricing. It is also linear, and linear pricing is the entire reason "Maytapi alternative" is a search anyone types. One number is a fair deal. Ten is $240 a month for something several competitors do for a sixth of that.
The actual numbers
| NumbersMaytapiWasenderAPIWaHttp | |||
| 1 | $24 | $6 | $5 |
| 3 | $72 | $15 | $12 |
| 6 | $144 | $30 | $22 |
| 10 | $240* | $45 | $35 |
| 20 | $480* | $90† | $70† |
*Maytapi offers a discount above ten numbers on request; exact terms are not published, so treat $240 as the list-price ceiling rather than what a larger account would actually pay. †Estimated by extending published per-tier pricing; confirm current rates before budgeting.
At one number, $24 against $5 to $6 is a real gap but a small one in absolute terms, and plenty of people should ignore it in favour of whichever product's documentation and support they trust more. At ten numbers, the gap is $195 to $205 a month, or roughly $2,400 a year. That is not a rounding difference in most budgets.
Maytapi also runs a free Sandbox: five conversations a month, 150 messages a day, limited API calls, no card required. Useful for a proof of concept, not something you would run a business on, and Maytapi does not pretend otherwise.
Who the pricing actually hurts
Agencies with a number per client. The structure agencies naturally reach for is exactly the one per-number billing penalises. Fifteen clients is $360 a month before any of them have paid you.
SaaS platforms provisioning per tenant. If your product connects a WhatsApp number per customer account, Maytapi's price becomes a line item in your own cost of goods sold that scales one-for-one with your customer count, which is an uncomfortable thing to have set by a vendor rather than by your own margins.
Anyone segmenting numbers by function. Splitting support, transactional alerts and marketing across separate numbers is good practice, because a restriction on one does not take the others down with it. Under per-number pricing, that good practice has a real price tag attached to it.
Multi-market operators. A number per country or region is standard for anyone localising WhatsApp presence, and it multiplies the bill identically whether each number sends five messages a day or five thousand.
What Maytapi does well
Worth saying plainly, because the honest picture matters more than the sales pitch.
99.98% uptime is a specific, credible claim for multi-device WhatsApp, which no longer requires the linked phone to stay online the way older single-device connections did. The API is straightforward, documentation is reasonable, and unlimited messaging with no per-message fee is the same non-metered model every serious competitor in this category uses. If you run one or two numbers, value a longer operating history over saving fifteen dollars a month, or your volume genuinely needs the enterprise discount Maytapi offers past ten numbers, staying is a completely reasonable call.
The alternatives
WasenderAPI bundles by session count: $6 for one, $15 for three, $30 for six, $45 for ten. SDKs for Node, Python and Laravel, Postman collections, MCP support and a self-host option. The most direct swap if you want official client libraries rather than raw HTTP.
WaHttp, ours, so weigh accordingly. $5 for one, $12 for three, $22 for six, $35 for ten, unlimited messages throughout. Plain REST endpoints with no SDK by design, a Streamable HTTP MCP endpoint for connecting AI agents, server-side pacing, and signed webhooks with delivery logs. We are newer to the market than Maytapi, which is a fair consideration against a provider citing multi-year uptime figures.
Whapi.Cloud at $35 per channel, discounted to $30 above five. More expensive than either bundled option and still priced per number, but it is the one provider in the category that properly handles Groups, Communities, Channels and Status, so check that against your requirements before ruling it out.
WAHA, self-hosted under Apache-2.0, with previously paid features folded into the free public image since version 2026.6.1. No recurring fee at all in exchange for running the infrastructure and absorbing WhatsApp's protocol changes yourself. This becomes the most competitive option once you are past twenty or so numbers. Server-side pacing is one thing you take on yourself in that trade, which is worth weighing against what a hosted provider's safety approach does automatically.
The full landscape, official and unofficial, is in our provider comparison.
What switching does not change
Be clear-eyed about this before you spend an afternoon migrating.
Every provider named here, us included, connects through WhatsApp's unofficial multi-device protocol, which breaches Meta's terms of service. Account restriction risk tracks your sending behaviour, not which of these vendors you route through. Moving from Maytapi to anyone else in this list, or to us, does not touch your compliance position at all. The genuinely sanctioned route is Meta's Cloud API, and the pricing breakdown has the real numbers if that comparison matters more to you than flat pricing does.
You also keep everything that matters about the number itself: it stays on your phone, your chat history is unaffected, and your contacts do not move, because none of that data lives with Maytapi in the first place.
Migration
Audit before you touch anything. Most Maytapi integrations use a handful of endpoints: send text, send media, receive message, receive status. List them, and the migration usually looks smaller than expected.
Map the endpoints. Maytapi's send calls take a phone ID, a recipient and a message body. Every alternative in this category uses the same shape with different field names: a session or channel identifier, a recipient, a type, a content field. Budget an afternoon for a typical integration.
Remap your webhook handler. This is where the real time goes. Payload structures differ between providers, so your inbound handler needs updating regardless of which one you move to. If you already normalise incoming events into your own internal format before acting on them, this is a single function to change. If Maytapi's payload shapes are scattered through your codebase, this is worth fixing properly while you are already in there, since it removes the same cost from your next migration.
Move one number first. Pick your lowest-stakes number, migrate it, run it for a week, then move the rest. Do not cut fifteen numbers over in one afternoon.
Re-scan each QR code. Sessions are not portable between platforms. Each number needs relinking, which takes roughly a minute per number and is the only interruption customers might notice.
Warm up after relinking. A freshly authenticated session is in a more fragile state for a week or two. Send at reduced volume rather than resuming full throughput immediately, especially if you are relinking several numbers in a short window.
Keep Maytapi running for a fortnight. Because it bills per number, you can wind individual numbers down as you confirm each one is stable elsewhere, rather than cancelling everything the day you start.
Common questions asked by Users
How much does Maytapi cost? $24 per phone number per month on the annually billed Developer plan, with unlimited messaging and API calls included. There is no published bundled tier below ten numbers; above that, Maytapi offers a discount on request.
Is there a cheaper alternative to Maytapi for multiple numbers? Yes. WasenderAPI and WaHttp both bundle sessions rather than pricing per number, running $45 and $35 respectively for ten numbers against Maytapi's $240 list price. WAHA is free to run yourself if you would rather not pay a vendor at all.
Does Maytapi have a free plan? A Sandbox tier: five conversations a month, 150 messages a day, limited API calls, no card required. Suitable for a proof of concept and explicitly not positioned for production use.
Will switching affect my WhatsApp number or chat history? No. Both stay on your phone regardless of which API provider you connect through. You re-scan a QR code to link the number to a new platform, which takes about a minute per number.
Is a cheaper provider necessarily worse? Not inherently, though Maytapi's specific claim of 99.98% uptime is a real thing to weigh against a newer competitor's lack of comparable history. Test any provider's failure behaviour yourself before committing a production number: kill the session, take your webhook endpoint offline, and see what happens.
Does moving off Maytapi reduce the risk of my number getting restricted? No. Every provider in this category, including Maytapi, connects through the same unofficial protocol under the same WhatsApp terms of service. Restriction risk is driven by sending behaviour, not by vendor choice.