# WABridges

> Hosted WhatsApp bridges as a REST API. Provision a bridge, pair a phone number, and start sending and receiving WhatsApp messages from your backend in under 60 seconds. Flat $5/bridge/month, unlimited messages, no per-message fees, no WhatsApp Business API approval, no SDKs.

WABridges connects your application to WhatsApp over plain HTTP. Each bridge is a dedicated, containerized WhatsApp connection you control via a REST API and webhooks.

## Docs

- [API reference (full, LLM-friendly)](https://wabridges.com/llms-full.txt): every endpoint and webhook event with request/response examples
- [API docs](https://wabridges.com/docs): human-readable API documentation
- [Quickstart](https://wabridges.com/docs/quickstart): get sending in Node.js, Python, PHP, Ruby, Go, or Rust
- [Webhooks](https://wabridges.com/docs/webhooks): receive inbound messages and delivery events

## Guides

- [Send Programmatic WhatsApp Notifications from Your Backend](https://wabridges.com/guides/notifications): Send backend WhatsApp notifications with one API call — order confirmations, server alerts, CI/CD deploys, payment failures. No per-message fees, no template approval, no SDK required.
- [WhatsApp Customer Support for Your Product](https://wabridges.com/guides/customer-support): Let customers message you on WhatsApp. Receive messages as webhooks, reply via API. No third-party platform, no seat fees — just your own backend.
- [Build a WhatsApp AI Chatbot](https://wabridges.com/guides/chatbot): Build a WhatsApp AI chatbot with any language model — GPT, Claude, Gemini, or Llama. Inbound messages arrive as webhooks, replies go out via REST. No approval process, no template restrictions.
- [Connect WhatsApp to Claude — Quick Start](https://wabridges.com/guides/whatsapp-claude): Put Claude on a real WhatsApp number in under an hour. Inbound messages arrive as webhooks, Claude's replies go back via REST. No WhatsApp Business API approval, no per-message fees — just WABridges plus the Anthropic API.
- [WhatsApp OTP Verification — Replace SMS with WhatsApp](https://wabridges.com/guides/otp-verification): Send OTP verification codes via WhatsApp instead of SMS. Better delivery in LATAM, India, and SEA — no carrier fees, no SIM-swap risk, no template approval. One API call per code.
- [WhatsApp Order Tracking Bot for E-Commerce](https://wabridges.com/guides/order-tracking): Let customers check their order status by texting a WhatsApp number. No app, no login, no support ticket — just a message and an instant reply.
- [WhatsApp Appointment Reminders — Reduce No-Shows Automatically](https://wabridges.com/guides/appointment-reminders): Send automated WhatsApp appointment reminders and cut no-shows by up to 80%. Patients confirm or cancel by replying — your backend gets the webhook. Works for clinics, salons, and any appointment-based business.
- [Capture WhatsApp Leads into Your CRM](https://wabridges.com/guides/crm-integration): Turn inbound WhatsApp messages into CRM contacts automatically. Every lead who texts you gets logged in HubSpot, Airtable, Pipedrive, or your own database.
- [WhatsApp Server Monitoring Alerts and On-Call Notifications](https://wabridges.com/guides/team-alerts): Send server monitoring alerts, on-call notifications, and CI/CD events to your team via WhatsApp. Pipe Grafana, Datadog, or Sentry into a WhatsApp group — one REST call, instant delivery.
- [Send WhatsApp Messages from Make (Integromat) — No Code](https://wabridges.com/guides/whatsapp-make): Connect WhatsApp to Make with the built-in HTTP and webhook modules — no custom app, no code. Send messages from any scenario and trigger scenarios from incoming messages. Flat $5/month, unlimited messages.
- [Connect WhatsApp to n8n — Automation Without Code](https://wabridges.com/guides/whatsapp-n8n): Wire WhatsApp into n8n with the standard HTTP Request and Webhook nodes — no community package, no code. Send messages from any workflow, trigger workflows from replies, and plug messages into n8n's AI nodes. Flat $5/month.
- [Use WhatsApp with Zapier — via Webhooks, No Official App Needed](https://wabridges.com/guides/whatsapp-zapier): Send and receive WhatsApp messages in your Zaps using Webhooks by Zapier and WABridges. No official WhatsApp app required, no code — send from any Zap and trigger Zaps from incoming messages. Flat $5/month.
- [Give Your Customers Their Own WhatsApp Bot (White-Label SaaS)](https://wabridges.com/guides/customer-bridges): Build a SaaS on top of WABridges. Provision a WhatsApp bridge per customer with one API call, route each number to its own bot, and bill on top. Multi-tenant, white-label, no per-message fees.
- [One API Key, Thousands of WhatsApp Numbers: Multi-Tenant Provisioning Done Right](https://wabridges.com/guides/multi-tenant-provisioning): Fan out from a single WABridges account into a bridge-per-tenant fleet. Provision, track, and operate thousands of WhatsApp numbers from one API key — without ever losing track of who owns what.
- [Add a 'Connect WhatsApp' Button to Your App in an Afternoon](https://wabridges.com/guides/connect-whatsapp-button): Drop a 'Connect WhatsApp' button into your product and let customers pair their own number without leaving your UI. Provision a bridge on click, render the QR inline, and confirm when they're live — all white-label.
- [From Wholesale to Retail: Reselling WhatsApp Bridges at Your Own Price](https://wabridges.com/guides/reselling-bridges): Buy WhatsApp bridges at $5/month wholesale and resell them at your own retail price. The unit economics of reselling WABridges — markup, margins, prorated churn, and packaging it as your own product.
- [Route by customer_ref: Isolating Tenants in a Shared WhatsApp Webhook](https://wabridges.com/guides/tenant-routing): One webhook endpoint, many WhatsApp bridges, strict tenant isolation. Use customer_ref to route every inbound message to the right tenant's bot — and make sure you never cross the streams.
- [Provision on Signup, Deprovision on Churn: Automating the Bridge Lifecycle](https://wabridges.com/guides/bridge-lifecycle): Wire WhatsApp bridge creation and teardown into your Stripe and billing events so your fleet manages itself. Provision on signup, deprovision on churn, and never pay for a bridge a customer left behind.
- [Build a WhatsApp Prank Bot](https://wabridges.com/guides/prank-bot): Auto-reply as a toaster, fake typing forever, reply only in haiku. Build a WhatsApp prank bot with a few lines of code — real WhatsApp number, full API control.

## Comparisons

- [WABridges vs 360dialog](https://wabridges.com/vs/360dialog): 360dialog is €49–€249/number/month; WABridges is $5/bridge/month, flat, with no per-message fees
- [WABridges vs Twilio](https://wabridges.com/vs/twilio): Twilio is $0 + $0.005/message; WABridges is $5/bridge/month, flat, with no per-message fees
- [WABridges vs Wati](https://wabridges.com/vs/wati): Wati is $69–$349/account/month; WABridges is $5/bridge/month, flat, with no per-message fees
- [WABridges vs Respond.io](https://wabridges.com/vs/respond-io): Respond.io is $79–$349/month; WABridges is $5/bridge/month, flat, with no per-message fees
- [WABridges vs Bird](https://wabridges.com/vs/bird): Bird is $0 + $0.001–0.005/message; WABridges is $5/bridge/month, flat, with no per-message fees
- [WABridges vs Vonage](https://wabridges.com/vs/vonage): Vonage is Quote required; WABridges is $5/bridge/month, flat, with no per-message fees
- [WABridges vs Gupshup](https://wabridges.com/vs/gupshup): Gupshup is Meta rates + ~$0.001/message; WABridges is $5/bridge/month, flat, with no per-message fees
- [WABridges vs Meta WhatsApp Cloud API](https://wabridges.com/vs/meta-cloud-api): Meta WhatsApp Cloud API is $0 platform + Meta per-message rates; WABridges is $5/bridge/month, flat, with no per-message fees
- [WABridges vs Green API](https://wabridges.com/vs/green-api): Green API is $12–$24/instance/month; WABridges is $5/bridge/month, flat, with no per-message fees
- [WABridges vs Ultramsg](https://wabridges.com/vs/ultramsg): Ultramsg is $39/instance/month; WABridges is $5/bridge/month, flat, with no per-message fees
- [WABridges vs Whapi.Cloud](https://wabridges.com/vs/whapi): Whapi.Cloud is $29–$35/channel/month; WABridges is $5/bridge/month, flat, with no per-message fees
- [WABridges vs WAHA (self-hosted)](https://wabridges.com/vs/waha): WAHA (self-hosted) is $0 + your server + your time; WABridges is $5/bridge/month, flat, with no per-message fees
- [WABridges vs Self-hosting Baileys](https://wabridges.com/vs/baileys): Self-hosting Baileys is $0 + VPS + engineering time; WABridges is $5/bridge/month, flat, with no per-message fees

## Optional

- [Pricing](https://wabridges.com/pricing): flat $5/bridge/month, free trial, prorated refunds on cancel
- [How it works](https://wabridges.com/how-it-works): the bridge model end to end
- [Without code](https://wabridges.com/no-code): use WABridges with Make, n8n, or Zapier via their built-in HTTP and webhook steps — no programming required