Console

Get Meta usage

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GET

https://whatsapp.paaltech.org/api/v1/businesses/{external_id}/meta-usage

Token ability: messages.read · Authentication

The business's WhatsApp usage as Meta priced it, for a month (default this one): per sending number and pricing category, billable and free messages and an estimated cost from Meta's published rate card (list rates, before volume discounts). reconciliation shows the month compared with Meta's own analytics once checked; where they differ, Meta's figures win. Meta bills the business's WhatsApp Business Account directly - these amounts never appear on a PaalChat invoice.

Path parameters

external_id string required

Your own ID for the business (Multi-SKUUL - the tenant ID).

Max 191 characters. Pattern ^[A-Za-z0-9._:-]+$.

Query parameters

month string

YYYY-MM.

Pattern ^[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}$.

Responses

200

The month.

401

unauthenticated - missing, invalid, revoked or expired token

403

missing_ability, product_suspended or product_token_required

404

not_found - not yours, or does not exist

422

validation_failed - fields are invalid; see errors.

429

rate_limited - over 300 requests/minute for this product

Errors always look like {"error": {"code", "message"}} - see Errors and status codes.

Language

Credentials

Authorization Bearer $PAALCHAT_TOKEN

Request

cURL

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://whatsapp.paaltech.org/api/v1/businesses/presec/meta-usage' \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $PAALCHAT_TOKEN" \
  --header 'Accept: application/json'

const response = await fetch('https://whatsapp.paaltech.org/api/v1/businesses/presec/meta-usage', {
  method: 'GET',
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.PAALCHAT_TOKEN}`,
    Accept: 'application/json',
  },
});

const data = await response.json();
console.log(response.status, data);

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Http;

$response = Http::withToken(env('PAALCHAT_TOKEN'))
    ->acceptJson()
    ->get('https://whatsapp.paaltech.org/api/v1/businesses/presec/meta-usage');

$data = $response->json();

import os
import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://whatsapp.paaltech.org/api/v1/businesses/presec/meta-usage",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['PAALCHAT_TOKEN']}", "Accept": "application/json"},
)

print(response.status_code, response.json())

require 'net/http'
require 'json'

uri = URI('https://whatsapp.paaltech.org/api/v1/businesses/presec/meta-usage')
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)
request['Authorization'] = "Bearer #{ENV['PAALCHAT_TOKEN']}"
request['Accept'] = 'application/json'

response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true) { |http| http.request(request) }
puts response.code, JSON.parse(response.body)

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
	"os"
)

func main() {
	req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://whatsapp.paaltech.org/api/v1/businesses/presec/meta-usage", nil)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("PAALCHAT_TOKEN"))
	req.Header.Set("Accept", "application/json")

	res, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()

	out, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
	fmt.Println(res.StatusCode, string(out))
}

Try it with a test key

Only sk_test_ keys: requests reach your sandbox businesses, never real ones. The key is not saved.

Test key

external_id

Query string (optional)

Response

Response

{
  "data": {
    "month": "2026-10",
    "notice": "Estimated - Meta bills your WhatsApp Business Account directly.",
    "lines": [
      {
        "phone_number_id": "106540352242922",
        "category": "marketing",
        "billable": 412,
        "free": 0,
        "estimated_cost": "9.270000",
        "currency": "USD"
      },
      {
        "phone_number_id": "106540352242922",
        "category": "utility",
        "billable": 1290,
        "free": 57,
        "estimated_cost": "5.160000",
        "currency": "USD"
      }
    ],
    "reconciliation": []
  }
}

{
  "error": {"code": "unauthenticated", "message": "A valid product token is required."}
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "missing_ability",
    "message": "This token does not have the ability this request needs."
  }
}

{"error": {"code": "not_found", "message": "Business not found."}}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "validation_failed",
    "message": "The external id field format is invalid. (and 1 more error)"
  },
  "errors": {
    "external_id": ["The external id field format is invalid."],
    "name": ["The name field is required."]
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "rate_limited",
    "message": "Too many requests. Slow down and retry after the Retry-After header."
  }
}