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Meta Business Agent

An AI agent that answers customer messages for a business, recommends products and books appointments inside Meta's messaging apps.

Which capability it is

Close to, but not: A custom version you build and share

It answers a business's customers in WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram. It is not a packaged bot that colleagues use.

The same thing at other vendors

Meta Business Agent is close to a custom version you build and share, not a match. Here’s what the other tools call a custom version you build and share.

ChatGPT
GPTs (retiring Dec 11, 2026) · ChatGPT workspace agents (Business, Enterprise, Edu)
Claude
None — no shareable assistant found
Gemini
Gems (being replaced by skills)
Perplexity
None
Grok
Shared Bots (formerly Team Bots)
Mistral Vibe
Agents (legacy, retiring into Skills)

Details

Status
GA (secondary: global expansion announced at Conversations 2026 in London on June 3, 2026, when "over a million businesses were already using an earlier version" in pilot markets including India, Mexico and Brazil, per Tech Times, July 16, 2026)
Where you find it
WhatsApp Business and Meta's business messaging tools (not stated in detail)
Part of
Meta Business Agent Platform
Plans
unclear on a first-party page. Secondary sources disagree: WhatsApp Business Premium tiers (TechCrunch), a Meta One business tier (CNBC), or per-token billing at [price on the vendor’s page] from August 1, 2026, roughly [price on the vendor’s page] (Tech Times, July 16, 2026).
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