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Meta AI pricing, features, company info, and alternatives

A factual product page for Meta AI as Meta's free assistant across social and messaging surfaces.

Last updated April 2026 · Pricing and features verified against official documentation

Categories Productivity & Workflow
Starting price Free
Company Meta
Verified Apr 11, 2026

Pricing

Current public pricing tiers on file for Meta AI, last verified Apr 11, 2026.

Free

$0 / month

What You Can Do With It

The main capabilities that shape how people use Meta AI today.

Chat and image generation in the Meta AI app and web experience.

Assistant surfaces inside Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger.

Personalized responses and search-oriented help built into Meta products.

Consumer-facing AI experiences that sit inside familiar social apps.

Best For

Who Meta AI is most clearly built for.

People already using Meta's social and messaging apps.

Users who want a free consumer assistant on mobile and web.

People who want AI features inside Meta's own product surfaces.

Platforms

Where you can use Meta AI today.

Web

iOS

Android

Facebook

Instagram

WhatsApp

Messenger

Privacy Notes

Publicly stated data-handling notes that matter when evaluating Meta AI.

Meta says AI interactions can help personalize content and ads across its apps.

Alternatives

Other tools worth considering alongside Meta AI.

ChatGPT

General-purpose AI assistant for writing, coding, research, and agentic tasks.

Grok

xAI's conversational assistant with live web search, X access, and multimodal tools.

Gemini

Google's multimodal assistant across the Gemini app, Google apps, and AI plans.

Product Snapshot

Meta AI is a meta’s free AI assistant across Meta apps and the Meta AI web experience. It is aimed at people already using Meta’s social and messaging apps.

What You Can Do With It

Why It Stands Out

It is built for people already using Meta’s social and messaging apps.

Tradeoffs To Know

Changes to this tool page

  1. April 2026 Removed a generic desktop-workflow tradeoff that was not specific enough to this tool after a catalog review.
Sources
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  5. about.meta.com
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