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# Groups

# Groups API

Updated: Nov 14, 2025

The Groups API enables you to programmatically create groups for messaging and collaboration.

## How it works

Groups are an invite-only experience where participants join using a group invite link you send them. This invite link provides context about the group, helping the user decide whether they want to join.

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## Get Started

When you are ready to start using the Groups API, head on over to our “Get Started” guide for more information:

[Get Started with Groups API](https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/groups/get-started)

## Quick Facts

**Max group participants:** 8
**Supported message types:** Text, media, text-based templates, and media-based templates
**Max groups you can create:** 10,000 per business number
**Max Cloud API businesses per group:** 1

## Analytics

**Performance metrics are not available for message templates used in Groups.**

Please create new templates specifically for Groups use instead of repurposing templates used for one-to-one messaging.

## Limits

**Eligibility for Groups API**

To qualify for groups features, your business must meet the following requirements:

Have a messaging limit of at least 100,000 business-initiated conversations in a rolling 24-hour period
Be an [Official Business Account (OBA)](https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/official-business-accounts)

[Learn more about Quality Ratings and Messaging Limits](https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/messaging-limits)

*Groups are **not available** for [Coexistence users](https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/embedded-signup/onboarding-business-app-users) and phone numbers onboarded to [Multi-solution Conversations](https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/solution-providers/multi-solution-conversations)*.

*The [Calling API](https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/calling) is not supported in groups.*

**Non-supported message types:**
Calling
Disappearing messages
View-once
Auth
Commerce messages
Interactive messages
**Non-supported actions:**
Admin hide group participant list
Edit message
Delete message
Marking message as read

## Pricing

The Groups API uses [per-message pricing](https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/pricing).

[Learn more about Groups API pricing here](https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/groups/pricing)

## Features and reference

### Group management features

[Create and delete group](https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/groups/reference#create-group)
[Groups with join requests enabled](https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/groups/reference#groups-with-join-requests)
[Get and reset group invite link](https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/groups/reference#get-and-reset-group-invite-link)
[Send group invite link template message](https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/groups/reference#send-group-invite-link-template-message)
[Remove group participants](https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/groups/reference#remove-group-participants-endpoint)
[Get group info](https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/groups/reference#get-group-info)
[Get active groups](https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/groups/reference#get-active-groups)
[Update group settings](https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/groups/reference#update-group-settings)

[*View Group Management reference*](https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/groups/reference)

### Group messaging features

[Send group messages](https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/groups/groups-messaging#send-group-message)
[Receive group messages](https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/groups/groups-messaging#receive-group-messages)
[Pin and unpin group message](https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/groups/groups-messaging#pin-and-unpin-group-message)

[*View Group Messaging reference*](https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/groups/groups-messaging)

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