Meta Wants You to Pay for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp Now

[MacRumors]

Meta is rolling out paid Instagram Plus, Facebook Plus, and WhatsApp Plus plans worldwide as of today.

Instagram Plus is priced at $3.99 per month, Facebook Plus is priced at $3.99 per month, and WhatsApp Plus is priced at $2.99 per month. According to TechCrunch, the paid plans provide features like profile customization, super reactions, and story insights.

Instagram Plus lets users see how many people have rewatched a Story, and it adds unlimited audience lists for Stories for creating groups other than Close Friends. Users can spotlight a story once a week for extra views, use Super Heart animated reactions, choose custom app icons, add customized fonts to a profile bio, extend a story beyond 24 hours, and search a story viewer list to see who is watching. Subscribers will also be able to post straight to their profiles without having the post show up in their followers' feeds, and they will be able to stealthily "preview" Instagram stories without showing up as a viewer.

Facebook Plus includes most of the same features as Instagram Plus, while WhatsApp Plus includes app themes, custom ringtones, more pinned chats, list customization, and premium stickers.

Meta head of product Naomi Gleit said the company is also exploring new subscription plans for creators and businesses, along with plans for AI users. The new plans are being offered under "Meta One" branding that combines subscription offerings from multiple Meta platforms.

The $7.99 Meta One Plus plan and the $19.99 Meta One Premium plan are aimed at Meta AI users. Both plans unlock higher compute queries, reasoning, and image/video generation, but Premium offers more capacity, including deeper reasoning for complex tasks.

A Meta One Essential plan priced at $14.99 per month is designed for creators and businesses. It includes a verified badge, impersonation protection, better analytics, and a linksheet that lets users link to their online profiles on the web and on other social media networks. The $49.99 Meta One Advanced plan includes the Essential options plus features in the Facebook feed, optimized scheduling tools, notifications when others reuse a creator's content, higher rankings in Instagram and Facebook search, a bolder Follow button on Reels, and automatic follow invitations for people who engage with a creator or brand's content.

Meta is going to start testing the AI Meta One plans in Singapore, Guatemala, and Bolivia next month. The business plans will be tested in Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Thailand, and Bangladesh starting later this week.

Gleit described Meta One as a place that brings Meta subscriptions "together" across all Meta apps. She said Meta's new plans were "just the beginning with a lot more value to come."

Article Link: Meta Wants You to Pay for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp Now

 

[jbachandouris]

Nope. Never going to happen.

 

[germanbeer007]

remember when people were like "sToP uSiNg iMeSsAgE anD uSe WhAtSaPP iNsTeAd"

just go telegram or keep iMessage and block the green bubbles. I stand by what I said before, WhatsApp is the worst. terrible UX.

 

[tcphoto1]

Peace out, those platforms died long ago when FB bought IG.

 

[awshucks]

Really surprised these subscriptions didn't happen sooner.

 

[Karllake]

Good, people won’t pay and these toxic services can die!

 

[Lizzard899]

NO ONE WANTS THIS. ITS A DUMB IDEA

 

[Thalesian]

Tired: You are the product
Wired: Pay us monthly for the privilege of being the product

 

[iMac The Knife]

I would honestly rather pay not to have anything Meta related, if I had to.

 

[jole]

I was not using their stuff for free — paying for it is even more repulsive value proposition.

 

[cmiller4642]

Facebook sucks anyway now. I go on and it's filled with groups I don't follow, political ragebait, AI slop, ads, and stupid stuff like that. I'm seriously about to delete it.

 

[skitidetdu]

Not making enough money on ads anymore? I mean fb and ig is littered with ads nowadays...

 

[SilmarilFinder]

Who with even a single working brain cell would pay for this?

 

[hieranonymous]

The stench of desperation is strong.

 

[abatabia]

I laughed so hard I needed my inhaler.

 

[Le Big Mac]

If I were going to pay anything - and I won’t - it would need to start with no ads.

I could maybe see some of this being useful to influencer/marketer types.

 

[ValerieDurden]

lol I would never, their apps are slow and bloated as is, gonna pay for that? Hahah no way.

 

[CocktailHour]

😂😂😂😂😂😂 No.
This is cuz they're spending ALL the money on failing AI.

 

[dreamerstree]

Hmm, enticing. Yes, let me pay for something I wouldn't even use for free.

 

[aaronhead14]

lol pathetic

 

[Mikegwald]

Meta is rolling out paid Instagram Plus, Facebook Plus, and WhatsApp Plus plans worldwide as of today.

Instagram Plus is priced at $3.99 per month, Facebook Plus is priced at $3.99 per month, and WhatsApp Plus is priced at $2.99 per month. According to TechCrunch, the paid plans provide features like profile customization, super reactions, and story insights.

Instagram Plus lets users see how many people have rewatched a Story, and it adds unlimited audience lists for Stories for creating groups other than Close Friends. Users can spotlight a story once a week for extra views, use Super Heart animated reactions, choose custom app icons, add customized fonts to a profile bio, extend a story beyond 24 hours, and search a story viewer list to see who is watching. Subscribers will also be able to post straight to their profiles without having the post show up in their followers' feeds, and they will be able to stealthily "preview" Instagram stories without showing up as a viewer.

Facebook Plus includes most of the same features as Instagram Plus, while WhatsApp Plus includes app themes, custom ringtones, more pinned chats, list customization, and premium stickers.

Meta head of product Naomi Gleit said the company is also exploring new subscription plans for creators and businesses, along with plans for AI users. The new plans are being offered under "Meta One" branding that combines subscription offerings from multiple Meta platforms.

The $7.99 Meta One Plus plan and the $19.99 Meta One Premium plan are aimed at Meta AI users. Both plans unlock higher compute queries, reasoning, and image/video generation, but Premium offers more capacity, including deeper reasoning for complex tasks.

A Meta One Essential plan priced at $14.99 per month is designed for creators and businesses. It includes a verified badge, impersonation protection, better analytics, and a linksheet that lets users link to their online profiles on the web and on other social media networks. The $49.99 Meta One Advanced plan includes the Essential options plus features in the Facebook feed, optimized scheduling tools, notifications when others reuse a creator's content, higher rankings in Instagram and Facebook search, a bolder Follow button on Reels, and automatic follow invitations for people who engage with a creator or brand's content.

Meta is going to start testing the AI Meta One plans in Singapore, Guatemala, and Bolivia next month. The business plans will be tested in Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Thailand, and Bangladesh starting later this week.

Gleit described Meta One as a place that brings Meta subscriptions "together" across all Meta apps. She said Meta's new plans were "just the beginning with a lot more value to come."

Article Link: Meta Wants You to Pay for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp Now

LOL HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
NO WAY IN HELL

 

[racerhomie]

Bangladesh is addicted to Facebook. 70 Million users in a country of 180 Million. No wonder it's getting first access

 

[Justin Cymbal]

Wired: Pay us monthly for the privilege of being the product

for $3.99, Facebook should include the ability to upload full high resolution photos. I travel a lot and like to post the pictures to share with friends and family so the fact that Facebook doesn’t currently allow this is kind of ridiculous considering the website was initially designed specifically for this, so it would be nice if they were to add high resolution upload capabilities in the future

 

[sjsharksfan12]

I would never pay for something like this and I really don't use facebook anymore anyway. The only reason I still have an account is to check is on a rare occasion.

 

[Happy_John]

Cool. Now you can pay a monthly subscription to be overbombed with adverts and slop. Why pay once when you can pay twice ( a month)?