Botpress Alternatives

Voiceflow is the tool most guides put next to Botpress, and for good reason: both started as visual builders for conversations, and both now sell AI agents. Where Voiceflow pulls ahead is the design side. Its canvas mixes agentic playbooks with deterministic workflows, so you can let the model answer open questions and still force a fixed path for a refund or an identity check. You choose the model from the large LLM providers, or bring your own, which avoids being stuck on one vendor's token prices. Agents run on chat and on voice, and every project gets development, staging and production environments, something you build by hand with Botpress workspaces.

The catch is the price tag, or rather its absence. Voiceflow's pricing page now shows two audiences and no amount: agencies get a free trial with no credit card and usage-based billing with optional top-ups, and businesses are asked to request pricing. So you cannot compare it line by line with Botpress Plus at $150 a month billed annually. Our advice: run the agency trial on a copy of your Botpress flows, measure how many interactions a typical conversation burns, and only then ask sales for a quote, with your own volume in hand. Teams that mostly need a support bot on a website will find it heavier than they need.

Dify is where many developers land when Botpress's per-conversation bill starts to sting. It is an LLM app platform: you build chatbots, agents and workflows on a visual canvas, plug in a knowledge base for retrieval (RAG), and call the result through an API. The big difference with Botpress is how you pay. The cloud Professional plan costs $59 per workspace per month, or $590 a year, and includes 5,000 message credits a month, 3 team members and 50 apps. Team costs $159 a month for 10,000 credits and 50 members. The free Sandbox plan gives 200 message credits, 5 apps and one member, enough to rebuild a Botpress prototype, not to run it in production.

The self-hosted Community Edition runs with Docker on your own server, for free, in a single workspace. Read the licence before you plan on it. Dify uses a modified Apache 2.0 licence: you may not operate a multi-tenant service from the source code without written authorization, and you may not remove the Dify logo from the frontend. An agency that wants one Dify workspace per client, under its own brand, needs a commercial licence. Our tip: on the cloud plans, paying yearly saves $118 against twelve monthly payments ($708). Message credits are there to try models: once they run out, you can plug in your own model provider's API key and pay its tokens directly. To push chatbot leads into other apps, see our Dify Zapier integration guide. Support on the lower plans is mostly the community, so budget time for your own debugging.

Chatbase takes the opposite road to Botpress. Instead of a canvas of nodes, you upload your help center, PDFs or website, and Chatbase builds an AI agent that answers from that content, with AI actions and procedures for the tasks it can carry out. For a support bot on a website, that is often all you needed Botpress for, without the learning curve the reviews keep mentioning. Hobby costs $32 a month billed yearly ($40 billed monthly), with 700 message credits a month, one agent and 40 MB of training content. Basic costs $120 a month billed yearly ($150 monthly) with 4,000 credits and adds voice and API access, and Business $400 a month billed yearly ($500 monthly) with 15,000 credits.

Three costs hide below the plan cards. There is no free plan, only a 7-day trial, so plan your evaluation before you start it. Removing the "Powered By Chatbase" mention is a separate add-on at $99 a month, or $1,188 a year, more than three times the Hobby plan itself ($384 a year billed yearly). And every extra agent costs $25 a month. If you run one bot per brand or per language, count agents before you count credits. Extra credits cost $40 per 1,000 and do not expire, which beats Botpress packs that vanish at the end of the month. To push leads or tickets from the bot to your CRM, our Chatbase Zapier integration guide shows the setup.

Rasa is the developer framework the guides cite for on-premise needs, and it is a different animal from Botpress. You write the assistant as code and configuration (the full platform adds a no-code flow builder), run it on your own infrastructure or private cloud, and decide exactly which steps the language model may handle. Its current approach, called CALM, uses the model to understand the user and keeps business logic in defined flows, which suits regulated companies that cannot let an LLM improvise on a loan or a claim. That control is why Rasa scores high on features and low on ease of use: you need Python developers, not a marketing team.

Licensing is where buyers get confused. The free Developer Edition can be used locally or in production, but it is limited to one bot per company, with up to 1,000 external conversations a month or 100 internal ones. Above that, Enterprise is sold through sales, with no published price. The old Rasa Open Source project, under the Apache 2.0 licence, still exists on GitHub but is in maintenance mode: new features go to the Rasa platform. Our tip: a startup with one customer-facing assistant under 1,000 conversations a month can run Rasa in production for free, which no plan of Botpress allows past 100 conversations.

Tidio is not a bot framework, and that is precisely why people leaving Botpress end up there. If your Botpress project is a website chat that answers order questions and hands over to a human, Tidio does that out of the box: live chat, ticketing, Flows for automated messages, and Lyro, its AI agent that answers from your knowledge base. It connects to Shopify and the usual store platforms, so a merchant can be live the same day. Starter costs $24.17 a month billed yearly (annual billing gives two months free) and includes 100 billable conversations, and Plus starts at $300 a month plus usage for larger teams.

Read the meters carefully, because Tidio counts three things. A billable conversation is one where a human agent replies: unanswered visitor messages and bot-only chats are not billed on that meter. Lyro has its own counter: every account gets 50 AI conversations for life, and they only refresh monthly on a paid Lyro plan. Flows have a third limit, 100 visitors a month on the free plan. Removing Tidio branding is an add-on at $16.67 a month. Our full Tidio review scores it 3.6, held back by value for money once Lyro volume grows; the Tidio pricing breakdown details each meter, and the Tidio alternatives guide lists other live chat tools.

Landbot is the no-code option for people who found the Botpress studio too technical. You build with blocks on a canvas, add AI steps where you need them, and deploy on a website, as a landing page or on WhatsApp. The free plan includes 100 chats a month. Starter costs $45 a month on monthly billing and includes 500 chats (our Landbot pricing breakdown details every plan), of which 100 can be AI chats; Professional costs $110 a month with 2,500 chats and 300 AI chats; WhatsApp Professional costs $220 a month. Annual plans carry a discount and a 12-month commitment, and in the EU you are billed in euros.

The pricing is unusually explicit about overage, which is the opposite of Botpress's auto-recharge packs. Each chat beyond the allowance costs $0.05, and each AI chat beyond it $0.10. So 1,000 scripted chats on Starter cost $45 plus 500 extra chats at $0.05, $70 in total. Watch the AI share: if most of your chats use the AI agent, the $0.10 rate drives the bill. Our Landbot review gives it 3.5, mainly for value for money and support, and the Landbot alternatives guide covers the WhatsApp-first tools if that channel is your focus. Torn between Landbot and an Instagram-first tool? Read Landbot vs Manychat.