ChatBot vs. ManyChat

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ChatBot
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
ChatBot is an all-in-one platform to create, deploy, and track chatbots across channels. With it the vendor states users can create chatbots in minutes with diverse templates and automate key tasks right away, or easily drag-and-drop new elements to adapt any template to your needs. ChatBot is ready to work out of the box, while AI algorithms help users improve responses over time. Design conversational experiences to build better relationships with customers.…N/A
ManyChat
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
ManyChat headquartered in San Francisco provides their chatbot building platform to deploy Facebook messenger chatbots for support and service.
$10
per month
Pricing
ChatBotManyChat
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
500 Subscribers
$10.00
per month
1,000 Subscribers
$15.00
per month
2,500 Subscribers
$25.00
per month
5,000 Subscribers
$45.00
per month
10,000 Subscribers
$65.00
per month
15,000 Subscribers
$95.00
per month
20,000 Subscribers
$125.00
per month
25,000 Subscribers
$145.00
per month
25,001+ Subscribers
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ChatBotManyChat
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
ChatBotManyChat
Features
ChatBotManyChat
Chat Analytics and Reports
Comparison of Chat Analytics and Reports features of Product A and Product B
ChatBot
7.8
Ratings
6% below category average
ManyChat
-
Ratings
Chat history and transcripts9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Chat reporting7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Chat and web analytics7.50 Ratings00 Ratings
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ChatBotManyChat
Small Businesses
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Score 7.2 out of 10
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Front
Score 7.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Score 10.0 out of 10
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Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 10.0 out of 10
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Genesys DX (discontinued)
Score 10.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
ChatBotManyChat
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(0 ratings)
9.3
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(0 ratings)
7.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(0 ratings)
6.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
ChatBotManyChat
Likelihood to Recommend
If you're an organisation looking to start deploying a ChatBot solution on your website, this product solves your use case. Especially, if you haven't worked with a ChatBot solution before and have little or no prior experience. Their help videos, training section will be sufficient for you to start with the basics of deploying a ChatBot on your website. Use their templates effectively too to start off with.
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ManyChat is extremely easy to set up on your Facebook business page and Instagram account. Even if you just want to try it out, the free plan is great to get started. If you want to provide a freebie or 24/7 customer support, you can get it done with ManyChat.
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Pros
  • Answering most of the FAQs.
  • Sending users in the right direction rather then going from one support staff to other.
  • Reduces unnecessary load from the the team
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  • ManyChat has a Facebook comment feature that when your audience comments on a particular post on your Facebook page then send them the information you have promised them. Once set up, is all on autopilot.
  • We have the ManyChat plugin on our website to act as a customer service chat feature for those looking for help and engage with us.
  • Have some great integrations on the pro account with payment gateways such as Stripe that allows you to charge your clients and receive money.
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Cons
  • I think the pricing could be a little more competitive
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  • Better one way communication once explicit consent from recipient is acquired.
  • Ability to see in one place where any automations are live.
  • Alerts or notifications when an automation fails.
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Likelihood to Renew
As long as budget is not an issue - we renewing this solution.
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Usability
Since I deployed this solution end to end for my organisation, I would speak from my experience that since I was a newbie to this platform I took ample support from their team, their training resources. However, the product's UI/UX was simply very intuitive that it helped me to get a lot of hand-on practice on the product well. This helped me with the timely deployment of this solution.
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ManyChat is a great tool, provides loads of features, integrations and just saves you a whole load of time once all set up. If you aren't tech-savvy or used to how digital marketing tools work, it can appear complicated. That's how I felt initially 2 years ago, and after watching tutorials online I had a better understanding of it. This is why I rated it a 7, as it's not a tool that you can just play around with and guess how it works. There's definitely a learning curve with it so I recommend doing the free training and watching video tutorials.
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Support Rating
Full end-to-end support is critical to maintain the ongoing service, robustness, training and customer service Chatbot offers.
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There is room for improvement but frankly, we haven't had the need to request for support. Everything is pretty easy to setup and there are very useful video explanation guides and walkthroughs on ManyChat's YouTube channel. The only challenge we have had was to integrate it with Zapier, it's a bit tricky because you need to do a setup workaround first, but nothing too complicated.
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Alternatives Considered
ChatBot is more stable and enhanced as compared to other rivals which are new in this segment and also provides a lot of details which is missing in other products like report etc. Also, chatBot is more commonly used so support wise it is also great and you can find multiple examples on the internet and from your peers as well.
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For the initial purpose of getting ManyChat, none of the alternatives worked either. We ended up creating a mobile app to meet the need. For incoming support automation, using the native features within Facebook has been effective as well as using GoHighLevel and Continual.ly. ManyChat was considerably more effective, but with the price increase and the non-necessity of carrying another subscription for incoming message support, it wasn't a logical choice to keep the service.
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Return on Investment
  • Good customer engagement levels (positive intent recognition).
  • Positive CSAT.
  • Not enough volume yet to have a cost ROI.
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  • We have a very positive ROI for our business. We have been generating about 10 leads a month. We are currently closing on 10% of those, so 1 new client a month. We are working on ways to improve that conversion percentage.
  • We generate around 50 leads a month for a client of ours. Their conversion is about 25% Their average ticket is 1,500.00 which puts them to about 15-20 thousand a month.
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ScreenShots

ChatBot Screenshots

Screenshot of Chatbot conversations are automatically archived, allowing users to analyze and improve their story flows.Screenshot of With ChatBot you can control the entire conversation flow.Screenshot of Improve your chatbot day by day using the training tool.Screenshot of Save your time importing a ready to use template and turn it into your own bot assistant.Screenshot of Stories are an intuitive way to tell the bot how to react to different situations. Create Stories for frequent questions and cases to save more time for the difficult ones.Screenshot of To create a fully operating chatbot you don’t need any other tools or apps. The scenario tree structure and drag and drop interface are very intuitive.