Looking for a Botpress alternative?

Quick answer: GetChat or Botpress?

What Botpress does well

Botpress is built for teams that want to design custom AI agents, with code-level control, public APIs and many official channel integrations.

Where GetChat overlaps

Both Botpress and GetChat can answer Instagram DMs automatically, and both have a Free plan.

The main tradeoff

Botpress documents Instagram as a direct-message channel for an AI agent, while GetChat sends the messages you write from Instagram-specific triggers such as comment-to-DM, story replies and a follow check.

Who should consider each

Botpress suits builders shipping one AI agent across web and many messaging apps; GetChat suits Instagram sellers and creators who want ready-made triggers without building an agent.

GetChat vs Botpress: features

Conditions and plan requirements sit under each answer. “Not verified” means we could not confirm it on an official source, not that it is missing.

GetChat and Botpress compared

Feature	GetChat	Botpress
Instagram DM automation	YesKeyword triggers on every plan; 300, 5,000 or 25,000 automated conversations a month by plan	YesOfficial Instagram integration for direct messages; needs a professional Instagram account and a published bot
Comment-to-DM	YesPost and Reels comments, on every plan	Not verifiedThe Instagram integration docs describe direct messages only
Story reply or mention triggers	YesStory reply and mention triggers, on every plan	Not verified
Follow check before sending	YesA step in the comment-to-DM flow; checks the follow with Instagram's own data after the person taps, and treats an unknown answer as not following, so they are asked to follow and tap again	Not verified
AI-written replies	Not offeredNot offered	YesLLM-based AI agents; AI usage is billed from an AI spend balance
Inbox with human handoff	Not offeredNot offered; replies to customers are written in Instagram itself	Depends on planBuilt-in human handoff dashboard requires Plus or higher; new workspaces use Botpress Desk
Telegram	Not offeredNot offered	YesOfficial Telegram integration
WhatsApp	Not offeredNot offered	YesOfficial WhatsApp integration
Facebook Messenger	Not offeredNot offered	YesOfficial Messenger and Facebook integration
Several accounts or clients	Depends on plan1 Instagram account on Free, 2 on Pro, 5 on Growth; no separate client workspaces or white label	Depends on planFree includes 3 AI agents; Plus and Team include unlimited agents, each with its own channel integrations
API or integrations	YesThrough a Webhook step in the visual flow editor, on every plan: it posts each automation event to your URL. No public API or Zapier listing; contacts export as CSV	YesPublic Cloud APIs (Chat, Admin, Files, Tables, Runtime) plus an integration hub

Botpress also covers: Web chat.

Why look for a Botpress alternative

Botpress is a general-purpose agent builder. Its Instagram integration documentation covers people messaging your account; it does not describe comment-to-DM or story triggers. If most of your conversations start from Instagram comments or stories, that difference matters more than anything else on this page.

Pricing works differently. Botpress counts conversations per month and draws AI usage from a dollar balance with automatic top-ups. GetChat has no AI usage to meter: plans include 300 (Free), 5,000 (Pro) or 25,000 (Growth) automated conversations a month.

Setup also differs. Botpress connects Instagram through a published bot and, for manual setup, your own Meta developer app. GetChat connects Instagram through Meta login inside the product and gives you templates for comment and DM triggers.

Where GetChat fits

If your sales start when someone comments a keyword under a Reel, GetChat's comment-to-DM trigger sends them the link or price in a DM, on every plan including Free.

Story reply, story mention and reaction triggers, and a step that asks people to follow before they receive the content, are on every plan too.

Pro and Growth add a reminder DM for people who started and did not finish, and remove the GetChat branding from messages.

Contacts collected by automations are kept with tags and follow status and can be exported as CSV; a Webhook step can also post each automation event to your own system.

When Botpress is the better fit

You need one AI agent across web chat, WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram and Instagram. Botpress has official integrations for all of them; GetChat offers only Instagram.

You have developers who want code-level control, public APIs for chat, tables and files, and helpdesk handoff to tools like Zendesk or Intercom.

You need enterprise items Botpress lists, such as role-based access, an uptime SLA, a security review or a voice channel.

You want AI to answer open-ended questions, with a handoff to a human agent. Botpress is built for that; GetChat has no AI replies and no inbox.

Pricing explained

According to its pricing page (checked October 2026), Botpress has a Free plan with 100 conversations a month and no included AI credit. Plus is listed at $150 a month billed annually with 250 conversations and $25 of AI spend included; Team is $750 a month billed annually with 1,500 conversations and $150 of AI spend. Extra conversations are sold in packs of 100, and AI spend tops up automatically in $10 grants when the limit is near. A monthly billing option exists, but its prices were not shown in the page text we read.

GetChat has three plans: Free ($0, 300 automated conversations a month), Pro ($12 a month or $120 a year, 5,000) and Growth ($29 a month or $288 a year, 25,000). An automated conversation is one person going through one automation, counted once per 24 hours.

GetChat's Free plan has no time limit and needs no card; there is no separate trial.

Switching from Botpress to GetChat

• Rebuild your Botpress workflows as GetChat triggers and flows: DM keywords, comment keywords per post or Reel, and story triggers where you need them.
• Botpress AI knowledge does not carry over: GetChat has no AI, so write the answers you need as fixed messages in each automation.
• Reconnect Instagram to GetChat through Meta login and turn off the Botpress Instagram integration so people do not get two replies.
• Keep Botpress for web chat, WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram and any AI agent work; GetChat does not replace those.

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