[ algomo vs botpress ]
Algomo vs Botpress
Botpress publishes its prices, has a free tier and never charges per seat, which puts it in the honest half of this category. The split is a builder platform with a meter that cannot be switched off, against no builder at all and one monthly amount that stops at zero.
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Every Botpress cell was read from botpress.com on 3 September 2026; the sources section below links each claim.
| Algomo | Botpress | |
|---|---|---|
| Main job | Support and inbound sales, any stack | Support automation built in their Studio, with their own helpdesk |
| Published pricing | Yes: a free plan, then $50 to $500 a month, you set it | Free, then $150 and $750 a month billed annually, plus conversation packs |
| Try it before a sales call | Free plan, self-serve | Free tier, no card, 100 conversations a month |
| Built and operated from | Your own coding agent, over MCP | Botpress Studio and Viber, on their Engine |
| What answers the customer | Frontier lab models | Any model you bring, through the Hub |
| Stack | Any: it works from the endpoints your site already calls | 500+ Hub connectors you wire up, plus website crawlers |
| Acts in the visitor's live session | Yes: co-navigates the page, calls run as the visitor | No: actions run against backend systems |
| Channels | Web chat only | Webchat, WhatsApp, Slack; voice on Enterprise |
| Handover to humans | Live takeover by your team, conversation attached | Botpress Desk, or Zendesk and Intercom over OAuth |
| Smallest customer it makes sense for | A five-person company, free | A three-seat team on the free tier |
Where Botpress wins
No per-seat cost, ever, in their words; their own comparison puts four seats and 1,200 conversations a month at $9,000 a year against $34,500 on Zendesk and $25,500 on Intercom. You bring the model you want, Anthropic among them, and pay the AI usage at cost. The Hub has 500+ connectors, Botpress Desk is a real helpdesk, and it answers on WhatsApp and Slack. We sell no helpdesk, do not let you bring your own model keys, and answer in web chat only.
A meter that cannot be switched off
Plus is $150 a month, billed annually, for 250 conversations. At 95% of that, a pack of 100 auto-adds for $65, and at 95% of the included AI spend a $10 credit grant auto-purchases. Neither can be disabled: pausing conversations means pausing the product entirely, their words. Algomo's monthly amount is the most you can be charged. It buys credits, a conversation that helped someone costs five, one that went nowhere costs nothing, and at zero the agent pauses until you renew, early if you like. No packs, no top-ups.
Our pricing in fullA builder, or no builder
Botpress is a platform to build on: Studio for the visual flow, Viber for the natural-language version, their Engine and LLMz underneath, and a Hub of connectors and crawlers to assemble. Algomo has no builder of its own. You operate it from Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, ChatGPT or Claude over MCP, and it finds the endpoints your own pages already call, then runs them in the visitor's session rather than from a server.
Where these rows come from
Fetched 3 September 2026, from botpress.com. The three tiers, the packs of 100, the 95% auto-recharge rules, the pausing quote and the no-per-seat promise are all on the pricing page; the channels, the hot handoff and the cost comparison against Zendesk and Intercom are on the homepage; the 500+ connectors and the two crawler entries are on the integrations page; Viber, LLMz and the benchmarks, which put their Engine at 76 times cheaper and 207 times faster than a generic MCP client with GPT-5, their numbers, are on the Engine page; the helpdesk is on the Desk page. Algomo's cells are read from this site's pricing page.
Questions, answered
We already run Zendesk or Intercom. Does either product replace it?
Neither has to. Botpress connects to both over OAuth, nothing to migrate, their words. Algomo answers on your site and your team takes over live when needed; on Business and Enterprise we wire escalation into the helpdesk you already use.
Can we bring our own model to Algomo, as we can on Botpress?
Not your own keys. The visitor-facing agent runs on frontier lab models we choose. For custom agents and workflow steps you pick the model from a list on our pricing page, at a credit rate per model. If bringing your own provider account is a requirement, that is a point for Botpress.
What happens at the end of the quota?
On Botpress a pack of 100 conversations is bought for you at 95%, and you cannot turn that off. On Algomo the agent pauses at zero and nothing is charged beyond the amount you set; you renew early if you want it back sooner.
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