MotherBot
10 channels, one platform
Manychat
Social-first, contact-metered
MotherBot vs Manychat
The strongest product here for Instagram and TikTok creator marketing. It's priced by active contacts, and the business tooling — CRM, quotes, invoices, calls — isn't what it's for.
What you're billed on
Unlimited
Contacts are never the meter here
Active contacts
2,500 on Pro, 7,500 on Business, 25,000 on Advanced
One customer, one thread
Channels each of us publishes
Not a WhatsApp tool. One conversation per person, wherever they message from.
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Only MotherBot
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Both do it
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Only Manychat
18 capabilities compared · 26 more that Manychat doesn’t publish
Every Manychat figure comes from their own published pages, read on 3 September 2026.
Pick Manychat if…
You grow on Instagram and TikTok, and comment-to-DM automation is the job.
Pick MotherBot if…
You're a business running sales and support, not a creator running social funnels.
Being fair
Where Manychat wins
If one of these is what your business runs on, buy theirs.
The best social automation here
Instagram and TikTok comment-to-DM is what the product is built for.
A free tier for tiny lists
25 active contacts and 4 automations, free. Ours is free forever too — compare the limits.
A very low entry price
Essential from $17/month billed monthly.
TikTok messaging
Published as a channel. We don't have it.
The other side
Where MotherBot wins
No contact cap at all
Their tiers stop at 2,500, 7,500 and 25,000 active contacts. We don't cap them.
Business channels
Telegram, LINE, Viber, RCS and a real email channel alongside social.
Quote, approve, invoice
With GST. Not what Manychat is for.
Calls, written up
Recorded, transcribed and AI-scored.
A real shared desk
Routing, SLA, satisfaction scores, snooze and closing notes.
Two-way CRM sync
Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho and LeadSquared, both directions.
Not on the table above
Six things none of the ten publish
They're not matrix rows because every competitor column would read “?”. They're just ours.
Quote, approve, invoice
Send a branded quotation, route it for sign-off, see when it's opened — then raise the GST invoice.
Calls that write themselves up
Call from the platform. Recorded, transcribed onto the contact, scored by AI against your checklist.
Portal leads, as conversations
IndiaMART, MagicBricks, 99acres, Housing and NoBroker enquiries arrive as chats. No inbox, no copy-paste.
Nothing goes unread
A message that fails — or lands and is never opened — goes again on a schedule you set.
Forms built by dragging
Screens, fields, logic and your own data, with a live phone preview beside you.
Where your team already works
Chrome, Google Sheets and WordPress extensions, plus Zapier. Start from the spreadsheet you have.
Quoted, not paraphrased
What Manychat publishes
The plan that fits your team is usually not the one in the headline.
Free
$0
25 active contacts, 4 automations.
Essential
$17/mo
Billed monthly. Entry automation tier.
Most citedPro
$39/mo
2,500 contacts, 3 channels, Manychat AI, broadcasts.
Business
$99/mo
7,500 contacts, unlimited channels, 5 seats, shared inbox.
Manychat restructured its pricing on 2 March 2026 into five tiers; figures here are the monthly rates. WhatsApp and SMS carry additional per-message charges on top.
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Every row, side by side
A question mark means they don't publish it — not that they can't.
- Included
- Higher tier
- No
- ? They don’t publish it
- WhatsApp Business API
- Instagram DMs
- Facebook Messenger
- Website live chat?
- Telegram
- SMS
- Email in the same inboxEmail automation, not a full inbox channel
- LINE
- Viber
- RCS
- TikTok messaging
- Automatic fallback to another channelThe same message re-sent by SMS or email when WhatsApp can't deliver?
One plan. Ten channels. Everything in it.
Start free and stay free until you outgrow it. No AI credits to top up and no contact cap, ever.
- Contacts
- Unlimited
- Messages a month
- 5,000
- Team seats
- 2
- WhatsApp number
- 1
No card. Nothing expires. Switching from Manychat? We migrate you.
Questions
MotherBot and Manychat
Where every Manychat figure came from
Read on 3 September 2026. Vendors change their pricing — check before you commit, and tell us if you find something out of date.
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