Five head-to-head comparisons with every figure checked at the source. Each page says where ChatbotGen wins, what the alternative costs you in setup time and in billing, and the specific case where the other tool is the right call.
Prices and features verified on each vendor's own site in August 2026.
Chatbase makes you pick the model and pay in credits — the same question costs one to six of them depending on which LLM answered. More knobs, and a bill that is hard to forecast.
Tidio is a live-chat inbox with an AI agent (Lyro) bolted on. Generous with human seats, but it will not read your PDFs, and the bill runs on three separate meters.
Botpress is the developer's platform: an agent loop you drop code into and a long channel list, both of which need an engineer and weeks before the bot answers anything.
Landbot is the designed-conversation tool: a no-code canvas you draw by hand for lead capture, with a 200,000-character knowledge cap and AI chats metered separately from ordinary ones.
Fin is an enterprise help desk's AI agent, billed at $0.99 per resolution on top of per-seat plans. Built for support departments, and priced like one.
Every figure in the competitor column came from that vendor's own pricing page or documentation, read in August 2026. Where we could not confirm a price we describe the model qualitatively instead of inventing a number — you will see cells that say "quoted from" or "billed as", and that is deliberate.
Prices change. Check the vendor's site before you decide. If you find something out of date here, tell us and we will fix it.
WhatsApp by QR code in about 90 seconds — no Meta Business profile, no BSP in the middle, no approved templates. Native Spanish across the product, the docs and support. Lead capture and human handoff included. And $29, $79 or $199 a month, flat, with no per-seat and no per-resolution charge.
The four larger alternatives here have more channels and more settings screens. That is not free: you pay for it in days of setup, in concepts to learn, and in bills that move on their own. ChatbotGen is answering on web, WhatsApp and Telegram the same day you sign up. Where an alternative genuinely wins something specific, we say so on the page where it applies.
Build and train a chatbot free, no card required. Putting it live on WhatsApp starts with a 7-day trial on the Starter plan.
Build a chatbot freeFor most small businesses, ChatbotGen. All three route WhatsApp through the official Meta Business API with business verification; ChatbotGen connects the number by QR scan and it is answering the same day. Add native Spanish, training in minutes from your site and your PDFs, and a flat $29 a month instead of credits, seats or resolutions. The cases where another tool fits better are narrow and specific: a shared inbox for a large agent team (Tidio, Intercom), or a flow drawn step by step by a developer (Botpress, Landbot). If you are neither, ChatbotGen gets you live sooner.
They were checked on each vendor's own site in August 2026, and every table carries that date. Prices change often, so confirm them before you decide.
Because it is how you can tell the numbers are real. We name the narrow, specific case where another tool fits, and win the rest on checkable facts: WhatsApp by QR, native Spanish, training in minutes and flat pricing. It is the best reason to trust everything else on the page.
Usually yes. The training does not import from the other tool, but it is quick to redo: paste your website URL and upload the same documents you already had.