Alive5 vs. Chatfuel

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Alive5
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
With Alive5’s Business Class SMS platform, teams can text-enable their office phone lines to send 2-way texts, bulk messages, and manage conversations with customers, patients, clients or patrons with chatbot automation.
$5
per month
Chatfuel
Score 9.9 out of 10
N/A
Chatfuel headquartered in San Francisco provides their AI chatbot building tool for Facebook Messenger.
$15
per month
Pricing
Alive5Chatfuel
Editions & Modules
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Pro
$15
per month
Free
Free
Premium
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Alive5Chatfuel
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Small Businesses
LocaliQ
LocaliQ
Score 8.8 out of 10
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LocaliQ
Score 8.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Piper the AI SDR by Qualified
Piper the AI SDR by Qualified
Score 9.2 out of 10
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Piper the AI SDR by Qualified
Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Conversica
Conversica
Score 4.0 out of 10
Conversica
Conversica
Score 4.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Alive5Chatfuel
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(2 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.7
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
Alive5Chatfuel
Likelihood to Recommend
Alive Technologies, Inc.
It is well suited for communication with existing customers and prospects. It is less appropriate for people just looking to visit our website to get up to date with the latest team news or those who aren't at a computer.
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Chatfuel
Chatfuel is great for a small team looking to easily implement and set up Facebook chatbots for their clients for ease of community management, etc. Chatfuel is not necessarily meant for large scale operations that require complex workflows and chatbot requirements, it is limited to Facebook Messenger and is not 100% intuitive in this regard.
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Pros
Alive Technologies, Inc.
  • Mobile compatibility - AliveChat has a dynamic user interface which makes its popup chat widget display and work perfectly on all devices - mobile and desktop. Thus web visitors get a complete experience no matter the device from which they use in accessing our website.
  • Analytic - AliveChat provides us with a dynamic set of website analytics that helps us in analyzing our progress or decline in a timely manner. With the analytics provided by AliveChat, we are able to monitor the number of visitors on the website at a particular time, the duration of which they have been on the website, the number of times they have been on the website in time past etc.
  • Feature packed - AliveChat is packed with features which makes the job of the customer care agents easier. For instance, with AliveChat it is very easy for an agent to transfer a web visitors chat to another agent that has better answers to the agent's query. We are also able to introduce short survey questions to web visitors, which they respond to before they begin chatting with a customer care rep.
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Chatfuel
  • Easy to use without experience
  • Cost vs. benefit ratio very good
  • Integrations possible through API
  • Conversion funnels can be created
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Cons
Alive Technologies, Inc.
  • There seems to always be required upgrades where you need to spend more money to get a better product.
  • The look and feel continues to change, not necessarily for the bad.
  • Price point has gone up a decent amount recently.
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Chatfuel
  • Setting it up is time-consuming.
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Support Rating
Alive Technologies, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Chatfuel
I haven't dealt with the support channel, so I cannot provide a full review for this
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Alternatives Considered
Alive Technologies, Inc.
AliveChat really serves a different purpose than other products. Very few products offer the ability to chat through our website, so it compliments our phone, text, and email options very well.
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Chatfuel
Both offer bot service to reply to messages from Facebook. The difference is that Chatfuel gives you the option of being able to create conversion funnels or fixed conversation changes.
Connecting to our API is free from Chatfuel and integration with other providers has an additional cost.
AIVO has no option to create conversation flows if not through keywords.
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Return on Investment
Alive Technologies, Inc.
  • AliveChat has made it easy for us to track the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. As the real-time number of visitors on the website gives us insights into the performance of ongoing campaigns.
  • AliveChat also makes it possible for us to have an idea of where our web visitors are coming from i.e. via the pre-chat survey form for instance. We are able to generate important data like how a web visitor got to know about us, their expectations when visiting our website etc.
  • AliveChat makes it easy for web visitors to get a real-time response to their questions, with a delay of probably a few seconds.
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Chatfuel
  • It helped overall with visitor engagement.
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