Azure AI Bot Service vs. ChatBot

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure AI Bot Service
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft offers the Azure Bot Service (replacing the former Microsoft Bot Framework), a managed bot building platform, which provides an integrated environment that is purpose-built for bot development, enabling you to build, connect, test, deploy, and manage intelligent bots, all from one place.N/A
ChatBot
Score 9.0 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
ChatBot is an all-in-one platform to create, deploy, and track chatbots across channels. With it the vendor states users can create chatbots in minutes with diverse templates and automate key tasks right away, or easily drag-and-drop new elements to adapt any template to your needs. ChatBot is ready to work out of the box, while AI algorithms help users improve responses over time. Design conversational experiences to build better relationships with customers.…N/A
Pricing
Azure AI Bot ServiceChatBot
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure AI Bot ServiceChatBot
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Azure AI Bot ServiceChatBot
Considered Both Products
Azure AI Bot Service

No answer on this topic

ChatBot
Chose ChatBot
End to end solution support, purchasing a service-ready solution speeds up the time to market whilst ensuring a secure and compliant solution. Also having contracts in place, speeded up the process of time to market. Developing with conversational experts to speed up time to …
Features
Azure AI Bot ServiceChatBot
Chat Analytics and Reports
Comparison of Chat Analytics and Reports features of Product A and Product B
Azure AI Bot Service
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Ratings
ChatBot
7.8
2 Ratings
7% below category average
Chat history and transcripts00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Chat reporting00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Chat and web analytics00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
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User Ratings
Azure AI Bot ServiceChatBot
Likelihood to Recommend
7.5
(7 ratings)
9.0
(4 ratings)
Usability
7.5
(4 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
8.8
(4 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure AI Bot ServiceChatBot
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
From personal experience, I can recommend the Azure AI service to reduce the burden on your customer service team, as we did. We created a customer service bot and automated our Frequently Asked Questions section, as well as an interactive platform for registering other complaints that the bot cannot handle, which are later addressed by our customer service team.
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LiveChat
Most suited: Frequent duties can be automated. services can be improved by analyzing customer feedback. Load and Heavy tasks can be reduced. Less workforce is required. Less Suited: Specific product queries and their proper answers. When the user uses those words that are misspelled or have a long sentence it finds difficulty in giving them proper information.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Assembles conversational AI encounters for our clients
  • Adds regular language, discourse, and vision
  • Sends to well known channels with insignificant code changes
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LiveChat
  • Routing rules
  • no code workflows
  • UI/UX is excellent for a newbie to start on
  • Their Chat support is very helpful
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Cons
Microsoft
  • Limited Natural Language Understanding, especially in entertainment contexts where slang, humor
  • Works only with Azure platform only not compatible with other platforms
  • Complex customization as per organization need
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LiveChat
  • Having enough conversational data to train the chatbot.
  • Really understanding intent.
  • Understanding emotion.
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Likelihood to Renew
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
LiveChat
As long as budget is not an issue - we renewing this solution.
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Usability
Microsoft
Azure AI Bot Service comes with an Integrated Development Environment and Bot Framework SDK that simplifies development. Having a single codebase for multiple channels, such as MS Teams, Facebook, and Slack, makes it easier to target multiple platforms without requiring redevelopment. LUIS and OpenAI can be easily integrated with your Chatbot to provide a seammless chat bot expereince to customers.
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LiveChat
Since I deployed this solution end to end for my organisation, I would speak from my experience that since I was a newbie to this platform I took ample support from their team, their training resources. However, the product's UI/UX was simply very intuitive that it helped me to get a lot of hand-on practice on the product well. This helped me with the timely deployment of this solution.
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Support Rating
Microsoft
Microsoft's customer service staff is friendly and extremely knowledgeable. They are always available to assist you with bot framework-related issues that you may be experiencing. They provide training sessions, manuals, and support personnel, among other things. Bugs were easily spotted and patched, which was one of my pet peeves about patching.
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LiveChat
Full end-to-end support is critical to maintain the ongoing service, robustness, training and customer service Chatbot offers.
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
Microsoft Bot Framework is much better and well more established without a lot of proprietary software/coding language. Lex is very limited with integration with standard hardware and network configurations. Lex has performance issues and was too slow to meet near real-time collaboration requirements. Bot Framework complements many other Microsoft communication products and this was key to implementing without a lot of new training required.
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LiveChat
ChatBot is more stable and enhanced as compared to other rivals which are new in this segment and also provides a lot of details which is missing in other products like report etc. Also, chatBot is more commonly used so support wise it is also great and you can find multiple examples on the internet and from your peers as well.
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • Azure Bot will only deliver according to the granularity of the FAQ it is feed. Otherwise, it has been a cost optimization tool for our organization.
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LiveChat
  • Connecting to DB.
  • Customizable dashboards.
  • Automated reporting.
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ScreenShots

ChatBot Screenshots

Screenshot of Chatbot conversations are automatically archived, allowing users to analyze and improve their story flows.Screenshot of With ChatBot you can control the entire conversation flow.Screenshot of Improve your chatbot day by day using the training tool.Screenshot of Save your time importing a ready to use template and turn it into your own bot assistant.Screenshot of Stories are an intuitive way to tell the bot how to react to different situations. Create Stories for frequent questions and cases to save more time for the difficult ones.Screenshot of To create a fully operating chatbot you don’t need any other tools or apps. The scenario tree structure and drag and drop interface are very intuitive.