ManyChat headquartered in San Francisco provides their chatbot building platform to deploy Facebook messenger chatbots for support and service.
$10
per month
Voiceflow
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Voiceflow aims to empower conversational AI teams to design, prototype and build conversational assistants together, faster, and at scale. It is a collaborative platform for teams to design and build conversational assistants.
$60
per month per editor
Pricing
ManyChat
Voiceflow
Editions & Modules
500 Subscribers
$10.00
per month
1,000 Subscribers
$15.00
per month
2,500 Subscribers
$25.00
per month
5,000 Subscribers
$45.00
per month
10,000 Subscribers
$65.00
per month
15,000 Subscribers
$95.00
per month
20,000 Subscribers
$125.00
per month
25,000 Subscribers
$145.00
per month
25,001+ Subscribers
Contact Sales
Pro
$60
per month 10k credits
Business
$150
per month 30k credits
Enterprise
Contact Sales
per year
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ManyChat
Voiceflow
Free Trial
No
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
Optional
No setup fee
Additional Details
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Discount available for annual billing on Pro and Business plans.
I found that ManyChat is a strong tool when receiving incoming messages, being able to create a tree of potential responses based on options given to the initiator. There is also a huge potential for complex automation (as long as the environment required by Facebook in order to send outgoing messages is maintained).
For a design team, Voiceflow is a must to have skill. With all the features present and being constantly rolled out by Voiceflow team, the tool has become one of the core part of design systems. Additionally, the support team of Voiceflow is hard-working and dedicated to customer satisfaction which truly brings about a difference. For context, we have raised multiple bugs and asked for best practices and the prompt response of support team from Voiceflow has been instrumental in us using the tool more and more
Honestly, the only thing I don't like about ManyChat is their support. It seems to be almost non existent. However, that concern is negated by having a fantastic user base that helps each other out on Facebook.
ManyChat is a great tool, provides loads of features, integrations and just saves you a whole load of time once all set up. If you aren't tech-savvy or used to how digital marketing tools work, it can appear complicated. That's how I felt initially 2 years ago, and after watching tutorials online I had a better understanding of it. This is why I rated it a 7, as it's not a tool that you can just play around with and guess how it works. There's definitely a learning curve with it so I recommend doing the free training and watching video tutorials.
Voiceflow has become an integral part of our design eco-system, providing capabilities for both rapid design and prototyping as well as testing with users. Additionally, the easy API integration has also allowed to create test automations using Gen AI
There is room for improvement but frankly, we haven't had the need to request for support. Everything is pretty easy to setup and there are very useful video explanation guides and walkthroughs on ManyChat's YouTube channel. The only challenge we have had was to integrate it with Zapier, it's a bit tricky because you need to do a setup workaround first, but nothing too complicated.
I've worked in the past with Chatfuel. However, I decided to switch to ManyChat due to a variety of reasons. Overall, ManyChat offers much more functionality out of the box (e.g., Facebook comments tool), sequence builders are much more intuitive. Also, they provide flexible pay as you go pricing plan, which is perfect for a startup like us.
For the intended application, we experienced a negative ROI due to the inconsistency in the ability to maintain the automation without incoming responses. Since it is a free service that was meant to lead to paid services organically, the inconsistencies prevented the desired outcome.
We did experience a higher conversion rate with basic incoming messages with questions about services or products due to the ability to have pre-created responses and direction immediately supporting the prospect.