Comparing Botpress and My AskAI? Both are AI Agents & Chatbots and Knowledge Base & Self-Service tools in the directory, which is why buyers put them on the same shortlist. Below is a side-by-side look at how they price, what they integrate with, and when each is the better fit, so you can pick on the facts rather than either vendor's own sales page.
| Attribute | Botpress | My AskAI |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Freemium · Free; $89/mo + AI usage | Paid · $199/mo (1,000 tickets) |
| Founded | 2017 | 2022 |
| Categories | AI Agents & Chatbots Knowledge Base & Self-Service | AI Agents & Chatbots Knowledge Base & Self-Service |
| Integrations | WhatsApp Facebook Messenger Telegram Slack Zendesk web chat widget | Zendesk Intercom Freshdesk Gorgias HubSpot Shopify |
Botpress is a platform for building and running AI agents, aimed at teams automating customer conversations on chat channels. A visual studio combines autonomous LLM-driven nodes with deterministic flows, agents draw answers from knowledge bases backed by vector storage, and finished bots deploy to WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Slack, and embeddable web chat. For support teams, a Zendesk integration lets a bot escalate to a live agent or open a ticket without breaking the conversation, and built-in human handoff covers live takeover.
The company was founded in 2017 in Quebec City by Sylvain Perron and Justin Watson and spent its early years as an open source chatbot framework for developers before rebuilding around LLMs. In June 2025 it closed a $25 million Series B led by FrameWork Venture Partners, with Deloitte Ventures and HubSpot Ventures participating, at a $120 million post-money valuation, bringing total funding to roughly $45 million.
Pricing is freemium with a usage twist. A pay-as-you-go tier is free to start, then paid plans run $89 monthly (Plus, adding human handoff and insights), $495 monthly (Team, with three seats, RBAC, and 50,000 incoming messages), and $1,495 monthly (Managed, with Botpress engineers doing custom work), plus Enterprise. Every plan adds AI Spend, the passthrough cost of LLM usage billed at provider rates with no markup, with configurable spending caps.
Choose Botpress if you want serious builder flexibility for text-based support automation without writing everything from scratch, especially if WhatsApp or Messenger is where your customers live. Its developer roots show in the good way: APIs, custom code, real control. Look elsewhere if voice is your primary channel, or if you want an out-of-the-box helpdesk bot with resolution guarantees rather than a platform you assemble.
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My AskAI is proof that two people and no venture capital can compete in AI support if the wedge is sharp enough. Founded in London in 2022 by Mike Heap and Alex Rainey, and famously built at first on the no-code platform Bubble, it grew to handle more than 75,000 support chats a month while the team stayed at exactly two humans. The product pivoted early from a generic "chat with your documents" tool into a focused AI support agent, and the focus is the story.
It slots in front of the live chat you already run, whether Intercom, Zendesk, Freshdesk, Gorgias, or HubSpot, learns from your help docs and past tickets, and deflects the common questions before they reach your team, handing off cleanly with a summary when a human is needed. It claims to resolve 75 percent or more of tickets, self-learns from how your agents answer the ones it could not, and speaks 95+ languages.
The wedge is price. My AskAI markets itself directly against the per-resolution rates of Intercom's Fin and Zendesk AI, working out to roughly ten cents a ticket: the Pro plan is $199 a month including 1,000 tickets, Scale is $499 for 2,000 with SOC 2 Type II, and there is a 30-day trial. For a team paying dollar-a-resolution prices at volume, the arithmetic gets persuasive fast.
Choose My AskAI when you want meaningful deflection without changing help desks or budgets. It will not take actions in your backend systems or answer the phone; it answers questions cheaply and hands off politely, and for a large share of support queues that is most of the job.
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