Botpress
AI Agents & Chatbots Knowledge Base & Self-Service
AI agent platform with a visual studio, knowledge bases, and human handoff, deploying bots to chat channels like WhatsApp and Slack.
- Pricing
- Freemium from Free; $150/mo billed annually
- Founded
- 2017
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.
Key features
- Visual agent studio
- Knowledge bases with vector storage
- Multi-channel chat deployment
- Human handoff and escalation
- Passthrough LLM usage billing
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Frequently asked questions
- How much does Botpress cost?
- Botpress is freemium: a free tier covers the basics, and paid plans unlock more. Published pricing: Free; $150/mo billed annually. Compare pricing across all listed tools →
- What does Botpress integrate with?
- Botpress integrates with WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Slack, Zendesk, and web chat widget.
- What compliance standards does Botpress meet?
- Based on the vendor's own security and trust pages, Botpress claims SOC 2 and GDPR compliance. See how that compares across vendors →
- When was Botpress founded?
- Botpress was founded in 2017.
- What are the best Botpress alternatives?
- Popular alternatives include Capacity, Chatbase, and eesel AI. See all Botpress alternatives →
Updated August 2026
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