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The cheapest price on a pricing page is often a plan without the bot. The chatbot, or the AI agent, sits one plan up or is sold as an add-on. So this list does not sort by the smallest number on each page. It sorts by what it costs to actually get automatic replies on WhatsApp.
A chatbot here means anything that answers on WhatsApp by itself: a flow of buttons and questions someone builds, or an AI agent that writes its own answers from what you taught it. Each entry says which kind it is. Every price has the address of the company's pricing page and the date we checked it.
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The cheapest WhatsApp chatbot with a published price is Chatfuel, whose free Light plan includes WhatsApp automations. Then come Zixflow ($49), Interakt ($55 with a basic chatbot), Zoko ($74.98 with an AI agent), CertuAI ($75 a month with an AI agent), AiSensy ($95 with an AI agent) and Wati ($99, chatbots from Pro). In Nigeria, WapsChat's bot plan is ₦4,950 a month.
Who wrote this list. CertuAI wrote it, and CertuAI is on it, at number 5. The order comes from the rule explained under "How we checked", not from a judge outside the company. Every other price comes from that company's own pricing page, with the address and the date we checked it right next to it. Check them and decide for yourself.
10 options, with the price each company publishes.
| # | Name | Price | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chatfuel | Free (Light) | Someone who wants to try a WhatsApp bot today without paying, and is willing to build the flows. |
| 2 | Zixflow | $49 (Marketing Stack) | A business that wants a bot plus campaigns on WhatsApp, SMS and email. |
| 3 | Interakt | $55 (Growth) | A shop that wants a simple welcome-and-menu bot on the Business API with unlimited agents. |
| 4 | Zoko | $74.98 with AI | An online store that wants AI to answer policy and order questions. |
| 5 | CertuAI | $75 (Start) | An owner who wants an AI agent that writes its own answers, with a published number of AI replies in the price and no flows to build. |
| 6 | AiSensy | $95 or ₹2,850 with AI | A business in India that already uses AiSensy for broadcasts and wants a bot on the same number. |
| 7 | Wati | $99 (Pro) | A business that wants a mature inbox and flow builder and does not need AI yet. |
| 8 | Gallabox | $150 or ₹2,999 (quarterly) | A sales team in India that wants flows now and AI later. |
| 9 | respond.io | $159 (Growth) | A team of several people that wants AI to take the first reply. |
| 10 | WapsChat | ₦4,950 (Starter) | A small business in Nigeria that wants a bot and a bill in naira. |
On a phone, swipe the table sideways. Prices change: each entry below has the address and the date we checked it.
Chatfuel Light is free, with Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp automations, a shared inbox and a flow builder. AI PRO is $49 a month on monthly billing, 29% less on yearly billing. The page says usage limits apply.
Price published at https://chatfuel.com/pricing, checked on 2026-09-11.
Marketing Stack $49 a month on monthly billing, or $39 a month billed yearly, with 3 users. The page lists flows and chatbots with "scaled pricing". The free plan only sends broadcasts and has no chatbot.
Price published at https://zixflow.com/pricing, checked on 2026-09-11.
Growth $55 a month plus taxes, with a basic linear chatbot, welcome, away and delayed messages. Branching flows start at Advanced, $69 a month. The AI agents add-on is $74.99 a month.
Price published at https://www.interakt.shop/pricing-us/, checked on 2026-09-11.
Starter $49.99 a month plus the AI agent add-on at $24.99 a month, which is $74.98, plus $0.09 per resolution after the first 100 for the Guru agent. Starter also adds $0.015 per conversation. 7-day free trial.
Price published at https://www.zoko.io/pricing, checked on 2026-09-11.
Start $75 a month: the AI agent on one WhatsApp number connected by scanning a QR code (like WhatsApp Web), up to 800 AI replies a month, with the CRM included. Pro $120 a month: the official WhatsApp Business API from Meta, up to 2,500 AI replies, a landing page and room for 5 people on the team (Start has 3). Monthly plans start with a 7-day trial on a card. The annual plan costs 10 months and has no trial.
Price published at https://certu.com.br/en/planos, checked on 2026-09-11.
Outside India: Basic $45 a month plus the AI Agent Builder at $50 a month with 1,000 AI messages, $95 together; or plus the chatbot builder at $80 a month. In India, on aisensy.com/pricing: Basic ₹1,500 plus the AI Agent Builder at ₹1,350, which is ₹2,850 a month.
Price published at https://aisensy.com/pricing/usd, checked on 2026-09-11.
Pro, the first plan whose card lists chatbots: $99 a month for visitors from Nigeria, Kenya and the Philippines, ₹6,499 for visitors from India. Growth, without chatbots, is $49 or ₹2,999. The Astra AI agent is priced separately.
Price published at https://www.wati.io/pricing/, checked on 2026-09-11.
Basic, with 5 active chatbot flows: $150 or ₹2,999 a month billed quarterly, or $112 or ₹2,399 a month billed yearly. No month-to-month billing.
Price published at https://gallabox.com/pricing, checked on 2026-09-11.
Growth $199 a month with 10 users and AI usage included ($159 a month paid yearly). Starter, $99 a month ($79 paid yearly), has AI Assist and chat summaries but not AI agents. WhatsApp fees are not included in any plan.
Price published at https://respond.io/pricing, checked on 2026-09-11.
Starter ₦4,950 a month with 20 bot flows and 4,000 contacts, plus a one-time setup fee of ₦25,000 (₦15,000 on yearly). Growth ₦9,950 a month with the AI chatbot builder.
Price published at https://wapschat.ng/pro-pricing, checked on 2026-09-11.
The rule for the order. Free plans first. Then the lowest month-to-month price, in US dollars, of the first plan whose pricing page includes a chatbot or an AI agent that answers on WhatsApp, adding the add-on when the bot is sold separately. Plans only billed quarterly count at their monthly figure. On a tie, alphabetical order. Prices in other currencies come after the dollar prices, because we do not convert.
That rule puts CertuAI fifth, behind Chatfuel's free plan, Zixflow ($49), Interakt ($55) and Zoko ($74.98 with its first AI agent). Zixflow lists its flows and chatbots with scaled pricing, and Interakt's Growth chatbot follows one straight path. Zoko's AI agent adds a fee per resolution after the first 100. CertuAI's $75 includes an AI agent that writes its own answers, up to 800 AI replies a month and a CRM.
WapsChat is last only because it charges in naira and we do not convert currencies. If you are in Nigeria, compare it in your own currency.
We opened each company's own pricing page on 11 September 2026 and wrote down the price, the address of the page and the date. We did not use prices from review sites, from sales calls or from memory. We did not convert any currency: every price is shown in the currency the company shows it in, and $ always means US dollars.
Some pricing pages change with the country you visit from. Wati's page loads its price list from Wati's own servers by country: it gives rupees for India and US dollars for Nigeria, Kenya and the Philippines, and we show both. Interakt sends visitors from outside India to a separate page in dollars, which is the only one we could open. When a page showed us different numbers depending on how we opened it, the entry says price on request and tells you why, instead of picking one.
Meta, the company that owns WhatsApp, charges separately for messages a business starts, such as marketing messages and reminders sent from a template. The rate depends on the country and on the kind of message. None of the prices on this page include those fees unless the entry says so in the company's own words. Ask each provider how they count and pass them on.
CertuAI's price comes from its plans page, which is the same price the checkout charges. There is no display price that differs from the price you pay.
Prices change. If you are reading this months from now, open the address under each entry before you decide anything.
Tidio has a free plan and lists WhatsApp on every plan, but its pricing page showed us two different prices for the same paid plan on the same day ($24.17 and $15.83 a month for Starter), so we did not put a number next to it. ManyChat is popular for Instagram; its pricing page refused our automatic check and showed us prices in Brazilian reais, so it is left out.
Periskope and Kommo start at $25 per user a month, but their pricing pages sell a WhatsApp inbox and CRM, not a chatbot, so they are on our WhatsApp CRM list instead.
On Wati, Growth is $49 but chatbots start at Pro, $99. On AiSensy, Basic is $45 but the bot is an add-on of $50 to $80. On Zixflow, the free plan only sends broadcasts. Always find the first plan that has the bot, and add any add-on, before you compare.
Then look at usage. A bot that costs little but charges per resolution, per conversation or per AI message can cost more in a busy month than a flat plan. Zoko charges per resolution for its AI agent, Interakt per AI message after 100, and respond.io per extra monthly contact.
A flow bot is cheap to buy and costs time to build: someone has to write every question and button, and change them when your prices change. It works well for a short menu, like "hours, location, prices".
An AI agent costs more per month on some tools but needs no flows: you tell it about your business and it answers in the customer's own words. If nobody on your team has time to build and fix flows, the AI agent is often the cheaper choice once you count your hours.
Yes. Chatfuel Light is free and includes WhatsApp automations and a flow builder. You build the flows yourself. For an AI agent that writes its own answers, the cheapest published price on this list is Chatfuel AI PRO, at $49 a month.
On this list, Chatfuel AI PRO, at $49 a month on monthly billing and 29% less on yearly billing; its page says usage limits apply. Next come Zoko at $74.98 with its AI agent add-on, plus a fee per resolution after the first 100, and CertuAI at $75 a month, which covers up to 800 AI replies a month and includes a CRM.
Three usual reasons: the bot is in a higher plan or sold as an add-on, the tool charges per conversation, resolution or AI message on top, and Meta charges separately for messages a business starts. Add all three before you compare.
Often, yes. Chatfuel has a free plan, Zoko offers a 7-day free trial, and CertuAI lets you build a free preview of your agent with no card, then start paid plans with a 7-day trial on a card.
Usually not. Meta, the company that owns WhatsApp, charges separately for messages a business starts, like marketing messages and reminders. The rate depends on the country and on the kind of message. Each entry says what the company itself writes about this. Before you sign, ask the provider how they count those messages and whether they add anything on top.
No. Nobody paid to be on it, and no link on this page earns CertuAI a commission. CertuAI is on the list because CertuAI wrote the list, and the page says so right under the title.
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