Botpress vs Typebot Comparison 2026
Botpress is a visual agent builder with your own code where the flow is not enough, priced as a platform fee plus conversation packs from $150 a month on Plus. Typebot turns a form into a one-question-at-a-time chat, open source and self-hostable, with a free tier covering 200 conversations a month across unlimited bots before Starter at $39. Both let you write custom code, but Botpress is built to run an agent that acts, while Typebot is built to finish more of the form people currently abandon.
At a glance
- Typebot starts cheaper, at $39.
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
Side by side
Botpress | Typebot | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $150 | From $39 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | None | Not stated |
| API | Yes |
Botpress
Build an agent, pay by the conversation
Botpress is the developer end of the chatbot market: a visual builder over a real runtime, with your own code where the flow is not enough, and deployment to a site, WhatsApp or a Discord server. Pricing is a small platform fee plus conversation packs, so a bot nobody talks to costs almost nothing. It expects more of whoever sets it up than the tools sold to marketers do.
Our note
This is the most capable and the least friendly option in this category, and both halves are true. Pick it when the bot needs to reach into your own systems, and pick something else when the job is answering the same five questions on Instagram.
Only on this side
- Works with Instagram
- Works with Discord
Typebot
Conversational forms, open source
Typebot builds a form that behaves like a chat: one question at a time, branching on the answers, embedded in a page or sent as a link. The free plan runs two hundred conversations a month with no cap on how many bots exist. It is open source, so the whole thing can be self-hosted instead of subscribed to. Pricing counts chats rather than seats, which means a bot that gets popular costs more even if nobody else joins the team.
Why people weigh these two
- Typebot instead of Botpress
- Open-source conversational bots from $39 with a free tier; form-like flows where Botpress runs a full agent runtime with your own code underneath.
- Botpress instead of Typebot
- Botpress builds a fuller conversational agent and bills by the conversation rather than a flat plan, from $150, more power for a bigger monthly number.
Which one should you pick
Pick Typebot if the job is lead capture, onboarding or a quiz that people currently abandon as a static form, since asking one question at a time is the whole mechanic. Starter is $39 a month for 2,000 chats, well under Botpress's $150, and self-hosting the open source version removes the meter entirely for anyone already running infrastructure.
Pick Botpress if the conversation has to end in an action rather than a submitted answer, like calling your own systems or handling a task a form cannot. It costs more to start and expects more setup, but pay-by-conversation keeps a quiet bot cheap, which matters if usage is unpredictable rather than steady.
Common questions
- Which one is cheaper?
- Typebot, by a wide margin. Its free plan runs 200 chats a month across unlimited bots, and Starter is $39 against Botpress Plus at $150. Typebot can also be self-hosted for free, which removes the chat meter for anyone running their own server.
- Can Typebot do more than collect form answers?
- It is built for conversational forms: branching one question at a time, with webhooks and custom code available even on the free plan. Anything that needs the bot to reach into other systems and act on its own is closer to what Botpress is built for.
- Is either one open source?
- Typebot is, and the whole application can be self-hosted instead of subscribed to. Botpress is not described as open source here; its pricing is a platform fee plus conversation packs instead.
- Which one handles WhatsApp?
- Both do, though Typebot only on its Pro plan at $89 a month, alongside custom domains and deeper analytics. Botpress includes WhatsApp as one of its deployment channels from the Plus tier.
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