Chatfuel

Chatfuel sits in the same place as Manychat and leans harder on the AI half: rather than only matching keywords to canned replies, it will hold a conversation and try to close a sale in the DM. That suits a creator selling a product more than one collecting emails. The free tier is thin enough to be a demo.

Chatfuel Light is free and needs no card. AI PRO is $49 a month, with yearly billing 29 percent cheaper. The page states no trial length on the paid tier, and the free plan is the way to try it instead.

A creator with a product to sell and enough inbound DMs that answering them personally has stopped being possible. Somebody whose goal is collecting emails from comments will find Manychat's version of that cheaper and more direct.