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Chatter Amp and Manychat, side by side.
What each costs a month for the same audience, what each plan includes, and what answering comments by hand takes. Every Manychat number comes from Manychat’s own pages.
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What a month costs, next to Manychat
Manychat charges by active contacts: each person you interact with in a month. Chatter Amp charges by AI replies. Contacts, team members and replies that don’t use AI aren’t counted. Here each person comments once and gets one reply.
Keyword replies, no AI
| People a month | Chatter Amp | Manychat |
|---|---|---|
| 250 | $0 Free, with 1 connected account. Replies that don’t use AI aren’t counted. | $17 Essential, with 250 active contacts included. |
| 2,500 | $0 Free, with 1 connected account. Replies that don’t use AI aren’t counted. | $39 Pro, with 2,500 active contacts included. |
| 7,500 | $0 Free, with 1 connected account. Replies that don’t use AI aren’t counted. | $99 Business, with 7,500 active contacts included. |
| 25,000 | $0 Free, with 1 connected account. Replies that don’t use AI aren’t counted. | $199 Advanced, with 25,000 active contacts included. |
One AI reply for each person
| People a month | Chatter Amp | Manychat |
|---|---|---|
| 250 | $15 Starter, with 5,000 AI replies included. | $39 Pro, the first plan that lists AI features, with 2,500 active contacts included. |
| 2,500 | $15 Starter, with 5,000 AI replies included. | $39 Pro, the first plan that lists AI features, with 2,500 active contacts included. |
| 7,500 | $30 Starter $15, plus 3,000 more AI replies at $5 per 1,000. | $99 Business, with 7,500 active contacts included. |
| 25,000 | $79 Pro, with 25,000 AI replies included. Starter with extra replies would be $115. | $199 Advanced, with 25,000 active contacts included. |
Manychat’s monthly prices as listed on manychat.com on , billed monthly in US dollars before tax. Manychat says the final price depends on the billing country, and yearly billing costs less a month. Chatter Amp has no yearly plans. With AI, Manychat’s column uses the first plan whose table lists AI features.
Chatter Amp’s extra AI replies are bought by the 1,000.
Features side by side
Manychat’s column comes from its pricing page and its help article on previewing automations, read on . Ours comes from the facts page.
| Topic | Chatter Amp | Manychat |
|---|---|---|
| What you pay for | Chatter Amp: AI replies a month. Replies that don’t use AI aren’t counted. | Manychat: Active contacts a month: each person you interact with counts once. |
| Contacts | Chatter Amp: No charge per contact. | Manychat: 25 a month on Free; 250, 2,500, 7,500 or 25,000 on Essential, Pro, Business and Advanced. Each active contact over that costs $0.10, $0.05, $0.025 or $0.004, in the same order. |
| Team members | Chatter Amp: No charge per team member or workspace. | Manychat: 1, 2, 3, 5 or 10 users, by plan. Extra Inbox seats are $25 each on Pro, Business and Advanced. |
| AI | Chatter Amp: On every plan: 200 AI replies once on Free, then 5,000, 25,000 or 500,000 a month. | Manychat: AI Replies, AI Comments and Knowledge are listed on Pro, Business and Advanced. |
| Public comment replies | Chatter Amp: Reply in public by keyword, with a saved reply or with AI. You can connect an Instagram account. We are still testing replies on real Instagram accounts. | Manychat: Comment to DM sends a DM after someone comments, and replies in public on the post. Free is limited to 4 live automations. |
| Instagram DMs | Chatter Amp: You can connect an Instagram account with DM access. We are still testing on real Instagram accounts. | Manychat: Comment to DM, Story replies and a default reply are on every plan. |
| Testing before you publish | Chatter Amp: Before you publish, you can run sample chats with pretend people through every step. Nobody gets a message. | Manychat: Preview runs an automation inside Manychat or in the chat app before you publish. |
| Channels | Chatter Amp: Open, still testing: Instagram comments, Instagram DMs, Facebook Pages and WhatsApp. Not open yet: TikTok comments. | Manychat: Instagram, Facebook Messenger, TikTok and Telegram on every plan; WhatsApp, SMS and email from Pro. Up to 2 channels on Free and Essential, 3 on Pro, and all eligible channels on Business and Advanced. |
| Billing | Chatter Amp: Monthly. There are no yearly plans. | Manychat: Monthly, or yearly for less a month. |
Answering comments by hand, or with Chatter Amp
Our assumptions: 1,000 comments in a month, 30 seconds to read one, write a reply and post it, and $20 for an hour of someone’s time. Put in your own numbers: the arithmetic is the same.
| Topic | By hand | With Chatter Amp |
|---|---|---|
| Time for 1,000 comments | By hand: 8 hours 20 minutes of someone’s time: 1,000 × 30 seconds. | With Chatter Amp: A published campaign replies. Instagram’s rate limits set the pace. |
| Nights and weekends | By hand: Comments wait until someone is back. | With Chatter Amp: A published campaign keeps replying while nobody is at a screen. |
| A post that takes off | By hand: Comments queue behind whoever is answering. | With Chatter Amp: Replies go out at the pace Instagram allows, so a busy post takes a while. With AI replies on: a question gets an answer even when it arrives late. An emoji-only comment is skipped after 24 hours. |
| The same answer each time | By hand: It depends on who answers, and when. | With Chatter Amp: A keyword reply sends your saved words. A price, discount or link that AI can’t back up from what you approved stops the reply. |
| A question nobody planned for | By hand: Whoever is answering works it out. | With Chatter Amp: A question AI can’t answer waits in Inbox for your team. |
| What 1,000 comments cost | By hand: About $167 at $20 an hour. | With Chatter Amp: $0 for keyword replies on Free. An AI reply to each is $15 a month on Starter. |
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