What we learned building the SDK, and what it costs to sell what it builds.
ManyChat pricing for an agency with ten clients, what the same clients cost in an app you own, and seven other alternatives with their published prices.
What Meta lets you send after a comment, why a comment bot is what its spam rules are written against, how Instagram comment automation and Facebook automatic comments work in Chatfuel SDK, and what Comments for Instagram costs to run against ManyChat.
Intercom Fin, Tidio Lyro, Botpress and Zendesk priced against tokens on our meters at 500, 2,000 and 10,000 conversations a month, with a calculator for your own volume.
What Meta sells and bills per message, what a Business Solution Provider does for you, the webhook and the token you'd run yourself, what App Review and verification take, and where an app built with Chatfuel SDK sits.
WhatsApp Business pricing, layer by layer: Meta's rate card by country, what eight providers add on top of it, and what Chatfuel SDK charges: Meta's rate plus 10% out of your balance. 1,000 marketing messages are $62.50 in Brazil and $11.80 in India, and from 1 October a reply past the first 1,000 a month is billed too.
Ten customers at $99 a month is either a 77% margin or a $1,060 hole, and the only difference is how usage moved. Here's the arithmetic behind the three pricing models.
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