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Alternatives to Microsoft Bot Framework

Botkit, Dialogflow, IBM Watson, Api.ai, and Amazon Lex are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Microsoft Bot Framework.
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What is Microsoft Bot Framework and what are its top alternatives?

The Microsoft Bot Framework provides just what you need to build and connect intelligent bots that interact naturally wherever your users are talking, from text/sms to Skype, Slack, Office 365 mail and other popular services.
Microsoft Bot Framework is a tool in the Chatbot Platforms & Tools category of a tech stack.
Microsoft Bot Framework is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Microsoft Bot Framework's open source repository on GitHub

Top Alternatives to Microsoft Bot Framework

  • Botkit
    Botkit

    It is an open source developer tool for building chat bots, apps and custom integrations for major messaging platforms. ...

  • Dialogflow
    Dialogflow

    Give users new ways to interact with your product by building engaging voice and text-based conversational apps. ...

  • IBM Watson
    IBM Watson

    It combines artificial intelligence (AI) and sophisticated analytical software for optimal performance as a "question answering" machine. ...

  • Api.ai
    Api.ai

    API.AI is a natural language understanding platform that makes it easy for developers to design and integrate intelligent, robust conversational user interfaces into mobile, web applications, and devices. ...

  • Amazon Lex
    Amazon Lex

    Lex provides the advanced deep learning functionalities of automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding (NLU) to recognize the intent of the text, to enable you to build applications with highly engaging user experiences and lifelike conversational interactions. ...

  • Azure Bot Service
    Azure Bot Service

    The Azure Bot Service provides an integrated environment that is purpose-built for bot development, enabling you to build, connect, test, deploy, and manage bots, all from one place. ...

  • Telegram Bot API
    Telegram Bot API

    Bots are third-party applications that run inside Telegram. Users can interact with bots by sending them messages, commands and inline requests. You control your bots using HTTPS requests to our bot API. ...

  • Messenger Platform
    Messenger Platform

    With bots and live-messaging tools, you can create a custom experience for your unique audience. ...

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Botkit

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Building Blocks for Building Bots
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PROS OF BOTKIT
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    Relatively easy to understand and help/active community
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    Dialogflow

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    Give users new ways to interact with your product by building engaging voice and text-based conversational apps.
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    PROS OF DIALOGFLOW
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      Built-in conversational agents
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      Custom Webhooks
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      Great interface
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      Multi Lingual
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      OOTB integrations
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      Knowledge base
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      Quick display
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      Can’t be self-hosted

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    IBM Watson

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    A question-answering computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language
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    PROS OF IBM WATSON
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      Api
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      Prebuilt front-end GUI
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      Intent auto-generation
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      Custom webhooks
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      Disambiguation
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    Conversational interface platform for apps, devices, bots, and services.
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      Amazon Lex

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      Build conversational voice and text interfaces, using the same deep learning technologies as Alexa
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      PROS OF AMAZON LEX
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      For our Compute services, we decided to use AWS Lambda as it is perfect for quick executions (perfect for a bot), is serverless, and is required by Amazon Lex, which we will use as the framework for our bot. We chose Amazon Lex as it integrates well with other #AWS services and uses the same technology as Alexa. This will give customers the ability to purchase licenses through their Alexa device. We chose Amazon DynamoDB to store customer information as it is a noSQL database, has high performance, and highly available. If we decide to train our own models for license recommendation we will either use Amazon SageMaker or Amazon EC2 with AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) and AWS ASG as they are ideal for model training and inference.

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      Azure Bot Service

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      Intelligent, serverless bot service that scales on demand
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      PROS OF AZURE BOT SERVICE
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        Standalone Bot Composer and Emulator
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        Telegram Bot API

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        HTTP-based interface created for developers keen on building bots for Telegram
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        PROS OF TELEGRAM BOT API
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          Integrating with other services
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          Getting customized notifications and news
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          Creating custom tools like GitHub bot
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          Easy setup
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          Great documentation which is easily understandable
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          Creating private/public bots
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          Easily manageable
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          Messenger Platform

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          Tools to help you build your bot and reach 900 million people around the world
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          PROS OF MESSENGER PLATFORM
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            Clean and Simple Communication
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