Messenger Platform vs Botkit Comparison | StackShare

Overview

Messenger Platform

Stacks130

Followers142

Votes1

Botkit

Stacks76

Followers149

Votes3

GitHub Stars11.6K

Forks2.3K

Botkit vs Messenger Platform: What are the differences?

What is Botkit? Building Blocks for Building Slack Bots. Botkit designed to ease the process of designing and running useful, creative bots that live inside Slack, Facebook Messenger and other messaging platforms.

What is Messenger Platform? Tools to help you build your bot and reach 900 million people around the world. With bots and live-messaging tools, you can create a custom experience for your unique audience.

Botkit and Messenger Platform can be primarily classified as "Chatbot Platforms &" tools.

Botkit is an open source tool with 9.29K GitHub stars and 2.03K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Botkit's open source repository on GitHub.

Permabots, Prattle, and MessagePro are some of the popular companies that use Messenger Platform, whereas Botkit is used by emojination, Taggun, and BubbleIQ. Messenger Platform has a broader approval, being mentioned in 18 company stacks & 11 developers stacks; compared to Botkit, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 9 developer stacks.

Advice on Messenger Platform, Botkit

Stefan

Jul 17, 2020

Needs advice

Hi, does anyone have recommendations for a chatbot framework? I am currently using Botpress, and I am not happy with it. The upside is: They pretty much have everything you can ask for in a bot solution, but the issue is: They did nothing right, the documentation is terrible, and you have this feeling of it falling apart at any time, which is what actually happened once.

My ideal solution would have:

Support for Messenger and web (should either have a website chat plugin or straightforward integration with a different one)
A visual builder (for none tech team members) | This is not a hard requirement though
A slick DX for building simple things like API calls or more advanced stuff.
We currently only have a "click bot," so no crazy NLP features required, but in the future a requirement

What I do not want: - I do not want a solution where "someone else" builds the bot for me

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Detailed Comparison

Messenger Platform	Botkit
With bots and live-messaging tools, you can create a custom experience for your unique audience.	It is an open source developer tool for building chat bots, apps and custom integrations for major messaging platforms.
-	Battle tested code, in use by 10,000's of bots right now; Visual conversation builder; Integrated NLP from LUIS.ai; Powerful Open Source libraries; Dozens of plugins
Statistics
GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars 11.6K
GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks 2.3K
Stacks 130	Stacks 76
Followers 142	Followers 149
Votes 1	Votes 3
Pros & Cons
Pros 1 Clean and Simple Communication	Pros 3 Relatively easy to understand and help/active community
Integrations
No integrations available	Slack

What are some alternatives to Messenger Platform, Botkit?

Engati

It is a free chatbot platform to build bots quickly without any coding required. It allows you to build, manage, integrate, train, analyse and publish your personalized bot in a matter of minutes.

Dialogflow

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

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.

Botpress

Botpress is an open-source bot creation tool written in TypeScript. It is powered by a rich set of open-source modules built by the community. We like to say that Botpress is like the WordPress of bots; anyone can create and reuse other peo

Microsoft Bot Framework

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.

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.

Chatfuel

Send news, collect feedback, receive and answer questions and share content libraries — from GIFs to full business docs.

Flow XO

Everything you need to create and manage bots. Build powerful bots without code, bots work seamlessly across platforms, and we host, manage & scale your bots.

IBM Watson

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

Wit.ai

Iti is an API that makes it very easy for developers to create applications or devices that you can talk to. Any app, or any device, like a smart watch, Google Glass, Nest, even a car, can stream audio to the Wit API, and get actionable data in return. We turn speech into actions. Think Twilio for Natural Language, with Stripe-level developer friendliness.