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Botkit vs Microsoft Bot Framework: What are the differences?

Developers describe Botkit as "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. On the other hand, Microsoft Bot Framework is detailed as "Connect intelligent bots that interact via text/sms, Skype, Slack, Office 365 mail and other popular services". 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.

Botkit and Microsoft Bot Framework belong to "Chatbot Platforms & Tools" category of the tech stack.

Botkit and Microsoft Bot Framework are both open source tools. It seems that Botkit with 9.25K GitHub stars and 2.03K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Microsoft Bot Framework with 5.69K GitHub stars and 2.2K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Microsoft Bot Framework has a broader approval, being mentioned in 12 company stacks & 13 developers stacks; compared to Botkit, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 9 developer stacks.

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Stefan Hesse

Jul 17, 2020 | 6 upvotes · 46.7K views

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Botkit

Dialogflow

and

rasa NLU

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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Samantha Delfin

Data Scientist at ArkusNexus · Jul 23, 2020 | 2 upvotes · 44.3K views

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Dialogflow

Dialogflow includes:

OOTB integration with Messenger and you may use the Web Demo integration provided to embed it to your website. For Messenger, you even have some responses such as image responses, card responses and for those that are not available you can use custom payload.
It has a very nice visual builder which can be easily used by non-technical builders.
Fulfillment allows you to easily integrate your APIs.

Coursera has a very nice two-week course to learn how to use it.

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What is Botkit?

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

What is 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.

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What are some alternatives to Botkit and Microsoft Bot Framework?

Hubot

Hubot is a chat bot, modeled after GitHub's Campfire bot, hubot. He's pretty cool. He's extendable with old community scripts, or new community org and your own custom scripts, and can work on many different chat services.

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

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.

IBM Watson

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

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