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  5. Dialogflow vs Microsoft Bot Framework vs Recast.AI

Dialogflow vs Microsoft Bot Framework vs Recast.AI

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Microsoft Bot Framework
Microsoft Bot Framework
Stacks177
Followers412
Votes21
Recast.AI
Recast.AI
Stacks12
Followers65
Votes0
Dialogflow
Dialogflow
Stacks267
Followers667
Votes42

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Advice on Microsoft Bot Framework, Recast.AI, Dialogflow

Stefan
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

Microsoft Bot Framework
Microsoft Bot Framework
Recast.AI
Recast.AI
Dialogflow
Dialogflow

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.

Our artificial intelligence is agile: just create a few inputs and it will learn to detect the common meaning behind new sentences. Leverage the community to quickly build your bot with ready to use building blocks.

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

AI and natural language; Open & Extensible; Enterprise-grade solutions; Ownership and control;
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Statistics
Stacks
177
Stacks
12
Stacks
267
Followers
412
Followers
65
Followers
667
Votes
21
Votes
0
Votes
42
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 18
    Well documented, easy to use
  • 3
    Sending Proactive messages for the Different channels
  • 0
    Teams
Cons
  • 2
    LUIS feature adds multilingual capabilities
No community feedback yet
Pros
  • 18
    Built-in conversational agents
  • 7
    Custom Webhooks
  • 5
    Multi Lingual
  • 5
    Great interface
  • 4
    OOTB integrations
Cons
  • 9
    Multi lingual
  • 2
    Can’t be self-hosted
Integrations
Slack
Slack
Skype
Skype
Telegram API
Telegram API
Messenger Platform
Messenger Platform
Slack
Slack
Skype
Skype
Kik Bot
Kik Bot
WeChat API
WeChat API
No integrations available

What are some alternatives to Microsoft Bot Framework, Recast.AI, Dialogflow?

Engati

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.

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.

Botpress

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

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.

Chatfuel

Chatfuel

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

Flow XO

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

IBM Watson

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

Wit.ai

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.

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.

Gupshup

Gupshup

Build interactive services and messaging bots for any messaging channel using our REST APIs. Most of the APIs are common across channels, while a few are channel-specific, due to differences in channel formats. Our APIs support both plain-text messaging as well as smart-messaging formats.

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