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Dialogflow vs Telegram Bot API: What are the differences?

Developers describe Dialogflow as "Give users new ways to interact with your product by building engaging voice and text-based conversational apps". Give users new ways to interact with your product by building engaging voice and text-based conversational apps. On the other hand, Telegram Bot API is detailed as "HTTP-based interface created for developers keen on building bots for Telegram". 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.

Dialogflow and Telegram Bot API can be primarily classified as "Chatbot Platforms &" tools.

According to the StackShare community, Telegram Bot API has a broader approval, being mentioned in 21 company stacks & 25 developers stacks; compared to Dialogflow, which is listed in 10 company stacks and 8 developer stacks.

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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
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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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Pros of Dialogflow
Pros of Telegram Bot API
  • 17
    Built-in conversational agents
  • 7
    Custom Webhooks
  • 5
    Great interface
  • 5
    Multi Lingual
  • 4
    OOTB integrations
  • 2
    Knowledge base
  • 1
    Quick display
  • 10
    Integrating with other services
  • 7
    Getting customized notifications and news
  • 6
    Creating custom tools like GitHub bot
  • 5
    Easy setup
  • 4
    Great documentation which is easily understandable
  • 4
    Creating private/public bots
  • 1
    Easily manageable

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Cons of Dialogflow
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  • 9
    Multi lingual
  • 2
    Can’t be self-hosted
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    What is Dialogflow?

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

    What is 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.

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    What are some alternatives to Dialogflow and Telegram Bot API?
    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.
    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.
    IBM Watson
    It combines artificial intelligence (AI) and sophisticated analytical software for optimal performance as a "question answering" machine.
    TensorFlow
    TensorFlow is an open source software library for numerical computation using data flow graphs. Nodes in the graph represent mathematical operations, while the graph edges represent the multidimensional data arrays (tensors) communicated between them. The flexible architecture allows you to deploy computation to one or more CPUs or GPUs in a desktop, server, or mobile device with a single API.
    Messenger Platform
    With bots and live-messaging tools, you can create a custom experience for your unique audience.
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