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Botpress
support_agent Support · $79/mo
Building the bot got easy; operating it at scale did not.
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Verdict: SURVIVED
The AI came for it and missed. The moat — workflow, data, taste, or trust — held.
Threatened by
OpenAI
Since
Jun 1, 2024
Price
$79/mo
Category
Support
bolt What replaced it
OpenAI — Assistants API + agent frameworks
history_edu The backstory
Botpress is a chatbot-building platform. The Assistants API makes a basic bot trivial, but Botpress survived by moving up the stack — orchestration, analytics, channel management, and deployment tooling for teams shipping bots in production. The build is easy; the ops are not.