Botpress is a powerful platform for teams who want to design their own bot flows and integrations, priced from $150 a month plus AI usage. Sourceteller is ready-made: give it your website and files and it answers with cited sources — no flows to build, packs from $5.
Botpress facts from its own pages, checked 5 October 2026
| Feature | Sourceteller | Botpress |
|---|---|---|
| How you pay | One-off credit packs. No subscription; credits never expire | Subscription with a conversation quota, plus AI usage at cost |
| Lowest paid entry | $5 one-off pack | Plus $150/month (annual): 250 conversations, $25 AI usage |
| Free option | 1,000 free credits, no card | Free plan, 25 conversations/month (AI usage not included) |
| Shows sources to customers | Every answer links to the exact passage, including PDFs and scans | Citations available for builders to display |
| AI phone line | Your own number over SIP, 36 spoken languages, from the first pack | Voice channel on Enterprise; Twilio Voice integration |
| Telegram | Built in | Yes |
| WhatsApp / Messenger | Not yet, on the roadmap | WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram |
| Shopify | Widget through your theme today; App Store app with order lookups coming | Product sync integration |
| Languages | 72 written, 36 spoken, plus Banglish | Multilingual; no count published |
| Handoff to a person | Gives customers your own contact route; no live-chat inbox | Human handoff on Plus and up |
| Your data kept out of AI training | Never used to train models | “No training on your data” stated on the Enterprise page |
Botpress Plus is $150 a month (billed annually) for 250 conversations and $25 of AI usage; further AI usage is billed at cost. Sourceteller charges 7 credits per answer (about 1 cent), with no separate AI bill and no subscription.
No. Add your website address and documents, and Sourceteller answers from them straight away. Botpress gives you a visual builder and code tools to design the bot yourself, which suits teams with developers.
Botpress Plus costs $150 a month (billed annually) for 250 conversations plus AI usage billed at cost. Sourceteller has no subscription: a fixed price per answer, one-off packs, credits that never expire.
Botpress connects to more channels, including Slack, Teams, SMS and WhatsApp. Sourceteller covers a website widget, a phone line, Telegram and a share link with QR code, with WhatsApp and Messenger on the roadmap.
Checked 5 October 2026. Prices and features change; if something here is out of date, tell us and we’ll correct it. Botpress is a trademark of its owner.
That is the whole evaluation. If the answer comes back in your customer’s language with the right passage attached, you already know whether this works for you.
No card · credits never expire · every language from day one