# Volty vs Manychat. > Volty vs Manychat: an AI agent that learns your business against a flow builder for social DMs. Compare channels, setup, handover to your team and pricing. Manychat is a flow builder for conversations on Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp and TikTok. Volty is an AI agent that learns your business, answers customers and hands over to your team. Start your free trial · Talk to Volty · See pricing Updated 1 Nov 2026 ## What you're really deciding. Manychat and Volty both automate conversations on WhatsApp and Messenger. Manychat suits creators and social-first brands, because it turns comments and DMs on Instagram, TikTok and Messenger into automated flows you build from triggers and templates. Volty suits a business whose customers write in with questions: Volty interviews your team, configures itself, answers customers and pulls a teammate in when a person is needed. ## Side by side. Channels Volty WhatsApp, Messenger and email Manychat Instagram, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, TikTok, Telegram, SMS and email. Free and Essential connect 2 channels, Pro 3, and Business and Advanced every channel. How it answers Volty Volty reads each message, works out what the customer wants and answers from what your team told it. Manychat Automations you build from triggers, such as a comment keyword or a DM, in a flow builder with templates. AI replies and AI steps run inside your flows. Setting it up Volty Volty interviews your team, drafts its own instructions and tests itself before it talks to a single customer. Manychat You start from a template, or describe a goal to the Flow Builder Assistant, then edit the flow with drag and drop. Building automations Volty Describe a workflow in chat, and Volty builds the automation for it. An admin approves each automation before it runs. Manychat You build and maintain each automation in the flow builder. Free runs up to 4 live triggers; paid plans have no automation limit. When a person is needed Volty Conversations land in one shared inbox. Volty escalates the ones that need someone from your team, and when a teammate replies, Volty steps back. Manychat A basic inbox on Free, an inbox organiser on Essential, and a multi-user inbox on Business and Advanced. Who can use it Volty Unlimited seats on every plan. Manychat 1 user on Free, 2 on Essential, 3 on Pro, 5 on Business and 10 on Advanced. What it costs Volty A flat monthly plan after a free 7-day trial, with unlimited seats and unlimited contacts. Plan prices are on the Volty pricing page. Meta bills you for its messages separately. Manychat Priced by active contacts, the people you interact with each month. Free covers 25. Paid plans run from $14 a month (Essential, 250) to $139 (Advanced, 25,000), billed annually, with a charge for each extra active contact and a 14-day free trial on Essential and Pro. Manychat sets the final price by billing country. | Feature | Volty | Manychat | | --- | --- | --- | | Channels | WhatsApp, Messenger and email | Instagram, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, TikTok, Telegram, SMS and email. Free and Essential connect 2 channels, Pro 3, and Business and Advanced every channel. | | How it answers | Volty reads each message, works out what the customer wants and answers from what your team told it. | Automations you build from triggers, such as a comment keyword or a DM, in a flow builder with templates. AI replies and AI steps run inside your flows. | | Setting it up | Volty interviews your team, drafts its own instructions and tests itself before it talks to a single customer. | You start from a template, or describe a goal to the Flow Builder Assistant, then edit the flow with drag and drop. | | Building automations | Describe a workflow in chat, and Volty builds the automation for it. An admin approves each automation before it runs. | You build and maintain each automation in the flow builder. Free runs up to 4 live triggers; paid plans have no automation limit. | | When a person is needed | Conversations land in one shared inbox. Volty escalates the ones that need someone from your team, and when a teammate replies, Volty steps back. | A basic inbox on Free, an inbox organiser on Essential, and a multi-user inbox on Business and Advanced. | | Who can use it | Unlimited seats on every plan. | 1 user on Free, 2 on Essential, 3 on Pro, 5 on Business and 10 on Advanced. | | What it costs | A flat monthly plan after a free 7-day trial, with unlimited seats and unlimited contacts. Plan prices are on the Volty pricing page. Meta bills you for its messages separately. | Priced by active contacts, the people you interact with each month. Free covers 25. Paid plans run from $14 a month (Essential, 250) to $139 (Advanced, 25,000), billed annually, with a charge for each extra active contact and a 14-day free trial on Essential and Pro. Manychat sets the final price by billing country. | ## Where Volty is different. ### It answers the questions nobody scripted A flow answers what its triggers anticipate. Volty works out what each customer is asking, answers from what your team told it, and pulls a named teammate in when it should not answer alone. ### Your bill does not grow with your team Manychat plans include between 1 and 10 users. Every Volty plan includes unlimited seats and unlimited contacts. ## The honest take. Choose Manychat when You grow an audience on Instagram or TikTok and want comment keywords, DMs and lead magnets turned into automated conversations, across the widest set of social channels, at a low monthly price. Choose Volty when Customers message your business with questions about bookings, orders and services, you want an AI agent that learns the business and answers them, and you want your team in the same inbox when a person is needed. Bottom line Manychat is a flow builder for social engagement, with AI that runs inside your flows. Volty is an AI agent that learns your business, answers customers and works alongside your team in one inbox. ## Manychat pricing. Manychat's published prices as of November 2026, from their pricing page. Every Volty plan has unlimited seats and unlimited contacts, and its prices are on the Volty pricing page. ### Free $0 25 active contacts, 2 channels, 1 user. ### Essential $14 a month, billed annually 250 active contacts, 2 channels, 2 users. ### Pro $29 a month, billed annually 2,500 active contacts, 3 channels, 3 users. ### Business $69 a month, billed annually 7,500 active contacts, every channel, 5 users. ### Advanced $139 a month, billed annually 25,000 active contacts, every channel, 10 users. - An active contact is a person you interact with in a month. Each one over the plan's allowance is charged as overage. - Prices exclude tax, and Manychat sets the final price by billing country. Essential and Pro have a 14-day free trial. ## Start your free trial Talk to Volty · Start your free trial Sign up for our 7-day trial. No credit card needed. ## Not convinced? 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