Question 1

How much does ManyChat cost?

Accepted Answer

On 30 Jul 2026 their published plans are Free $0, Essential $14/mo, Pro $29/mo, Business $69/mo and Advanced $139/mo, with annual billing at $168, $348, $828 and $1,668 a year — read on manychat.com/pricing. Each plan includes an allowance of Active Contacts per month: 25, 250, 2,500, 7,500 and 25,000 respectively, "then pay per contact". The published overage per additional Active Contact is $0.10 on Essential, $0.05 on Pro, $0.025 on Business and $0.004 on Advanced for monthly billing, and $0.082, $0.038, $0.018 and $0.0028 on annual. One caution: their own help centre lists "Custom overage pricing" for Advanced rather than $0.004, so those two ManyChat sources disagree and you should confirm the top tier with them. Their footnote states "Prices do not include tax."

Question 2

Is ManyChat free, and what do you get on the free plan?

Accepted Answer

Yes, there is a genuine $0 plan and it is not a trial. As published on 30 Jul 2026 it includes 25 Active Contacts per month, any 2 channels chosen from Instagram, TikTok, Facebook Messenger or Telegram, "Basic automations (up to 4 active automations)", 1 user — "Includes login access for 1 person (you)" — a basic unified Inbox with 1 seat, and "Self-serve Support". Two limits are worth knowing before you plan around it. First, branding: the Free card lists "Manychat branding", noting that "Powered by Manychat" text appears the first time you message a contact. Second, channels: their help centre states "Note that the following channels are not available on the Free plan: WhatsApp, SMS, Email." Both limits lift at the cheapest paid tier — Essential at $14/mo reads "No Manychat branding" and "Unlimited custom automations", and carries a "TRY 14 DAYS FOR FREE" button. Active Contacts reset monthly: they are "calculated on a monthly basis, even if you're on an annual plan." For testing whether DM automation helps your business, $0 is a better answer than anything we sell.

Question 3

Does ManyChat have pricing in Indian rupees?

Accepted Answer

No, not on the public pricing page. We loaded manychat.com/pricing from an Indian connection on 30 Jul 2026 and it still rendered US dollars. The page contains no rupee glyph and no INR price token — every price on it is USD — and its only selector is a language selector offering English, Spanish and Portuguese, not a currency selector. Their own footnote reads: "Prices do not include tax. The price is determined by the user's billing country. The final price can be seen on the purchase page before payment is completed." Their help centre adds: "Plan availability may vary by region, so we recommend visiting our Pricing page to see which options are currently offered in your area." So there may well be an India-specific final amount, and even the plan list you see may differ, but neither is visible until you are signing up. We deliberately publish no rupee conversion of their prices anywhere on this page, because we would have to choose the exchange rate ourselves and then you would be comparing our arithmetic rather than their price. If you see a comparison page quoting ManyChat's plans in rupees, ask where the rate came from.

Question 4

Did ManyChat cut its free plan from 1,000 contacts to 25?

Accepted Answer

Not in the way that sentence is usually written, and we have corrected our own brief on this rather than repeat it. Both numbers are real and both come from ManyChat's own help centre, but they are different units and subtracting one from the other is meaningless. Before 2 March 2026 the legacy free plan had "a limit of 1,000 contacts of all types: subscribed, unsubscribed, and deleted" — a lifetime cumulative cap on stored contacts that could not be reset, since "This limit is final, which unfortunately means that deleting contacts will not keep you on the Free plan." The current free plan has a monthly allowance of 25 Active Contacts that resets every cycle. ManyChat's own blog describes the switch as a change of unit, not of number: "Cumulative contacts become Active Contacts. Pricing is now tied to the people you actually engage with each month, not your total stored contact list." The defensible sentence is that on 2 March 2026 ManyChat replaced a one-time cumulative cap of 1,000 stored contacts with a monthly allowance of 25 Active Contacts. The widely repeated "1,000 down to 25" and "97.5% cut" framing appears on third-party blogs, not on ManyChat's pages, and we will not publish it.

Question 5

Does ManyChat do voice calls?

Accepted Answer

No voice-calling product is published and no telephony channel is listed. Their own product navigation enumerates exactly five products — Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, TikTok and Manychat AI — plus a page for agencies. Their published channel list is Instagram, Facebook Messenger, TikTok, Telegram, WhatsApp, SMS and Email, which contains no voice or phone option. A scan of their pricing page text for "voice", "call" and "telephony" on 30 Jul 2026 returned zero hits, and the only occurrences of "voice" on their homepage and AI page are metaphorical: "can it mimic my voice?" and "Make more connections without losing your voice." That is a description of what their pages publish today, not a prediction. It matters because it is the single clearest line between the two products: if your problem is unanswered phone calls, no ManyChat plan at any price addresses it, and if your problem is unanswered DMs, our voice capability is not something you are paying for.

Question 6

Is Dvaarik cheaper than ManyChat?

Accepted Answer

For a small Instagram-led brand, almost certainly not, and we would rather say it here than bury it. Their Free plan is $0 and Essential is $14/mo with a 14-day trial; our build is ₹40,000 (free for our 10 founding clients, in return for the Care Plan's first 3 months at ₹5,000/month and an honest case study) with a ₹10,000 minimum first credit load billed at ₹11,800. There is no reading of those numbers where we are the cheaper way to start. We also will not run the comparison in a single currency, because ManyChat publishes only dollars and any rupee figure would be an exchange rate we chose. What we will say is what we charge and on what terms: ₹2 per minute of voice from the very first minute, ₹2 per chat conversation, no subscription, no minimum volume, no lock-in, and credits that never expire. The two also bill different units — theirs is per person engaged per month, ours is per minute spoken and per conversation held — so the honest comparison is against your own volume, not against a headline.

Question 7

Which ManyChat plan do I need for WhatsApp?

Accepted Answer

Pro, at $29/mo, is the first tier where WhatsApp appears. Their help centre is explicit that it is excluded lower down: "Note that the following channels are not available on the Free plan: WhatsApp, SMS, Email." The Pro card reads "Connect any 3 channels, select from: Instagram, TikTok, Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp, Telegram, SMS and Email", and Business and Advanced read "Connect all eligible channels". Whether Meta's own conversation charges are billed to you separately on their side is something we did not verify, so ask them. On our side WhatsApp runs from your own WhatsApp Business number with coexistence — when the owner replies by hand, the AI steps aside — and Meta bills your own account directly with zero markup added by us, which you can check against your own Meta invoice.

Question 8

Is ManyChat safe, and is it Meta approved?

Accepted Answer

We are not going to answer that from anything other than a primary source, and we did not verify any partner or approval status, so we have nothing to tell you and we will not repeat a badge we have not read on Meta's or ManyChat's own page. This site once shipped a Meta quotation that turned out to be invented, and the rule since then is that an attributed claim must be verbatim from a page we fetched ourselves. What we did confirm on ManyChat's own pages is narrow and factual: their supported channel list includes Instagram, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, and WhatsApp becomes available from the Pro tier. If partner status matters to your decision, check Meta's own directory rather than any vendor's comparison page, including this one.

Question 9

Is ManyChat actually a competitor to Dvaarik?

Accepted Answer

Partly, and it is worth being precise about where. The overlap is Instagram and WhatsApp messaging: both of us can reply to a DM automatically, and for that job they are self-serve, established and very cheap. Outside that, the products diverge hard in both directions. They cover TikTok, Telegram, SMS and email, which we do not sell at all. We cover voice calls, a phone number, outbound speed-to-lead callbacks, bookings with slot-locking and payment links mid-conversation, which their published pages do not show. And the delivery models are opposites: ManyChat hands you a tool and expects you to build the flows yourself — on Free within a 4-automation cap and one login, on paid tiers with unlimited custom automations and more seats — while we build and run the agent for you and you configure nothing. Most people reading this are choosing between two problems rather than between two companies.

Question 10

What does it actually cost to get started with Dvaarik?

Accepted Answer

The custom build is ₹40,000, and it is currently free for our 10 founding clients. The trade is stated plainly rather than in fine print: the Care Plan for the first 3 months at the founding rate of ₹5,000/month (list ₹12,000), and an honest testimonial plus a short case study after go-live. The Care Plan is required for those first 3 months and optional from month 4. Beyond that you load credits: minimum first load ₹10,000. Month one debits ₹2,000 for the phone number (₹2,000 per 30 days, or ₹0 if you forward your own line) and ₹5,000 for the Care Plan, leaving roughly ₹3,000 for calls and chats — about 25 hours of voice at ₹2/min, or around 1,500 chat conversations. Later top-ups start at ₹500 and credits never expire. If that is more than you want to spend to test an idea, start with ManyChat's free plan instead; we would rather you did that than regret buying from us.

Question 11

How do you check the competitor numbers on this page?

Accepted Answer

Every ManyChat figure here was read on a manychat.com or help.manychat.com page on 30 Jul 2026 and stored with the sentence it came from — the pricing page including its card tooltips, comparison table and footnote, the homepage, the AI product page, the pricing-change blog post, and the help-centre articles on the Free plan, Active Contacts and billing. The pricing page was also loaded from an Indian connection specifically to test whether India is shown rupee pricing, and it is not. Four things we found are worth stating because they show what this checking is for. Their blog quotes Essential at $17/month while the live page says $14/mo, so we cite the page and date it. Their pricing page and their help centre disagree on the Advanced overage — $0.004 versus "Custom overage pricing" — so we print both. The brief that commissioned this page asked us to say ManyChat cut its free plan from 1,000 active contacts to 25, which the primary sources refuted, so we corrected the brief instead of publishing the claim. And our own first draft hedged two things as unverified — which tier removes ManyChat branding, and what support paid tiers get — when both are printed plainly on their cards; checking our own page against the source fixed those in ManyChat's favour. We took no number from a search snippet, an AI summary or another vendor's comparison table. Apply the same test to us: open manychat.com/pricing and check it yourself.

Feature	Dvaarik AI	ManyChat
What you are actually buying	One custom AI agent, built for your business and live in days, working across voice calls, WhatsApp, Instagram DMs, bookings and payment links as a single brain. There is no flow builder for you to learn and no dashboard for your team to live in. You describe the problem in your own words, we build it, and we keep tuning it under the Care Plan.	A self-serve messaging automation platform that you set up yourself. Their own product navigation lists five products — Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, TikTok and Manychat AI — plus a page for agencies, and their pricing page's channel list is Instagram, Facebook Messenger, TikTok, Telegram, WhatsApp, SMS and Email. Self-serve is the design rather than a limitation: the Free plan's support line reads, verbatim, "Self-serve Support". Read on manychat.com and manychat.com/pricing, 30 Jul 2026.
Voice calls and the phone	The core of what we do, and the whole reason this comparison exists. ₹2/min — our permanent base rate for voice, not a founding discount, with simple per-minute billing on whole minutes. A number plus one concurrent line is ₹2,000 per 30 days auto-debited from the same credits, and ₹0 if you forward your own line to us. The agent answers inbound 24/7 and calls a new enquiry back in about 60 seconds. Higher-fidelity and international voice tiers exist and are listed on our pricing page; ₹2/min is the rate that applies to a normal Indian business.	Not a product they sell. ManyChat publishes no voice-calling product and lists no telephony channel: the five products in their own navigation are Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, TikTok and Manychat AI, their published channel list contains no voice or phone option, and a scan of manychat.com/pricing for the words "voice" and "call" on 30 Jul 2026 returned zero hits in the page text. The only occurrences of "voice" we found on their homepage and AI page are metaphorical — "can it mimic my voice?" and "Make more connections without losing your voice." That is what their published pages show, not a statement about what they may build later.
The price an Indian buyer can actually read	Published in rupees, on the site, with no form: ₹2/min voice, ₹2 per chat conversation, ₹2,000 per 30 days for the number, ₹40,000 for the custom build (currently free for our 10 founding clients), Care Plan ₹12,000/month list and ₹5,000/month at the founding rate.	US dollars only. Loaded from an Indian connection on 30 Jul 2026, manychat.com/pricing still rendered USD; the page carries no rupee glyph and no INR price token, and its only selector is a language selector offering English, Spanish and Portuguese — there is no currency selector. Their footnote reads: "Prices do not include tax. The price is determined by the user's billing country. The final price can be seen on the purchase page before payment is completed." Their help centre adds: "Plan availability may vary by region, so we recommend visiting our Pricing page to see which options are currently offered in your area." Both sides therefore quote before tax; the difference is that their rupee number only exists at checkout.
What the meter counts	Minutes and conversations. ₹2 for each minute the agent actually speaks, ₹2 per chat conversation on a 24-hour window, drawn from one prepaid balance. The bill follows how much happened, so a busy month costs more and a dead month costs almost nothing.	People. ManyChat bills per Active Contact per month, with allowances of 25 on Free, 250 on Essential, 2,500 on Pro, 7,500 on Business and 25,000 on Advanced, "then pay per contact". Their own blog states the logic plainly: "Pricing is now tied to the people you actually engage with each month, not your total stored contact list." Their help centre confirms the reset: Active Contacts are "calculated on a monthly basis, even if you're on an annual plan. Your Active Contact count resets at the start of each billing cycle." Neither unit is better in the abstract, and on one common pattern theirs is clearly kinder: a loyal customer who messages you every single week is one Active Contact in each of those months for them, and roughly fifty-two chat conversations for us.
What a quiet month costs	Low, but not zero while you are a founding client. Credits never expire and at a zero balance everything pauses gracefully rather than billing you, so unused voice minutes cost nothing. The fixed debits are ₹2,000 per 30 days for the number and, for the first 3 months, ₹5,000 for the Care Plan at the founding rate.	Zero, if you stay on Free. $0 with 25 Active Contacts a month is a real floor, and even Essential at $14/mo is a smaller fixed monthly commitment than ours in any currency. On this line they win outright, and it is the single most sensible reason to try them before you talk to anyone about a build.
Money needed to begin	₹40,000 for the custom build — currently free for our 10 founding clients, in return for the Care Plan's first 3 months at the founding rate of ₹5,000/month (list ₹12,000) and an honest testimonial plus a short case study after go-live. That is the whole trade, stated plainly rather than in fine print. Then a minimum first credit load of ₹10,000. Month one debits ₹2,000 for the number and ₹5,000 for the Care Plan, leaving roughly ₹3,000 for calls and chats. Later top-ups from ₹500.	Nothing. There is a $0 Free plan with 25 Active Contacts a month, 2 channels, up to 4 active automations, 1 user and 1 Inbox seat, and the cheapest paid step up is $14/mo — with a 14-day trial on it, since the Essential and Pro cards both read "TRY 14 DAYS FOR FREE". No setup fee appears anywhere on their pricing page. If the question is "how little can I spend to find out whether DM automation helps my business", their answer is better than ours by a wide margin.
Who builds it, and who changes it when it is wrong	We do. The founder personally scopes, builds, tests on real calls and tunes your agent, then keeps tuning it under the Care Plan — behaviour changes, campaign and pricing setup, a monthly report, priority founder WhatsApp support. You configure nothing and administer nothing.	You do. That is the product: you connect channels, build the automations and maintain them, within the caps of your tier. On Free that is "Basic automations (up to 4 active automations)" and one login — "Includes login access for 1 person (you)" — while Essential at $14/mo already reads "Unlimited custom automations" and 2 users, so the automation cap is a Free-plan limit rather than a ManyChat limit. For a solo founder who enjoys building flows, self-serve is a feature, not a gap. For an owner who has no intention of learning a flow builder and whose logic is unusual — deposit rules, slot-locking against a real calendar, qualification questions that only make sense in one trade — it is the whole problem.
Instagram automation	Part of one agent rather than a separate tool: instant DM replies in your brand voice and per-post comment-to-DM rules, unlimited automations under the Care Plan, in Indian languages, and able to hand the same customer to a phone call, a booking or a payment link without you rebuilding anything. You can message our live Instagram demo agent before you buy and watch it work.	Their flagship, and cheap. Instagram is the first product in their own navigation and one of the channels available even on the $0 Free plan, where you may "Connect any 2 channels and choose from: Instagram, TikTok, Facebook Messenger or Telegram" with up to 4 active automations. If Instagram DM automation is the entire job, this is a strong, low-cost, immediately available answer and we would not try to talk you out of it. Exactly which Instagram triggers sit in which tier is on their Instagram product page, which we did not audit — we are only publishing what we confirmed on their pricing and help pages.
WhatsApp	From your own WhatsApp Business number, with coexistence — the owner keeps using his own WhatsApp app, and when he replies by hand the AI steps aside. Confirmations, reminders, payment links and template campaigns over your lead sheet. Meta bills your own account directly and Dvaarik adds zero markup, which you can verify on your own Meta invoice.	Available, but not on the cheap tiers. WhatsApp is in their channel list, and their help centre states of the Free plan: "Note that the following channels are not available on the Free plan: WhatsApp, SMS, Email." It first appears at Pro, $29/mo, where the card reads "Connect any 3 channels, select from: Instagram, TikTok, Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp, Telegram, SMS and Email." We did not verify how Meta's own conversation charges are handled on their side, so ask them that directly before you compare landed cost.
Indian languages and code-mixed speech	All 22 scheduled Indian languages plus code-mixed Hinglish, Tenglish and Tanglish on the ₹2/min base rate, with global voices available where a business genuinely takes international calls. We will run a real call in your language mix before you commit rather than asking you to trust a number on a page.	Not something we could confirm, and we are not going to guess. The only language information published on the pricing page is the interface language selector — English, Spanish and Portuguese. That is the language of their product, not a statement about what your customers can be replied to in, and text automation is a different problem from speech anyway. If your DMs come in Telugu or Marathi, ask them to show you before you buy.
Branding on your messages	None, on any channel, at any price. The agent answers as your business, in your business's name and voice, and nothing anywhere says Dvaarik.	On the Free plan only, and they disclose it on the card. The Free tier lists "Manychat branding", with the card's own note reading: "Powered by Manychat" text appears the first time you message a contact. Every paid tier from Essential at $14/mo upward reads "No Manychat branding", so $14/mo removes it — this is a Free-plan trade-off, not a ManyChat-wide one, and we would rather state that plainly than leave the impression it costs more to fix than it does. Read on manychat.com/pricing, 30 Jul 2026.
Channels we do not have	Narrower on paper. We do voice, WhatsApp, Instagram and the website widget. We do not do TikTok, Telegram, SMS blasts or email marketing, and we would rather say that than stretch the word "omnichannel" over things we have not built.	Broader. Their published channel list is Instagram, Facebook Messenger, TikTok, Telegram, WhatsApp, SMS and Email, with access tiered — "Connect up to 2 eligible channels" on Free and Essential, "up to 3" on Pro, and "Connect all eligible channels" on Business and Advanced. The higher tiers also carry published email-send allowances. If your audience actually lives on TikTok or Telegram, or you want DM automation and email in one tool, that is a real advantage and nothing we sell replaces it.
Bookings, deposits and payments in the conversation	Built in. The agent locks a real calendar slot, sends WhatsApp confirmations and reminders, and can send a payment link mid-conversation for a deposit or a full payment, with no commission taken by us. It works the same way whether the customer arrived by phone, WhatsApp or Instagram.	Outside what we verified. What ManyChat publishes is a channel list — Instagram, Facebook Messenger, TikTok, Telegram, WhatsApp, SMS and Email — and plan allowances measured in Active Contacts. What the product does inside those channels for calendars, deposits and payments is not something we confirmed on their own pages, so ask them rather than take our word for it, and treat any comparison table that answers this with a tick or a cross as unsourced.
How stable the price is, and how easy it is to check	₹2/min is our permanent base rate for voice, not an introductory offer and not a founding discount, and it is published on the site rather than behind a form. Founding rates on the Care Plan are locked for 6 months. When something changes we change the page.	Recently changed, and internally inconsistent on two figures. Their help centre states three separate times that the current model "was introduced on March 2, 2026", and adds a caveat that matters if you already have an account: "For now, these plans are available to accounts created on or after March 2, 2026." Their own blog post about the change, dated 20 Apr 2026, works through an example priced at "Essential $17/month", while the live pricing page reads "$14/mo". Their pricing page also puts the Advanced overage at $0.004 per extra contact while their help centre says "Advanced: Custom overage pricing". We cite the pricing page and date-stamp it, because their prices have moved at least once since March and a figure without a date is not a figure.
Support when it breaks at 2am	One founder on WhatsApp. Under the Care Plan that means priority access to the person who built your agent and changes shipped the same week. There is no help centre, no ticket queue, no rota and no SLA document. For some buyers that is exactly right; for others it is disqualifying, and we would rather they find that out here.	Tiered, published, and backed by documentation you can read without waiting for anyone. The plan cards read "Self-serve Support" on Free, "Email Support" on Essential and Pro, and "Priority Support" on Business and Advanced. They also run a public help centre — the articles we quoted throughout this page on the Free plan, Active Contacts and billing all come from it. Being able to search an answer at 2am is something a one-founder studio cannot match.

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