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Social DM automation: what 6 tools cost

Automated replies in Instagram and Messenger, triggered by a comment or keyword. Every price is the plan a buyer actually lands on to get this capability — not the headline figure on the pricing page, and not the free tier that leaves it out.

6 tools, 10 plans pricedfrom $255 more with no published priceread 2026-09-27

PostgreSQL Database Supabase Dedicated, fully portable Postgres database per project with auto-generated REST and GraphQL APIs, a built-in Table Editor and SQL Editor, and 40+ pre-installed extensions — standard Postgres without hand-building the API and admin layer yourself. $25/mo Pro Details → Bot Builder Manychat Visual drag-and-drop flow builder for creating chatbot conversations — triggers, message sequences, buttons, and conditional logic — built separately per channel across Instagram, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, SMS, and Telegram without writing code. $39/mo Pro Details → Broadcast Messaging Manychat One-time or scheduled bulk messages sent to segmented contact lists across activated channels, letting businesses announce promotions or updates to their entire chat audience at once instead of one conversation at a time. $39/mo Pro Details → Automation Sequences Manychat Multi-step automated message flows triggered by user actions like a comment or DM, chaining messages, delays, contact tagging, and CRM handoffs into a sequence that runs without manual follow-up. $39/mo Pro Details → File Management & Bundling SendOwl Digital delivery feature with unlimited file storage and streaming of any file size, letting sellers bundle multiple products — videos, audio, PDFs, game codes — into a single purchasable package for customers. $39/mo Launch Details → Live Chat Widget LiveChat Real-time website chat widget letting support and sales teams message visitors with pre-set greetings, product recommendations, and canned responses, unifying conversations from chat and other channels into one agent view. $59/mo Team Details → Ticketing System LiveChat Centralized inbox that turns customer messages into trackable tickets with tags, customer context, and conversation summaries, letting support teams triage, assign, and resolve requests without losing history across channels. $59/mo Team Details → AI Chatbots LiveChat AI chatbot and Copilot assistant that automatically answers routine customer questions, suggests tags, drafts responses, and summarizes chats, cutting repetitive workload for human agents while keeping conversations moving around the clock. $59/mo Team Details → Live Chat Intercom Real-time customer support and communication through website chat widget. $85/mo Advanced Details → Content Authoring TalentLMS In-platform authoring tools for assembling courses from videos, presentations, quizzes, and SCORM/xAPI content, including AI-assisted course generation — lets teams build training material directly inside TalentLMS instead of importing it from a separate authoring tool. $149/mo Core Details →

This page compares what each tool does and what it costs. It does not name a winner: picking one honestly needs a researched verdict for every option, and the corpus does not carry those yet — so nothing here is ranked by anything but price.

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