Botpress vs saavos 2026: $89 vs $19 for indie SaaS founders

Botpress is a developer platform for building custom conversational flows: visual flow builder, API actions, multi-node logic, team collaboration. saavos is a finished website chatbot you train by pasting your site URL — no flow builder, but live in 5 minutes. Botpress Plus starts at $89/month (new workspaces, May 2026). saavos Starter is $19/month. Source: botpress.com/pricing, saavos.com/pricing, May 2026.

For new workspaces created after May 14, 2026: Free ($0), Plus ($89/month or $79/month annual), Team ($495/month or $445/month annual), Managed ($1,495/month or $995/month annual). Existing workspaces keep grandfathered pricing. Botpress lowered Plus from $189/month and Team from $939/month in the May 2026 reprice. Confirmed via Lindy.ai and eesel.ai rank-4 corroboration, May 2026.

saavos Starter is $19/month and covers the website-FAQ-deflection use case that most founders initially look to Botpress for: URL-trained chatbot, one embed snippet, Claude Sonnet 4.6, no flow builder required. Chatbase Hobby is $32/month and adds multi-model selection. FastBots Essential is $39/month and adds live agent takeover. All three are below Botpress Plus at $89/month. Pricing from respective vendor pricing pages, May 2026.

Yes. Botpress Free gives 2,000 AI events per month and one bot. Complex flows with multiple AI calls per turn burn through the 2,000 events faster than expected. saavos Free gives 50 messages/month with one bot and Claude Haiku. Both require no credit card.

Use Botpress when your chatbot needs to do something beyond answering questions from your content: call an external API, trigger a webhook, follow conditional branching logic, or require multiple collaborators on the same flow. saavos is retrieval-only — it answers questions from your site content but can't run API actions or follow conditional branches.