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About Botpress
Botpress is a platform for creating AI-powered chatbots that leverage the latest in large language models.
Most i like is free and opensource, has web interface for configuration and most a very helpfull support even for free edition.
Dependency on heroku, slow, limited features and apis.
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World-Class Bot Building Platform
Comments: Botpress is a great platform with a strong community of developers around the world that are welcoming and open to sharing their time, resources, and elevating best practices among bot builders.
Pros:
Botpress offers an economical and code-friendly low-code platform that allows for a range of user skill and experience to begin building scalable applications quickly.
Cons:
Ambiguity on feature releases / project update timelines. They're certainly not the only company that ships features without a schedule posted to the public, but it's always nice to have a know in advance when new bells and whistles are coming!
Excellent product and very user-friendly
Pros:
After evaluating multiple options, we found Botpress to be the ideal solution. This tool stands out for its user-friendliness, ease of use, and efficiency. The combination of managing conversation flows with pre-configured cards and AI provides effective control and remarkable flexibility. Moreover, the integration with GPT is highly impressive and seamlessly incorporated into the tool. In addition, the support for learning the tool is robust. The available documentation, active Discord channel for inquiries and discussions, and comprehensive YouTube training channel together create a well-designed ecosystem around the tool.
Cons:
While the documentation is accessible and easy to consult, there are areas for improvement, such as the inclusion of default values for certain configurations or variables. Our tests helped us identify these, but the search in the documentation did not.
Amit’s review
Pros:
Ease of usage Ui flow design Nlp processing
Cons:
Customization Add custom widgets and hooks
Botpress Response
5 years ago
Hi Amit, first, I want to thank you for reviewing Botpress. It's greatly appreciated. I'd love to get the chance to pick your brain on custom widgets and hooks. If I get a better understanding of your use case, I can bring this up in a product meeting. You can also create a ticket on our Github project since we are open-source. Best, Marc
A Flexible Chatbot Building Platform
Pros:
I like that Botpress has a low-code interface that makes it easy to create and manage chatbots, with little or no coding skills. I can use the visual flow editor, the built-in templates, and the drag-and-drop widgets to design conversational flows and user interfaces in minutes.
Cons:
I dislike that Botpress has a steep learning curve, especially for beginners and non-technical users. The platform has a lot of features and options, which can be overwhelming and confusing at first. I have to spend some time and effort to learn how to use the platform effectively and efficiently.
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Exceptional conversational AI software
Comments: We are working in a help desk solution for our field workers support
Pros:
1. It's open source 2. Botpress hass a community forum for support 3. Botpress SDK is help you to develop robust apps and with more functionalities
Cons:
We still are testing this solution and not yet have cons arguments
Botpress Response
5 years ago
Hi Artemio, thanks for taking the time to review Botpress. I am glad to hear your positive experience and I am looking forward to seeing you benefiting from a conversational ai platform. Best, Marc
An excellent Bot framework that can be deployed totally on premise.
Pros:
I have evaluated a dozen other chatbot frameworks but choose to go with Botpress. One of the main things which I like about Botpress is that it can be deployed on-prem and none of the data leaves your organization. It can be customized as you like and as they said, it's like a WordPress for chatbots. Recently Botpress community support started growing.
Cons:
There is a learning curve to it. The documentation/blog can be improved to help customers stay motivated.
Botpress Response
5 years ago
Hi Abhishek, thanks for reviewing Botpress and for bringing up the learning curve of our product. We've recently hired great talents to improve the experience. We are also putting more effort into content creation to help the community use Botpress to its fullest potential. Cheers!
Great Beginner Friendly Chatbot Platform
Pros:
We loved the low cost and east of deployment. We were looking at about a half a dozen different chatbot platforms. We had narrowed the choices down to two open source chatbot platforms because we did not want to be locked in to anyone companies technology. We did not expect much support but Botpress was a nice surprise. They have a very active and supportive community along with weekly office hours and Discord server which was a great resource.
Cons:
There wasn't really anything not to love about Botpress. The initial startup was a bit confusing because we had been using other open source platforms and weren't expecting an already setup cloud platform but that was a wonderful surprise.
Chatbot Creation with Artificial Intelligence
Comments: Overall, it's interesting and satisfying; it helps spark the imagination to create interesting bots.
Pros:
Easy of use and development of natural language bots
Cons:
At first, it's a bit difficult to understand the interface
Boopress is Very nice
Pros:
easy usability and easy management for the administrator.
Cons:
didn't have much video tutorial and the installation was not very fast.
Botpress Response
5 years ago
Hi Ian, thanks for taking the time to review. I'd love to know more about the speed of installation. I'd like to know your thoughts and understand how we can improve. Please send me an email Best, Marc
Botpress is a universal tool for creating chatbots.
Pros:
I like that Botpress is versatile in it's functionality. It comes with great built-in tools as well as the possibility to embed custom code.
Cons:
It is not that easy to use when you first start out.
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Best on premises chatbot solution
Comments: Best open source solution available on the market
Pros:
- Easy to use CMS - Great modular architecture - Community support - Fully customizable - Multiple bots on one instance
Cons:
- Lack of documentation - Businesses model is based on paid features and paid support rather than just support
Botpress Response
5 years ago
Hi Demyan, Thank you for the very detailed feedback. Cheers!
Not able to get it running lack of tutorial and ease of use.
Pros:
Flow based structure, drag & drop and connecting
Cons:
Nil, I didn’t explored that much coz I got so confused and went back to rasa
Botpress Response
5 years ago
Hi Anurag, thanks for taking the time to leave a review. I am sorry you had such a bad experience with our product. I'd love to take some time and pick your brain to really understand where we should improve to make sure that doesn't happen again. Please send me an email so we can schedule some time. Best, Marc
From the beginning
Pros:
The robust and integrated platform fully featured and open
Cons:
Bugs and critical features should be prioritized over net features
Botpress Response
5 years ago
Hi Federico, Thank you for your review and for being a part of the Botpress community.
making a bot was never so easy
Pros:
Easy to set up your bot helpful guides Easy to manipulate
Cons:
At first it was a little complicated to integrate our bot to the systems
Botpress Response
5 years ago
Hi Moises, thanks for taking the time to review Botpress. I'd like to know how we could have made the integration easier for you. Please reach out to me with more details. Best, Marc
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Persistency delivers success
Comments: We have created a complex use case for the bot and couldn't solve this for acceptable costs with other bot software, so we're happy to have been able to work with Botpress.
Pros:
It's quite complete, of course it's open source and it's getting more than the job done.
Cons:
It's not the easiest bot software to set up. Documentation is improving and that helps a lot.
Botpress Response
5 years ago
Hi Jeroen, thanks for taking the time to review Botpress. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. Best, Marc
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Review
Pros:
The documentation is really good - easy to understand and the screenshots helped too.
Cons:
Ummm, nothing comes to mind... Oh, Whatsapp integration would be amazing, but I realise it's sort of impossible.
Botpress Response
4 years ago
Hi Pierre, thanks a lot for reviewing Botpress. WhatsApp integration is something we've been trying to get for quite some times. It's a long process to get the approval. Rest assure, we are working on this. best, Marc
Still evaluating the free version
Comments: Still evaluating, but trying to better understand where the Bots can be helpful in a learning environment
Pros:
The visual editor is a nice addition, easy to implement on linux, just a few commands to get started
Cons:
While the visual editor is nice to have, there is too little documentation on building a bot. The app is updated quite frequently, but the documentation trails way behind. The only way that we learned to build a bot is by following along a YouTube tutorial from 2 years ago. Wish there were more walk-throughs.
Botpress Response
5 years ago
Hi Kevin, I want to thank you for your feedback. I take good note of the lack of documentation about building a chatbot. We will work to improve this. Best, Marc
Good Experience
Pros:
Easy to understand easy to use botpress is amazing
Cons:
Sometimes it gets buggy and botpress team need to look into this
Botpress is a Great Way to Get Started in Chatbots
Pros:
I like that it was easy and free to get started. They have a generous free plan, so it's easy to explore and test its capabilities.
Cons:
It would be a huge help to have more templates available as a starting point. The software is intuitive, but for a beginner it's hard to sift through all options to find the best way to accomplish the task at hand. I think having more templates would be a great way to learn options and best practices.
great app, easy and fast
Comments: perfet for fast comunicate with visitors and useful tool to request data form
Pros:
is a easy way to keep proative comunication with web visitors .. easy to configurate and conec
Cons:
you need some tecnic skils to setup for the first time
Botpress Response
5 years ago
Thanks for leaving some feedback Damacio.
boom in ai field
Comments: its is awesome literally it helps me first day i did not know how to use when i am friendly with it then i made me master after two days
Pros:
pros are following: easy to handle easy to publish easy to use easy to use multi functionality
Cons:
i like most is the feature that we can get source code also through which we can implement on project easily
Easy, quick, and powerful
Pros:
It was way easier than I thought to create a chatbot. And the powerful tools were just what we were looking for.
Cons:
The only issues we have faced is with multiple knowledge bases. Once we added a second knowledge base, the results of the chat changed.
Botpress approaching
Pros:
It is easy to understand it. The process for building bots is very intuitive
Cons:
Complete courses to understand all the functionalities
The best AI enabled bot platform
Comments: It's very helpful for our educational purpose project at my university
Pros:
It's easy to use the studio without doing the code stuffs and API
Cons:
-Less CSS modification and js file not modifyable -Glitched in KB and flows
Recommanded
Pros:
most i like is free and opensource, has web interface for configuration and most a very helpfull support even for free edition
Cons:
very difficult to run multiple instance from one installation
Botpress Response
5 years ago
Hi Mohammed, thanks for reviewing Botpress. Really happy you enjoyed using Botpress. For your information, to run multiple instances of Botpress with one installation you must use the Enterprise Version. Cheers, Marc