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Alternatives to Flow XO

Chatfuel, Zapier, Botisfy, Dialogflow, and ManyChat are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Flow XO.
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What is Flow XO and what are its top alternatives?

Everything you need to create and manage bots. Build powerful bots without code, bots work seamlessly across platforms, and we host, manage & scale your bots.
Flow XO is a tool in the Chatbot Platforms & Tools category of a tech stack.

Top Alternatives to Flow XO

  • Chatfuel
    Chatfuel

    Send news, collect feedback, receive and answer questions and share content libraries — from GIFs to full business docs. ...

  • Zapier
    Zapier

    Zapier is for busy people who know their time is better spent selling, marketing, or coding. Instead of wasting valuable time coming up with complicated systems - you can use Zapier to automate the web services you and your team are already using on a daily basis. ...

  • Botisfy
    Botisfy

    It will take 5 minutes to setup your Bot. We will help you in each step. From integrations to making it intelligent. We have a simple interface which will help you to create advance and simple bots according to your personal and business needs. ...

  • Dialogflow
    Dialogflow

    Give users new ways to interact with your product by building engaging voice and text-based conversational apps. ...

  • ManyChat
    ManyChat

    It is the Facebook Messenger marketing tool that lets you create bots for marketing, sales and support. It enables you to effortlessly grow your Messenger audience by providing a complete set of growth tools to convert anyone into a subscriber. ...

  • Twilio
    Twilio

    Twilio offers developers a powerful API for phone services to make and receive phone calls, and send and receive text messages. Their product allows programmers to more easily integrate various communication methods into their software and programs. ...

  • Twilio SendGrid
    Twilio SendGrid

    Twilio SendGrid's cloud-based email infrastructure relieves businesses of the cost and complexity of maintaining custom email systems. Twilio SendGrid provides reliable delivery, scalability & real-time analytics along with flexible API's. ...

  • Amazon SES
    Amazon SES

    Amazon SES eliminates the complexity and expense of building an in-house email solution or licensing, installing, and operating a third-party email service. The service integrates with other AWS services, making it easy to send emails from applications being hosted on services such as Amazon EC2. ...

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Chatfuel logo

Chatfuel

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Create chatbots easily — no coding required
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PROS OF CHATFUEL
  • 7
    AI Engine
  • 4
    Easy setup that is also scalable
CONS OF CHATFUEL
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    Zapier logo

    Zapier

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    Automate tasks between other online services (services like Salesforce, Basecamp, Gmail, and 400+ more)
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    PROS OF ZAPIER
    • 45
      Sync cloud services
    • 34
      Easy setup
    • 15
      Scheduled tasks
    • 8
      Great customer support
    • 6
      Integrates with Trello
    • 6
      Gives me updates anytime, anywhere
    CONS OF ZAPIER
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      Julien DeFrance
      Principal Software Engineer at Tophatter · | 16 upvotes · 3.2M views

      Back in 2014, I was given an opportunity to re-architect SmartZip Analytics platform, and flagship product: SmartTargeting. This is a SaaS software helping real estate professionals keeping up with their prospects and leads in a given neighborhood/territory, finding out (thanks to predictive analytics) who's the most likely to list/sell their home, and running cross-channel marketing automation against them: direct mail, online ads, email... The company also does provide Data APIs to Enterprise customers.

      I had inherited years and years of technical debt and I knew things had to change radically. The first enabler to this was to make use of the cloud and go with AWS, so we would stop re-inventing the wheel, and build around managed/scalable services.

      For the SaaS product, we kept on working with Rails as this was what my team had the most knowledge in. We've however broken up the monolith and decoupled the front-end application from the backend thanks to the use of Rails API so we'd get independently scalable micro-services from now on.

      Our various applications could now be deployed using AWS Elastic Beanstalk so we wouldn't waste any more efforts writing time-consuming Capistrano deployment scripts for instance. Combined with Docker so our application would run within its own container, independently from the underlying host configuration.

      Storage-wise, we went with Amazon S3 and ditched any pre-existing local or network storage people used to deal with in our legacy systems. On the database side: Amazon RDS / MySQL initially. Ultimately migrated to Amazon RDS for Aurora / MySQL when it got released. Once again, here you need a managed service your cloud provider handles for you.

      Future improvements / technology decisions included:

      Caching: Amazon ElastiCache / Memcached CDN: Amazon CloudFront Systems Integration: Segment / Zapier Data-warehousing: Amazon Redshift BI: Amazon Quicksight / Superset Search: Elasticsearch / Amazon Elasticsearch Service / Algolia Monitoring: New Relic

      As our usage grows, patterns changed, and/or our business needs evolved, my role as Engineering Manager then Director of Engineering was also to ensure my team kept on learning and innovating, while delivering on business value.

      One of these innovations was to get ourselves into Serverless : Adopting AWS Lambda was a big step forward. At the time, only available for Node.js (Not Ruby ) but a great way to handle cost efficiency, unpredictable traffic, sudden bursts of traffic... Ultimately you want the whole chain of services involved in a call to be serverless, and that's when we've started leveraging Amazon DynamoDB on these projects so they'd be fully scalable.

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      Spenser Coke
      Product Engineer at Loanlink.de · | 9 upvotes · 305.5K views

      When starting a new company and building a new product w/ limited engineering we chose to optimize for expertise and rapid development, landing on Rails API, w/ AngularJS on the front.

      The reality is that we're building a CRUD app, so we considered going w/ vanilla Rails MVC to optimize velocity early on (it may not be sexy, but it gets the job done). Instead, we opted to split the codebase to allow for a richer front-end experience, focus on skill specificity when hiring, and give us the flexibility to be consumed by multiple clients in the future.

      We also considered .NET core or Node.js for the API layer, and React on the front-end, but our experiences dealing with mature Node APIs and the rapid-fire changes that comes with state management in React-land put us off, given our level of experience with those tools.

      We're using GitHub and Trello to track issues and projects, and a plethora of other tools to help the operational team, like Zapier, MailChimp, Google Drive with some basic Vue.js & HTML5 apps for smaller internal-facing web projects.

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      Botisfy

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      Build AI based chatbots for Messenger with ML - No coding
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      PROS OF BOTISFY
      • 2
        Friendly UI and UX, Easy to get started
      CONS OF BOTISFY
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        Dialogflow

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        Give users new ways to interact with your product by building engaging voice and text-based conversational apps.
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        PROS OF DIALOGFLOW
        • 18
          Built-in conversational agents
        • 7
          Custom Webhooks
        • 5
          Great interface
        • 5
          Multi Lingual
        • 4
          OOTB integrations
        • 2
          Knowledge base
        • 1
          Quick display
        CONS OF DIALOGFLOW
        • 9
          Multi lingual
        • 2
          Can’t be self-hosted

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        ManyChat

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        A Messenger bot platform for marketing, e-commerce, and support
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        PROS OF MANYCHAT
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            Aisha Wong
            Founder at Aisha Wong Empire · | 5 upvotes · 12.4K views
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            TidioTidioManyChatManyChat

            Hi everyone, I'm a small business owner and I would like to know in terms of pricing and setting up which of these apps would be better. I'm currently using Shopify store and if I compare the price, ManyChat is around $15 for 1000 contact but Tidio price is $39 for unlimited chatbot yet i couldnt make decision which chatbot should i use and if you have use this both, would you give me some opinion so i can make better choice. thank you in advance.

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            Twilio logo

            Twilio

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            Bring voice and messaging to your web and mobile applications.
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            PROS OF TWILIO
            • 148
              Powerful, simple, and well documented api
            • 88
              RESTful API
            • 66
              Clear pricing
            • 61
              Great sms services
            • 58
              Low cost of entry
            • 29
              Global SMS Gateway
            • 14
              Good value
            • 12
              Cloud IVR
            • 11
              Simple
            • 11
              Extremely simple to integrate with rails
            • 6
              Great for startups
            • 5
              SMS
            • 3
              Great developer program
            • 3
              Hassle free
            • 2
              Text me the app pages
            • 1
              New Features constantly rolling out
            • 1
              Many deployment options, from build from scratch to buy
            • 1
              Easy integration
            • 1
              Two factor authentication
            CONS OF TWILIO
            • 4
              Predictable pricing
            • 2
              Expensive

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            Ravi Sathanapalli
            Director Product Management at Centime · | 7 upvotes · 155.5K views
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            TwilioTwilioAmazon SNSAmazon SNS

            Hi, We are looking to implement 2FA - so that users would be sent a Verification code over their Email and SMS to their phone.

            We faced some limitations with Amazon SNS where we could either send the verification code to email OR to the phone number, while we want to send it to both.

            We also are looking to make the 2FA more flexible by adding any other options later on.

            What are the best alternatives to SNS for this use case and purpose? Looked at Twilio but want to explore other options before making a decision.

            Would be great to know what the experience with Twilio has been, especially the limitations/issues with Twilio...

            Appreciate any input from users of Twilio and others who have had similar use cases.

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            Cheri Booth
            Vendor Relationship Manager at Storage Asset Management · | 6 upvotes · 78.8K views
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            ClickatellClickatellTwilioTwilio

            Searching for options for SMS that integrates with SiteLink and will allow personalization of text and tracking of both incoming/outgoing messages with reporting (Time, date, call#, etc) Have been looking at Twilio, and seems most leaning toward this. Are there any other options known that integrate into SiteLink? Also looked at Clickatell.

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            Twilio SendGrid logo

            Twilio SendGrid

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            Email Delivery. Simplified.
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            PROS OF TWILIO SENDGRID
            • 190
              Easy setup
            • 137
              Cheap and simple
            • 107
              Easy email integration!
            • 86
              Reliable
            • 58
              Well-documented
            • 28
              Generous free allowance to get you started
            • 25
              Trackable
            • 21
              Heroku add-on
            • 15
              Azure add-on
            • 13
              Better support for third party integrations
            • 6
              Simple installation
            • 6
              Free plan
            • 4
              Helpful evangelist staff
            • 4
              Great client libraries
            • 3
              Great support
            • 3
              Better customer support than the competition
            • 3
              Great add-ons
            • 2
              Nice dashboard
            • 2
              Scalable
            • 1
              Web editor for templates
            • 1
              Cool setup
            • 1
              Within integration
            • 1
              Easy set up
            • 1
              Free
            • 1
              Great customer support
            • 1
              Google cloud messaging
            CONS OF TWILIO SENDGRID
            • 3
              Google analytics integration is not campaign-specific
            • 1
              Shared IP blacklist removal takes months
            • 0
              Shares IP blacklist removal

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            Luke Hamilton
            Sr. Engineer at StackShare · | 4 upvotes · 94K views

            At StackShare we were discussing how to increase the retention of our newly signed up users. We hypothesized that if we made certain changes to the emails in our on-boarding process we could increase our retention and activation of users.

            We decided to use sendwithus because it offered us the ability to A/B test our transactional emails. We also utilized the sendwithus analytics dashboard to gain real time insight into the performance of our email campaigns. Furthermore sendwithus has a Rails gem that allowed us to easily integrate the product into our application. We were also able to integrate sendwithus with our SendGrid account. #ABTestingAnalytics #TransactionalEmail

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            Julien DeFrance
            Principal Software Engineer at Tophatter · | 3 upvotes · 560.6K views

            Nexmo vs Twilio ?

            Back in the early days at SmartZip Analytics, that evaluation had - for whatever reason - been made by Product Management. Some developers might have been consulted, but we hadn't made the final call and some key engineering aspects of it were omitted.

            When revamping the platform, I made sure to flip the decision process how it should be. Business provided an input but Engineering lead the way and has the final say on all implementation matters. My engineers and I decided on re-evaluating the criteria and vendor selection. Not only did we need SMS support, but were we not thinking about #VoiceAndSms support as the use cases evolved.

            Also, on an engineering standpoint, SDK mattered. Nexmo didn't have any. Twilio did. No-one would ever want to re-build from scratch integration layers vendors should naturally come up with and provide their customers with.

            Twilio won on all fronts. Including costs and implementation timelines. No-one even noticed the vendor switch.

            Many years later, Twilio demonstrated its position as a leader by holding conferences in the Bay Area, announcing features like Twilio Functions. Even acquired Authy which we also used for 2FA. Twilio's growth has been amazing. Its recent acquisition of SendGrid continues to show it.

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            Amazon SES

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            Bulk and transactional email-sending service.
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            PROS OF AMAZON SES
            • 102
              Reliable
            • 97
              Cheap
            • 57
              Integrates with other aws services
            • 52
              Easy setup
            • 18
              Trackable
            • 2
              Easy rails setup
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              Cyril Duchon-Doris

              We decided to use AWS Lambda for several serverless tasks such as

              • Managing AWS backups
              • Processing emails received on Amazon SES and stored to Amazon S3 and notified via Amazon SNS, so as to push a message on our Redis so our Sidekiq Rails workers can process inbound emails
              • Pushing some relevant Amazon CloudWatch metrics and alarms to Slack
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              I would like to know how I can implement a transactional email, or if it is possible to do so, like Mailchimp, using Amazon SES. I want to have the flexibility of creating emails like MailChimp, with a bulk email sending capability. Is it as simple with AWS SES as it is with MailChimp? If so, then how can I implement that for my own product? Thanks!

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