Api.ai vs Dialogflow vs Telegram Bot API

Overview

Telegram Bot API

Stacks332

Followers289

Votes38

Api.ai

Stacks83

Followers158

Votes4

Dialogflow

Stacks264

Followers667

Votes42

Advice on Telegram Bot API, Api.ai, Dialogflow

Stefan

Jul 17, 2020

Needs advice

Hi, does anyone have recommendations for a chatbot framework? I am currently using Botpress, and I am not happy with it. The upside is: They pretty much have everything you can ask for in a bot solution, but the issue is: They did nothing right, the documentation is terrible, and you have this feeling of it falling apart at any time, which is what actually happened once.

My ideal solution would have:

Support for Messenger and web (should either have a website chat plugin or straightforward integration with a different one)
A visual builder (for none tech team members) | This is not a hard requirement though
A slick DX for building simple things like API calls or more advanced stuff.
We currently only have a "click bot," so no crazy NLP features required, but in the future a requirement

What I do not want: - I do not want a solution where "someone else" builds the bot for me

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Detailed Comparison

Telegram Bot API	Api.ai	Dialogflow
Bots are third-party applications that run inside Telegram. Users can interact with bots by sending them messages, commands and inline requests. You control your bots using HTTPS requests to our bot API.	API.AI is a natural language understanding platform that makes it easy for developers to design and integrate intelligent, robust conversational user interfaces into mobile, web applications, and devices.	Give users new ways to interact with your product by building engaging voice and text-based conversational apps.
-	SDKs for Android, iOS, Ruby, JS, Python, and more.; One-Click Integrations for deploying bots across different messaging platforms.; Pre-made knowledge domains for hundreds of common conversation scenarios.; 15+ languages; Open source speech recognition.; In-house machine learning for truly intelligent conversational interfaces.	-
Statistics
Stacks 332	Stacks 83	Stacks 264
Followers 289	Followers 158	Followers 667
Votes 38	Votes 4	Votes 42
Pros & Cons
Pros 10 Integrating with other services 8 Getting customized notifications and news 6 Creating custom tools like GitHub bot 5 Easy setup 4 Creating private/public bots	Pros 4 55	Pros 18 Built-in conversational agents 7 Custom Webhooks 5 Great interface 5 Multi Lingual 4 OOTB integrations Cons 9 Multi lingual 2 Can’t be self-hosted
Integrations
No integrations available	Twilio Messenger Platform Kik Bot Slack	No integrations available

What are some alternatives to Telegram Bot API, Api.ai, Dialogflow?

Engati

It is a free chatbot platform to build bots quickly without any coding required. It allows you to build, manage, integrate, train, analyse and publish your personalized bot in a matter of minutes.

Botpress

Botpress is an open-source bot creation tool written in TypeScript. It is powered by a rich set of open-source modules built by the community. We like to say that Botpress is like the WordPress of bots; anyone can create and reuse other peo

Microsoft Bot Framework

The Microsoft Bot Framework provides just what you need to build and connect intelligent bots that interact naturally wherever your users are talking, from text/sms to Skype, Slack, Office 365 mail and other popular services.

Amazon Lex

Lex provides the advanced deep learning functionalities of automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding (NLU) to recognize the intent of the text, to enable you to build applications with highly engaging user experiences and lifelike conversational interactions.

Chatfuel

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

Flow XO

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.

IBM Watson

It combines artificial intelligence (AI) and sophisticated analytical software for optimal performance as a "question answering" machine.

Wit.ai

Iti is an API that makes it very easy for developers to create applications or devices that you can talk to. Any app, or any device, like a smart watch, Google Glass, Nest, even a car, can stream audio to the Wit API, and get actionable data in return. We turn speech into actions. Think Twilio for Natural Language, with Stripe-level developer friendliness.

Azure Bot Service

The Azure Bot Service provides an integrated environment that is purpose-built for bot development, enabling you to build, connect, test, deploy, and manage bots, all from one place.

Gupshup

Build interactive services and messaging bots for any messaging channel using our REST APIs. Most of the APIs are common across channels, while a few are channel-specific, due to differences in channel formats. Our APIs support both plain-text messaging as well as smart-messaging formats.