Botpress vs LangChain
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Botpress
AI agent platform for customer support, priced by conversation.
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LangChain
Most popular framework for building LLM applications
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7 / 10 | 8.1 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Open Source |
| Free tier | 5 bots, 5 collaborators, 2,000 messages/month | Open source framework is free; LangSmith has a free developer tier |
| Paid from | $495/month (Team) | $39/month (LangSmith Plus) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 750k+ developers | 1m+ developers |
| Founded | 2017 | 2022 |
| Maker | Sylvain Paquette, Dany Fortin | Harrison Chase |
| Verdict | Botpress has repositioned hard: it now pitches itself as an AI-native helpdesk competing directly with Zendesk and Intercom, not a general open-source chatbot framework. The self-hosted v12 platform — the version most re... |
Still the default starting point for LLM apps, and meaningfully more stable since LangChain 1.0 and LangGraph 1.0 shipped in October 2025 — agents now run on LangGraph's durable runtime, and the team has promised no brea... |
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