WideBot
Egypt-born, Riyadh-based Arabic chatbot platform now selling AQL AI
Overview
WideBot began in Cairo in 2016 as an Arabic chatbot builder and has relocated to Riyadh, pivoting toward an enterprise AI-as-a-service platform (AQL) for governments and large companies across 12+ MENA countries.
Pricing
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What you can produce with WideBot
- Arabic-first chatbot/conversational AI builder
- AQL model suite: LLM, RAG, OCR, TTS/STT, sentiment & intent classification, entity extraction
- AQL-7B Arabic large language model
- WhatsApp Business API integration incl. AI voice agent (launched Oct 2025)
- Omnichannel inbox and social-listening tools
- 350+ clients across 12 MENA countries, incl. Saudi ministries and Egypt's Tax Portal
ASEAN Perspective
WideBot in Southeast Asia
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WideBot has quietly outlasted a lot of chatbot-builder hype: it started in Cairo in 2016 as an Arabic-language bot platform, relocated its base to Riyadh, and now claims 350-plus clients across 12 countries including Saudi ministries and Egypt's Tax Portal. Its pivot toward AQL — a suite of Arabic AI models covering LLM, OCR, RAG, TTS/STT and sentiment analysis — and an October 2025 WhatsApp voice-agent launch show a company chasing the enterprise AI wave rather than sitting still.
The catch is that the product you can actually evaluate has thinned out. The current site (widebot.ai) has no public pricing and pushes everyone toward a sales call, while Capterra still lists the older self-serve chatbot builder at 3.4/5 from just five reviews — easy to build with, praised for native Arabic support, dinged for glitches and slow support. AQL-7B's claim of "surpassing all Arabic LLMs worldwide" is WideBot's own marketing language, not an independently verified benchmark.
What people say
WideBot's Capterra page rates it 3.4 out of 5 from five reviews — a small sample, but the pattern is consistent with what you'd expect from a regional chatbot builder competing against better-funded international platforms. One reviewer called bot creation genuinely easy: "the first and foremost likable feature was that it was quite easy to understand bot creation," with no difficulties building flows, and reviewers specifically credit it for handling Standard Arabic and dialects in a way that "most international platforms don't provide." On the negative side, one client described "very unprofessional team [with] delay in responding," and other feedback flags constant platform glitches and limited analytics on the cheaper tiers.
That Capterra listing (Free / $15 per user/month for 2,000 users / $49 for 8,000 / $99 for 20,000) looks increasingly like a legacy artifact. WideBot's current site describes itself as "the MENA leading Arabic-first AI-as-a-Service platform for governments and enterprises," with no pricing page and a "Book a Meeting" call to action across every product page — a clear signal the company has moved upmarket since that self-serve pricing was listed.
The newer product is AQL, a model suite (LLM, RAG, OCR, TTS/STT, sentiment analysis, intent classification, entity extraction) anchored by AQL-7B, which WideBot's own materials describe as "shattering global records and surpassing all Arabic LLMs worldwide" — a vendor claim with no independent benchmark found to back it. More concretely verifiable: a $3 million pre-Series A round in March 2025 led by Keheilan Fund, an October 2025 WhatsApp Business API voice-agent launch, and a stated roster of 350-plus clients across 12 countries, including Saudi government ministries and Egypt's Tax Portal. The company was founded in Cairo in 2016 by Mohamed Nabil, Enrique Orione, Ahmed Omar, Ahmed Ashour and Saif Ahmed before relocating its headquarters to Riyadh.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
About this listing
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