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Manychat is a chat automation tool for Instagram, TikTok, Messenger and Telegram, plus WhatsApp, SMS and email on paid plans, priced by active contacts. Bolt Claw's comment-to-DM runs on Instagram and Facebook, inside a tool that also schedules posts, answers comments and DMs and runs a link-in-bio page. Pick Manychat for more channels; Bolt Claw for one tool.
Everything about Manychat here was checked on Manychat’s own website on , and every fact links to its source.
Facts only, one row at a time. Bolt Claw’s come from the product and its pricing page; Manychat’s come from Manychat’s own website, checked on 21 October 2026, each with its source.
| Feature | Bolt Claw | Manychat |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes. Every feature, with nothing that expires: 1,000 automations, 1,000 automated DMs a month, 100 leads a month | 25 Active Contacts a month, 4 live automations, 2 channels, 1 user Source |
| What the price counts | Monthly allowances of automated DMs and leads, set by the plan | Active Contacts: everyone who interacts with an automation in the billing month Source |
| Channels | Comment-to-DM on Instagram and Facebook; DM keyword automations on networks with DMs | Instagram, TikTok, Facebook Messenger and Telegram; WhatsApp, SMS and email from Pro Source |
| Comment-to-DM | A keyword or any comment, on chosen posts or all of them, sends one DM, with a link if you add one | Start a conversation when someone comments on a post or reel Source |
| Other triggers | DM keywords | New followers, story replies and DMs Source |
| Lead capture | Ask for an email or phone number; every lead lands in a list you can export as a CSV | Lead capture from Essential Source |
| Branding in your DMs | None, on any plan | Free sends a “Powered by Manychat” message the first time you message a contact Source |
| Users | Seats: 1, 5, 15 and 50 across Free and the paid plans | Free: 1 user, 1 inbox seat. Pro: 3 users, 2 inbox seats Source |
| Scheduling posts | Yes, to Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Bluesky, X, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube and Pinterest | Not listed |
| Link in bio | Yes: links, social icons, your own colours and fonts, a QR code and a contact form | Not listed |
“Not listed” means we did not find it on Manychat’s pricing page or help centre on 21 October 2026. It is not a claim that Manychat cannot do it; check their site for anything newer.
Manychat runs on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook Messenger and Telegram, and its paid plans add WhatsApp, SMS and email. Bolt Claw has no WhatsApp, SMS or email automations. Source
Manychat also starts automations from new followers, story replies and DMs, and its Pro plan adds AI automation for deeper conversations. A Bolt Claw automation is one DM, with an optional question for an email or phone number. Source
Manychat's Pro plan connects to email, SMS, CRM and commerce tools, and Essential syncs to Google Sheets. Bolt Claw sends each new lead to your own systems as a webhook event, which you wire up yourself. Source
Bolt Claw's Free plan includes 1,000 automations, 1,000 automated DMs a month and 100 leads a month, and puts no branding in your DMs.
Each comment gets at most one private reply, and a database constraint enforces it, so a retry or a double delivery never DMs someone twice for one comment.
Bolt Claw schedules to nine networks and puts every comment and DM in one inbox with AI-drafted replies, so the post, the comment and the DM are all in one tool.
A link-in-bio page, a referral program, the REST API and a hosted MCP server come with every plan.
Bolt Claw’s prices are the ones its checkout charges. Manychat’s are as its own site showed them on 21 October 2026; they change, so follow the source before you decide.
Free$0
1,000 automations, 1,000 automated DMs a month, 100 leads a month, 30 social accounts
Creator$19 a monthor $190 a year
unlimited automations, 25,000 automated DMs a month, unlimited leads a month, 75 social accounts
Pro$49 a monthor $490 a year
unlimited automations, unlimited automated DMs a month, unlimited leads a month, 250 social accounts
Business$149 a monthor $1,490 a year
unlimited automations, unlimited automated DMs a month, unlimited leads a month, 1,000 social accounts
Prices in US dollars. A year costs the same as ten months. Every feature is on every plan, Free included; plans differ only in volume. Posts and DMs on X are billed on top, at X's cost plus 20%.
Every plan, line by lineChecked on
Free$0
25 Active Contacts a month. Source
Essential$14 a month
Billed yearly. 250 Active Contacts, then $0.10 each. Source
Pro$29 a month
Billed yearly, or $39 monthly. 2,500 Active Contacts, then $0.05 each. Source
Business$69 a month
Billed yearly. 7,500 Active Contacts, then $0.025 each. Source
Advanced$139 a month
Billed yearly. 25,000 Active Contacts. Source
From Manychat's help centre, which describes the pricing it introduced on 2 March 2026 and says availability may vary by region.
There is no importer, but a Bolt Claw automation is short to rebuild: the keywords, an optional public reply, the DM and its link, and whether to ask for an email or phone number. It can also be created with the REST API.
Instagram and Facebook, where a comment can be answered with a private reply. DM keyword automations work on the networks Bolt Claw can send DMs on. There is no WhatsApp, SMS or email automation.
By monthly allowances rather than contacts: Free includes 1,000 automated DMs a month and 100 leads a month, and paid plans (Creator $19, Pro $49 and Business $149 a month) raise both. Every feature is on every plan.
No. The DM is exactly the text you wrote, on every plan, Free included.
The database. Bolt Claw records the run before it sends, and a unique constraint allows one private reply per comment, so a retry or a webhook delivered twice cannot send a second DM.
Every fact about Manychat on this page comes from these pages on Manychat’s own website, all checked on . If one of them now says something different, it is right and this page is out of date. Bolt Claw’s facts come from the product itself, and its numbers are the ones on the pricing page.
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