Alternatives
People usually look for an alternative when the tool they have does more than they need, or less. These pages compare Alma with six other products. Every statement about another product comes from that company's own website or announcement, with the pages listed, so you can see which one fits the work you want a chatbot to do.
Chatbot tools differ in five main ways, and settling these first makes any comparison shorter.
The same facts sit behind every comparison page. They come from Alma's code and its published prices.
| What it is | A chatbot builder for your website, with optional AI answers |
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| How it answers | Flows you write, plus optional AI answering from up to 50,000 characters of your own text |
| Where it answers | The chat window on your website |
| A person in the chat | No live chat. When a visitor gives an email address or phone number, Alma saves the lead and emails it to the address you set for notifications |
| Booking | Its own booking calendar, with a booking page you can link to and confirmation and reminder emails. The calendar can sync with Google Calendar or Outlook Calendar |
| Where leads go | Email to the address you set for notifications, on every plan; Zapier from Growth; CoreCNX from Growth once your account is linked; webhooks and an API from Agency |
| Price | $29, $79 or $199 a month after a 14-day trial; AI answering $25 a month |
| Branding | A small "Powered by Alma" line on every plan |
The trial lasts 14 days, and plans start at $29 a month after it. Choose a template, edit the conversation, and paste one embed code on your website.
Comparing tools
An AI agent platform has an AI write each reply and can let it take actions in other software. Alma is a flow chatbot: it follows a conversation you build, step by step. AI answering is an optional $25 a month add-on that replies to typed questions your flows do not cover.
No. Alma has no live chat or takeover. When someone needs your team, a flow collects their name and an email address or phone number, and Alma emails the lead to the address you set for notifications so a person can follow up.
No. Alma runs only in the chat window on your website. It has no social media, WhatsApp or text message channel.
No. Alma does not crawl websites or read uploaded files. AI answering answers from text you provide, up to 50,000 characters, which the Alma team loads into your bot.
Plans are $29, $79 and $199 a month, with Enterprise priced on request, and every account starts with a 14-day free trial. AI answering is $25 a month on top of any plan.
Start the trial
Build the conversation from a template, try it on your own site, and read the first conversations before you choose a plan.