Chatbot4u Is Not Active! Find Free Modern Chatbot Builders of 2024
Chatbot4u has been dead since 2018. And even Though it was one of the first platforms to enable individuals and businesses to build bots, but the platform no longer looks actively maintained and is losing users as you see on the graph above.
In this article we will provide an overview of what Chatbot4u was and offer the best alternatives for 2022.
What did Chatbot4u offer?
Chatbot building kits
Chatbot4u was introduced by Ecreation, a Netherlands-based creative agency. Their website made it possible to develop chatbots in just a few steps.
Free of charge, they provided the basic building blocks for creating chatbots. But the way users could’ve done it was stretched, depending on the context, ideas, and dataset available. Furthermore, they provided integration with the other communication tools, making it possible to reach interactions beyond just the website.
Chatbot rating
The system also made it possible to provide a rating for the chatbots. Users could give stars depending on their experience with the chatbot.
This was a biased metric, because the rating solely depends on the user experience: a funny chatbot could get more stars, even though its performance would have been subpar.
Use cases
For recreational purposes, some of their factory chatbots were Barrack Obama, Justin Bieber, and Selena Gomez, which mimicked their way of speaking with the intention of giving the illusion of having interactions with them.
There were other use cases. SMEs could have built their chatbots and integrated it into their ERP systems, thus modernizing and automating their website’s FAQ category, for instance, by leveraging the chatbot.
Last words
In 2017, they announced that their servers were functional again, but their website has been down ever since, with no signs of resurfacing in sight.
By 2016, they claimed that 60,000 chatbots were created on their platform. Arguably, most could have been personal chatbots, for recreational and entertainment purposes, and no commercial value.
Overall, Chatbot4u is now regarded as one of the archaic ecosystems for chatbots.
In hindsight, because of their old technology and infrastructure, their chatbots did not leverage modern features such as machine learning or any other similar technologies. Yet, being ahead of their time, they allowed people to create their own chatbots when not many platforms offered that luxury.
What are some modern alternatives for Chatbot4u?
Bot Name | License | Supported Channels | Total Funding Amount | References | Number of Employees | Year Founded | Location |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Api.ai | Free | Agent Demo Page Actions on Google Facebook Slack Twilio IP
Messaging Twilio Skype Tropo Telegram Kik LINE Spark Alexa Cortana Twitter
| $8.6 mn | WSJ, KLM, Giorgio Armani, Comcast | 11-50 | 2010 | USA |
Chatfuel | Free | Facebook Messenger Telegram | $0.12 mn | Adidas, Buzzfeed, MTV, Techcrunch, Volkswagen, Uber | 11-50 | 2015 | USA |
ChatScript | MIT License | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
IBM Watson Conversation Service | Free Standard Premium | N/A | N/A | 2000+ | 2014 | USA | |
It's Alive | Free | Facebook Messenger | N/A | Sanofi, Capitol Music France | 1-10 | 2016 | France |
ManyChat | Free | Facebook Messenger | $0.125 mn | N/A | 11-50 | 2015 | USA |
Microsoft Bot Framework | Open source and available to all on Github. | Your website or app SMS Skype Slack Facebook Messenger Office
365 mail Teams
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | USA |
rasa NLU | Is an open source tool | N/A | UBS, Raiffeisen, Yellow Pages | 11-50 | 2015 | Germany | |
wit.ai | Free | $3 mn | N/A | 1-10 | 2013 | USA | |
Mobile monkey | Free | N/A | 1-10 | 2017 | USA | ||
Snatch Bot | Free | Facebook Messenger Skype Slack Telegram Viber Line | N/A | Walmart Labs, Haw Hamburg, Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 51-200 | 2015 | Israel |
QuickReply.ai | Free Starter Standard Plus | Shopify Facebook Messenger | N/A | 4S Food PureFlow Auric | 11-50 | N/A | India |
Landbot | Free Starter Professional Business | $8 mn | LG Uber L'Oreal Paris MetLife | 11-50 | 2017 | Spain | |
Zoho SalesIQ | Free Basic Professional Enterprise | Shopify WordPress Zoho Campaigns HubSpot | N/A | Renault Bridge Stone Suzuki | 5,001-10,000 | 1996 | India |
IntelliTicks | Free Starter Standard Plus | Shopify WordPress Wix Magento | N/A | Pack n Go Holidays elearnmarkets Autovista.in | 2-10 | 2017 | India |
Smith.ai | Free Started Basic Pro Custom | Facebook Messenger Website Slack | $2.2 mn | New Wave Wondermint CallRail | 51-200 | 2015 | USA |
JivoChat | Free Professional | WhatsApp Facebook Messenger Telegram Apple Business Chat Website | N/A | N/A | 51-200 | 2012 | USA |
Crisp | Free Pro Unlimited | Website Facebook Messenger WordPress Slack | 100% Self funded | Renault Schneider AirFrance | 2-10 | 2015 | France |
Chaport | Free Premium Business Enterprise | Facebook Messenger Viber Telegram | N/A | Bloomin Everest Schedule It Neutron Creative | 11-50 | 2014 | Russia |
Disclaimer: Please note that the table is not comprehensive as new companies are being formed in this space. Additionally, fields like supported channels are constantly changing for companies so once you get a shortlist of chatbot providers to consider from this list, we suggest you to take a look at their websites to see the most up-to-date functionality.
Source of some of the data for this table is chatbotsjournal.
For more on chatbots
We have an extensive archive of articles discussing chatbots and their use cases. We have selected some of them for you to read:
- Top 14 Open Source Chatbots in 2022
- In-Depth Guide to B2B Chatbots: Use Cases & Examples
- How to Build a Chatbot in 2022: Components & Architecture
Finally, if you believe your business would benefit from adopting a chatbot platform, we a data-driven list of vendors prepared.
We will help you choose the best one tailored to our needs:
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