Botpress
by Botpress, Inc.
Botpress is a platform for building, testing, deploying, and monitoring AI agents and conversational applications. It combines a visual development environment with integrations, APIs, knowledge bases, and hosted runtime infrastructure.
Why Abandoned
Botpress maintains an operational website, product documentation, cloud platform, and current pricing pages. Its official site continues to present the product as available for building and deploying AI agents.
🩺 Health Signals
- HTTP Status
- 200
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- Confidence
- 97%
- Domain expires
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📅 Timeline
Botpress founded
Sylvain Perron founded Botpress in Quebec City. The project began as an open-source framework for developers building conversational assistants.
Botpress announces C$1 million seed financing
Botpress announced a C$1 million seed round led by Inovia Capital, with participation from Montreal-based accelerator and investor Real Ventures.
Botpress raises C$15 million Series A
Botpress announced a C$15 million Series A led by Decibel, with participation from Inovia Capital, to expand its conversational AI platform and team.
Botpress introduces its generative AI platform
Botpress announced a new platform centered on building ChatGPT-powered chatbots and AI applications, marking its shift toward generative-AI agent development.
Botpress raises US$25 million Series B
Botpress announced a US$25 million Series B led by FRAMEWORK Venture Partners, with participation from Inovia Capital, Decibel, and others, to expand its AI-agent platform.
🔄 Alternatives to Botpress
ChatGPT
🟢ActiveOpenAI's conversational AI assistant that sparked the generative AI revolution.
Cohere
🟢ActiveEnterprise AI platform providing NLP models for text generation, classification, and search.
Hugging Face
🟢ActiveThe GitHub of machine learning — hosting models, datasets, and AI applications.
OpenAI API
🟢ActiveAPI platform providing access to GPT models for developers to build AI applications.
🪦 Other dead Visual AI agent builder tools
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
What is Botpress used for?
Botpress is used to create and deploy AI agents and conversational applications for tasks such as customer support, lead qualification, internal knowledge access, and workflow automation.
Is Botpress a no-code AI agent builder?
Botpress provides a visual builder and prebuilt integrations for low-code development, while also supporting custom JavaScript, APIs, and developer tooling for more advanced implementations.
Does Botpress support large language models and knowledge bases?
Yes. Botpress is designed to connect AI agents with large language models, organizational knowledge, external tools, APIs, and business systems.
Is Botpress open source?
Botpress originated as an open-source chatbot framework. Its current primary offering is Botpress Cloud; users should review the company’s current repository licenses and service terms because availability and licensing differ across components and versions.
What are the best Botpress alternatives?
Relevant alternatives from this catalogue include OpenAI API for custom agent backends, Cohere for enterprise language models and retrieval, Hugging Face for open model tooling, and ChatGPT for configurable conversational assistants.