Exoconnect vs ManyChat
For one person or a small business, Exoconnect costs less at every step, includes WhatsApp from the Free plan, and keeps 50,000 contacts on Pro.
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ManyChat automates conversations on Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, TikTok, Telegram, email and SMS. Exoconnect focuses on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, and puts automations, one inbox, publishing, WhatsApp templates and groups, contacts, forms and an AI assistant in one plan.
In short: for one person or a small business, Exoconnect costs less at every step, includes WhatsApp from the Free plan, and keeps far more contacts for the price. The numbers are below, so you can check them.
ManyChat’s prices come from its pricing page as it read on 9 October 2026 and from its help center’s plan articles (updated 27 August 2026). They are its US prices; ManyChat sets the price by your billing country. Exoconnect’s prices are on our pricing page.
Price for price
| Exoconnect | ManyChat | |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0: 500 contacts, 3 accounts, 2,000 automation runs a month, WhatsApp included | $0: 25 active contacts a month, 2 channels (Instagram, Messenger, TikTok or Telegram), up to 4 live automations, ManyChat branding |
| Entry | Starter, $5 a month: 5,000 contacts, 5 accounts | Essential, $17 a month, or $14 billed yearly: 250 active contacts, no WhatsApp |
| Next | Pro, $20 a month: 50,000 contacts, 10 accounts | Pro, $39 a month, or $29 billed yearly: 2,500 active contacts |
| Bigger | Team, $25 a seat a month: Pro’s limits for each workspace | Business, $99 a month, or $69 billed yearly: 7,500 active contacts, up to 5 users. Advanced, $199, or $139 billed yearly: 25,000 active contacts, up to 10 users |
| Going past the plan | Move to a bigger plan; nothing is charged per extra contact | Each extra active contact is charged, from $0.10 on Essential to $0.004 on Advanced (monthly billing). You can set a limit |
| Every plan, Free included | From Pro |
Exoconnect is billed monthly. ManyChat’s yearly billing is cheaper than its monthly billing, and a yearly plan can’t move to monthly until the year ends.
On teams: Exoconnect Team is priced per seat, so two seats cost $50 a month. ManyChat Business includes up to 5 users at $99 a month, or $69 billed yearly. For three or more people, ManyChat Business can cost less than Exoconnect Team.
The two count contacts differently
- ManyChat counts active contacts: the people you interact with in a month. A contact you don’t talk to that month stays stored and isn’t counted. New accounts have been on this since 2 March 2026; older paid accounts move over country by country.
- Exoconnect counts the contacts you keep: every contact that isn’t archived. It also counts automation runs, but only the ones that send a reply or a message.
So the two numbers aren’t the same thing. But the gap is large: Exoconnect Pro keeps 50,000 contacts for $20 a month; ManyChat Pro covers 2,500 people a month for $39, and charges $0.05 for each one over.
Automating comments and messages
| Exoconnect | ManyChat | |
|---|---|---|
| Comment to DM on Instagram and Facebook | Yes, every plan, unlimited automations | Yes, every plan; 4 live automations on Free |
| What starts an automation | Comments, DM keywords, Story replies and Lives | Comments, DM keywords, Story replies, Lives, new followers, ads and more |
| Matching by meaning, not just words | Every paid plan, from $5 | Pro and above (“AI Intention Recognition”) |
| Automations built for you by AI | Describe it to Exi or your own AI agent; it writes, tests and asks before turning it on | ManyChat has AI steps and AI replies inside its flow builder, from Pro |
| WhatsApp broadcasts | Yes | From Pro |
What else comes in the plan
Both have an inbox for the conversations they handle, a contacts list with tags, and AI features on their paid plans. Exoconnect also includes:
- Publishing. Post and schedule to Instagram (images, Reels, carousels, Stories) and Facebook Pages, with a result for each account.
- WhatsApp templates and groups. Write templates and send them for Meta’s approval; create groups, share invite links and approve who joins.
- Contacts across all three apps. Link a person’s Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp to one contact, with one timeline.
- Forms. Host a form on its own page; each response feeds your contacts.
- Insights. Account, post and audience numbers, collected every day.
- Exi, the AI assistant, from Starter with your own AI key, and with $20 of AI usage included on Pro.
- Your own AI agent (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and others) connected through MCP, on every plan.
- Teams. Roles per person, a workspace per brand, a full history of every action, and who spent how much of the shared AI credits, on which kinds of tasks.
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