Botpress vs Chatwoot Captain
Botpress (Botpress) and Chatwoot Captain (Chatwoot) side by side on public data, as of Oct 6, 2026.
Chatwoot Captain has 2.5x the GitHub stars of Botpress (37.6K against 14.9K). Chatwoot Captain shipped 6 stable releases in the past 90 days.
Side-by-side numbers
| Metric | Botpress | Chatwoot Captain |
|---|---|---|
| Pulse Score | 44 | 52 |
| Overall rank | #55 | #35 |
| Downloads, last 7 days | 25.6K | — |
| Downloads, 7-day change | down 15.0% | — |
| Downloads, 30-day change | — | — |
| VS Code installs | — | — |
| Marketplace rating | — | — |
| GitHub stars | 14.9K | 37.6K |
| Homebrew installs, 30 days | — | — |
| Hacker News mentions, 30 days | 0 | 0 |
| Latest stable release | 12.30.9 · 3y ago | 4.18.0 · 18d ago |
| Stable releases, 90 days | 0 | 6 |
| Terminal-Bench (best run) | — | — |
| Price | Free + $150/mo | Free + $19/mo |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| First released | — | — |
| Interfaces | — | — |
| Models |
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Botpress
Platform for building and deploying LLM-based support agents with a hosted studio, a conversation-metered pricing model and a public MIT-licensed monorepo of SDKs and integrations. It integrates with help desks such as Intercom, Zendesk, HubSpot and Salesforce.
Pricing: Free plan with 25 conversations a month; Plus is $150 per month billed annually (250 conversations, extra packs of 100 for $65) and Team is $750 (1,500 conversations, packs of 100 for $50), each with LLM usage partly included. Enterprise is custom.
Latest release 12.30.9:
- channel-web: render carousel right away (#12597) (a02b782)
- core: allow standalone messaging server to work with proxy (#12559) (107ed26)
- core: ensure lower case email (#12554) (e05652c)
- core: timeout node when inside of skill (#12584) (8a6cfb5)
Chatwoot Captain
Chatwoot is an open-source omnichannel support desk (live chat, email, WhatsApp and social inboxes) and Captain is its AI agent that answers from help-center content, PDFs and websites. The core is MIT-licensed with an enterprise directory under a separate license, and it can be self-hosted or used as a hosted plan.
Pricing: Hosted plans per agent per month: Hacker $0 (up to 2 agents, 500 conversations, no Captain AI), Startups $19, Business $39 and Enterprise $99, with 300, 500 and 800 Captain AI credits a month; extra credits cost $20 per 1,000. The open-source edition can be self-hosted for free and hosted plans have a 15-day trial.
Latest release 4.18.0:
- Captain assignment, scenario and tool controls, and improved playground testing. [Enterprise]
- Guided WhatsApp setup and clearer account health.
- WhatsApp campaigns and calls for BSUID-only contacts.
- Per-inbox call recording and transcription settings. [Enterprise]