Manychat automates Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp and Messenger conversations for creators and brands, priced by the contacts you reach, with AI from its Pro plan. Syniria is built for serving customers: its AI agent answers, books the appointment, takes the order and keeps the customer record, and your WhatsApp campaigns go out from the same workspace.
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Syniria answers every message, then does the work that follows, in one workspace your team shares.
Built in, with no separate booking tool to pay for: services, staff, weekly schedules, buffers and booking rules. Customers book in the chat or on a booking page you link from your website, then reschedule or cancel by link.
The agent looks up live prices, options, stock and photos, then turns the chat into an order your team tracks to the end.
One contact across WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and your website, with notes, tags, stages and follow-up tasks for your team.
Send approved templates to the people you choose, now or on a schedule. Opt-outs are respected, and replies come back to the inbox.
Owner, Manager and Agent roles, assigned conversations, and a takeover that pauses the AI until the chat is handed back.
Your agent answers on WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and your own website, for businesses worldwide, clinics, salons and stores alike, with no waitlist.
What each does, as of .
| Topic | Manychat | Syniria |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free for 25 contacts a month; Essential $17, Pro $39, Business $99 and Advanced $199 a month billed monthly, or $14, $29, $69 and $139 billed yearly, by billing country. | Connect $19, Starter $49, Growth $149 and Advanced $299 a month, with a 7-day free trial of every feature and no card. |
| AI | From Pro: replies from your saved business knowledge, AI steps that qualify leads, and replies to comments. | In every plan from Starter, with 1,000, 4,000 or 9,000 message credits a month, and on Connect with credits you buy: 1 credit is 1 AI reply, product photos included, and credits come in packs of 100 credits for $5, 450 for $20 or 1,000 for $40. |
| How you’re billed | By active contacts: 25, 250, 2,500, 7,500 or 25,000 a month by plan, then a fee per extra contact. | By AI replies: 1 credit is 1 completed AI reply, and your team’s own replies use none. |
| Team seats | 1, 2, 3, 5 or 10 users by plan; shared inbox assignment from Business. | Owner, Manager and Agent roles, with unlimited team members and no fee per user. |
| Channels | Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, TikTok, Telegram, SMS and email: 2 on Free and Essential, 3 on Pro, unlimited from Business. | WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and a chat widget on your own website: 1, 3 or 5 channels by plan. |
| Growth tools | Comment-to-DM, follow-to-DM, story replies, keyword triggers and ads that open a chat. | Comment and story automations aren’t offered; Syniria answers the messages customers send you. |
| Campaigns | Broadcasts from Pro ($39 a month), not on Instagram or TikTok. | Unlimited on every paid plan, from Connect at $19, with no Syniria fee per message: approved WhatsApp templates sent to the people you choose, now or on a schedule, with opt-outs and delivery results. |
| Appointments | No booking system on its plans; bookings need a separate tool. | Built in and included from Growth, and in the free trial, with no separate booking tool to pay for: services, staff, weekly schedules, buffers and booking rules. The agent books in the chat, customers book, reschedule or cancel on your booking page, and your business gets an email each time. |
| Catalog and orders | Commerce and payment integrations. | The agent looks up your live catalog with options, stock and photos, and turns a chat into an order your team tracks: on every plan from Starter, and on Connect with credits you buy. |
| Customer records | Tags and the details you collect in chats. | Contacts across channels with notes, tags, stages, follow-up tasks, imports and exports. |
| Free trial | 14 days of Essential or Pro, and a free plan with Manychat branding. | 7 days of every feature, with 100 message credits and up to 50 WhatsApp campaign messages, and no card. |
The rules both work within, and what switching takes.
Syniria’s agent answers from your own information, books the appointment, takes the order and keeps the customer record, and your team can take over any chat. Manychat’s automations are built to start conversations, from comments, stories and ads.
Manychat counts each person you reach in a month once, however many messages; Syniria counts AI replies, and your team’s replies use none. Which costs less depends on how many people write and how much each conversation needs.
Manychat’s plans have no booking system, so bookings need a separate tool. Syniria’s booking engine comes with Growth and above, and with the free trial, so there’s nothing else to connect or pay for.
Syniria sets no monthly limit on campaign messages on any paid plan, and the free trial includes 50. One campaign reaches up to 10,000 people, and Meta’s daily sending limits for your number apply whichever platform sends it.
Switch off Manychat’s automations for the account or number, or disconnect it there, so customers never get two answers, then connect it in Syniria. Start a free trial to try it first.
Know what your agent can do and how it fits your business.
Talk to the teamSyniria’s AI agent does the work after the reply: on every plan from Starter it drafts orders from your live catalog, and every plan keeps one contact record with notes, stages and follow-ups, in a team inbox with roles and no fee per user, and on Growth and above it books appointments in Syniria’s built-in booking engine. It also chats with visitors on your own website, and WhatsApp campaigns are unlimited on every paid plan.
Manychat’s AI starts on its Pro plan, at $39 a month billed monthly for 2,500 contacts, with no booking system on its plans. Syniria starts at $19 a month with Connect, with unlimited team members and WhatsApp campaigns at 0% markup, or $49 with the AI agent included, and Growth, at $149, adds the built-in booking engine.
Yes. On every plan from Starter the agent drafts orders from your live catalog in the chat, and on Growth and above, and in the free trial, it books into Syniria’s built-in booking engine, with no separate booking tool.
Yes. Campaigns are unlimited on every paid plan, from Connect at $19, with no Syniria fee per message, and the free trial includes up to 50 campaign messages. Meta bills your own WhatsApp account for each delivered message.
Manychat’s side of this page, as these sources stood on . Manychat changes its prices and plans often; check them before you decide.
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CheckedA team inbox for many channels, priced by the contacts you talk to, against Syniria’s AI agent with bookings and orders built in.
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