Sistava vs Botpress
AI Agent Builders
Sistava vs Botpress
Botpress is a visual agent builder with drag-and-drop flows, an autonomous LLM engine, and multi-channel deployment to web and messaging apps. It targets developers building customer-facing chatbots. Sistava takes a different approach: instead of building conversational bots, you hire AI employees that handle real business operations with team coordination, task boards, file management, and durable execution.
Profile
- Pricing
- Free (pay-as-you-go), then $89/mo (Plus), $495/mo (Team). AI tokens billed separately.
- Founded
- 2017, Quebec City, Canada
- Funding
- $40M raised ($25M Series B in 2025)
- Focus
- Developer-first chatbot and conversational AI agent builder
Why Sistava
- Sistava gives you ready-to-work AI employees. Botpress requires building chatbot flows from scratch in a visual editor.
- Sistava handles full business operations (tasks, files, journals, sprints). Botpress focuses on conversational bot responses.
- Sistava supports multi-agent teams with leader delegation. Botpress creates isolated single-agent bots.
- Sistava has thousands of integrations, MCP servers, and browser automation. Botpress focuses on messaging channel integrations (web, WhatsApp, Messenger).
- Sistava includes AI costs in the plan price. Botpress bills AI token usage separately on top of the plan, making costs unpredictable.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | Botpress | Sistava |
|---|---|---|
| Build in visual flow editor | Hire from marketplace | |
| Conversational chatbots | Full AI employees | |
| Isolated bots | Multi-agent hierarchy | |
| Vector knowledge base | Persistent (graph + episodic) | |
| Web, WhatsApp, Messenger | Thousands of native + MCP | |
| ✗ | ✓ | |
| ✗ | ✓ | |
| ✗ | ✓ | |
| ✗ | ✓ | |
| Live-agent handoff | Approval gates, PII detection | |
| Limited | ✓ | |
| Separate charges on top | Included in plan | |
| ✓ | ✗ |