Botpress

About Botpress

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Botpress

All products by Botpress reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

BotpressAI Agents & Assistants

Full-stack platform for building and deploying LLM-powered AI agents

From $89/mo7.9/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Botpress

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Botpress's product on their own terms. They landed within 0.6 points of each other, an unusually strong consensus.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Botpress competes with, and how they differ.

Rasa7.4/10

Shares Botpress's open-source-framework origin, but stays NLU-first and self-hostable for regulated/on-prem enterprises, while Botpress has moved to a cloud-first, LLM-native agent runtime (LLMz).

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Voiceflow6.8/10

A design-first visual canvas aimed at product and design teams collaborating on conversation flows, priced per seat, versus Botpress's developer-first, code-execution approach to agent building.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Kore.ai7.7/10

Sells into large enterprise IT and contact-center deployments through an enterprise sales-led motion, with a broader legacy IVR/CCaaS integration footprint than Botpress's self-serve, dev-first platform.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

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Moveworks8.1/10

Focuses narrowly on internal employee IT/HR support automation for large enterprises, whereas Botpress targets general-purpose, customer-facing agent building across industries.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

CrewAI7.7/10

A code-first, open-source framework for orchestrating multi-agent workflows aimed at developers, competing at the same framework layer as Botpress's LLMz but without a hosted customer-support product.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Typebot7.8/10

A lower-cost, open-source visual chatbot and form builder aimed at simple use cases and budget-conscious teams, rather than the complex agentic customer-support deployments Botpress targets.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Botpress's history, with sources.

1. Jun 23, 2025Funding

   Series B — $25M led by Framework

   Botpress raises a $25 million Series B led by Framework, with Inovia Capital, Deloitte Ventures, HubSpot Ventures and Decibel participating, to scale its AI-agent infrastructure platform.

   globenewswire.com
2. Jun 22, 2023Milestone

   Legacy v12 code forked out; core repository re-licensed MIT

   Botpress splits its original AGPLv3-licensed v12 codebase into a separate, archived botpress/v12 repository and re-licenses the main botpress/botpress repo under the MIT license as it rebuilds around a hosted, LLM-native agent runtime.

   github.com
3. April 2022Launch

   Botpress Cloud enters public beta alongside OpenBook

   Botpress opens a public beta letting developers deploy its open-source runtime to a hosted, multi-tenant Botpress Cloud instance, and launches OpenBook, a knowledge-based NLU engine — the first step toward today's hosted agent platform.

   linkedin.com
4. Apr 28, 2021Funding

   Series A — $15M led by Decibel and Inovia Capital

   Botpress raises a $15 million Series A led by Decibel with Inovia Capital participating, backing an open-source toolkit already used by more than 100,000 developers.

   techcrunch.com
5. 2017Founded

   Botpress founded in Quebec City, Canada

   Sylvain Perron and Justin Watson found Botpress, building a company around the open-source conversational-AI toolkit Perron had begun the prior year.

   betakit.com
6. Nov 16, 2016Milestone

   Botpress open-sources its conversational-AI framework on GitHub

   Sylvain Perron publishes the initial Botpress toolkit to GitHub as an open-source project for building conversational bots, a year before the company was formally founded.

   github.com