"Build brand-unique, natural language interactions
for bots, applications, services, and devices. License is proprietary -- Integrations and SDKs are open source"
In-app messaging
Line
Skype
FB Messenger
Slack
SMS
Telegram
Twitter
Other
NodeJS
PHP
Python
Ruby
C+
Other
None - Platform
Engineer
API
SDK
Platform
Proprietary
Limited Free
https://docs.api.ai/docs/reference
https://discuss.api.ai/
support@api.ai
Robots and Pencils
https://beepboophq.com/
Framework
Hosting
https://github.com/BeepBoopHQ
"Host, deploy and share your Slack integration in seconds"
Slack
Python
NodeJS
Go
Engineer
N/A
Proprietary
Limited Free
https://beepboophq.com/docs/
https://beepboophq.com/docs/article/faq
hello@beepboophq.com
Alfabot
https://botsociety.io
Dialogue mapping
"Sketch a bot conversation. The fastest way to create a bot experience preview."
N/A
None - Platform
Non-Technical
Platform
Proprietary
Unknown
info@botsociety.io
XOXCO
https://howdy.ai/botkit/
Framework
https://github.com/howdyai/botkit
"Botkit eases the process of designing and running bots! It provides a semantic interface to sending and receiving messages so that developers can focus on creating novel applications and experiences."
"Instant Analytics · Fine Grained Targeting · Personalized Notifications"
Kik
FB Messenger
Slack
NodeJS
Ruby
Go
Engineer
SDK
Proprietary
Unknown
https://github.com/botmetrics
hello@zerobotlabs.com
UC Berkeley
http://rll.berkeley.edu/cgt/
AI/ML
https://github.com/joschu/cgt
"Computation Graph Toolkit (CGT) is a library for evaluation and differentiation of functions of multidimensional arrays."
N/A
Python
C+
Engineer
N/A
Open Source
Free
https://github.com/joschu/cgt
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cgt-devel
joschu@protonmail.com
Chatalytic
http://www.chatalytic.com/
Analytics
Beta
"Insights and analytics for messaging & chat platforms"
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
N/A
Proprietary
Unknown
Chatfuel
https://chatfuel.com
Hosting
Platform
"Today we're focusing mainly on making it easy for everyone to build chatbots on Facebook Messenger, where our users include NFL and NBA teams, publishers like TechCrunch and Forbes, and millions of others."
FB Messenger
Telegram
None - Platform
Non-Technical
Platform
Proprietary
Limited Free
https://community.chatfuel.com/
https://community.chatfuel.com/
team@chatfuel.com
Learnbrite
http://www.chatmapper.com/
Dialogue mapping
"ChatMapper is a full featured visual editor for managing storylines for games."
N/A
None - Platform
Non-Technical
Platform
Proprietary
Limited Free
http://www.chatmapper.com/documentation/
http://support.chatmapper.com/support/home
http://www.chatmapper.com/contact/
Brillig Understanding
http://brilligunderstanding.com/
NLP
Framework
https://sourceforge.net/projects/chatscript/
"Siri is not a conversational bot; she is merely an information query bot. Our aim is to always understand what is said to us and by us. So we can talk to you. We can read text, recall facts from it and incorporate them into the flow of conversation. ChatScript is an open-source natural language engine (scripting language). Documentation comes bundled."
Any platform
Other
Engineer
N/A
Open Source
Free
gowilcox@gmail.com
Converse.ai
http://www.converse.ai/
Platform
Hosting
"Converse AI is a SaaS platform to enable customer success using chat bots. It provides a complete botstack to enable companies to use bots to enhance the customer experience, throughout their lifecycle."
"Build intelligent agents or Bots that allow your users to interact with your intelligent solutions in more contextual and natural ways, including in your communications and social platforms—text/sms, Facebook, WhatsApp, WeChat, Slack, Skype, and more."
"Dashbot.io bot analytics and bot specific metrics enable developers to increase user engagement and acquisition opportunities, as well as improve the overall bot experience."
Kik
FB Messenger
Slack
Any platform
NodeJS
Engineer
API
SDK
Proprietary
Unknown
https://www.dashbot.io/sdk
https://www.dashbot.io/contact
Skymind
http://deeplearning4j.org/
AI/ML
https://github.com/deeplearning4j/
"Deeplearning4j is the first commercial-grade, open-source, distributed deep-learning library written for Java and Scala. Integrated with Hadoop and Spark, DL4J is designed to be used in business environments on distributed GPUs and CPUs."
Any platform
Java
Other
Engineer
SDK
Open Source
Free
http://deeplearning4j.org/documentation
https://skymind.io/contact
Dexter
https://rundexter.com/
Platform
Hosting
"Dexter lets you prototype and create something fast and engaging with built-in conversational UI. Increase your reach fast without any code required. Build with or without code. Remix apps and bots without code, or deploy specialized code via git. No approvals required. Implement it on the messaging platform of your choice. Slack, Messenger, Kik, Telegram, SMS, Viber — if it has an open API, we support it."
Any platform
None - Platform
NodeJS
Non-Technical
SDK
Platform
Open Source
Limited Free
http://docs.rundexter.com/#welcome
http://community.rundexter.com/
info@rundexter.com
Nicolus Marus
https://github.com/nmarus/flint
Platform
https://github.com/nmarus/flint
"Cisco Spark Bot SDK for Node JS"
Other
NodeJS
Engineer
SDK
Open Source
Free
christno@cisco.com
Flow XO
https://flowxo.com/
Framework
Hosting
"Build powerful bots without code. Bots work seamlessly across platforms. We host, manage & scale your bots."
"The Knowledge Graph Search API lets you find entities in the Google Knowledge Graph. The API uses standard schema.org types and is compliant with the JSON-LD specification."
"Gupshup is the world’s most advanced bot and messaging platform. It enables developers to quickly and easily build, test, deploy and manage chat bots across all messaging channels.
Gupshup has been a pioneer in messaging and bots, long before they became trendy. Gupshup’s messaging platform is used by over 30,000 businesses."
"Machine Learning for Human Use. Combine your skills with the power of machine learning to discover the true potential of your text and image data."
N/A
NodeJS
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Other
Engineer
API
Proprietary
Tiered
https://indico.io/docs
Init.ai
https://www.init.ai/
NLP
AI/ML
"The simplest way to build, train, and deploy intelligent conversational apps."
FB Messenger
Slack
SMS
None - Platform
Engineer
API
Proprietary
Unknown
hello@init.ai
Layer
https://layer.com/
Framework
https://github.com/layerhq
"The power of messaging for every mobile and web product. Everything you need, from UI to infrastructure, to boost retention, engagement or drive transactions with the power of rich messaging."
"Build Apps with Machine Learning. Highly scalable Machine Learning API to automate text classification"
N/A
NodeJS
Python
PHP
Java
Ruby
Engineer
API
Proprietary
Limited Free
http://docs.monkeylearn.com/
http://docs.monkeylearn.com/forums/
hello@monkeylearn.com
Motion AI
https://www.motion.ai/
Framework
Hosting
"Our platform gives anyone the ability to easily build and deploy chatbots on a variety of different mediums. Our visual approach to creating conversation flows makes it simple to design complex bots that are fun to build."
FB Messenger
Slack
SMS
Other
NodeJS
Basic
API
Webhook
Proprietary
Limited Free
http://docs.motion.ai/
http://slack.motion.ai/
Microsoft
https://dev.botframework.com/
Framework
https://github.com/Microsoft/BotBuilder
"Microsoft Bot Framework is a comprehensive offering to build and deploy high quality bots for your users to enjoy in their favorite conversation experiences."
"Designed for distributed machine learning — using multiple computers in parallel to solve a complex problem. It contains a parameter server-based programing framework, which makes machine learning tasks on big data highly scalable, efficient and flexible."
""Natural" is a general natural language facility for nodejs. Tokenizing, stemming, classification, phonetics, tf-idf, WordNet, string similarity, and some inflections are currently supported."
"PullString™ is the most powerful way to build bots with personality.
No programming required."
N/A
None - Platform
Basic
Platform
Proprietary
Unknown
Reply.ai
https://reply.ai
Hosting
Platform
"Enterprise bot solution with a human touch. Automate conversations with your consumers. Have your human agents take over when needed."
Kik
FB Messenger
Telegram
Viber
SMS
Line
Basic
Platform
Proprietary
Limited Free
hello@reply.ai
Noah Petherbridge
https://www.rivescript.com/
Framework
NLP
https://www.rivescript.com/interpreters#first
"RiveScript is a simple scripting language for giving intelligence to chatbots and other conversational entities.
It's a plain text, line-based scripting language with goals of being simple to learn, quick to type, and easy to read and maintain."
N/A
Java
NodeJS
Python
Other
Basic
Platform
Open Source
Free
http://rivescript.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
https://www.rivescript.com/community
David Cournapeau
http://scikit-learn.org/stable/
AI/ML
https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn
"Simple and efficient tools for data mining and data analysis."
"Intuitive, drag-and-drop authoring and publishing tools let you create your bot with text, photos, videos, audio, GIFs, emoji, quizzes, polls, and even interactivity. Our powerful Creator Platform makes it easy for you to keep your focus on the creative - we’ll handle the rest."
Kik
FB Messenger
Telegram
Other
None - Platform
Basic
Platform
Proprietary
Limited Free
https://sequelcreators.userecho.com/?
Smooch Technologies
https://smooch.io/
Framework
Hosting
https://github.com/smooch/smooch-ios
"Everything you need to chat with customers wherever they are and grow your business."
In-app messaging
Kik
Line
FB Messenger
Slack
SMS
Telegram
Twitter
WhatsApp
Other
Other
Basic
API
Webhook
SDK
Proprietary
Limited Free
https://smooch.io/docs/
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/smooch
hello@smooch.io
spaCy
https://spacy.io/
NLP
https://github.com/spacy-io/spaCy
"Industrial-Strength Natural Language Processing. Thousands of researchers are making computers understand text. We help you get their work into production."
N/A
Python
Engineer
SDK
Open Source
Free
https://spacy.io/docs/
reddit.com/r/spacynlp
Stamplay
https://stamplay.com/
Framework
Hosting
https://github.com/Stamplay
"Chain together APIs as if they are Lego blocks
arranging them into service based apps."
Kik
FB Messenger
Slack
WhatsApp
Telegram
Other
NodeJS
Other
Basic
API
SDK
Proprietary
Limited Free
http://docs.stamplay.com/?lang=shell
http://slackinvites.stamplayapp.com/
hello@stamplay.com
Stanford
http://stanfordnlp.github.io/CoreNLP/
NLP
https://github.com/stanfordnlp/CoreNLP
"Stanford CoreNLP is an integrated framework. Its goal is to make it very easy to apply a bunch of linguistic analysis tools to a piece of text."
"Theano is a Python library that allows you to define, optimize, and evaluate mathematical expressions involving multi-dimensional arrays efficiently. It can use GPUs and perform efficient symbolic differentiation."
"Add a natural language interface to your application to automate interactions with your end users. Common applications include virtual agents and chat bots that can integrate and communicate on any channel or device."
"Wit.ai makes it easy for developers to build applications and devices that you can talk or text to. Our vision is to empower developers with an open and extensible natural language platform."
FB Messenger
Any platform
NodeJS
Python
Ruby
Engineer
API
SDK
Proprietary
Free
https://wit.ai/docs
help@wit.ai
Wordhop
https://wordhop.io/
Analytics
"The Fastest Way To Find & Fix Problems With Your Bot"
FB Messenger
Slack
NodeJS
Basic
SDK
API
Platform
Proprietary
Tiered
http://developer.wordhop.io
http://Wordhop.io/contact.html
josh@wordhop.io
Zenbot
https://zenbot.org/
NLP
https://docs.zenbot.org/
"Natural Language interface for your chatbot, application or website"
"Build intelligent agents or Bots that allow your users to interact with your intelligent solutions in more contextual and natural ways, including in your communications and social platforms—text/sms, Facebook, WhatsApp, WeChat, Slack, Skype, and more."