eksis vs ManyChat
ManyChat is an automation tool that does not publish. eksis does both, and does not count your contacts.
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Monthly cost for the same job
15 social accounts
Bars drawn to scale. Both figures are for 15 social accounts, on the cheapest plan that allows them, taken from each vendor's public pricing page in October 2026. Hootsuite and Sprout Social publish annual-billing rates only, so those are the rates shown for them. Check the current page before you decide, because published prices change.
What each costs for 15 accounts
ManyChat's bill is driven by active contacts, so a campaign that works costs more than one that does not. The price rises exactly when the automation succeeds. eksis charges for the workspace; a rule that answers ten thousand comments costs the same as one that answers ten.
Where eksis and ManyChat actually differ
ManyChat goes deeper on conversational flows and commerce integrations inside a chat. eksis covers the whole loop instead: schedule the post, catch the comments it produces, answer them automatically, and keep the conversation in the same inbox as every other channel.
Why we can charge $4
- No per-account billing Per-channel models push your bill up every time you add a profile. On eksis, 20 accounts are included from day one.
- Automation is not an add-on Comment replies, auto-DM, lead tagging, rescheduling. All at the same price, with no separate AI fee and no active-contact counter.
- Open API on every paid plan The REST API starts on the cheapest paid plan, not locked behind an enterprise tier or sold as an extra module. The MCP server for AI assistants works on Free too.
What you are actually paying for
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Public pricing as of October 2026, for the cheapest plan on each platform that allows 15 social accounts. Hootsuite publishes an annual-billing rate only. Figures change over time; check each platform's official pricing page before comparing.
Who should switch, and who should not
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Switch if you are paying for a chatbot and a scheduler separately, or if contact-based pricing has made a successful campaign expensive.
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Stay on ManyChat if long branching chat flows are the product itself.
This page is written by eksis, so read it as an argument rather than a neutral review. Every number is sourced from the other vendor's own pricing page, and the section above says plainly where ManyChat is the better fit.
A question we get a lot
- Does eksis build branching chat flows?
- Not in the way a chatbot builder does. eksis rules are trigger, condition, action: enough to answer the questions that repeat, not a full conversational designer.
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