What Chatfuel costs in 2026

Read off Chatfuel's own pricing page on Oct 10, 2026, not from a third-party roundup. Prices change without announcement; the date is here so you know how fresh this is.

Starting price$18/mo (Business)What that price covers: $20 of AI credits a month, a shared team inbox

A team of five$18/mopriced by AI credits and companies, not by seats; Agency S is $90 for 3 companies

Free trialYes, time-limited

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$18/mo: priced by AI credits and companies, not by seats; Agency S is $90 for 3 companies. The starting price ($18/mo (Business)) covers $20 of AI credits a month, a shared team inbox.

What you buy with Chatfuel

Chatfuel is a no-code conversational-AI platform for automating DMs and customer messaging across Instagram, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, TikTok and web chat from one dashboard. Its signature features are comment-to-DM automation with keyword triggers, a visual flow builder, and "Fuely" AI agents that handle free-text replies, FAQs, lead qualification and bookings, plus a shared live-chat inbox, contact segmentation and broadcasts, and integrations (Shopify, Stripe, Zapier, REST API). It is built for SMBs doing marketing and support over messaging, an inbound, automated-conversation tool. It does not discover viral content, run an editorial team or schedule normal feed posts, and its paid pricing scales with your contact volume (plus Meta WhatsApp fees).

Best for

automating Instagram/WhatsApp/Messenger DMs and comment-to-DM lead capture for SMBs.

Where it falls short

No viral-content discovery, it cannot find others' trending posts
No scheduling or publishing of normal feed posts, it is messaging-only
Contact-based pricing climbs as your audience grows, plus Meta WhatsApp fees

The same job, with the team price in plain sight

ViralHunt charges per plan, not per seat. Creator is $29 a month for one person and one brand. Studio is $99 a month for up to 4 people and 4 brands, and that price does not move when you add people. The free plan never expires, so you can compare before you pay.

$199/moA team of five on ViralHunt: Agency, up to 10 users and 10 brands. Studio is limited to 4 users.

$18/moChatfuel: priced by AI credits and companies, not by seats; Agency S is $90 for 3 companies

See ViralHunt's plans → ViralHunt vs Chatfuel, feature by feature → The best Chatfuel alternatives →

How we checked this

Most comparison pages are written from marketing copy. This one is not.

Chatfuel's pricing was read off their own pricing page on 2026-10-10. The date is here because prices change without announcement.
Every capability we call partial says partial. We do not turn an almost into a tick.
Where Chatfuel does something we do not, the table says so.

What we did not check, and why

We have not run Chatfuel daily for weeks. We verify pricing, seat terms and documented capability; we do not publish an opinion on their interface that we have not earned.
Enterprise tiers behind a custom quote are out of scope, because there is no public figure to verify.

And one that cost us: for months this table said Ahrefs starts at $129/mo. It starts at $29, and they also run a free tier. We were overstating a competitor's price by 4.4x, in the direction that flattered us. We found it while verifying and corrected it. If you spot another one, it is a mistake rather than a tactic.

Frequently asked

Does Chatfuel have a free plan?

Chatfuel offers a time-limited free trial, not a permanent free plan. ViralHunt has a free plan that never expires.

How much does Chatfuel cost for a team of five?

$18/mo: priced by AI credits and companies, not by seats; Agency S is $90 for 3 companies. The starting price ($18/mo (Business)) covers $20 of AI credits a month, a shared team inbox.

Is there a cheaper Chatfuel alternative?

ViralHunt from $29 a month for one person, or $99 a month for a team of up to 4 with 4 brands, with a viral-content radar across 12 networks, an editorial board and scheduling. Compare them feature by feature on the comparison page.

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