B 
Botpress
Building the bot got easy; operating it at scale did not.
NOT REALLY
why this verdict
Keep paying — OpenAI has not replaced it
OpenAI's version overlaps, but does not finish the support job, so this one still earns its $79/mo.
- A named launch, not a vibe named, unlinked
- Assistants API + agent frameworks. OpenAI, June 1, 2024 — no announcement link recorded yet.
- How much of the job it covers not the job editorial call
- Parts of it. The job still needs the tool to get finished.
- Is there a free way to do it? yes
- 1 of 2 listed replacements have a usable free tier: Rasa.
- What the call is worth $948/yr
- $79/mo at the entry paid tier — $948 a year per seat.
Reason composed from the fields above missing: announcement linked recorded: free replacement listed recorded: two or more escape hatches
- Threatened by
- OpenAI
- Since
- June 1, 2024
- List price
- $79/mo
- Per year
- $948
The backstory
Botpress is a chatbot-building platform. The Assistants API makes a basic bot trivial, but Botpress survived by moving up the stack — orchestration, analytics, channel management, and deployment tooling for teams shipping bots in production. The build is easy; the ops are not.
Escape hatches
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OpenAI Assistants API Roll a simple bot yourself.
platform.openai.com open_in_new R 
Rasa Open-source conversational framework.
rasa.com open_in_new1 of 2 replacements have a usable free tier.