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Manychat pricing calculator for social media DM automation

Enter the people you message each month, no signup needed. Compare every plan's cost with overage included, and see the count where upgrading costs less.

Per Manychat account: people you message, or who message you, counted once a month.

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    Manychat waives overage already run up if you upgrade within the same billing cycle, though the upgrade starts a new billing period with unused time credited.

    Blotato runs reply-only DM automation on Instagram and Facebook for up to 15,000 contacts a month, alongside scheduling to 9 platforms, with API access on every plan.

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    What this assumes
    • US list prices before tax. Manychat sets the final price by billing country.
    • Pricing-page overage rates, compared to the cent. Essential's annual rate is $0.082 there and $0.08 in Manychat's help article. Advanced's $0.004 ($0.0028 annual) is a ceiling, since Manychat says it can drop at higher usage.
    • Feature gates follow the pricing page. Manychat's AI help articles still call AI an add-on, so confirm it on your subscription page.
    • Subscription plus contact overage only, on the March 2026 pricing. Extra Inbox seats, per-message channel fees and legacy-plan rates are not included.

    Updated October 2026, prices checked against manychat.com/pricing.

    HOW IT WORKS

    From contact count to cheapest plan

    1. Enter your contacts

      Use last month's Active Contacts, or estimate how many people your automations reach.

    2. Set billing and must-haves

      Choose monthly or annual and tick your must-haves. Plans without them drop out.

    3. Read the real bill

      See every plan priced with overage, the cheapest highlighted, and where the next one takes over.

    WHERE THE BILL FLIPS

    When overage makes the bigger plan cheaper

    With no feature filters on monthly billing, Essential plus overage ties Pro at 470 contacts, Pro ties Business at 3,700, and Business ties Advanced at 11,500. One contact past each tie, the bigger plan is cheaper. Annual billing moves the switches earlier: the bigger plan wins from 433, 3,553 and 11,390 contacts.

    Each switch lands far below the next plan's included pool: Pro wins from 471 contacts yet includes 2,500. The full Manychat pricing breakdown covers each plan's limits.

    Manychat's documented API, from Pro, can list and trigger flows but has no endpoint to create or edit one, which matters if an agent builds your automations. Blotato and Manychat side by side covers that, plus the channels only Manychat connects. The Manychat alternatives roundup compares the wider field.

    FAQ

    Manychat pricing questions

    01 How much does Manychat cost per month?
    Free is $0 for 25 Active Contacts. Essential, Pro, Business and Advanced cost $17, $39, $99 and $199 a month, or $14, $29, $69 and $139 billed annually, before tax. Each paid plan includes 250, 2,500, 7,500 or 25,000 contacts, and every contact past that is billed as overage.
    02 What counts as an Active Contact in Manychat?
    Anyone you message, or who messages you, through Manychat in the billing month, by automation, AI, Broadcast or the Inbox. Each person counts once a month however many messages you trade, followers who never interact do not count, and the count resets monthly, on annual plans too.
    03 What happens if I go over my Manychat contact limit?
    Automations keep running and each extra contact is billed at your plan's overage rate, from $0.10 on Essential to $0.004 on Advanced. You can cap it with an overage threshold, and upgrading within the same billing cycle forgives that cycle's overage. Grow well past your plan without upgrading, and Manychat warns automations may eventually pause.
    04 Is Manychat cheaper if I pay annually?
    Yes: 18% off Essential, 25% off Pro and 30% off Business and Advanced, with lower overage rates of $0.082, $0.038, $0.018 and $0.0028. You pay the year up front, overage is still billed monthly, and you cannot downgrade or switch to monthly until the term ends.
    05 Is the Manychat free plan enough?
    For testing. It needs no card but covers 25 Active Contacts, 4 live automations and 2 channels, with Manychat branding on your messages. Manychat publishes no overage rate for Free, so this calculator stops offering it past 25 contacts, a number one popular post can pass in a day.
    06 Why might my Manychat bill not match this calculator?
    Accounts created before March 2, 2026 may still be on legacy pricing while Manychat migrates them country by country. Manychat also sets the final price by billing country and adds tax, and extra Inbox seats, $25 each from Pro up, are not included here.
    07 Is this Manychat pricing calculator free?
    Yes. There is no signup and no run limit, and the math runs in your browser, so results update as you type.
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