| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conversational marketing platforms | Marketing | 2% | 12 of 87 | 21% | 14 | accepted challenger | |
| Chatbots and conversational AI for support | Customer | 0% | 59 of 114 | 33% | 6 | under 10 labels · led by Intercom Fin AI Agent at 41% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| SMS and WhatsApp marketing platforms | Marketing | 0% | 34 of 111 | 0% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Customer.io at 17% | |
| AI marketing agents | Marketing | 0% | 52 of 157 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by HubSpot Breeze at 24% |
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“My top pick for most small businesses: ManyChat ($15/month) or Tidio ($29/month)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Conversational mktg · budget prompt · first choice
“Similar to Chatfuel, with free plans for social media chatbots. Great for small businesses starting out.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Support chatbots · budget prompt · alternative
“ManyChat – free plan with contact limits... ManyChat is the closest like-for-like swap for Chatfuel.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Conversational mktg · budget prompt · alternative
“If most of your customers come from Instagram or Facebook, start with ManyChat's free plan” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Conversational mktg · budget prompt · alternative
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“ManyChat — *Avoid for Customer Support (Best kept for Social Media Marketing)*” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Support chatbots · negative prompt · hard negative
“Broken integrations, limited customization, slow and subpar customer support.” Mistral Small · Support chatbots · negative prompt · hard negative
“Cons include "limitations in platform support, reliance on Facebook policies, a learning curve, a pricing structure based on subscribers, and a dependency on Facebook Messenger."” Muse Glimmer 30B · Conversational mktg · negative prompt · soft negative
“For smaller teams, ManyChat and ChatBot have support and functionality limitations.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Conversational mktg · negative prompt · soft negative
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 60 of the 66 answers that named ManyChat and are not a share of its labels.
130 of the 143 domain citations in answers naming ManyChat came from somebody else's page.
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Report or ebook | 413 | 0 | 2024-02-10 | CLM, CRM | |
| Blog | 172 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 80 | 1 | 2026-08-30 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 35 | 0 | 2025-05-21 | ||
| News or press | 22 | 2 | 2026-09-27 | ||
| Comparison | 19 | 0 | 2026-04-23 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 10 | 0 | 2026-05-07 | ||
| Case study | 2 | 0 | 2024-05-29 | ||
| Template or tool | 2 | 0 | 2024-09-21 | ||
| Podcast or video | 2 | 0 | 2024-08-24 |
Every page manychat.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
What ManyChat's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: manychat.com, manychat.com/pricing, manychat.com/security, manychat.com/product/ai, manychat.com/integrations. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when ManyChat's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as ManyChat, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for ManyChat by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows: