Should you use Landbot to build your chatbot? Is it worth it?
Read this in-depth Landbot review to discover the features and pros and cons. I will also cover its pricing plans and when you should use it to build your chatbots.
Let’s dive in!
Our Verdict
Our Verdict
Landbot is great for small to medium-sized businesses that want to get started with chatbots, without writing any code.
Using the no-code builder, you can create chatbots for your website and WhatsApp within minutes. It’s also often used to build engaging conversational experiences on websites, sometimes serving as complete landing pages.
Landbot offers a free forever plan and a paid plan, starting at $36/month (paid annually).
Pros
- No-code Flow Builder
- Integrates with Websites, WhatsApp and Facebook
- AI agents for Lead Generation, Appointment Booking & Customer Support
- Built-in Live Chat + Integrations with Zapier and Make
- Send WhatsApp Broadcasts to start conversations
Cons
- WhatsApp is expensive compared to other platforms
- No marketing possibilities on Facebook
- Adding AI chats to your plan is expensive
Table of Contents
What is Landbot?
Landbot is a no-code conversational platform that you can use to create chatbots on websites, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Using their flow builder, you can create chatbots without using any code.
Key features of Landbot include:
- Easy-to-use flow builder to create chatbot flows
- Collect user information with variables
- Built-in AI Agents Lead Generation, Appointment Booking & Customer Support
- Live Chat to handover conversation to human agents
- Integrations with Zapier and Make
Using Landbot’s No-Code Flow Builder
When you get started with creating chatbots with Landbot, you can create multiple chatbots per channel. In the Bot Builder section, you can manage all your chatbots and also divide these over multiple workspaces:
When creating the automations in your chatbot, Landbot provides a no-code flow builder. Within this flow builder, each flow consists of multiple blocks. Each block is a chatbot element, such as asking a question or sending a message:
The flow builder is extremely easy to use, allowing you to drag and drop elements to create your conversational flows.
Additionally, Landbot provides useful keyboard shortcuts to let you build chatbots even faster. For example, you can use Ctrl+Z to Undo your last step or Ctrl+A to select all elements in your flow.
Another big plus I noticed during my Landbot review is that you can test your chatbot in the interface itself. In the top corner of your screen there is a button with “Preview” and once you click on it a new window opens up where you can test the chatbot:
Overall, Landbot has a very easy-to-use flow builder, allowing you to build conversational flows within minutes!
Flow Builder Create chatbot dialogs with a visual flow builder. | |
Ease of use How easy is it to use the platform? On a scale of 1 to 5. | 4 |
Ease of setup How easy is it to set up your chatbot? On a scale of 1 to 5. | 4 |
Test chatbot Is it possible to test the chatbot before putting your new flows or changes live? |
Landbot Chatbot Elements
Landbot provides a wide variety of elements to build your own chatbot. There are a few chatbot elements I would like to point out:
Condition: By using a condition you can personalize the conversation for each contact you are talking with. This is perfect if you want to create tailored conversational experieriences.
Jump to: This element allows you to jump to another chatbot. An absolute must for the scalability of your bot, because you don’t need to copy and paste similar conversational flows.
Bricks: With Bricks, you can create one subflow and reference that flow in your chatbots. Again, an absolute must if you want to build scalable chatbots. Here’s a simple example of using a Brick in Landbot to ask if we answered the question of the customer:
Execute code: With this element, you can execute Javascript code within your chatbot. It can be as simple as making a calculation (where Landbot also has another element for) or as hard as making an API Call. This is great for flexibility because you are only limited by your own code.
Image Can you send images via your chatbot? | |
Video Can you send video via your chatbot? | |
Audio Can you send audio via your chatbot? | |
Attachment Can you send attachments via your chatbot? | |
Gallery (Horizontal List) Show a gallery of cards inside your chatbot. A card consists of an image, title, subtitle and button. | |
Quick reply Can you add quick replies to your chatbot where users can click on? | |
Button Can you add buttons to your chatbot where users can click on? | |
Collect User Input Can you collect input from users and store it in fields? | |
Condition Make checks in your chatbot flow based on if-then logic. For example, if the user has not given their email, ask for their email. | |
Delay Use delays between messages in your chatbot | |
Start automation Can you refer from one automation to another and thereby reuse your automations? | |
Split traffic Can you split your trafic inside a chatbot flow? Often used for A/B testing. |
Contacts
Within Landbot, it is really easy to add custom fields to specific users. You can ask questions to users and the answers will be stored in certain custom fields. Unfortunately, it is not possible to add tags to users, but that is not a big deal.
Also, on the WhatsApp channel, you can create user segments based on multiple custom fields. These user segments are called “Audiences” in Landbot:
Audiences are only available for WhatsApp, and not for Facebook Messenger and the Website channel.
Contacts overview Can you see all the contacts that talked to your chatbot in one overview? | |
Custom field Store information from your chatbot users inside fields. For example, you can ask for someone's email and store it inside the "email" custom field. | |
Tags Add tags to users in your chatbot flows to organize and categorize contacts. | |
User Segments Can you create user segments based on custom fields and tags? |
Landbot AI Features
Landbot has elaborate keyword-matching and AI features. Let’s cover them one-by-one.
Keyword Matching in Landbot
In your conversational flows, you can automatically reply when someone types in a keyword. Landbot provides two elements for this: The Keyword Jump and Global Keywords. With the Keyword Jump, you can ask a question to the user and then route it to the correct flow:
The Global Keywords are different. With the Global Keywords element, you can set up keywords that are valid for the entire flow (except only for a specific moment – which is the case with Keyword Jump).
If keyword-matching alone is not enough for you, you can also integrate with Dialogflow. With this integration, you can understand the intent of the user and use Entities in your Landbot chatbot.
Landbot’s AI Assistants
Landbot also provides AI assistants that you can use for customer support, lead generation and appointment booking.
For customer support, you can create your own AI FAQs assistant and give Landbot info where it should rely on when answering questions:
Then, you can use this assistant as a stand-alone assistant or inside your chatbot flows to automatically answer questions from customers.
For lead generation and customer support, you can create an AI Lead Generation Assistant or AI Appointment Booking Assistant. Then, you only have to specify what data you want to get from a lead, assign the right variables and Landbot AI does the rest for you:
With the appointment booking assistant, you can also connect your calendar so that a lead can directly book a spot in your calendar.
I think these are great features, allowing you to use the power of AI in your Landbot chatbots.
Keyword recognition Trigger chatbot flow based on certain words or phrases a user says to the chatbot. | |
Intents Trigger a chatbot flow by understanding the intent of the user. | |
Entities Capture specific information from sentences. For example, if a user says "veggie pizza", the chatbot can understand it's not a regular pizza, but a veggie pizza. | |
AI Knowledge Base Can you train your chatbot on a knowledge base (like your website or articles) and then your chatbot automatically answer questions about it? | |
NLP integrations Does it have a direct integration with NLP platforms, such as Dialogflow? | |
LLM integrations Does it have a direct integration with LLM platforms, such as ChatGPT and Claude? |
Live Chat
Landbot has a built-in live chat, allowing you to hand over conversations from your chatbot to live chat agents:
They also have auto-assignment rules for managing how conversations are assigned to agents.
Built-in live chat Does it have a built-in live chat, so you can hand over a conversation to a support agent? | |
Live chat integration Does it have a direct integration with a third-party livechat application? | |
Auto-Assignment Rules Can you set up rules so that conversations get automatically assigned to agents in livechat? |
Channels
With Landbot, it is possible to create chatbots on your website, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp or call it via the Landbot API (you need to code for this).
Website Can you publish your chatbot on your website? | |
Facebook Can you publish your chatbot on Facebook? | |
Instagram Can you publish your chatbot on Instagram? | |
Whatsapp Can you publish your chatbot on WhatsApp? | |
Telegram Can you publish your chatbot on Telegram? | |
SMS Can you publish your chatbot on SMS? | |
Slack Can you publish your chatbot on Slack? | |
Email Can you publish your chatbot on email? | |
Merge contacts across channels Can you merge contacts across channels, when the same person contacts you over multiple channels? |
Marketing
I think the best part of Landbot is the conversational experience that you can create on your own website. I have never seen a more engaging chatbot experience on a website with any other chatbot builder than with Landbot.
Using their native widget, you can add your chatbot in multiple formats to your website:
And if you choose for the “Livechat” or “Popup” mode, you can also send proactive messages with your chatbot.
With Landbot, you can also create your own landing pages:
Unfortunately, Landbot does not provide any marketing possibilities on Facebook.
On the other hand, you can send broadcasts on WhatsApp using Message Templates.
Broadcasts Send a message to all or a part of your chatbot users at a specific date and time | |
Sequences Send messages on a pre-defined schedule with a certain time interval between those messages | |
Rules Trigger events based on if-then logic. For example, if email is given by the user, send it to your CRM. | |
Website widget Embed your chatbot as a widget on your website (with your own branding & colors). | |
Send proactive messages on website Can you send pro-active messages on your website with your chatbot? | |
Facebook Ref URL Can you create a URL that goes to a specific flow inside your Facebook chatbot? | |
Auto-Reply to Facebook Comments Automatically reply with your chatbot to users who comment on your Facebook Posts | |
One-Time Notification Send one-time notifications via Facebook Messenger for a topic that a chatbot user has opted-in for | |
Recurring Notifications Send recurring notifications via Facebook Messenger for a topic that a chatbot user has opted-in for | |
Facebook Ads Start a conversation with your chatbot when someone clicks on a Facebook Ad | |
Sponsored messages Send paid messages via Facebook Messenger outside the 24-hour window | |
Auto-Reply to Instagram Comments Automatically reply with your chatbot to users who comment on your Instagram Posts | |
Instagram Story Mention Reply Send auto replies to Instagram users who mention your Instagram handle in their Instagram Stories | |
WhatsApp Message Templates Can you initiate conversations with Message Templates on WhatsApp? |
Landbot Integrations
Landbot has 10+ direct integrations with:
- Google Sheets
- HubSpot
- Airtable
- Calendly
- And more!
Likewise, you can connect Landbot to other applications using Zapier or Make (formerly Integromat).
If that’s not enough, you can also create your own integrations by using the Landbot API or using Webhooks.
Direct integrations How many direct integrations does it have with other applications? | 11-50 |
Zapier Direct integration with Zapier, one of the largest integration platforms in the world. | |
Make Direct integration with Make (formerly Integromat), one of the largest integration platforms in the world. | |
Make API Calls Can you call an API inside your chatbot flow to send or get data from other applications? | |
Webhooks Can the platform send automatic notifications of all the messages and events going on in your chatbot? |
Landbot Pricing
Landbot has a free forever plan with limited features and multiple paid plans, starting at $36 per month.
They also have separate plans for using WhatsApp.
Landbot’s Free plan
Landbot’s Free Forever plan comes with 100 chats per month and 1 user seat. It contains basic flow operations in the builder, has limited integrations (Zapier, Slack, Sendgrid & Google Analytics) and a unified inbox.
This plan is perfect if you want to build a minimal chatbot on your website or want to decide if Landbot is the right fit for you.
Landbot Paid plans
If you think Landbot is a great fit for you, you can use one of their paid plans.
Landbot’s Starter plan starts at $45/month and comes with 500 chats, 20 AI chats and 2 user seats. It also comes with access to the AI assistants, more elements in the flow builder and more integrations:
Landbot’s Pro plan starts at $111 per month and comes with 2,500 chats, 30 AI chats and 3 user seats. It also comes with access to all the features of Landbot, and even custom branding for the website widget.
All of these prices refer to paying monthly. Paying annually reduces the prices by 20%.
Moreover, if you want to get user seats, chats per month or AI chats added to your plan, you can buy these separately:
- $22 per extra user seat
- $0.06 per extra chat
- $1.11 per extra AI chat
Landbot Whatsapp’s Pricing
Moreover, Landbot also has separate pricing plans for WhatsApp. If you want to get started with WhatsApp on Landbot, you need to pay at least $178/month (billed annually). This plan comes with 1,000 chats per month and 50 AI chats:
In general, I think the pricing plans of Landbot are pretty affordable. There are only two things that are a little bit odd:
- WhatsApp is pretty expensive. If you want to get started on WhatsApp, you need to pay a minimum of $178 per month, which is a lot compared to other chatbot platforms
- If you want more AI chats, you need to pay $1.11 per chat. And I think this is a bit expensive knowing that on the back-end they are just using ChatGPT to handle this (which is way cheaper than $1.11 per chat)
Free trial Does the chatbot platform provide a free trial? | |
Free plan Does the chatbot platform provide a free plan? | |
Price per month What is the lowest price per month to create a chatbot with this platform? In US Dollars. | $36 |
Monthly pricing available? Is it possible to pay monthly? | |
Money back guarantee Is there a money-back guarantee in case you are not satisfied with the platform? |
Analytics
Landbot provides pretty basic analytics. It provides a basic dashboard with the number of active and new chats and the number of received and sent messages:
Besides that, you can also see all the user (and their characteristics) that have talked to your chatbot:
But the best part are the Flow analytics. Per chatbot in Landbot, you can see how users went through your chatbot flow and where they are stopping. For example, if your first question is “How old are you?”, this dashboard gives you a nice overview of what the responses of people were. Really nice feature.
This is a really good feature that allows you to easily improve your chatbot flow!
Dashboard Dashboard that provides general analytics of your chatbot. | |
Flow analytics Can you analyze how users are going through your chatbot flows? | |
User input Get the input from users that your chatbot didn't understand. | |
Sent messages The number of messages that were sent by your chatbot. | |
Open rate The percentage of chatbot users that opened a message inside your chatbot. | |
Click rate The percentage of chatbot users that click on a button inside your chatbot. | |
Conversion rate The percentage of users that converted through your chatbot. For example, the percentage of users that gave their email address | |
Fall back rate The percentage of interactions where the chatbot did not know an answer to a question. | |
Agent analytics Can you analyze the performance of live chat agents? | |
Custom event tracking Can you create custom events and analyze how many times these happened? | |
Custom dashboards/reports Can you create your own dashboard or reports? |
Landbot Templates
Landbot provides 66 templates that you can use to get started with building your own chatbot.
Also, you can create your own templates and share these with others.
Number of templates How many pre-built templates does the chatbot platform provide? | 66 |
Make template Can you make templates yourself? | |
Share template Can you share self-created templates with others? |
Support
Landbot has an extensive knowledge base with a lot of articles on how to build chatbots. They also provide customer support over email and chat, and have a large community on Facebook.
Tutorials Does the chatbot platform provide tutorials on how to use its platform? | |
Documentation Does the chatbot platform provide documentation on how to use its platform? | |
Customer support Does the chatbot platform provide customer support? |
Is Landbot worth it?
So, should you use Landbot to create your chatbots?
Yes, you should.
If you are a small/medium business and want to get started with chatbots on your website or WhatsApp, Landbot is definitely a good chatbot platform to get started with.
They have an easy-to-use flow builder. You can publish your chatbot on 3 channels. It has built-in AI features, a live chat, and multiple app integrations. You can also send WhatsApp broadcasts to start conversations.
Also, the widget that you can put on your website is one of the most engaging widgets I have seen in a chatbot platform.
But if you consider Landbot, there are also some disadvantages to consider:
- WhatsApp is expensive compared to other platforms. On Landbot, you can get started with WhatsApp from $178/month, while many other platforms offer cheaper options
- There are no marketing possibilities on Facebook. Because of this, I wouldn’t use Landbot for chatbots on Facebook Messenger
- If you want to add more AI chats to your plan, you need to pay $1.11 per chat
Moreover, I am not entirely sure if Landbot is the right choice if you are an enterprise company. You could technically use it as an enterprise. But, it would be harder to maintain large chatbots in Landbot. It also lacks some features, like auto-assignment rules for live chats, which enterprises often use.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Landbot free?
You can use Landbot for free with their Sandbox plan. This plan includes 100 chats per month, 1 user seat, basic flow builder operations and limited integrations. This plan is perfect if you want to test out the Landbot platform.
If you want more chats or features, you can go with one of their paid plans, starting at $36/month.
What is Landbot cost?
Landbot both offers a free plan and paid plans, starting at $36/month.
With the free plan, you get 100 chats per month, basic features of the flow builder and limited integrations. This plan is great if you want to test Landbot’s features or want to create a minimal chatbot.
When you think Landbot is the right fit for you, you can go with one of their paid plans. Paid plans vary between $36 to $446/month depending on your specific needs. With each paid plan comes more features of the Landbot platform.
What is Landbot?
Landbot is a no-code chatbot platform designed to help users build conversational bots for websites, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger without any coding skills. It features an intuitive drag-and-drop flow builder that makes it easy to create complex chatbot flows.
Landbot is ideal for small and medium businesses looking to automate customer interactions like lead generation, appointment scheduling, and customer support.
What is Landbot app?
The Landbot app refers to Landbot’s mobile and web interface, which allows users to design, deploy, and manage their chatbots across various platforms. These include websites, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger. It offers users a seamless way to manage their chatbot flows, track customer interactions, and make updates to their bots in real-time.
Is chatbot Landbot worth it?
Yes, Landbot is worth it for small to medium-sized businesses that need a simple, powerful tool to create and deploy chatbots. It’s especially good for website and WhatsApp bots, with its easy-to-use flow builder, built-in AI features, and integrations with other popular tools like Google Sheets and Zapier.
However, it can be expensive for WhatsApp-based chatbots and might lack some advanced enterprise-level features.
What is Landbot Pro?
Landbot Pro is a paid plan that provides access to more advanced features of the platform, including 2,500 chats per month, 30 AI chats, 3 user seats, and custom branding for the chatbot widget on websites. The Pro plan starts at $111 per month and is best suited for businesses that require higher capacity and customization in their chatbot operations.
Hi, just to report that Landbot integration with DialogFlow is up and running. I tested it and it works fine 😉
You are right about that, Cesar! I have added it to my review now 🙂
Very helpful review. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you like it, Patryk!
How many virtual agents can you create with Landbot?
Hey Michelle! You can create an unlimited number of virtual agents with Landbot.
Is this one the best tools for building a “decision tree” for you website where you guide your visitors from a problem to a solution by asking them different questions down the path? Or do you suggest another tool for that?
Hey Jens! Landbot is a great tool for building a “decision-tree” kind of chatbot. Whether it is the best tool for your needs, depends on what other needs you have. You can compare all different chatbot platforms on this page.