A typical ManyChat lead magnet
- Comment “INFO”Someone comments on a reel
- Lead magnetThe link lands in the DMs
- You take it from here
Link sent.
The conversation, qualification, booking and sale are on you.
ManyChat sends ebooks,
Setor AI closes sales.
ManyChat automates replies and lead magnets. Setor is a full AI Setter that runs your 
Instagram and 
Messenger DMs through to a booked sales call. See the comparison.
What is the difference between Setor and ManyChat?
ManyChat gives you a tool. Setor gives you an AI Setter, a full sales system and a team that takes you to results.
- $430k+in sales logged in the dashboard
- $190k+of that in October 2026 alone
- 677,000+messages written by Setor's AI
- 4.8from 16 customer reviews
Read from the Setor dashboard on 2 Nov 2026, converted from PLN. Clients log the amounts, so this is a floor.
From the first message to the sale.
18 things you won't find in ManyChat's plans
Everything here exists to do one thing: turn your DMs into money.
Sales dashboard
Every call with its closer, deal value, cash collected, source and recording link. Plus show rate and close rate.
ROAS and cost per sale
See sales, cost per sale and ROAS for the people who came from ads to DMs, comments and lead forms.
Booking inside the DM
The Setter checks your calendar and books the call in the thread. If the lead can't make it, it offers the two nearest slots.
No-show recovery
A no-show or cancelled tag starts an Automation: Setor waits the time you set, then asks for a new slot.
Back to people who didn't buy
Pick a tag like “no sale after the call”, write one message, and Setor sends it to everyone with that tag and shows you the replies.
Reminders with a video
Setor reminds the lead a day and an hour before the call, and you can add a video to watch first.
Question Mode
The Setter doesn't guess. It asks you, replies to the lead and remembers lasting facts, so you only explain once.
Learns from your past conversations
Setor reads your existing Instagram conversations and writes a first script with your offer and your style.
Import automations from ManyChat
Setor rebuilds your automations from your conversation history and saves them as drafts in your voice. You publish them once the originals are off.
A/B tests measured in money
Compare script and calendar variants by sales and revenue per contact, not just by replies.
Insights from conversations
Every night Setor reads the conversations and shows objections, disqualification reasons and the script question where leads drop off.
Profile analysis
A scan of your whole profile, a 0-100 score and a concrete fix for each element. After each change you see how visit to follow moved.
Content publishing
Plan posts, Reels and Stories up to 180 days ahead. Setor works out the best time from when people reply and book.
Connector for Claude and ChatGPT
Your own AI reads your Setor results and, if you allow it, changes scripts, tests and automations. 53 tools.
Ask Setor AI
Ask about results and conversations in plain language. It explains why the Setter replied that way and prepares changes for you to approve.
- Ultra
Mentoring calls
We work with you on show-up rate, content, goals and your clients' top problems.
- Ultra
Unlimited 1:1 calls
Talk to people who sell on Instagram whenever you need to.
- Ultra
Success manager on WhatsApp
Your own person at Setor, one message away.
We checked ManyChat's plan table and help pages on 1 and 2 Nov 2026.[1]
You're not buying a tool. You're joining a team that sells on Instagram.
Maciej Rak
CEO and co-founderSold over 800 high-ticket programs through Instagram, from content and ads to DMs and calls. Over 6M PLN generated on his own offers.
Alex Godlewski
CTO and co-founderLeads product and technology. Over 10 years of coding experience, Top Rated Plus on Upwork, host of the Behind The Offer podcast.
Igor Klimkowski
OnboardingStarted at Setor as a DM setter, then managed the accounts of our largest clients. Today he sets Setor up for you.
Show-up rate from 40% to 72% in 3 months
This is what happens on our calls: we look at your numbers and fix what's costing you money.
- 40%August, where we startedOnly 40% of confirmed calls were actually held.
- 59%A call right after bookingOn our calls we set up a short closer call after booking and case studies in the DMs.
- 72%Videos and no-show automationFollow-ups with videos before the call, and people who miss get asked for a new slot. Three weeks in a row above 71%.
At this client's request we built booking inside the conversation in 13 days and a random split across closers' calendars in 31 days, then compared calendars on the numbers. On calls we work on your content, your goals and your clients' top three problems.
One client's account, no control group. 40% is the client's figure from our call on 4 Aug 2026. 59% and 72% come from the dashboard, 636 calls from 14 Sep to 2 Nov 2026: calls held out of calls held plus calls the lead missed. The client logs attendance.
What we work on in those calls
- Show-upA call within 5 minutes of booking, material to go through first, reminders and short ads only to people already booked.
- Ads2-3 new creatives a week. The weakest go off on 7-day cost per follower.
- ClosersWe measure cash per call, because close rate is easy to inflate with cheap sales.
- ObjectionsWe pull the top 3 objections from call transcripts and turn them into pre-call content.
- Offer and paymentsWe look for a niche that can pay, and set up installments when sales slip away over price.
- The Setter's scriptIgor writes it from your materials and checks it in the test chat before any lead sees it.
On every plan
- Onboarding consultation
- Chat support with quick replies
- WhatsApp community and a course
- We read the first conversations together and improve the instructions
On Ultra
- Unlimited 1:1 calls
- Mentoring calls
- Dedicated success manager on WhatsApp
- Premium community and the full course
We get better every week
Clients tell us what's not working, and we fix it. You pay for a product that looks different every month.
- 2,325improvements in the last 12 months
- 1,100improvements in the last 60 days
- 128improvements a week, average of 60 days
- 191improvements in the record week
From a client's request to the change
More varied follow-ups
9 minutesDifferent behaviour towards old contacts
43 minutesA mode with only the welcome message
2 hoursBooking inside the conversation instead of a link
13 daysRandom split across closers' calendars
31 daysCall status from the CRM back in Setor
33 days
Counted from the Setor code repository, commits without merges, read on 2 Nov 2026.
Setor vs ManyChat: Setor makes money, ManyChat sends messages.
The rows from our pricing table. Everything in the Setor column is on every plan, the Ultra group on Ultra.
| What you get in each tool | ManyChat | Setor |
|---|---|---|
| Making money | ||
| Client sales shown in numbers | A customer quote on the pricing page[1] | $430k+ from the dashboard, 584 sales |
| Books calls in your calendar | Calendly through a paid third-party app[4] | |
| Value, closer, source and recording link on every sale | ||
| Sales dashboard | ||
| Advanced ads attribution | ||
| Show rate and close rate per closer | ||
| Objections and drop-off points from conversations | ||
| AI Setter | ||
| AI Setter | ||
| Always the latest AI model | ||
| GPT-6 in AI replies | ||
| Instagram AI Setter | ||
| Messenger AI Setter | ||
| Multi-language support | [3] | |
| Understands voice, images and videos | ||
| Question Mode | ||
| Learning from your past conversations | ||
| Learning from your website | Knowledge: a separate link for each page[3] | |
| Full AI Mode | ||
| Advanced qualification | AI Step[1] | |
| Automatic follow-ups | [3] | |
| No-show call recovery | ||
| A/B setter tests | Randomizer splits messages[1] | |
| Ignore friends | ||
| Blacklist | ||
| Human takeover: just reply on Instagram | Shared Inbox[1] | |
| Automations and campaigns | ||
| Welcome messages | Follow to DM, in beta[1][8] | |
| A/B welcome messages | Randomizer splits messages[1] | |
| Comment to DM automations | [1] | |
| Story automations | [1] | |
| Meta Ads automations | [1] | |
| Importing automations from other tools | ||
| Custom campaigns | Broadcasts, excluding Instagram and TikTok[1] | |
| Lead research | ||
| Partnership messages (up to 250 a day) | ||
| Publishing posts, Reels and Stories | ||
| Analytics and data | ||
| Advanced analytics | Automation and team insights[1] | |
| Ads and funnels analytics | ||
| Conversion API | [6] | |
| Profile analysis | ||
| Growth analysis | ||
| Ask Setor AI | ||
| Claude and ChatGPT connector | Requests to AI from a flow, on your own API key[7] | |
| Support and learning | ||
| Onboarding consultation | Agencies you can hire[1] | |
| Chat support with quick replies | AI chat and email[1] | |
| Basic course on getting the most success | [1] | |
| Basic WhatsApp community | Manychat Community[1] | |
| People who take you to results (Ultra) | ||
| Mentoring calls | ||
| Dedicated unlimited 1:1 calls | ||
| Dedicated customer success manager | A form to the Customer Success team[1] | |
| Dedicated WhatsApp support | ||
| Premium WhatsApp community access | ||
| Advanced full course | Video course[1] | |
| Price | ||
| Price | From $14, with AI from $29[1] | From $499 excl. tax |
| Billing | Base plan + pay per contact[1][5] | Flat monthly plan |
A cross means it isn't in ManyChat's plan table or the help pages we read on 1 and 2 Nov 2026. AI Setter: ManyChat has no ready-made setter, you can only build one yourself with AI Step.[1]
Why people look for a ManyChat alternative
The AI has three goals, and none of them is a sale
ManyChat's AI goals are sharing a link, growing followers and capturing leads, and ManyChat says its AI is in beta.[2]
You build the road to the calendar yourself
You or an agency you hire design and maintain the flows. Calendly connects through a paid third-party app.[4]
You can't see which conversation made the money
The plan table lists automation and team insights, not sales with a value, closer and recording link.[1]
You're on your own with it
You get a help center, AI chat and email. Nobody sits down with you to work on your offer and your script.[1]
What clients sold with Setor
Stories by niche, verified numbers from the Setor dashboard, best 30 days.
$87.5k158 sales in 30 days
Online personal trainer: belly fat loss and muscle without a strict diet
See the story
$38.9k12 sales in 30 days
Online mentor for experts and coaches: a personal brand that earns
See the story
$23.6k67 sales in 30 days
Online personal trainer for busy people aged 30-55: weight loss without a strict diet
See the story
$18.5k16 sales in 30 days
Online trading mentor: strategies for beginner investors
See the story
613booked calls in 30 days
Online personal trainer for women: weight loss without the yo-yo effect
See the storyWhere this money comes from
Counted across the bookings of all Setor accounts, not one client.
- 70%
of calls get booked outside working hours
Evenings, nights and weekends. Those calls brought 65% of logged sales.
4,769 of 6,813 - 40%
of Instagram bookings come after a follow-up
The lead goes quiet, Setor comes back, the lead replies and books. That's 47% of logged sales.
1,474 of 3,675 - 97%
of bookings are made by the AI alone
You only step in for the sales call.
2,656 of 2,737 - 63%
of bookings land within 24 hours
Counted from the lead's first message. The median is 9.6 hours.
2,900 of 4,632
Bookings saved by Setor from 11 Sep to 1 Nov 2026, read on 2 Nov 2026. Follow-ups counted from 25 Sep, booking author from 13 Oct. Working hours are Mon-Fri 9:00-17:00 Polish time. Clients log the amounts, so they are a floor. A sale counts at the moment its call was booked.
ManyChat stops at the link. Setor starts there.
How Setor does itFrom a comment on a reel
- Comment “INFO”A comment on a reel opens a message
2,140entries
- ClickThe lead taps the button in the DM
1,486clicks
- Lead magnetThey get what they asked for
1,102opens
- SetorAsks about the goal and takes over when the lead replies
418replies
- Follow-upsNudge within hours when the lead goes quiet
+165replies
- ConversationQualifies and books a slot in the calendar
64booked
14sales
DealValue, closer, source and recording link in the dashboard
How Setor does itFrom a new follower
- New followerSomeone starts following you
1,240people
- DMThe first message to a new person
1,240sent
- ConversationSetor replies, asks questions and qualifies
498replies
- CallA booked slot in your calendar
45booked
11sales
DealValue, closer, source and recording link in the dashboard
Two common Setor funnels. Numbers on the nodes are sample data.
What a conversation to the calendar looks like
new followerSetor is replyingBased on a real conversation, details changedhey, can I ask you something? 🙂
sure!
- 1
would you prefer a free training plan or a nutrition plan? we send one to everyone 😊
nutrition please ♥️
here you go 🔥 by the way, how many pounds do you want to lose?
losing 18 lbs would make me really happy
- 2
was there a moment when you felt: ok, time to do something about it?
summer vacation. i was embarrassed in a swimsuit, gained it after moving to a desk job
have you tried anything to get it moving yet?
diet and treadmill twice, gave up after 3 weeks both times
- 3
i noticed a few things that could really help. i'd like to invite you to a free call, 30 min, no strings. does tuesday 6pm or thursday 7:30pm work?
tuesday
booked 🙂 see you then!
Work out what you could make
One measured account: 10.1%
Our largest client: about 14% of calls held
Average sale in fitness: about $500
$1,500 revenue a month. 20 booked calls. 3 sales. sales pay for the plan: 1
This is an estimate based on your numbers, not a promise.Average of about $500: 472 sales on 9 accounts logging amounts, at 3.7 PLN to 1 USD.
Ultra: $1,000/mo excl. tax, 10,000 AI tokens, 1:1 calls, a dedicated success manager.
See pricingFrom an automation to Setor, on one account.
A clinical dietitian's account that already had a fast automated replier. The 90 days before Setor against the last 90 days.
61.6%Before
88.6%With Setor
| Before | With Setor | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Conversations where the lead wrote | 957 | 4,233 | |
| Replies to lead messages | 1,475 | 12,565 | |
| Slowest 10% of replies | 12 hours | 5 minutes | |
| Conversations with no reply at all | 2.7% | 0.2% |
Sample: the 90 days before Setor was switched on and the last 90 days on the same account, Instagram.
The best ManyChat alternatives in 2026
Depends on what you're after: sending links for less, or making money from conversations.
| Tool | What it is | Who it's for | Price from |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1Setor | AI Setter, full sales system and a team that takes you to results | Anyone selling through calls or DMs who wants to make money from conversations | $499 excl. tax, about 4,500 AI messages. From about $0.056 per message (on Ultra plan) |
| 2SetSmart | AI setter for DMs | A setter at a low entry price, full AI from the $97 plan | $25 for 250 AI messages, $97 for 1,000[9] |
| 3Appointwise | AI setter for agencies, coaches and consultants, channels through GoHighLevel | Teams working on GoHighLevel | $297[10] |
| 4Mochi | Shared Instagram sales inbox, AI Setter on the $497 plan | Teams of human setters | $149[11] |
| 5GoHighLevel | CRM for agencies, AI as a paid add-on | Agencies running many client accounts | $97[12] |
| 6Inrō | Instagram automation with an AI agent | Instagram-only accounts on a small budget | Free, Pro €12.99[13] |
| 7LinkDM | Comment to DM on Instagram | Sending links from comments for free | Free, Pro $19[14] |
| 8CreatorFlow | Comment to DM on Instagram | Creators at a flat price | Free, $12 billed yearly[15] |
| 9InstantDM | DM automation at a flat price | The lowest flat price with no contact tiers | $9.99 billed yearly[16] |
| 10Chatfuel | Bots across many channels, AI on credits | Flow builders who need more channels | $18 billed yearly[17] |
| 11respond.io | Shared inbox for teams across many channels | Support and sales teams with many agents | $79[18] |
Prices from each vendor's own page, read on 1 and 2 Nov 2026, in their billing currency. Sources at the bottom of the page.
Moving takes one consultation
Pick a plan
Monthly billing, cancel anytime.
Onboarding consultation
We connect your Instagram and calendar. Setor reads your past conversations, writes a first script and rebuilds your ManyChat automations as drafts. Before you publish them, you switch off the originals, so two tools don't answer the same DM.
Go live
Usually live in a few hours. We read the first chats together and improve the instructions.
ManyChat alternatives: common questions
Everything you need to know about Setor AI, onboarding, and how your AI Setter works day to day.
If you sell through conversations, Setor. It answers, qualifies, books the call and shows the value, closer, source and recording link on every sale, and you have a team behind you that sells on Instagram.
For sending links and lead magnets, ManyChat is enough. To make money from DMs you need someone to take the conversation to the calendar, and that is what an AI Setter does.
Because you're paying for something else. ManyChat starts at $14 and its plans with AI at $29. Setor Growth is $499 a month and includes the AI Setter, the sales dashboard and an onboarding consultation. The average logged sale is about $500 in fitness and about $2,200 in online courses, so one sale usually covers the month. Those are averages, not a promise.
Yes, from the Pro plan. It has AI Step, intention recognition, AI replies from a Knowledge library (text or a link to a page) and three goals: a link, a follow and a lead. ManyChat describes it as in beta. Setor's goal is a booked call and a sale.
You have to build that yourself or hire an agency. Calendly connects through a paid third-party app. In Setor the Setter books inside the DM and works with Calendly, GoHighLevel, Cal.com and iClosed.
Yes. The Setter takes the conversation all the way to the close. It has already sold both low-ticket and high-ticket offers, with only the confirmation left for the call.
Yes. On calls we sit down with you on show-up rate, ads, closers, objections and your offer. For one online personal trainer, show-up rate went from 40% to 72% in 3 months. Every plan has an onboarding consultation and chat, and Ultra adds unlimited 1:1 calls, mentoring and a success manager on WhatsApp.
40% of Instagram bookings come after the lead replied to a Setor follow-up, and those bookings bring 47% of logged sales. Counted on 3,675 bookings from 45 accounts, from 25 Sep to 1 Nov 2026.
Just reply to the lead on Instagram. Setor detects your reply and turns the AI off for that person, so you don't need to open the dashboard. You can change this in settings.
Growth has 2,500 AI tokens a month and Ultra 10,000. One token is one AI request, on average about 1.8 messages sent by the Setter, so that is about 4,500 messages on Growth and about 18,000 on Ultra. On the Ultra plan that is about $0.056 per message.
Four times the AI tokens, unlimited 1:1 calls, mentoring, a dedicated success manager, WhatsApp support, the Premium community and the full course.
Maciej Rak, who sold over 800 high-ticket programs through Instagram, Alex Godlewski who leads product, and Igor Klimkowski, a former DM setter who runs onboarding. The company is based in Lublin, Poland, and registered in the KRS.
For comments and DMs, yes: LinkDM has a free plan with 1,000 DMs a month, CreatorFlow with 500, and Inrō with 100 contacts. Setor has no free plan or trial.
For automatic replies to comments, LinkDM or CreatorFlow. For selling on Instagram, Setor, because it runs the whole conversation and shows how much money came out of it.
Among automation tools: LinkDM, Inrō, InstantDM and Chatfuel. Among AI setters: Setor, SetSmart and Appointwise.
You don't have to, because Setor has its own Automations from comments, story replies and DMs. You can keep ManyChat for WhatsApp, TikTok, SMS or email, which Setor doesn't cover. On Instagram, one tool should run the DMs.
Setor uses daily send limits, a gradual ramp for new accounts, an automatic pause when Instagram refuses a send, and a profile and welcome-message check before the AI is switched on. This lowers risk but guarantees nothing, because Instagram has the final say. If your account gets restricted, we sit down with you and plan the way back.
Yes. You paste the connector address into Claude or ChatGPT and sign in. Your AI reads your Setor results and, if you allow writing, changes scripts, tests and automations and publishes content. ManyChat's Claude integration works differently: it sends requests to AI from a flow, on your own API key.
Instagram and Messenger, where our clients sell.
After the onboarding consultation Setor is usually live in a few hours. Setor rebuilds your ManyChat automations as drafts, you switch off the originals and publish the ones you want.
Yes. Setor rebuilds them from your conversation history: automations from comments, DM keywords and story replies that ran in at least 5 conversations. They land in Setor as switched-off drafts written in your voice, and you publish one once you confirm the original is off.
No. You pick a plan and start right away. Billing is monthly and you can cancel anytime.
Still have questions?
Our team is here to help.
Sources and method
We read ManyChat's and the other tools' own pages on 1 and 2 Nov 2026 and wrote down what they say. A cross in the table means it isn't in ManyChat's plan table or the help pages we read. We didn't test a live ManyChat account. Numbers about Setor come from our dashboard, our code repository and our conversations with clients.
- [1]ManyChat pricing and full plan tablemanychat.com/pricingRead: 1 Nov 2026
- [2]ManyChat help center: Manychat AI Goals (three goals, beta), updated 1 Sep 2026help.manychat.com/hc/en-us/articles/23096273858716-Manychat-AI-GoalsRead: 1 Nov 2026
- [3]ManyChat help center: Manychat AI and its Knowledge library, updated 27 Aug 2026help.manychat.com/en/articles/17742091-power-up-your-chat-marketing-with-manychat-aiRead: 2 Nov 2026
- [4]ManyChat app catalog: Calendly App by ManyApps (paid, third party)apps.manychat.com/calendly-appRead: 1 Nov 2026
- [5]ManyChat blog: how active contacts, plans and overages workmanychat.com/blog/manychat-pricing-explainedRead: 1 Nov 2026
- [6]ManyChat help center: Conversions API integration, updated 1 Sep 2026help.manychat.com/hc/en-us/articles/14580897414300-Conversions-API-CAPI-integrationRead: 1 Nov 2026
- [7]ManyChat help center: Claude integrationhelp.manychat.com/en/articles/17741930-claude-integrationRead: 2 Nov 2026
- [8]ManyChat help center: Follow to DM (beta), updated 31 Aug 2026help.manychat.com/hc/en-us/articles/23096654243740-Follow-to-DM‑on-Instagram-Say-Hi-to-New-Followers-BETARead: 1 Nov 2026
- [9]SetSmart pricingsetsmart.io/pricingRead: 2 Nov 2026
- [10]Appointwise pricingappointwise.ioRead: 1 Nov 2026
- [11]Mochi pricingthemochi.appRead: 1 Nov 2026
- [12]HighLevel pricinggohighlevel.com/pricingRead: 2 Nov 2026
- [13]Inrō pricinginro.social/pricingRead: 2 Nov 2026
- [14]LinkDM pricinglinkdm.com/pricingRead: 2 Nov 2026
- [15]CreatorFlow pricingcreatorflow.so/pricingRead: 2 Nov 2026
- [16]InstantDM pricinginstantdm.com/pricingRead: 2 Nov 2026
- [17]Chatfuel pricingchatfuel.com/pricingRead: 2 Nov 2026
- [18]respond.io pricingrespond.io/pricingRead: 2 Nov 2026
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