respond.io is a team inbox with AI on top,
Setor is an AI Setter that books the call.
respond.io is a shared inbox for teams across many channels, with AI Agents from its Growth plan. Setor is a full AI Setter on every plan that runs your 
Instagram and 
Messenger DMs through to a booked sales call. See the comparison.
What is the difference between Setor and respond.io?
respond.io is a team inbox for many channels, with AI Agents on top. Setor is an AI Setter for DM sales with a sales dashboard: the AI alone makes 97% of bookings.
- $430k+in sales logged in the dashboard
- $190k+of that in October 2026 alone
- 584sales with a value in the dashboard
- 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.
12 things you won't find in respond.io'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.
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.
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.
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.
- 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 respond.io's pricing, product pages and help center on 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 respond.io: respond.io shares the link, Setor books the call.
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 | respond.io | Setor |
|---|---|---|
| Making money | ||
| Client sales shown in numbers | Percentages and counts, no sale amounts[2][10] | $430k+ from the dashboard, 584 sales |
| Books calls in your calendar | Shares booking links; scheduler API calls from Advanced[5][7][8] | |
| Value, closer, source and recording link on every sale | ||
| Sales dashboard | Lifecycle stages and a sales leaderboard[1] | |
| Advanced ads attribution | Analytics by ad, agent and channel[2] | |
| Show rate and close rate per closer | ||
| Objections and drop-off points from conversations | ||
| AI Setter | ||
| AI Setter | AI Agents, from Growth[1] | |
| Always the latest AI model | ||
| GPT-6 in AI replies | ||
| Instagram AI Setter | [5] | |
| Messenger AI Setter | [1] | |
| Multi-language support | From Growth[1] | |
| Voice, image and video replies | Images and files[5] | |
| Understands voice, images and videos | Images, files and voice notes, from Growth[1] | |
| Question Mode | ||
| Learning from your past conversations | ||
| Learning from your website | Knowledge sources you add[1] | |
| Full AI Mode | [3] | |
| Advanced qualification | [3] | |
| Automatic follow-ups | From Growth[1] | |
| No-show call recovery | ||
| A/B setter tests | ||
| Ignore friends | ||
| Blacklist | Block contact[1] | |
| Human takeover: just reply on Instagram | Assigned to a person or team[1][3] | |
| Unified Inbox | [2] | |
| Unlimited team members | 5 or 10 users, extra from $12[1] | |
| Custom access for team members | [1] | |
| Automations and campaigns | ||
| Welcome messages | ||
| A/B welcome messages | ||
| Comment to DM automations | [6] | |
| Story automations | [9] | |
| Meta Ads automations | From Growth[1] | |
| Importing automations from other tools | ||
| Custom campaigns | Broadcasts, from Growth[1] | |
| Lead research | ||
| Partnership messages (up to 250 a day) | ||
| Publishing posts, Reels and Stories | ||
| Analytics and data | ||
| Advanced analytics | Reports on conversations, agents and broadcasts[1] | |
| Ads and funnels analytics | Click-to-chat ad tracking, lifecycle analytics[1] | |
| Conversion API | From Growth[1] | |
| Profile analysis | ||
| Growth analysis | ||
| Ask Setor AI | ||
| Claude and ChatGPT connector | MCP, every plan[1] | |
| Support and learning | ||
| Onboarding consultation | Success calls; the onboarding program is an add-on[1] | |
| Chat support with quick replies | Live and AI support[1] | |
| Basic course on getting the most success | Help center and video guides[1] | |
| Basic WhatsApp community | ||
| People who take you to results (Ultra) | ||
| Mentoring calls | ||
| Dedicated unlimited 1:1 calls | ||
| Dedicated customer success manager | ||
| Dedicated WhatsApp support | ||
| Premium WhatsApp community access | ||
| Advanced full course | ||
| Price | ||
| Price | From $79 billed yearly ($99 monthly); AI Agents from $159 ($199)[1] | From $499 excl. tax |
| AI messages on the plan | From 10,000 credits on Growth, 20,000 on Advanced; a reply uses 2 to 5[1][4] | About 4,500 on Growth, about 18,000 on Ultra |
| Billing | Plan priced by monthly active contacts[1] | Flat monthly plan |
A cross means it isn't in respond.io's pricing, product pages or help center articles we read on 2 Nov 2026. Prices are in USD, the second figure is billed monthly. The cost per reply is our arithmetic from respond.io's credit rates.[1]
Why Setor and not respond.io
AI Agents start on the $159 plan
respond.io's Starter plan has AI Assist for your own replies, but the AI Agents that answer on their own start on Growth, from $159 a month billed yearly or $199 billed monthly. Setor's AI Setter is on every plan.[1]
The AI shares a link, ours books
respond.io's AI Agents share booking links in the chat, and its Calendly and Cal.com integrations let your team paste a link and see each contact's meetings. To have an AI Agent call a scheduler's API you need Advanced. Setor's Setter checks free slots and books in the thread: the AI alone makes 97% of bookings.[5][7][8]
Percentages, not amounts
respond.io's home page leads with a 60% faster sales cycle, an 81% conversion rate with AI Agents and 42.5x more ROI, and its case studies are in percentages. We show $430k+ in sales from the dashboard and 584 sales with an amount.[2]
Onboarding is an add-on
Scheduled success calls are in every respond.io plan, but the onboarding program is a paid add-on. Every Setor plan includes an onboarding consultation, and Ultra adds unlimited 1:1 calls, mentoring and a success manager on WhatsApp.[1]
What clients sold with Setor
Stories by niche, verified numbers from the Setor dashboard, best 30 days.
Online personal trainer: belly fat loss and muscle without a strict diet
See the story
Online mentor for experts and coaches: a personal brand that earns
See the story
Online personal trainer for busy people aged 30-55: weight loss without a strict diet
See the story
Online trading mentor: strategies for beginner investors
See the story
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.
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 pricingThe best respond.io 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[11] |
| 3Appointwise | AI setter for agencies, coaches and consultants, channels through GoHighLevel | Teams working on GoHighLevel | $297[12] |
| 4Mochi | Shared Instagram sales inbox, AI Setter on the $497 plan | Teams of human setters | $149[13] |
| 5GoHighLevel | CRM for agencies, AI as a paid add-on | Agencies running many client accounts | $97[14] |
| 6Inrō | Instagram automation with an AI agent | Instagram-only accounts on a small budget | Free, Pro €12.99[15] |
| 7LinkDM | Comment to DM on Instagram | Sending links from comments for free | Free, Pro $19[16] |
| 8CreatorFlow | Comment to DM on Instagram | Creators at a flat price | Free, $12 billed yearly[17] |
| 9InstantDM | DM automation at a flat price | The lowest flat price with no contact tiers | $9.99 billed yearly[18] |
| 10Chatfuel | Bots across many channels, AI on credits | Flow builders who need more channels | $18 billed yearly[19] |
| 11ManyChat | DM automation with flows and AI in beta | Lead magnets and links from comments | $14, with AI from $29[20] |
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 respond.io 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.
respond.io 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 Instagram and Messenger DMs, Setor. It answers, qualifies, books the call inside the DM and shows the value, closer and source on every sale, with the AI Setter on every plan. If you need a shared team inbox across WhatsApp, TikTok, email and calls for many agents, respond.io is built for that.
respond.io is a customer conversation platform: a team inbox for many channels with routing, broadcasts, calls and AI Agents. Setor is an AI Setter that runs the sales conversation itself and books the call, with a sales dashboard and a team that sells on Instagram.
Yes, from Growth. Its AI Agents qualify leads, answer from your knowledge sources, reply in the contact's language, understand images, files and voice notes, follow up on idle chats, update contact fields and hand over to a person. A reply uses 2 to 5 AI credits, and Growth starts with 10,000.
Its AI Agents share booking links in the chat. The Calendly, Cal.com and Google Calendar integrations let your team paste a link and see each contact's meetings, and from Advanced an AI Agent can call a scheduler's API. Setor's Setter checks free slots and books inside the DM, and works with Calendly, GoHighLevel, Cal.com and iClosed.
respond.io Starter is $79 a month billed yearly ($99 monthly) and has no AI Agents. Growth, with AI Agents, is $159 billed yearly ($199 monthly) and Advanced is $279 ($349), starting at 1,000 monthly active contacts and priced by your contacts. Extra AI credits are $15 per 1,000, so a reply costs $0.03 to $0.075. Setor Growth is $499 a month excl. tax, flat, and includes the AI Setter, the sales dashboard and an onboarding consultation. You pay for sales, not for sending messages.
Yes, 7 days with no credit card. Setor has no free plan or trial: you pick a plan and start right away, and billing is monthly.
respond.io connects WhatsApp, TikTok, Instagram, Messenger, Telegram, email, SMS and calls in one inbox. Setor works on Instagram and Messenger only. You can keep respond.io for WhatsApp and calls, and on Instagram let one tool run the DMs. Setor can rebuild your comment, keyword and story-reply automations from your conversation history as switched-off drafts.
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.
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.
Instagram and Messenger, where our clients sell.
Still have questions?
Our team is here to help.
Sources and method
We read respond.io's pages and help center on 2 Nov 2026, and the other tools' pages on 1 and 2 Nov 2026, and wrote down what they say. A cross in the table means it isn't in what we read. We didn't test a live respond.io account. Numbers about Setor come from our dashboard, our code repository and our conversations with clients.
- [1]respond.io pricing and plan tablerespond.io/pricingRead: 2 Nov 2026
- [2]respond.io home pagerespond.ioRead: 2 Nov 2026
- [3]respond.io: AI Agentsrespond.io/ai-agentsRead: 2 Nov 2026
- [4]respond.io help: AI creditsrespond.io/help/organization-settings/ai-creditsRead: 2 Nov 2026
- [5]respond.io: Instagram integrationrespond.io/integrations/instagramRead: 2 Nov 2026
- [6]respond.io help: Instagram auto private repliesrespond.io/help/instagram/instagram-auto-private-repliesRead: 2 Nov 2026
- [7]respond.io: Calendly integrationrespond.io/integrations/calendlyRead: 2 Nov 2026
- [8]respond.io help: AI skill, make HTTP requestsrespond.io/help/ai-skills/ai-skill-make-http-requestsRead: 2 Nov 2026
- [9]respond.io: capture Instagram leadsrespond.io/capture-instagram-leadsRead: 2 Nov 2026
- [10]respond.io: automated meeting bookingrespond.io/book-a-meetingRead: 2 Nov 2026
- [11]SetSmart pricingsetsmart.io/pricingRead: 2 Nov 2026
- [12]Appointwise pricingappointwise.ioRead: 1 Nov 2026
- [13]Mochi pricingthemochi.appRead: 1 Nov 2026
- [14]HighLevel pricinggohighlevel.com/pricingRead: 2 Nov 2026
- [15]Inrō pricinginro.social/pricingRead: 2 Nov 2026
- [16]LinkDM pricinglinkdm.com/pricingRead: 2 Nov 2026
- [17]CreatorFlow pricingcreatorflow.so/pricingRead: 2 Nov 2026
- [18]InstantDM pricinginstantdm.com/pricingRead: 2 Nov 2026
- [19]Chatfuel pricingchatfuel.com/pricingRead: 2 Nov 2026
- [20]ManyChat pricing and full plan tablemanychat.com/pricingRead: 1 Nov 2026
Changes
- 2 Nov 2026Page published.
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