Free planFree Telegram bot builder:
Free Telegram bot builder:
what $0 actually includes
In CHATBOSS.PRO one bot runs for free: the full editor, every block and the template catalog are available without paying. The limits are equally specific — up to 100 active subscribers, 30 blocks on the canvas, 10 payments a day and 100 MB of storage, a «Created by ChatBoss.pro» line in reply to /start, AI limited to the two cheapest models, and image and video generation starting from the paid plan. AI requests themselves are billed from your balance as they happen. Paid plans start at $9/mo per account per month.
No «free forever» slogans: here is the package of the free plan point by point, the limits that come with it and the moment a growing business runs into them. Paid plans start at $9/mo per account.
Author: Павел Седов, founder of CHATBOSS.PRO · Updated: September 19, 2026
Free plan
$0
Bots for free
1
Card to sign up
not needed
Paid plans
from $9/mo
Why «free» bot builders so often turn out to be paid
The word means very different things in this market. Three patterns explain most of the free plans that end on day two — check any service against them, including this one.
A trial wearing the word «free»
Seven or fourteen days of full access, and then the bot stops answering until a card is attached. Useful for a demo, useless for a bot that already has customers.
A cap on messages or contacts
Everything is available, but only for a few hundred conversations a month. An active bot burns through that in days, and the cap resets your growth, not your bill.
The blocks you actually need are paid
The editor is free, but payments, integrations or AI open only on a subscription — which means no complete scenario can be tested for free at all.
What the CHATBOSS.PRO free plan really includes
The free plan is not a trial: it does not expire on a calendar. The limit runs along the size of the package — subscribers, blocks, payments, storage — and not along the toolbox: every block in the editor is available.
One bot at $0
The free plan is not metered at all: one bot per account, up to 100 active subscribers and 30 blocks on the canvas. Response time is the baseline one — the platform picks the resources for the bot itself.
The whole editor and every template
Visual editor, template catalog and all scenario blocks work without paying, so leads, bookings or a catalogue can be built and tested on the free plan. The single exception is image and video generation: the blocks can be placed and saved, but they run from the Start plan.
AI on the economical models
The free plan runs the two cheapest models of the line-up. The requests themselves are billed from your balance as they happen — that is true on every plan — and a starter credit is added when you confirm your email.
Limits stated up front
In reply to /start the bot adds a «Created by ChatBoss.pro» line, payment transactions are capped at 10 a day, image and video generation starts from the Start plan, and a bot with no conversations for 21 days is stopped — the warning email arrives on day 14.
Who the free plan is enough for — and who it is not
The free plan is built for starting and for proving a scenario works. Below is where it comfortably fits and where the package runs out.
Enough: testing the idea
Assemble the scenario, show it to the team or a client and find out whether people reach the form at all — none of that needs a paid plan.
Enough: a small audience
A bot with a dozen conversations a day and an audience under 100 subscribers lives on the free plan without trouble.
Paid: the audience grew
Once you pass 100 subscribers or 30 blocks, the free package is over. The Start plan at $9/mo raises it to 1000 subscribers and 150 blocks at once.
Paid: several bots and a clean brand
A second bot, no platform signature in the answers and the full model line-up with image and video generation are what the paid plans add.
How to launch a Telegram bot for free
No card at any point: the free plan turns on by itself when you create the first bot. The whole path is four steps.
Step 1
Sign up and confirm your email
Registration is free, and confirming the address adds the starter AI credit to your balance — enough for the first few hundred answers on the economical models.
Step 2
Paste the token from @BotFather
Create the bot in @BotFather, copy the token and paste it into the dashboard — the first bot starts on the free plan automatically.
Step 3
Build the scenario from a template
Open a template close to your task and rewrite the texts. Every editor block is available on the free plan, so nothing in the scenario has to be stubbed out.
Step 4
Upgrade when you hit the package
The plan is switched in the dashboard and runs for a month: from $9/mo per account for more subscribers, blocks, payments and storage, with no platform signature and the full set of AI models.
Free Telegram bot builder — frequently asked questions
Is the free plan permanent or a trial?
It is a permanent plan, not a trial: there is no expiry date on the calendar. The only condition is that the bot is used — with no conversations for 21 days the container is stopped, and a warning email goes out on day 14.
Do I need a card to start?
No. A card is only needed to top up the balance. Signing up, building the scenario and launching the first bot require no payment details at all.
How many bots can I keep for free?
One. Paid plans give 3 bots on Start and 10 on Pro, from $9/mo per account per month.
Are AI answers free on the free plan?
No, and this is the important distinction. The plan is free, while every AI request is billed from your balance as it happens — that works the same way on every step of the ladder, there is no bundle of included AI anywhere. The starter credit covers the first few hundred answers on the economical models.
What exactly separates the free plan from the cheapest paid one?
The size of the package and the signature, not the horsepower — resources are picked by the platform and are not sold. Free: one bot, up to 100 active subscribers, 30 blocks, 10 payments a day, 100 MB of storage, the platform line in reply to /start, only the two cheapest AI models and no image or video generation. From $9/mo per account you get 3 bots, up to 1000 subscribers and 150 blocks, no signature, every model and media generation switched on.
What is the «Created by ChatBoss.pro» line in my bot?
It is the free-plan watermark: a short message sent in reply to /start and to /about. Paid plans do not add it, and it never appears inside the conversation itself or in broadcasts.
Is there a cap on messages or conversations?
Not on messages. The free package is measured in subscribers (100 active), blocks (30), storage (100 MB) and payment transactions (10 a day) — the length of a conversation is not counted, so a chatty customer costs you nothing extra beyond the AI requests themselves.
How does this compare with the free plans of Manychat or Chatfuel?
Those are multi-channel platforms priced by contacts, so their free tiers are capped by audience and their paid entry points published at around $15 and $24 a month. Here the plan is per account and Telegram-only, the free bot has no countdown, and the paid entry is $9/mo — compare the packages rather than the word «free».