01What a standalone bot actually costs
Pricing for a WhatsApp-only chatbot varies a lot by vendor and by how much conversation logic you need, from a near-free basic auto-reply to a few hundred euro a month for something that actually qualifies a lead. whapi.ro, a Romanian vendor, publishes an entry price of roughly 249 RON a month, which is a useful floor to compare against rather than a claim about what every vendor charges. What that number usually buys is the WhatsApp channel itself: message automation, quick replies, maybe a simple flow builder. It rarely includes a CRM behind it, a website chatbot on the same logic, or booking automation, which is where the real cost of running it well tends to show up later.
- Entry-level WhatsApp bots range from near-free to a few hundred euro a month
- A Romanian vendor, whapi.ro, publishes roughly 249 RON a month as its entry price
- That price usually covers the channel, not a CRM or booking automation behind it
02What PROOF48 actually offers instead
A WhatsApp bot that qualifies a lead and then hands it to a business with no CRM to log it in and no booking system to actually reserve the slot just moves the same manual work one channel over. PROOF48 covers that ground with the AUTOMATE plan, at 2,997 EUR a month: an AI website chatbot that qualifies and books, DM and email auto-responders, booking automation and a CRM, all reading and writing to the same customer record. WhatsApp specifically is not part of that plan. If the need is a WhatsApp bot on top of that, or a voice assistant, PROOF48 builds it as a custom project, priced on request once we know the actual conversation volume and integrations involved.
- A bot with no CRM behind it just moves the manual work, it does not remove it
- AUTOMATE covers site chat, DM and email auto-responders, booking and a CRM, not WhatsApp
- A standalone WhatsApp or voice assistant is a custom build, priced on request
One customer record across every channel
Korean Cosmetics runs its store and its app from one codebase in 12 languages, and the cart follows the same customer between the website and the app rather than resetting when they switch. It is a different feature than a WhatsApp bot, but the same underlying discipline: a customer should not have to start over just because they moved to a different channel or a different device.
See the build: Korean CosmeticsQuestions, answered
Is a free WhatsApp bot actually free?
The message automation itself can be close to free at the most basic tier. What usually costs money is everything behind it: the CRM, the booking logic, the person who has to fix it when the script breaks.
Can PROOF48 add a WhatsApp bot to an existing website?
Not as part of AUTOMATE, that plan covers site chat, DM and email replies, booking and a CRM. A WhatsApp bot on top of a live site is a separate custom build, priced on request once we know the volume and integrations needed.
Where PROOF48 fits
A standalone WhatsApp bot is a real, cheap-looking product until you count the CRM, the booking system and the person maintaining it. PROOF48's AUTOMATE plan, at 2,997 EUR a month, covers site chat, DM and email replies, booking and a CRM; a standalone WhatsApp or voice assistant is a custom build, priced on request.
Cosmin Tiu · Founder, PROOF48
Building software since 2018. PROOF48 ships business websites in 48 hours and invoices afterwards, which means every opinion here was paid for in builds rather than in theory.