How Yalla stacks up, including where it doesn’t.
Published prices, real feature gaps, and a straight answer on when the other tool is the better buy. We’d rather you chose right than chose us.
Every platform, five questions.
The things that actually decide it. Full detail on each page below.
- Entry price
- $69/mo (3 users, full platform)
- Seats
- 3 on Starter, 5 on Growth
- Contacts
- Unlimited on every plan
- AI
- Bundled credits on every paid plan
- Channels
- WhatsApp, IG, FB, TikTok, email, web
- Entry price
- $79/mo (broadcasts from $159)
- Seats
- 5 on Starter, +$12/seat
- Contacts
- 1,000 MACs on Growth, +$12/100
- AI
- Included, 5,000–40,000 credits
- Channels
- Very broad — incl. voice, Telegram, LINE
- Entry price
- $29/mo (~$22 annually)
- Seats
- 3 on Growth, +$24/seat on Pro
- Contacts
- Unlimited; 15,000 broadcasts/mo on Growth
- AI
- 250–1,500 co-pilot credits
- Channels
- WhatsApp only
- Entry price
- $149/mo (Pro AI)
- Seats
- 3 on Pro, 5 on Premium
- Contacts
- From 500 MACs on Pro
- AI
- Unlimited under fair use
- Channels
- WhatsApp, IG, FB, email, SMS
- Entry price
- $49/mo (5 users)
- Seats
- 50 users on $99, 100 on $199
- Contacts
- Unlimited leads from Standard
- AI
- AI sales from $199/mo tier
- Channels
- Messengers via Open Channels + telephony
- Entry price
- £12/user/mo (Standard)
- Seats
- Per user — every hire is a line item
- Contacts
- Generous record limits by edition
- AI
- Zia; full assistant on £35 tier
- Channels
- Email-first; WhatsApp via integration
- Entry price
- Free, then $14/mo
- Seats
- 1–10 by plan
- Contacts
- 25–25,000, then per-contact overage
- AI
- Manychat AI from $29/mo tier
- Channels
- IG, FB, WhatsApp, TikTok, Telegram, SMS
- Entry price
- $90/seat/mo (Sales Hub Pro)
- Seats
- Per seat — every user is a line item
- Contacts
- 2,000 marketing contacts, then +$250/5,000
- AI
- Breeze; credits vary by tier
- Channels
- Email-first; one WhatsApp number per portal
Competitor figures are published list prices, read off each vendor’s own pricing page on the date shown on that comparison. Prices vary by billing region — check before you decide.
Yalla vs respond.io
Contact-tiered pricing where broadcasts start on the second plan, against flat plans with unlimited contacts and broadcasts from the entry tier.
Broadcasts cost $159/mo there, $69/mo here
Read the comparison →Yalla vs Wati
The cheapest way to run WhatsApp alone — until you need Instagram, Facebook, a pipeline or content, none of which Wati does.
Cheaper than us at $29/mo, but WhatsApp only
Read the comparison →Yalla vs SleekFlow
Same “unlimited AI” promise, but Pro meters you at 500 monthly active contacts and costs $149 against our $139.
500 contacts on Pro vs unlimited on every Yalla plan
Read the comparison →Yalla vs Bitrix24
Fifty users for $99/mo and a whole business suite behind it — against a chat-native platform your team will actually open every day.
Far cheaper per seat. Far heavier to live with.
Read the comparison →Yalla vs Zoho CRM
A deeper, cheaper classic CRM that charges per seat and treats WhatsApp as an integration rather than the front door.
Cheaper per seat. WhatsApp is bolted on, not built in.
Read the comparison →Yalla vs Manychat
The best Instagram comment-to-DM tool there is — and a contact meter on every plan, with no sales pipeline behind it.
Same $139/mo as Growth, capped at 25,000 contacts
Read the comparison →Yalla vs HubSpot
Per-seat and per-contact pricing with a mandatory onboarding fee, against one flat plan with unlimited contacts.
$6,900 vs $1,668 in year one, for a team of five
Read the comparison →Choosing between them.
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