What ManyChat’s Free plan covers now
Since March 2, 2026, ManyChat’s Free plan includes 25 active contacts a month. An active contact is a unique person who interacts with one of your automations in the billing month, so 25 people commenting your keyword on a single Reel is the whole allowance.
When the 26th person comments, the automation stops for them until the next month, or until you upgrade. The paid tiers, as of September 2026:
- Essential: $17 a month ($14 billed yearly) for 250 active contacts
- Pro: $39 a month ($29 billed yearly) for 2,500 active contacts
- Business: $99 a month ($69 billed yearly) for 7,500 active contacts
Each extra contact above a tier’s allowance is billed on top. The ManyChat pricing guide works through what a month costs at different comment volumes.
What Komently’s Free plan includes
Komently’s Free plan is metered on DMs sent, not on people. It is meant to run real campaigns, not to be a demo:
- 1,000 DMs a month
- 5 active automations
- 1 connected account, Instagram or Facebook
- Comment-to-DM on posts and Reels, with a public reply
- Keyword auto-replies to DMs and Story replies
- 3 tracked links with click counts
No credit card, no trial clock. If a post takes off and you reach 1,000 DMs, sending pauses until the next month or until you upgrade; nothing is deleted.
What needs a paid plan
- Lead capture: asking for an email inside the DM
- Follow-to-unlock: checking that the person follows you before the link is sent
- AI replies (Pro): written from a one-line instruction, 50 conversations a month included
- 7-Day Rewind (Pro): DMing people who commented before the automation existed
- Button cards; image and audio DMs on Pro
- On Pro, up to 5 connected accounts and webhooks to Zapier, Make, n8n and Pabbly
Starter is $9 a month, or $7 a month billed yearly, for 5,000 DMs a month without the Komently line. Pro is $29 a month, or $19 a month billed yearly, with unlimited DMs and automations. Both are flat prices: the number of people who comment never changes them.
Free plans compared, September 2026
Several tools offer a free tier for Instagram automation. They meter differently, so read the limit column carefully: “DMs” means every message sent counts, “active contacts” means every person counts once a month.
Komently
- Free plan limit
- 1,000 DMs a month
- Accounts
- 1
- Channels
- Instagram, Facebook
ManyChat
- Free plan limit
- 25 active contacts a month
- Accounts
- See plan
- Channels
- Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram, TikTok, SMS, email
ReplyRush
- Free plan limit
- 1,500 DMs a month
- Accounts
- 1 Instagram + 1 Facebook
- Channels
- Instagram, Facebook
LinkDM
- Free plan limit
- 1,000 DMs a month
- Accounts
- 1 Instagram
- Channels
- Instagram, some Facebook
Inrō
- Free plan limit
- 100 active contacts a month, 3 campaigns
- Accounts
- See plan
- Channels
Chatfuel
- Free plan limit
- No free plan, trial only
- Accounts
- Trial only
- Channels
- WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger
| Tool | Free plan limit | Accounts | Channels |
|---|---|---|---|
| Komently | 1,000 DMs a month | 1 | Instagram, Facebook |
| ManyChat | 25 active contacts a month | See plan | Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram, TikTok, SMS, email |
| ReplyRush | 1,500 DMs a month | 1 Instagram + 1 Facebook | Instagram, Facebook |
| LinkDM | 1,000 DMs a month | 1 Instagram | Instagram, some Facebook |
| Inrō | 100 active contacts a month, 3 campaigns | See plan | |
| Chatfuel | No free plan, trial only | Trial only | WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger |
Figures are from each tool’s public pricing page in September 2026 and change often. ReplyRush’s free tier is larger than Komently’s in DMs; the difference is in what you can attach to a DM and in the paid path beyond it. Check each page before deciding.
Who should stay on a free plan
Free is enough if you
- Post a few times a week and get tens to a few hundred keyword comments a month
- Send a link, a code or a file, and do not need to collect emails
- Run one Instagram account or one Facebook Page
Upgrade when you
- Want the email before the link, or a follow check
- Hit the monthly DM cap during a good week
- Manage several accounts, or need AI to answer follow-up questions
Set up your first free automation
Four steps, about five minutes, nothing to disconnect from ManyChat first:
- 1
Create a free account
Sign up with email or Google. No card is requested. - 2
Connect with Meta’s login
Pick the Instagram professional account or Facebook Page. Komently never asks for your Instagram password; the connection is Meta’s official login. - 3
Pick a post and a keyword
Choose a published post or Reel, set the keyword (for example LINK), write the public reply and the DM with your link. - 4
Comment it yourself
Comment the keyword from another account. The DM arrives within seconds. Then post about it.
The comment-to-DM guide covers keyword matching, public replies and what to write in the DM.
Where Komently’s Free plan stops
So you are not surprised later:
- Email capture, follow gating and button cards need a paid plan; AI, Rewind and media DMs are Pro features
- One connected account; agencies and multi-brand teams need Pro
- Free DMs end with a small “Sent via Komently” line; paid plans send them without it
- Sending pauses at the monthly DM cap and resumes on the first of the next month, or immediately after an upgrade
What 1,000 DMs a month looks like
The cap is not a contact count, so it moves with how often you post and how well a post does. At one DM per keyword comment:
3 posts a week
- Keyword comments per post
- 20
- DMs a month
- About 260
- On the Free plan
- Covered
Every day
- Keyword comments per post
- 30
- DMs a month
- About 900
- On the Free plan
- Covered, with little room
Every day
- Keyword comments per post
- 60
- DMs a month
- About 1,800
- On the Free plan
- Runs out around day 17
One Reel that takes off
- Keyword comments per post
- 3,000 over two days
- DMs a month
- 3,000
- On the Free plan
- Runs out the same day
| How often you post | Keyword comments per post | DMs a month | On the Free plan |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 posts a week | 20 | About 260 | Covered |
| Every day | 30 | About 900 | Covered, with little room |
| Every day | 60 | About 1,800 | Runs out around day 17 |
| One Reel that takes off | 3,000 over two days | 3,000 | Runs out the same day |
The first two rows are what the Free plan is built for. If your month looks like the last two, the question is not whether the cap is generous but whether you want sending to stop in the middle of a campaign: Starter covers 5,000 DMs a month at $7 a month billed yearly, and Pro is $19 a month billed yearly with unlimited DMs. The number of people who comment never changes either price.