2026 Head-to-head · last refreshed May 25

Spur vs Landbot: WhatsApp, Instagram & Shopify automation without the per-template pile-on.

Landbot is a beautiful visual chatbot builder. We're the Landbot alternative built for D2C teams whose revenue lives in WhatsApp broadcasts, Instagram comment-to-DM and Shopify cart recovery — without a €0.05 markup on every template. $1,526/yr for a 5-person team versus Landbot WhatsApp Pro's $2,112 base — before per-template fees.

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No credit card. Live on WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and web chat in a few hours.

Shopify App Store: 5.0/ 108
Brands using Spur: 550+
Countries: 25+
Official: Tech Partner

Same 5-person D2C team

Live pricing

Base plan / year (annual): $1,526
AI Accelerate · 5 seats · WA+IG+FB+Web

$2,112
WhatsApp Pro · 3 seats · no IG
Per-template markup: No flat fee

+ €0.05
On every delivered template
Instagram automation: Native comment-to-DM & ad funnels

Not a first-class channel
Shopify App Store: 5.0
/ 108

Wire-it-up yourself
Help-doc integration

Sources: Spur Pricing · Landbot Pricing · Shopify App Store (May 25, 2026). Detailed math in Pricing section.

Built for the channels your customers actually use.

WhatsApp Business API

Instagram DM & Comments

MessengerWeb live chat

Shopify-native

If you only read three things

Three reasons D2C teams pick Spur over Landbot.

Native Instagram, Shopify-first commerce, WhatsApp pricing that doesn't compound with volume. The rest of this page is the receipts.

01 · The math

€500

per month in Landbot template fees you don't pay us

Landbot tacks €0.05 onto every delivered template message on top of Meta's per-message charge. Our wallet passes Meta charges through — no separate flat per-template markup. At 50,000 templates a month that's €30,000/yr in platform markup alone.

See the worked example

02 · The wedge

Instagram.

Landbot's docs cover web, WhatsApp, Messenger, API

Comment-to-DM on viral reels, story-mention auto-replies, Click-to-Instagram-DM ads that push lead-quality back to Meta. Libas closed 64 orders on a single IG Live using our comment automation. A G2 reviewer specifically asked Landbot for "Instagram integration without third-party tools" — still not shipped.

See the Instagram playbook

03 · The depth

5.0★

/ 108 reviews — Landbot's Shopify presence: a help doc & OAuth wiring

We ship a Shopify App Store-listed app: native cart recovery, COD-to-prepaid conversion, order/shipping updates, post-purchase flows. Landbot supports Shopify the way a builder supports anything — you configure the Shopify app, set OAuth scopes, build webhooks, manage the token yourself.

Spur on Shopify

What you actually get

One inbox. Four channels. One AI brain trained on your store.

The same AI agent handles WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Messenger and web chat — with custom actions that hit your backend for order lookups, refunds, discounts and meeting bookings. Humans take over the moment something gets interesting. Landbot's AI Agent is a block inside a flow with a 5-message context window. Ours is multi-channel from the start.

Avg AI resolution: ~70%of common queries
Languages: 95+

Spur · Shared Inbox AI handling 14 · Human 3 · Resolved 52

@reels.viewer_2391 14:18

"Price? — auto-DM with size chart + checkout link sent"
Comment → DM
Priya M. 14:11

Bot:Your cart is back — 10% off if you check out today.
Cart recovered
Daniel R. · VIP segment 14:04

"Need to change shipping address on order #4982 before it ships."
Handoff to Asha
Manuel B. 13:57

Bot:Order #3201 shipped · ETA Thu · tracking link below.
AI handled

Broadcast queued · 8,400 contactsCart recovery flow activeClick-to-IG ad pushing leads to Meta

Illustrative — names, handles and order numbers are made up for this mock.

Is this for you?

Not every team should switch. Here's an honest 30-second filter.

Landbot has been refining a visual chatbot builder since 2017. For B2B lead-gen and conversational landing pages, their canvas is genuinely lovely. Spur is a different shape — built for the team Landbot was not really designed for.

Pick Landbot if

Your job is a polished website chatbot or conversational landing page — quizzes, surveys, lead-capture forms with branching logic.
You're a B2B / RevOps / agency team living inside HubSpot, Calendly, Airtable, n8n, Zapier, Segment.
You want structured AI inside a designed flow — controlled, predictable, never drifting.
Your bot mostly sits on a website doing 500–2,500 chats/month. WhatsApp is a side dish, not the main course.
You're an EU procurement team that wants a Spain-based vendor (Hello Umi, S.L., Barcelona) on the contract.
You want a vendor that builds the bot for you — Landbot's Business plan includes bot-management hours and a dedicated success manager.

Most teams searching land here

Pick Spur if

You're a D2C / Shopify or WooCommerce brand and WhatsApp is no longer "one channel" — it's where revenue happens.
Instagram comments, reels, DMs and Click-to-DM ads are part of your funnel — not a third-party bolt-on.
You need cart recovery, COD verification, order/shipping updates, post-purchase upsells inside the same tool as your AI agent.
You want an AI agent that takes action — checks order status, applies discounts, updates CRM — not just answers FAQs.
You're price-sensitive on the WhatsApp side and don't want a per-template markup compounding with marketing volume.
You're an Indian or APAC D2C brand and care about Razorpay, Shiprocket, INR pricing, COD-to-prepaid workflows.

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The math, in full

If "Pick Spur" described you — here's exactly what you'd pay.

Both prices below are pulled live from the public pricing pages on May 25, 2026. No "starting from" lines, no "talk to sales" math, no surprises in month seven.

Landbot · annual

Sandbox

100 chats/mo · 1 seat · web only. Production-limited.

Free
Starter

Web + Messenger · 500 chats · 100 AI chats · 2 seats.

$36/mo
Pro

Web + Messenger + API · 2,500 chats · 300 AI chats · 3 seats.

$88/mo
WhatsApp Pro

+ WhatsApp · 2,500 chats · 500 AI chats · 3 seats.

$176/mo
Business

Custom · 1,000 AI chats · 5 seats · bot-mgmt hours.

from $450/mo

Add-on meters (bill monthly)

Extra chats (per 500)+ $25
Extra AI chat+ $0.10
Extra seat (annual)+ $20/mo
Extra WhatsApp number+ $100/mo
Per template (Mkt/Util/Auth)+ €0.05

Templates are billed at Meta's per-message cost + a flat €0.05 on every delivered Marketing/Utility/Authentication template. Service messages past the 10,000 included on WhatsApp Pro: €0.003 each. Fair-use caps: Pro 10K chats/mo, Business 50K.

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Spur · website annual

−20% vs monthly

AI Acquire

1 AI agent · 100 credits · 1 seat · 3 flows · Instagram + Click-to-DM.

$12/mo
AI Startvs WhatsApp Pro

+ Shopify + WhatsApp + Click-to-WhatsApp · 25 flows · 2,000 credits · 2 seats.

$31/mo
AI Accelerate

2 AI agents · 12,000 credits · 5 seats · 50 flows · webhooks · Custom AI Actions.

$127/mo
AI Max

3 AI agents · 20,000 credits · 10 seats · unlimited flows · dedicated AM.

$399/mo

Predictable add-ons

Extra AI agent+ $7/mo
Extra live chat channel+ $7/mo
Extra user+ $15/mo
Extra WhatsApp channel+ $29/mo
1,000 AI credits+ $12

WhatsApp templates flow through Meta's per-message model via the Spur wallet — no separate flat per-template markup. India signal Jan 2026: ~₹0.86 per delivered marketing message.

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Worked example

A Shopify brand sending 10K marketing templates a month, priced both ways.

5-person D2C team · 10,000 WhatsApp marketing templates/mo · IG + Web

Landbot path · WhatsApp Pro

$8,612/yr

WhatsApp Pro annual =$2,112
10K templates × €0.05 =€500/mo
Annualized markup ~$6,500
+ Meta pass-through + extras

Spur path · AI Accelerate

$1,526/yr

AI Accelerate annual =$1,526.40
5 seats included · 50 flows
2 AI agents · 12,000 credits
WA via wallet at Meta's rate

Meta pass-through fees apply identically on both. The gap is Landbot's separate €0.05 flat per-template fee on top — which compounds linearly with marketing volume. At 50K templates/mo it adds €30,000/yr in platform markup alone.

$7,086/yr saved

Roughly one-sixth of Landbot's WhatsApp Pro + per-template fees for the same channel mix — with Instagram automation included instead of bolted on.

Spur %: 17.7%
3-year save: $21k
Setup: Hours

Install on Shopify See full pricing

Disclaimers: Landbot path assumes WhatsApp Pro annual ($176/mo × 12 = $2,112) plus 10,000 marketing templates × €0.05 = €500/mo (~$540/mo, ~$6,500/yr). Spur path uses website AI Accelerate annual at $1,526.40. Spur's Shopify App Store plans price differently (AI Accelerate = $159/mo monthly with 25 flows/segments) — confirm which billing channel governs your contract. Both prices exclude Meta per-message pass-through, which is identical on either platform.

Why the gap exists

That gap is not an accident. It comes from six things buyers say out loud.

These are themes we hear from founders considering us — and they show up in public review threads too. We cite every one. Click any source to verify it yourself.

WhatsApp markup compounds.

Landbot charges Meta's per-message cost plus €0.05 per delivered Marketing/Utility/Authentication template. Affordable at low volume, brutal at scale — at 50K templates/mo, the markup alone is more than the entire WhatsApp Pro subscription, every month.

Landbot WhatsApp pricing FAQ

Instagram isn't a channel.

Landbot's official launch surface is "web, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, API." Instagram isn't documented as a deployment channel. G2 reviewer Alberto specifically asked for "Instagram integration without third-party tools" — not shipped.

Landbot Help: Launch & Share

AI Agent is a flow block.

Landbot's AI Agent is designed as a block inside a rule-based flow, with a 5-message context window, 20-field structured-data limit and a 100K-character KB cap. Controlled and predictable — just a different shape from a multi-channel autonomous agent.

Landbot AI Agent docs

Shopify is wire-it-yourself.

Landbot's Shopify integration is a help article: configure a Shopify app, set OAuth scopes, build webhooks, manage the token. Our app sits on the Shopify App Store at 5.0/108 with cart recovery, COD verification and order updates out of the box.

Landbot Shopify how-to

Fair-use ceilings cap growth.

Landbot's Pro plan caps at 10,000 chats/account/month. Above that you're in Business / "talk to sales" territory from $450/mo. Repeated breaches can lead to bot deactivation, account suspension or extra charges per their fair-use policy.

Landbot Fair Use policy

No mobile app for operators.

Multiple G2 and Capterra reviewers (Amaka U., Valentín R., among others) have asked Landbot for a native iOS/Android operator app for inbox handoff. Not shipped. Our shared inbox is mobile-friendly across all four channels for the founder or ops lead who handles handoffs from their phone.

G2 Landbot reviews

Capability map · zoom in

Zoomed in: capability by capability, grouped the way buyers actually shop.

Green checks where the platform genuinely owns the capability. Amber when it technically supports it but the depth is shallow. Grey dash when it's not there. Sources: live product pages and each vendor's own docs.

Capability	Spur	Landbot
Messaging & commerce — where Spur is built
WhatsApp Business API	Native, no per-template fee	Yes, + €0.05/template
WhatsApp broadcasts & drips	Native + DeliveryBoost	WA Campaigns (template approval)
WhatsApp cart recovery	Native (Shopify/Woo sync)	Build it in the flow yourself
Click-to-WhatsApp ad capture	72-hour free window + lead quality to Meta	Supported, not a playbook
Instagram DM automation	Comment-to-DM, stories, mentions	Not a first-class channel
Click-to-Instagram DM ads	Native playbook, signal back to Meta	Not a documented product
Facebook Messenger automation	Commerce-channel-first	Native channel
Shopify integration	Native · 5.0★ · 108 reviews	Help-doc + OAuth wiring
Visual builder & flows — where Landbot's polish shows
Drag-and-drop flow canvas	Workflow builder, commerce-first templates	Refined since 2017 · "game-like"
Conversational landing pages & quizzes	Not the focus	Native · original DNA
B2B form replacement · structured data collection	Lead capture via live chat widget	Industry-leading for B2B lead-gen
HubSpot / Calendly / Airtable / n8n / Zapier	Webhooks/HTTP · CRM via Zoho/LeadSquared/Sell.Do	Strong native catalog
AI agents & knowledge — close, but different shapes
AI agent across channels	Web + WhatsApp + IG + FB	AI Agent block inside a flow
Knowledge sources for AI	Sites + PDFs + Notion + YouTube + Q&A	PDF/DOCX/TXT/MD/RTF + URL · 100K cap
AI takes actions (orders, refunds, CRM)	Custom AI Actions + Shopify integration	Via integrations/webhooks in flow
AI context window	Not capped at 5 · verify in POC	Last 5 messages (documented)
Pricing, trial & terms — where the gap shows up in your bank account
Free trial	7 days · no credit card	14 days · auto-downgrades to Sandbox
Entry WhatsApp-included tier (annual)	$31/mo · AI Start	$176/mo · WhatsApp Pro
Per-template marketing markup	Meta cost via wallet, no flat fee	+ €0.05 per delivered template
Native operator mobile app	Mobile-friendly inbox	Repeatedly requested, not delivered

Owns it · Supports it, shallow depth · Not offered

Honest take · summarised

Same matrix in plain English — read both sides before you decide.

If two or more items on the Landbot side describe your team, buy Landbot — don't waste a sales cycle. If two or more items on the Spur side fit, install on Shopify or start the trial. We mean it.

Where Landbot wins

01
Visual builder polish

G2 reviewers consistently call the canvas "super-friendly," "intuitive," "game-like rather than technical." Refined since 2017. If you're building a beautiful conversational landing page that lives on a website for two years, their bricks system is genuinely lovely.
02
Structured B2B lead-gen & demo booking

Their DNA is "replace a form with a guided chat" — score leads, route them, book a Calendly meeting. Sheetal M. and Kaushik M. on G2 specifically praised chat surveys, interactive forms, organized customer data and dashboards.
03
RevOps integration catalog

HubSpot, Calendly, Airtable, Salesforce, Segment, SendGrid, Stripe, Slack, Mailchimp, Google Sheets, Webflow, WordPress, n8n — plus the Zapier 4,000+ catalog. Broader than ours for the B2B SaaS stack.
04
EU procurement comfort

Spain-based (Hello Umi, S.L., Barcelona), Trust Center, status page, Academy, community, expert directory. Kevin K. on G2 chose Landbot partly because the EU base "made GDPR easier" vs Intercom.
05
Public review breadth

333 G2 reviews, 70 Capterra reviews, visible footprints on GetApp, Software Advice, TrustRadius, Product Hunt. We're dominant on the Shopify App Store (5.0/108) but quieter on generalist directories.
06
Bot management as a service

Business plan from $450/mo includes bot management hours, custom documentation review, dedicated success manager and priority support. If you want a vendor to build the bot for you, this is the more explicit "we'll do it" motion.
07
Controlled AI inside controlled flows

Their stated philosophy: pure AI agents drift, pure scripted bots are rigid, so the right answer is hybrid. If you want AI sprinkled on top of a predictable flow you designed brick by brick, their AI Agent block is exactly that.

Where Spur wins

01
Multi-channel out of the box

WhatsApp + Instagram + Facebook + web chat in one workspace, sharing one inbox, one workflow builder, one contact database, one AI agent. Landbot ships web + WhatsApp + Messenger + API. Instagram is not in their official channel surface.
02
Instagram ad-funnel automation

Comment-to-DM on viral reels, story-mention auto-DMs, Click-to-Instagram-DM ads with lead-quality signals fed back to Meta. Libas closed 64 orders on a single IG Live with this. On Landbot you'd be stitching in a third-party Instagram tool.
03
Shopify-native, not Shopify-adjacent

5.0★/108 on the Shopify App Store. Native cart recovery, COD-to-prepaid conversion, order/shipping updates, post-purchase flows. Landbot's Shopify presence is a help doc telling you to configure a Shopify app and webhooks yourself.
04
WhatsApp pricing economics

No flat €0.05 per-template markup. Meta charges flow through our wallet at Meta's published rate plus our provider markup. At 50,000 templates/mo the Landbot markup alone runs ~€2,500/mo on top of Meta's pass-through.
05
AI agent that takes actions

Custom AI Actions hit any backend — order lookup, refunds, discounts, CRM updates, meeting booking. Shopify-native context. Landbot's AI Agent block is structured around answering KB questions and collecting up to 20 fields, not autonomous action.
06
Indian D2C specificity

Razorpay, Shiprocket, Return Prime, INR pricing, COD workflows, Hindi/multilingual templates, Insta AI Summit sessions at Meta HQ Gurugram and Meta Office Mumbai. AI Start at $31/mo annual is materially more accessible than WhatsApp Pro for SMB and mid-market Indian brands.
07
Founder-led support

We're a 10-person bootstrapped team. When you message us on WhatsApp or email, the response often comes from a founder or someone who built the feature you're asking about — not a tier-1 macro on a polarized review thread.

Six head-to-head verdicts

Still on the fence? Pick by the job you actually have.

Six common buying decisions, each with a one-paragraph verdict. Skim the headers — the labels tell you which way each one points.

Shopify commerce

Winner: Spur

Both have a Shopify integration. Landbot's is a help doc with OAuth scopes and webhooks you wire yourself. Ours is a Shopify App Store-listed app with native cart recovery, COD verification, order updates, post-purchase flows.

WhatsApp at scale

Winner: Spur

Both connect to Meta's Cloud API. Landbot tacks €0.05 on every delivered Marketing/Utility/Authentication template — defensible at low volume, brutal at scale. Our wallet passes Meta's per-message charge through without a separate flat per-template fee.

BroadcastsDripsCart recoveryClick-to-WACommerce flowsBlue Tick service

Instagram automation

Winner: Spur

The cleanest gap on this page. Landbot's official channel docs don't list Instagram — a G2 reviewer explicitly asked for "Instagram integration without third-party tools." We ship comment-to-DM, story mentions and Click-to-IG-DM ads as native products.

See Instagram playbook

AI agent shape

Depends on buyer

Controlled AI inside a designed flow → Landbot. Multi-channel AI agent that takes actions, hands off to humans on a shared inbox and ships across WhatsApp, IG, FB, web → Spur. Different philosophies, neither wrong.

Conversational landing pages & surveys

Winner: Landbot

Landbot's heritage. Bricks, conditional logic, conversational forms, demo booking, structured B2B qualification. Capterra reviewer said it "turns something boring like a form into something interactive and warm." Our workflow builder is functional but isn't a pure flow canvas.

RevOps stack (HubSpot+Calendly+n8n)

Winner: Landbot

If your team lives in HubSpot, Calendly, Airtable, n8n, Segment and Salesforce, Landbot's native integration catalog is broader than ours. We cover commerce-side CRMs (Zoho, LeadSquared, Sell.Do) and the rest via webhooks/HTTP — fine for D2C, lighter for pure B2B SaaS.

What real merchants are saying

Don't take our word for it. Read theirs.

Pulled directly from G2, Capterra, Trustpilot, the Shopify App Store and Spur case studies. Nothing is invented — every excerpt links back to the public source.

Landbot — review signal

“Great no-code bot, but watch the price. Powerful but pricing keeps escalating once you need higher usage limits, integrations, more seats.”

Kaushik M. · G2 reviewer · G2 · Landbot

“I wish there was Instagram integration without needing a third-party tool. The builder is great but the channel is a hard wall.”

Alberto · G2 reviewer · G2 · Landbot

“Nightmare to set up — little assistance. Functional product, but pre-sales support was helpful and implementation support was weak.”

Farhan Q. · Capterra reviewer · Capterra · Landbot

Spur — review signal

Featured case study · Libas

IG Live viewers: 1,000+
Orders closed: 64
Revenue: ₹78,000

“Comment automation + DMs took our IG Live from a 1,000-viewer event into 64 paid orders at ~6% conversion.”

Parul Chanana · Sr. Marketing Manager · Libas · Spur case study

“Abandoned cart flows were running within hours and the team helped us map our WhatsApp and Instagram strategy during onboarding.”

Shopify reviewer · April 2026 · Shopify App Store

“Quick support, easy implementation, WhatsApp/Instagram automation, comment-to-DM, responsive bug fixes — all in one tool.”

G2 reviewer · 12 reviews, all 5★ · Spurtastic Tech · Spur

Honest disclosure. We have 12 G2 reviews (all 5★) and 5.0/108 on the Shopify App Store. Landbot has 333 G2 reviews at 4.7★ and 70 Capterra reviews at 4.4★ — broader public review surface, more polarised support sentiment. We're newer and smaller. We're growing.

Migration · no-risk path

Worried about switching? You can keep Landbot for the bits it's best at.

A common path we see: keep Landbot for the conversational landing pages and lead-gen surveys it already runs, add Spur for WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and Shopify-native commerce. Run in parallel, hand off via webhooks, decide on your own timeline.

Why this works

The two tools live on different channels of your stack.
WhatsApp numbers live with Meta, not the BSP — you can move them without losing the number.
Approved templates survive the migration with Meta — some may need re-submission.

01
Audit channels & volume

What share of monthly volume is WhatsApp + IG + Shopify-side messaging vs website conversational forms? If commerce channels are >50%, Spur as primary makes sense.
02
Export contacts, segments & KB

CSV-import contacts into Spur. Re-upload knowledge sources (sites, PDFs, Notion, YouTube) to train the AI agent.
03
Move the WhatsApp number

If you're on Landbot's older 360dialog/on-prem setup, migrate to Meta Cloud API first. Plan a clean cutover — conversation history doesn't transfer between BSPs.
04
Connect Instagram + Shopify

Native channels Landbot doesn't ship. Install the Spur Shopify app, connect IG/FB pages, set up comment-to-DM and cart recovery.
05
Build the priority flows

Cart recovery, order updates, comment-to-DM, broadcast templates, drip campaigns, Click-to-WhatsApp Ads capture.
06
Pilot 30 days in parallel

Run both. Watch resolution rate, CSAT, time-to-first-response, cart recovery revenue and IG ad lead quality.
07
Decide — consolidate or run divided

Some teams keep Landbot for web conversational landing pages and Spur for WhatsApp + IG + FB + Shopify. Others go fully Spur. Cancel Landbot before your prepaid period ends — their flow requires downgrading to Sandbox, completing a cancellation bot, and Business plan needs two months' notice.

Diligence checklist

Ask these in writing — before you sign either contract.

We've seen too many teams buy the wrong tool and stay locked in. Asking these up front saves the messy email thread in month seven.

For Landbot

1.Which exact plan SKU is on the quote — Starter, Pro, WhatsApp Starter, WhatsApp Pro, Business?
2.Confirm the AI chat per-unit price at checkout — their pricing comparison says $0.10/AI chat ("new lower price") but plan cards still show €1/AI chat in places.
3.What's the per-template fee — €0.05 for Marketing/Utility/Authentication, €0.003 per service message beyond the 10K included on WA Pro?
4.What's the fair-use ceiling on our plan and what happens when we breach it — warning, suspension, extra charges, deactivation?
5.Notice window for cancellation — Sandbox-downgrade flow on standard plans, two months' notice on Business?
6.For Build-It-For-Me / FAQs / Lead Gen / Appointment Scheduling AI assistants, is end-user chat data used (in anonymised form) to train OpenAI models?
7.How many WhatsApp numbers are included on our plan, what does each extra cost ($100/mo), and which Meta fees pass through?
8.What's Landbot's SLA in writing (terms cite 99% uptime; status page shows 99.99% observed) and what's the credit/remedy if breached?

For Spur

1.Are we buying on the website plan or Shopify App Store plan? Flow/segment/credit caps differ (AI Max = 20K credits website vs 40K Shopify).
2.In-app WhatsApp wallet rate for our country and category — current India signal is ~₹0.86 per delivered marketing message.
3.Where does our data sit? AWS Frankfurt + WhatsApp data localization Europe, but also Google CDN/NLP & Cloudflare — confirm what flows where.
4.What's the current security packet — SOC 2 / ISO 27001 controls, audit summary — and how do we receive it under NDA? Email security@spurnow.com.
5.What happens to unused AI credits and the WhatsApp wallet balance if we cancel? (Get this in writing before topping up large balances.)
6.Trial terms — 7 days, no credit card required, full access to AI Acquire / AI Start features?
7.Subprocessor schedule — which AI model vendors process our customer data, and can we have them named in our DPA?
8.Contract counterparty — which legal entity will we sign with (our registered entity is Spurtastic Technologies Private Limited), and what's the SCC schedule for international transfers?

Questions buyers ask

Common questions, handled in plain English.

If your question isn't here, message us on WhatsApp or email — we usually reply within the hour during business hours, often faster.

Talk to a human

Is Spur a full Landbot replacement?

For D2C / Shopify brands and IG-first creators whose customer conversations live on WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Messenger and web chat — in most cases, yes. For B2B / RevOps / agency teams building conversational landing pages and structured lead-gen surveys with HubSpot / Calendly / n8n — no, Landbot's visual builder is more refined for that job, and we'll tell you that on the sales call. The "Where Landbot wins" section above is your honest test.

Is Spur cheaper than Landbot?

For a D2C team that needs WhatsApp + Instagram + Facebook + AI live chat at meaningful template volume: yes, materially. Our AI Start plan is $31/mo annual ($374/yr) with WhatsApp included; Landbot's WhatsApp Pro is $176/mo annual ($2,112/yr) with no native Instagram, plus a flat €0.05 per delivered template. At 10K templates/mo the Landbot path runs ~$8,600/yr; Spur's AI Accelerate runs ~$1,526/yr for the same channel mix. If your job is a 500-chat/mo website bot with no WhatsApp, Landbot Starter at $36/mo annual is fine — the builder is more polished for that job.

Does Landbot really not have Instagram?

Not as a first-class native product. Their official channel docs and product surface are web, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and API/SDK. G2 reviewer Alberto specifically asked for "Instagram integration without third-party tools," and Vajan Saju (founder/CEO) said the same thing alongside praise for the API/SDK. It hasn't been shipped as a top-level product. If Instagram is part of your funnel, that's a hard wall.

Can Landbot's AI agent be trained on a knowledge base?

Yes. PDF, DOCX, TXT, MD, RTF, URL scrape, direct text — capped at 100,000 characters of direct/document text and 100,000 characters of HTML for web scraping. Text-only (it won't recognize info from images or graphics). Pre-conversation context window is the last 5 messages, structured-data collection caps at 20 fields. Anyone telling you Landbot has no KB-trained AI is out of date. The real difference is shape: their AI lives inside a structured flow you designed; ours lives across four channels with custom actions.

Can I keep Landbot and add Spur for WhatsApp/Instagram?

Yes, and plenty of our customers do exactly that. Run Landbot for the conversational landing page on the website and Spur for WhatsApp + Instagram + Facebook + Shopify-native commerce flows. We hand off context between the two via webhooks, our REST API or shared CRM fields. It's often the cleanest first step — pilot without ripping anything out, then decide on your Landbot renewal.

What about ManyChat, BotPenguin, Chatbase, Tidio?

All legitimate buys for the right team. ManyChat is the established Instagram-first chat marketing player — strong IG, lighter on Shopify commerce automation and KB-trained AI. BotPenguin is broad-channel and cheap. Chatbase is an AI support agent platform with growing deployment surfaces (WA, Messenger, IG, Shopify, Zendesk) but no full WhatsApp/IG marketing suite with broadcasts, comment-to-DM, cart recovery and Meta ad signals. Tidio is web-live-chat-first with WhatsApp as a side channel. We're built specifically for D2C messaging across WhatsApp + IG + FB + web with revenue automation baked in.

Does Spur work outside India?

Yes — we serve customers across 25+ countries. The WhatsApp Business API works globally with Meta's per-country, per-category pricing. Our Shopify integration is global. We host core data on AWS Frankfurt with named subprocessors in the US (Google, Cloudflare). Our site is localized in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch and Indonesian. The India-specific edge (Razorpay, Shiprocket, INR pricing, COD-to-prepaid, Meta-ecosystem proximity) is sharpest in that market, but the platform is global.

How does Spur handle security and compliance?

We operate under GDPR with customer data hosted on AWS Frankfurt and WhatsApp data localization set to Europe at number setup. Our DPA, subprocessor list and current security packet — including SOC 2 controls documentation — are shared under NDA with buyers in procurement review. Email security@spurnow.com or talk to your account contact to get the latest. For lighter-touch reviews, our public GDPR statement and DPA cover most of the standard questions.

How long does Spur take to set up?

For a Shopify store running WhatsApp + Instagram + Facebook + web chat: a few hours, with our AI Agent crawled from your website and help docs and live the same day. Recent Shopify reviewers explicitly say abandoned cart flows were running "after a few hours" and the team helped map WhatsApp/Instagram strategy during onboarding. Landbot's setup is genuinely longer for advanced flows — a Capterra reviewer titled their review "Nightmare to set up — little assistance," another spent two months with developers and still hit bugs.

Bottom line · take it for a spin

Try it for a week. Pay nothing. Keep Landbot running if you want.

Install Spur on Shopify in a few hours. Crawl your store + help docs to train the AI. Connect WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and your live chat widget. See whether it's the tool your team's been missing — without touching your existing Landbot setup.

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Live pricing and review data from Landbot, Spur, Shopify App Store, G2, Capterra, Trustpilot and Landbot's own help center. Last refreshed May 25, 2026.

Pricing and feature data last refreshed May 25, 2026.