sound familiar?

• your 5 included users filled up fast, and each extra seat costs $12/month more

• your chatbot flows hit the 200-node limit and you had to simplify what it could actually do

• you're paying a WhatsApp platform fee, then paying again per message on top, and the second number keeps growing

• WATI doesn't cover instagram DMs or your website the way it covers WhatsApp

why the real bill is higher than the plan price

WATI's plans start at $59/month (Growth), but that's the platform fee alone. On top of it:

• users beyond the included 5 cost $12/month each on Growth

• every WhatsApp message is billed at Meta's rate, ₹0.8631 per marketing message in India, plus a markup, widely reported at around 20% by independent WhatsApp pricing trackers, though WATI doesn't publish this markup on its own pricing page

• flow complexity is capped, Pro plan tops out at 200 nodes per flow and 25 flows total, so once your automation gets complex, you're either paying for the next tier or simplifying what the bot can do

linkfliq's pricing doesn't have any of these three axes. one flat monthly fee, an agent that doesn't need flows built node by node, no per-seat tax as your team grows.

why brands make the switch

an agent that understands, not a flow you build node by node

WATI's chatbot runs on a visual flow builder, rules and branches you construct by hand, capped at 200 nodes per flow on the Pro plan. linkfliq's agent understands natural language and reads your live shopify data directly, so it correctly answers questions you never built a flow for, "is this back in stock in blue," "what's cheaper, this or that", without hitting a node limit.

it remembers the customer, not just the session

linkfliq's agent remembers every conversation, every order, every preference for a customer, across instagram, whatsapp, facebook, and web. WATI's chatbot flows are built around WhatsApp specifically, with no shared memory of a customer's history across channels.

every channel, together, from day one

WATI is built primarily for WhatsApp, with instagram and facebook automation as secondary features. linkfliq gives you whatsapp, instagram, facebook, and your website together from ₹999/month, one agent, one inbox, one memory.

no per-seat tax as your team grows

WATI charges $12/month for every user beyond your plan's included seats. linkfliq doesn't charge extra to add your team to the inbox.

recommends products based on real behavior

WATI's flows follow rules you configure manually. linkfliq's agent looks at actual buying patterns and conversation history to recommend what's genuinely relevant to that customer, not a static rule someone set up once.

how smart is the agent, actually

linkfliq's agent has handled 2M+ real conversations, auto-resolving 98% of queries without a human stepping in, at an average response time of 16 seconds. when it does need a human, it hands off cleanly through human override mode. because it reads your live shopify catalog instead of a flow you built, it never tells a customer something's in stock when it isn't, and it replies in english, hindi, hinglish, and regional languages, on the customer's terms.