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Gupshup

Omnichannel AI agents that automate sales, marketing, and customer support conversations on WhatsApp, Instagram, SMS, and RCS

Pricing

Free & Paid

Platforms

Web, API, WhatsApp...

Developer

Gupshup Inc.

Rating

4.6 / 5.0

Last Updated

September 2, 2026

Overview

Gupshup is one of the largest conversational AI platforms in the world, trusted by more than 50,000 brands across 130+ countries and handling over 120 billion messages a year.

What started as a WhatsApp Business API pioneer has grown into a full AI agent platform: Gupshup.ai lets businesses deploy autonomous agents for assisted sales, account servicing, product inquiries, assisted shopping, automated invoicing, and interactive campaigns — all inside the messaging channels customers already use.

Its proprietary, fine-tuned ACE LLM powers context-aware dialogues, while an integrated AI Co-Pilot gives human agents suggested responses and conversation summaries.

For global marketers the strategic value is channel reach.

Gupshup is a Meta business partner deeply integrated with WhatsApp Business Platform, Instagram, SMS, and RCS, which makes it the default choice for conversational commerce in markets where WhatsApp is the primary customer channel — Latin America, India, Southeast Asia, and Southern Europe.

The platform also covers voice AI agents for phone and WhatsApp calls, so the same agent estate can handle inbound support, payment chasing, cart recovery, and lead qualification.

Campaign tooling includes drip sequences triggered by reads, clicks, and journey progression, with templates tuned to industry context.

The trade-offs are worth stating.

Gupshup is enterprise-grade infrastructure rather than a self-serve toy: pricing is per message plus platform fees (with Meta charges billed at actuals), and the richest AI agent features are typically scoped through sales conversations.

Teams that want to experiment quickly on WhatsApp can start on the CX plan free for the first three months, but organizations should plan for implementation support and channel compliance (DLT, opt-in rules) before rolling out at scale.

Use Cases

Running assisted sales and product inquiry conversations on WhatsApp around the clock

Orchestrating lifecycle drip campaigns triggered by reads, clicks, and journey signals

Providing 24/7 customer support with AI agents and seamless human escalation

Handling commerce flows — assisted shopping, automated invoicing, and payment chasing

Deploying voice AI agents for inbound calls, lead qualification, and cart recovery

Who Is This For

Global brands and enterprises running high-volume WhatsApp and SMS conversational marketing

E-commerce and DTC teams selling in WhatsApp-first markets (LATAM, India, SEA, Southern Europe)

Customer support organizations that want AI deflection plus human escalation with context

Telecom, banking, insurance, and retail teams needing compliant, auditable conversation infrastructure

Agencies managing conversational campaigns for large clients across multiple channels

Key Features

Omnichannel AI Agents

Deploy the same agent across WhatsApp, Instagram, SMS, RCS, and web chat, with consistent brand voice and conversation history on every channel.

Signal-Based Campaign Triggers

Launch drip campaigns and lifecycle outreach from real-time events — reads, clicks, journey progression, and third-party signals — with industry-tuned templates.

ACE LLM + AI Co-Pilot

A fine-tuned conversational LLM generates on-brand dialogues, while human agents get suggested replies, summarization, and escalation support in one inbox.

Voice AI Agents

Build and deploy voice agents that qualify leads, chase payments, recover carts, and answer support calls on phone and WhatsApp at scale.

AI + Human Escalation

Route complex or sensitive conversations to human teams with AI-powered escalation, context transfer, and full audit history for compliance.

Pros & Cons

Pros

  • True global reach: 50,000+ brands, 130+ countries, 120B+ messages/year — proven at telecom, banking, and e-commerce scale
  • Deep WhatsApp/Instagram/SMS/RCS coverage with Meta partner status, ideal for conversational-commerce-first markets
  • Industry-trained agents and templates accelerate assisted sales, support, and campaign launches
  • AI Co-Pilot with suggested responses and summaries meaningfully boosts human agent productivity
  • Voice AI agents extend the same platform to phone calls, closing the voice-plus-messaging loop

Cons

  • Per-message plus platform pricing can scale faster than expected for high-volume campaigns
  • Advanced AI agent features and custom scoping go through sales — not a fully self-serve tool
  • Channel compliance (opt-in/DLT rules) and platform complexity demand implementation planning

Pricing Plans

Popular

CX (WhatsApp)

$100/month (free for first 3 months)

Everything needed to grow on WhatsApp — campaigns, bot studio, live chat, and analytics.


  • Free WhatsApp setup & blue-tick help
  • Unlimited broadcast & retargeting campaigns (template rates apply)
  • Bot Studio with 50+ node types
  • Multi-agent dashboard & teams management
  • Campaign, bot & live agent analytics
  • Message fees from $0.008/message + Meta charges at actuals
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AI Agents & Voice

Custom

Autonomous sales/marketing/support agents and voice AI, scoped to your channels and volumes.


  • Omnichannel AI agents (WhatsApp, Instagram, SMS, RCS)
  • ACE LLM conversations + AI Co-Pilot
  • Signal-triggered drip campaigns
  • Voice AI agents for phone & WhatsApp
  • CRM/Conversation Cloud integrations
  • Enterprise compliance & support
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Editorial Review

4.6
ET

Editorial Team

September 2, 2026

Gupshup is the infrastructure pick for conversational marketing at scale — 50,000+ brands and 120B+ annual messages make it the safest choice when WhatsApp is your primary revenue channel. The ACE LLM agents and signal-triggered drip campaigns are genuinely useful out of the box, and the AI Co-Pilot keeps human teams in the loop rather than replacing them.

ET

Editorial Team

September 2, 2026

The honest caveats: this is enterprise software with sales-led pricing and per-message costs that demand volume forecasting, and setup is heavier than a self-serve chatbot builder. Small teams with modest WhatsApp volume will find lighter tools more economical; teams running high-volume conversational commerce will struggle to outgrow it.

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