TeleCrow vs Salebot: A Focused Tool or a Whole Ecosystem?
TeleCrow vs Salebot: A Focused Tool or a Whole Ecosystem?
This comparison can't end in a winner, because Salebot and TeleCrow are not the same category of product, and choosing between them on price alone would be a mistake in either direction.
What Salebot actually is
Salebot is a business automation ecosystem aimed primarily at Russian-speaking SMBs. From their own site, the platform includes:
- Chatbots across multiple messengers, with AI assistants
- A CRM system
- A website and online-store builder — landing pages, multi-page sites, forms, quizzes
- Online courses and webinars — lessons, homework, testing, certificates
- Mailings across messengers and email
- Online booking and appointment scheduling
- Payment acceptance on sites, in courses and in bots
- Integrations with Prodamus, Bizon365, GetCourse and similar
That is not a Telegram bot builder. It is closer to an all-in-one operations platform where bots are one component.
The pricing
Verified from Salebot's published tariffs:
| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | ₽0 | — | 2 employees, 50 broadcast messages/day, CRM, 1 site or store, payments in bot, up to 10 course students |
| Business | ₽2,999 (~$35) | ₽30,590 | 2 employees, 10,000 messages/day, AI assistant, unlimited sites and stores — no course platform |
| Infobusiness | ₽3,999 (~$46) | ₽40,790 | Business plus the course and webinar platform, up to 1,000 students |
Converted at 86.83 RUB/USD, 1 September 2026. Salebot also publishes its own USD prices for the same product line under the MaviBot brand at mavibot.ai — $39/month and $59/month — which is what a non-ruble buyer is actually charged. Annual billing is 15% cheaper per month (₽2,549 and ₽3,399 equivalent); TeleCrow has no annual option.
Add-ons are priced separately: +10,000 messages/day ₽1,890, extra messenger ₽649, extra employee ₽599, +1,000 students ₽490, +1GB storage ₽59.
TeleCrow: Free, $3.99, $6.99, $11.99 per month.
The gap looks large — roughly 3–4× at the top paid tiers, monthly-to-monthly (₽2,999–₽3,999, about $35–$46, against TeleCrow's $11.99) — but you are not buying the same thing. Salebot's price includes a CRM and a site builder from ₽2,999, and the course platform from ₽3,999. On a twelve-month term Salebot is 15% cheaper per month, narrowing the gap to about 2.5–3.3×; TeleCrow has no annual option, so this is monthly against monthly. If you need those, comparing it against a bot builder is comparing a workshop to a tool.
The question that actually decides it
Do you need a CRM, a website builder and a course platform?
If yes, Salebot at ₽3,999/month — the Infobusiness tier, since Business does not include the course platform — is likely cheaper than assembling equivalents separately, and having them in one system with shared data is a real operational advantage. If you need the CRM and site builder but not courses, Business at ₽2,999 covers it. Do not buy a bot builder and then buy three more tools.
If no, you would be paying several times over for a Telegram bot, and most of what you pay for would sit unused.
The free tier is more capable than the headline suggests: 2 employees, any messenger, the CRM, one live site or online store, payment acceptance in the bot, up to 10 course students and the funnel calculator. What constrains it is a ceiling of 50 broadcast messages a day — so any real send volume moves you to ₽2,999. Salebot's own label for the tier is "for a quick start with no investment".
Where Salebot is stronger
Breadth, by a wide margin. Nothing in TeleCrow's range approaches a CRM or a course platform.
Multi-messenger. Telegram, WhatsApp, VK, MAX and more. TeleCrow is Telegram-only. If your customers are spread across messengers, that is decisive.
AI assistants built into the platform, trained on your own documents.
Courses and webinars as first-class features — for an online school, this is the product.
Russian market fit. Ruble billing, local payment integrations, local support.
International reach too. Salebot's interface is localised into 12+ languages and its international edition, mavibot.ai, prices in USD with Stripe, PayPal, PayTR and EBANX. Its AI assistant handles 100 languages.
Where TeleCrow is stronger
Focus. Seven Telegram bot templates that do specific jobs — digital product, access control, support, welcome, autofunnels, personal AI and giveaway — configured in minutes.
Price, if a Telegram bot is genuinely all you need.
A free tier metered differently. Salebot's 50 is broadcast messages per day; TeleCrow's 50 is new users per day, which for a growing bot is the more generous cap. Be clear about the tradeoff, though: TeleCrow's free plan runs one bot and shows a small TeleCrow ad inside it, removed on every paid plan.
Dollar billing by default. No ruble conversion step, and no Russian-language interface to work around. Salebot does serve international customers — through mavibot.ai, in USD at $39 and $59/month, with Stripe, PayPal, PayTR and EBANX checkout and a 12+ language interface — so this is a convenience difference, not a reach difference.
Time to launch. Connect a token, pick a template, go — one surface rather than a workspace of modules. Salebot's primary CTA is a self-serve free signup ("try free"), with a demo booking offered as a secondary option, and its own hero promises launch on the same day.
Choose Salebot if
- You run a business needing CRM, site, courses and bots together
- Your customers are across several messengers
- You want ruble billing and Russian payment rails (Prodamus, Robokassa, T-Bank)
- You are an online school or infobusiness — the Infobusiness tier is built for you
- You have revenue and the monthly cost is not a barrier
Choose TeleCrow if
- You need a Telegram bot, not a business platform
- Telegram is where your audience is
- You want to start free and stay cheap
- You want to launch this afternoon
- You want to bill and be billed in dollars
The summary
Salebot is a serious platform for businesses that need a lot of things in one place, and its price reflects a scope far beyond bots. TeleCrow is a focused Telegram tool at a focused price.
If you are an online school in Russia running courses, payments and customer support, Salebot is very likely the right answer and the price is fair for what it covers. If you want to sell a digital product through a Telegram bot to a global audience, you would be buying an enormous amount of software you will never open.
Match the tool to the scope of the problem, not the price to the budget.
Salebot's tiers and feature comparison table read on 2 September 2026 from salebot.pro; its international edition from mavibot.ai. Ruble figures converted at 86.83 RUB/USD, 1 September 2026. Pricing verified September 2026 from Salebot's published tariffs. Ruble/USD conversions are approximate and move with the exchange rate. Salebot's feature set is described from their own site; verify current scope before deciding.