The best chatbot for real estate, compared honestly.

There isn’t one winner — it depends on what you need it to do. If you want it to answer buyers from your real listings, qualify them and book viewings, a listing-connected tool wins: Roof AI or Ylopo at the brokerage end, our managed Lead Engine for a done-for-you build. If you need long-term lead nurture over months, an AI-ISA like Structurely is built for that. If you just want a cheap widget you run yourself, a horizontal builder like Tidio or Chatbase costs less — you supply the setup and the upkeep.

On sticker price, the horizontal builders — Tidio and Chatbase both have free tiers, and Kenyt.ai starts around $25/month. Among real-estate-specific tools, Realty AI publishes $100/month (about $66 annually). But the cheapest monthly number is rarely the cheapest outcome: a free or DIY bot is only free if your own time is worth nothing, and a generic bot that can’t answer a listing question tends not to convert. Cheapest-to-run and cheapest-to-work-properly are different questions.

Some do, many don’t. Roof AI and Ylopo pull from an MLS/IDX feed, and our Lead Engine connects your live IDX so the bot answers with actual properties. Plenty of others — including some real-estate-branded ones — only run a qualification script and never see your listings, so they still fall back on “an agent will contact you.” If listing answers matter to you, confirm the feed connection specifically; a real-estate logo on the page does not guarantee it.

DIY (Tidio, Chatbase, Botpress) is right if you enjoy building flows, have time to maintain them, and want the lowest monthly bill. Done-for-you (us, Roof AI, or RealtyChatbot.com’s setup service) is right if you would rather the script, listing connection, CRM wiring and ongoing tuning were handled for you. The honest test: if the bot would sit half-built on your to-do list for three months, DIY’s price advantage is imaginary.

They are each vendor’s own advertised pricing as we read it in July 2026, and pricing changes — Structurely, for example, raised its plans earlier in 2026. Where a vendor publishes no public number (Roof AI, ChitChatBot.ai), we say “Not published” rather than guess. Always confirm the current figure on the vendor’s site before you buy; treat this table as a starting map, not a quote.

They do different jobs. A chatbot is unbeatable at the first sixty seconds — instant reply, qualification and booking, day or night, at a fraction of a salary. A human ISA is better at the relationship work: the nudge, the objection, the long nurture that actually closes. Most teams that can afford both use the bot to catch and qualify every enquiry, then hand the warm ones to a person. If you must pick one, start with the layer that’s leaking — usually speed-to-first-reply.