Linkubit vs QuickReply.ai (2026): what each one does, what each adds to Meta's rate, and which to choose
QuickReply.ai: A WhatsApp marketing automation platform for online stores — abandoned-cart recovery, drip campaigns, order alerts — with chatbots from the Standard plan up. Linkubit: an AI salesperson that answers, qualifies, quotes from your catalogue and takes the payment, on WhatsApp, email, Instagram and Messenger.
The difference is what happens after a customer writes. Linkubit's AI answers as a salesperson — it qualifies, quotes only from your catalogue, keeps your rules in code and takes the payment in the chat — on every plan, with WhatsApp at Meta's rate and nothing added. QuickReply.ai is the better choice if an e-commerce store that wants abandoned-cart, COD-confirmation and repeat-purchase flows on WhatsApp, and is happy to buy through a demo. Every figure below is from QuickReply.ai's own pages, dated.
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What's different
Six things Linkubit does, each beside what QuickReply.ai’s own pages say about the same thing. Where those pages say nothing, the line says so rather than guessing.
An AI salesperson, not a flow builder
It reads the enquiry, answers in the customer's language — a Hindi voice note included — asks the qualifying questions you set, moves the lead through your stages and opens a priced deal. Nobody draws a flowchart, and it is on every plan, including Free.
QuickReply.ai: Keyword and flow chatbots. Keyword chatbots on Standard and NLP-trained bots on Plus; an "AI Chatbot" feature is listed, with no separate AI agent price on the page.
Quotes only what your catalogue says
A price it states is read from your catalogue or your documents; a unit price the catalogue does not carry, or a price with no source behind it, is refused before the reply leaves. Deal values and payment requests come from the same list, never from a number typed in the chat.
QuickReply.ai: Not on QuickReply.ai's pricing page as read on 18 September 2026.
Rules enforced in code, with a human one step away
A gate runs before every action and every send — no discounts, no promises outside the catalogue, hand a refund to a person — and a verifier reads every reply. Anything the agent may not do is refused in code, not in a prompt; a rule it would like changed becomes a request for a human, never a change.
QuickReply.ai: Not on QuickReply.ai's pricing page as read on 18 September 2026.
One customer, one record, four channels
WhatsApp, email, Instagram DM and Messenger (the last two from Pro) arrive in one inbox on one contact — the person who clicked an Instagram ad, wrote on WhatsApp and replied by email is one record with one history, one owner and one pipeline card.
QuickReply.ai: Channels its site lists: WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, RCS, SMS, website chatbot.
The payment happens in the chat
A UPI or card request inside WhatsApp, or a Razorpay link from your own account, at the catalogue price. The money goes to you; Linkubit never holds it. The deal closes itself when the payment lands.
QuickReply.ai: Payment collection on WhatsApp on every plan.
Ads that lead to WhatsApp, built and measured in the same place
Click-to-WhatsApp, lead-form, Google Search and Performance Max campaigns are created from the product — paused until you switch them on — and every lead carries the ad it came from. Qualified leads and won deals are reported back to Meta and Google, so the ad platforms learn from your pipeline, not from clicks.
QuickReply.ai: Not on QuickReply.ai's pricing page as read on 18 September 2026.
At a glance
| Linkubit | QuickReply.ai | |
|---|---|---|
| AI | The AI salesperson is the product, on every plan including Free: it answers, qualifies, quotes only from your catalogue and opens a priced deal. One credit is one AI reply. | Keyword and flow chatbots. Keyword chatbots on Standard and NLP-trained bots on Plus; an "AI Chatbot" feature is listed, with no separate AI agent price on the page. |
| Channels | WhatsApp and email on every plan; Instagram DM and Messenger from Pro | WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, RCS, SMS, website chatbot |
| Payments in the chat | A UPI or card payment request inside WhatsApp, or a Razorpay link, always at the catalogue price, paid into your own account — Linkubit never holds the money | Payment collection on WhatsApp on every plan. |
| WhatsApp per-message charge | None — Meta's per-message rate, billed by Meta to your own WhatsApp Business Account, and nothing added by Linkubit | Adds to Meta's rate. The FAQ prints ₹1.05 per marketing message, ₹0.17 for utility and authentication, and ₹0.41 for what it calls a service template message to an Indian number — against Meta's ₹0.8631 and ₹0.115; the same FAQ says non-template replies inside the window are free. |
| Trial | 14 days of Pro with 25 credits to start, no card; +75 when you connect your WhatsApp number and +100 when you add a card (no charge) | Not stated; every plan is "Book a Demo". |
| Free plan | Free plan: 30 AI replies a month, up to 150 contacts, one WhatsApp number, no time limit | None. |
| Starting price | ₹499 a month (Starter, 3 seats), billed monthly; ₹4,990 a year | ₹2,999 a month billed annually (Starter) |
Which to choose
Choose QuickReply.ai if
- Purpose-built e-commerce flows — cart abandonment, COD to prepaid, repeat-purchase reminders — with Shopify and the major Indian CRMs connected.
- SMS and RCS as fallback channels, which Linkubit does not offer.
- White-glove chatbot setup on Plus for a team that does not want to configure anything itself.
Choose Linkubit if
- An AI salesperson that qualifies and quotes from a catalogue, on every plan, rather than keyword bots from the second tier.
- Rules enforced in code — a gate before every action and every send — with a person brought in on the topics you name.
- Email in the same inbox as WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger, plus a pipeline, lead scoring and attribution from the ad click to the deal.
- Ads that lead to WhatsApp built from the product, paused until switched on, with qualified leads and won deals reported back to Meta and Google.
- Self-serve from free with a ₹499 team plan, and Meta's rate passed through unchanged; QuickReply starts at ₹2,999 a month billed annually, prints ₹1.05 per marketing message and ₹0.41 for a 'service' template message, a category Meta did not price separately before 1 October 2026.
Not sure? Start a free Linkubit workspace — 14 days of Pro with 25 credits to start, no card; +75 when you connect your WhatsApp number and +100 when you add a card (no charge) — and put it on your own number beside whatever you use today. Nothing sends until you say so.
QuickReply.ai's plans, and Linkubit's
QuickReply.ai’s plans as its pricing page printed them on 18 September 2026; where a price is shown only on annual or quarterly billing, the row says so. Linkubit’s plans are from its own price list, which the API is held to.
| Plan | Per month | Per month, annual | Seats | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QuickReply.ai — as printed on www.quickreply.ai, 18 September 2026 | ||||
| Starter | ₹2,999 billed annually | ₹2,999 | 1 agent login, extra ₹500 each | "starting from" ₹2,999 a month billed annually; widget, pop-ups, order alerts; taxes and messages extra |
| Standard | ₹7,499 billed annually | ₹7,499 | 2 agent logins | Chatbots, feedback, cross-sell, CRM one-way sync |
| Plus | ₹14,999 billed annually | ₹14,999 | 5 agent logins | White-glove setup, custom chatbots, CRM two-way sync |
| Enterprise | On request | — | Custom | On request |
| Linkubit — from the pricing page | ||||
| Free | Free | — | 1 | 30 AI replies a month, up to 150 contacts; WhatsApp at Meta’s rate |
| Starter | ₹499 | ₹416 | 3 | 100 AI replies a month; WhatsApp at Meta’s rate |
| Pro | ₹999 | ₹833 | 5 | 300 AI replies a month; WhatsApp at Meta’s rate |
| Scale | ₹2,499 | ₹2,083 | 15 | 1000 AI replies a month; WhatsApp at Meta’s rate |
A month of messages, priced on each side
QuickReply.ai prints its own per-message rates for Indian numbers. Linkubit charges Meta’s rate and nothing more — the messages are billed by Meta to your own WhatsApp Business Account. Ten thousand marketing and five thousand utility messages is a mid-sized month:
| 10,000 marketing + 5,000 utility messages | Linkubit (Meta’s rate) | QuickReply.ai (printed rate) |
|---|---|---|
| Marketing, per message | ₹0.8631 | ₹1.050 |
| Utility, per message | ₹0.115 | ₹0.170 |
| Messages for the month, before GST | ₹9,206 | ₹11,350 |
| Difference | ₹2,144 a month, ₹25,728 a year, on messages alone | |
Why this matters more than the subscription
A subscription is a fixed number. Per-message charges scale with your business, so a mark-up that looks like paise becomes the larger bill the month a campaign works. The pricing guide has Meta’s full India rate card and what changes on 1 October 2026.
Questions people ask
What does Linkubit do that QuickReply.ai does not?
An AI salesperson that qualifies and quotes from a catalogue, on every plan, rather than keyword bots from the second tier. Rules enforced in code — a gate before every action and every send — with a person brought in on the topics you name. Email in the same inbox as WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger, plus a pipeline, lead scoring and attribution from the ad click to the deal. Ads that lead to WhatsApp built from the product, paused until switched on, with qualified leads and won deals reported back to Meta and Google. Self-serve from free with a ₹499 team plan, and Meta's rate passed through unchanged; QuickReply starts at ₹2,999 a month billed annually, prints ₹1.05 per marketing message and ₹0.41 for a 'service' template message, a category Meta did not price separately before 1 October 2026. Where QuickReply.ai is the better choice: an e-commerce store that wants abandoned-cart, COD-confirmation and repeat-purchase flows on WhatsApp, and is happy to buy through a demo.
Does QuickReply charge for service messages?
Its FAQ prints ₹0.41 per 'service' template message to an Indian number and says non-template replies inside the window are free. Meta made a reply inside the 24-hour window free until 1 October 2026 and charges a fraction of a rupee since; Linkubit charges Meta's rate and nothing else.
What does QuickReply.ai cost?
Plans start from ₹2,999 a month for Starter, ₹7,499 for Standard and ₹14,999 for Plus, billed annually, with taxes and messaging extra. Messages to Indian numbers are ₹1.05 marketing, ₹0.17 utility and ₹0.41 service on QuickReply's printed rates.
Sources
- Starter from ₹2,999, Standard from ₹7,499, Plus from ₹14,999 a month on annual billing; 1, 2 and 5 agent logins; extra agents ₹500. www.quickreply.ai, seen 18 September 2026.
- "₹1.05 per Marketing Message, ₹0.17 for Authentication and Utility Messages, and ₹0.41 for Service Message" for Indian numbers. www.quickreply.ai, seen 18 September 2026.
- "All taxes extra. Messaging charges extra." www.quickreply.ai, seen 18 September 2026.
- Footer: "QuickReply operates through three entities … QuickReply Private Limited (parent company in Singapore), QuickReply Technologies India Private Limited (Indian subsidiary)". www.quickreply.ai, seen 18 September 2026.
- Meta's India rates are ₹0.8631 marketing and ₹0.115 utility per message. developers.facebook.com, seen 18 September 2026.
Accurate as of 18 September 2026, when we last read QuickReply.ai’s public pricing page; its prices and features may have changed since. Linkubit’s figures come from its own price list. Spotted something that has moved? Tell us and the page is corrected and re-dated.
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