The SleekFlow alternative built for Instagram is Inrō: comments, story replies, mentions and DMs, with Live comments on Pro, for coaches, creators, online stores and agencies whose customers write on Instagram. If customers also reach you on WhatsApp, by email or by phone, look at respond.io, Wati, Trengo or Omnichat. All prices below come from each vendor's own pricing page, read on 28 October 2026.
Choose Inrō when Instagram is where your customers start the conversation; if other channels matter too, respond.io adds email and calls, Wati puts WhatsApp first, Trengo suits email-heavy support and Omnichat adds LINE and WeChat; stay on SleekFlow if several channels carry real volume.
How to choose: sort last month's conversations by channel. If nearly all began on Instagram, Inrō covers them; if WhatsApp, email or calls make up a large share, you still need a multi-channel inbox like SleekFlow's.
SleekFlow is one inbox for many channels: WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, TikTok, Telegram, SMS, email and calls, all included on every plan according to SleekFlow's pricing page on 28 October 2026. If your customers write mostly on Instagram, you pay for that breadth anyway; Inrō covers Instagram only.
SleekFlow's help center shows Instagram comment and story-reply flows built in Flow Builder, which starts on Pro (SleekFlow's pricing page, 28 October 2026). Inrō runs those automations on its free plan, with 3 active automations.
Other reasons to look elsewhere:
Some reviewers on the Shopify App Store mention a hard setup (one on 12 October 2026), while others on the same listing praise its AI agents.
Inrō is the alternative built for Instagram, with an AI agent included in Pro and DM campaigns to tagged segments of your contacts. It works on Instagram only (no WhatsApp, no Messenger), so the other four tools are for businesses that still need several channels.
Inrō is an official Meta Tech Provider, and its free plan is counted in activated contacts; compare Inrō's Free and Pro plans. Two head-to-heads go deeper than this list: Inrō vs SleekFlow and Inrō vs respond.io.
For agencies, Inrō's partner dashboard manages every client account in one view under your logo, billed by you, with one Partner MCP connection across them, and you can talk to Inrō about the agency dashboard. Agencies can also earn a referral commission on clients who sign up with their link and pay Inrō themselves.
How we picked them: each tool covers one job people buy SleekFlow for, and every price and plan detail comes from its own pricing or help pages, read on 28 October 2026 (Omnichat publishes no prices).
Still comparing?
Keep Instagram, drop the channels you do not use
Inrō answers Instagram comments, story replies and DMs with flows and an AI agent included in Pro. Try it on the free plan, up to 100 activated contacts a month.
Free plan, no card
Stay on SleekFlow if:
What you rebuild is your Flow Builder flows: their comment, story-reply and live-comment triggers, keywords and DMs. Move them, and every channel you keep, to one tool chosen by where your customers write, so you never pay for SleekFlow and a second inbox:
Either way, two auto-DM tools must never answer on one Instagram account at once, so keep this order:
If you used SleekFlow's Shopify integration, Inrō connects to Shopify too, on Pro.
No. If your customers reach you on Instagram, Inrō has a free plan for up to 100 activated contacts a month. SleekFlow's pricing page showed only a 7-day Pro trial on 28 October 2026, with no card and 500 monthly active contacts. On day 7 an unpaid workspace pauses, with its data kept.
On 28 October 2026, SleekFlow's pricing page put Essential at US$69 a month billed monthly (US$49 billed yearly), Pro at US$139 (US$109), and Premium at US$349 a month billed monthly (US$279 billed yearly), with HubSpot and Zoho sync, and Enterprise on request. Inrō has no HubSpot or Zoho sync; its AI agent comes with Pro from €12.99 a month, metered with no cap by default unless you set your own monthly limit.
Inrō, if Instagram is where your customers write: keyword comment-to-DM, story replies, mentions and an AI agent included in Pro, with Live comment triggers on Pro and a free plan to start. Inrō measures an 18.6% click rate on its comment-to-DM flows, from its production data. If WhatsApp matters as much, Wati's Growth plan lists "DM and comment automations for Instagram" next to WhatsApp (Wati's pricing page, 28 October 2026).
Not Inrō, which has no WhatsApp. Of the two, Wati costs less to start: Growth was US$69 a month for 3 seats on Wati's pricing page on 28 October 2026, against US$99 for respond.io's Starter, with 5 seats and unlimited monthly active contacts, on respond.io's pricing page, both billed monthly. respond.io also puts email in the inbox, and neither price includes WhatsApp message fees.
Not Inrō, which works on Instagram only. respond.io, Wati, Trengo and Omnichat all do, priced in the table above. On Instagram comments, Wati's comment-to-DM matches keywords, while respond.io's help center describes one private reply per comment and no keyword filter.
Built only for Instagram, with the AI agent included in Pro. Rebuild your flows from a template or a prompt.
