Enterprise Conversational AI

LangChain vs Botpress vs Rasa

Teams evaluating an AI customer service platform ask the same three questions: can we self-host, can our team own it, and what does it actually cost? Here's how Rasa compares on the dimensions that decide   enterprise deals

Comparison hero
The short version
LangChain is a framework you assemble. Botpress is a visual cloud builder. Rasa is the self-hosted, customer-owned platform for teams that need the conversation layer production-ready, governed, and voice-native on day one.
Self-hosted
Customer-owned
Native voice
Guided governance
Competitor

LangChain

VS
Competitor

Botpress

VS
The Alternative

Rasa

At a glance

Three ways to build an AI agent

Platform A logo
LangChain

Python framework of composable primitives for building LLM-powered applications: LLM chaining, RAG, memory, and tool use. LangGraph adds graph-based agent orchestration. Not a deployable platform. Optimized for maximum flexibility and the broadest LLM ecosystem access.

Founded

2022

HQ

San Francisco, CA

Funding

$125M

Capterra

N/A

Platform B logo
Botpress

Visual AI agent platform built for fast agent creation. Strong Studio experience, Autonomous Nodes, Knowledge Bases, variables, tables, integrations, emulator testing, and clear prompt/token/cost inspection. Best fit for teams that want to build and ship web-first agents quickly, especially where cloud deployment, usage-based pricing, and a visual workflow model are acceptable.

Founded

2016

HQ

Quebec, Canada

Funding

$40M

Capterra

4.5 / 5.0

Rasa

The enterprise platform for AI agents: self-hosted, customer-owned, voice-native, with guided governance over high-risk actions.

Founded

2016

HQ

San Francisco / Berlin

Funding

~$70M raised

Capterra

4.7 / 5

Top enterprises trust Rasa
Comparison matrix

Where each platform wins

Differentiator
LangChain
Botpress
Rasa
Verdict
Deployment Model
Rasa
LangChain

LangChain can get your graph into production. It does not get your customer-facing conversation system into production.

Botpress

Botpress Cloud is the current path for new deployments. Older self-hosted Botpress versions are sunset for new purchase, download, or deployment.

Rasa

Self-hosted and private-cloud deployment are core to the Rasa platform. Teams keep control of infrastructure, data, LLM choice, CI/CD, observability, and production operations.

Verdict
Rasa
Dialogue Management
Rasa
LangChain

No built-in dialogue manager. Teams implement state management, turn logic, and context manually. LangGraph adds graph orchestration but not a dialogue manager.

Botpress

Standard Nodes run ordered cards. Autonomous Nodes use an LLM to decide what to say and which tools to call.

Rasa

Patented Orchestrator manages multi-turn state, context, and flow across any channel. Conversation repair handles interruptions, topic changes, and unexpected inputs.

Verdict
Rasa
Build Experience
Rasa
LangChain

LangChain can move fast for the first agent and LangSmith can deploy agent workloads. The longer work is turning that into a governed customer-facing conversation system that multiple teams can run over time.

Botpress

Visual builder with workflows, nodes, folders, emulator testing, variables, prompt inspection, token/cost visibility, and Autonomous Nodes.

Rasa

Rasa starts teams higher: conversation handling, voice, review, analytics, deployment patterns, and production operations are already part of the platform.

Verdict
Rasa
Voice Architecture
Rasa
LangChain

LangChain does not provide a native voice architecture. Teams can build one, but they own STT, TTS, telephony, interruption handling, latency tuning, and channel-specific behavior.

Botpress

No native voice capability. Voice requires third-party integrations.

Rasa

Native Rasa Voice with built-in Voice Stream connectors (Twilio Media Streams, Jambonz, AudioCodes, Genesys Cloud). Voice-digital parity from a single runtime.

Verdict
Rasa
Compliance and Governance
Rasa
LangChain

LangSmith gives strong tracing, evals, and debugging for agent runs. Enterprise governance around business policies, conversation review, voice behavior, audit workflows, and regulated handoffs still has to be designed around the stack.

Botpress

RBAC, logs, version history, and enterprise support are available.

Rasa

Rasa gives teams traceable conversation state, controlled skills, Studio review, RBAC, deployment control, and an operating model that lets business and technical teams govern live behavior together.

Verdict
Rasa
Ecosystem and Integrations
Platform A
LangChain

Massive ecosystem of LLM, vector store, retrieval, and tool integrations. Broadest LLM composability available in any framework.

Botpress

100,000+ developers, 1M+ bots deployed, 190+ integrations, active Discord.

Rasa

Rasa is LLM-agnostic and lets teams bring their own models, infrastructure, tools, and integrations while keeping the conversation layer owned and inspectable.

Verdict
Platform A
Pricing Model
Rasa
LangChain

LangGraph gives more freedom to keep reasoning in the graph and model loop. That flexibility can mean more model calls, more tokens, and more latency in multi-turn service journeys.

Botpress

Free tier (cloud, limited). Plus $79/month. Team $495/month for 50,000 messages and 3 bots. AI tokens billed separately. Easy to start, but AI usage and message volume need careful modeling at scale.

Rasa

In Rasa’s published customer-service benchmark, Rasa reduced assistant cost by 77.8% by keeping repeatable business work out of the LLM loop.

Verdict
Rasa
Deep dive

Every dimension, side by side

Primary Philosophy and Positioning

Rasa and LangChain occupy fundamentally different categories. LangChain is a framework of composable primitives. Rasa is a purpose-built platform for enterprise AI agents. The real question is where the team wants to spend its engineering time: building the conversation layer, or building the business capabilities that run on top of it. The philosophical gap shapes every downstream decision about engineering capacity, time to production, governance, and long-term maintenance overhead.

LangChain

  • Open-source framework for building LLM-powered agents and applications, with strong model, tool, retrieval, and app integration coverage.
  • LangGraph adds graph-based agent orchestration but not a conversational dialogue manager.
  • Maximum flexibility: teams assemble any agent architecture from building blocks.
  • One of the strongest ecosystems for LLMs, tools, retrievers, vector stores, and agent patterns.
  • Free library. Deployment, voice, governance, and production infrastructure are team-built projects.

Botpress

  • Developer speed and same-day deployment: visual builder gets bots live fast.
  • LLM-native architecture: conversation and business logic driven primarily by model inference.
  • Community-scale: 100,000+ developers, 1M+ bots deployed, active Discord, 190+ integrations.
  • Cloud-only since self-hosted deprecation. Self-hosted path reserved for Enterprise.
  • Web-first platform with voice as a third-party integration layer.

RASA

  • The developer platform for enterprise AI agents. Three layers: Framework (Build), Orchestrator (Run), and Studio (Refine).
  • Patented Orchestrator (dialogue manager) orchestrates autonomous reasoning, guided workflows, and shared conversational memory. Prompt-driven skills handle open-ended interactions.
  • Self-hosted from day one. Cloud-agnostic via Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Rasa Voice: Rasa supports voice as part of the same agent system, with voice connectors for Twilio, Jambonz, AudioCodes, and Genesys Cloud, plus conversation patterns for repeat, silence, interruption, and repair.

Dialogue Management and Agent Architecture

Dialogue management is the most consequential difference between a framework and a platform.LangGraph gives teams stateful graph orchestration, persistence, memory, human-in-the-loop, and multi-agent patterns. What it does not ship is a purpose-built conversation layer: repair patterns, channel behavior, content review, business-owned response management, and a shared operating model for improving live conversations. Rasa’s Orchestrator handles the conversation layer directly. It tracks context, generates structured commands, manages state, and activates patterns for corrections, interruptions, cancellations, clarification, handoff, chitchat, repeat, and silence handling.

LangChain

  • No built-in dialogue manager; teams implement state management, turn logic, and context manually.
  • LangGraph adds graph-based orchestration patterns but not a conversational dialogue manager.
  • Conversation repair (interruptions, topic changes, unexpected inputs) must be custom-built.
  • Every production agent requires custom dialogue architecture built and maintained by the team.
  • Works well for simple chain-of-thought or RAG patterns; complex multi-turn dialogue is a team build.

Botpress

  • Standard Nodes execute cards in order.
  • Autonomous Nodes use an LLM to choose responses and tools.
  • Actions are reusable TypeScript tools called by Autonomous Nodes.
  • Variables and schemas help control what the agent can read, write, and pass into tools.
  • Watchout: critical paths need careful prompt, schema, tool, and test design because the LLM can drive execution inside Autonomous Nodes.

RASA

  • Patented Orchestrator (dialogue manager) orchestrates autonomous reasoning, guided workflows, and shared conversational memory.
  • Conversation repair: handles interruptions, topic changes, and unexpected inputs without breaking flows.
  • Guided skills control high-stakes actions programmatically. Prompt-driven skills handle open-ended interactions. No hallucinations in your business rules.
  • Composable, reusable skills, each a productized unit of capability that carries the boundaries the business cares about, work across agents and channels.
  • Dialogue management is production-ready, not a build project.

Deployment Model and Data Sovereignty

LangChain/LangGraph can be deployed through LangSmith Deployment, self-hosted Agent Server, or a custom containerized service. That gives teams a production path for the agent runtime. The tradeoff is ownership: teams still design how state, data residency, auth, observability, failover, rollback, voice, and compliance evidence work for their environment. Rasa is built for teams that want the agent platform deployed inside their own operating model. Rasa runs on Kubernetes or OpenShift, supports production tracker stores, tracing, analytics, Studio roles, and customer-controlled infrastructure.

LangChain

  • LangSmith Deployment supports managed, standalone, and self-hosted deployment options.
  • Teams design and operate their own production stack: containerization, orchestration, monitoring, alerting.
  • More platform work stays with the team: auth, data residency, failover, rollback, voice, and compliance evidence.

Botpress

  • Botpress Cloud is the current path for new Botpress deployments.
  • Older self-hosted Botpress versions are no longer available for new purchase, download, or deployment.
  • Public pricing lists Enterprise as custom, but does not clearly publish self-hosted deployment as a standard feature.

RASA

  • Designed for Kubernetes/OpenShift and self-hosted enterprise environments.
  • Supports production tracker stores for conversation state and history.
  • Supports tracing, analytics, roles/permissions, and CI/CD-style deployment workflows.
  • Strong fit when security, compliance, and infrastructure teams need clear ownership of where the agent runs and where conversation data lives.

Voice Architecture and Channel Support

LangChain does not ship a native voice architecture. Teams can build voice agents with external STT, TTS, telephony, streaming, and interruption handling, but they own the latency, channel behavior, provider choices, and maintenance surface. Rasa supports voice through built-in channel connectors, including Twilio Media Streams, AudioCodes, Jambonz, and Genesys Cloud. Voice uses the same conversation logic as digital channels, with voice-specific behavior such as DTMF, repeat, silence handling, and interruption handling where supported.

LangChain

  • No native voice support.
  • Voice requires integrating STT, TTS, and telephony from separate third-party providers.
  • Each provider integration adds latency, cost, and a custom maintenance surface the team owns.
  • Building production-grade voice on LangChain is a multi-month engineering project separate from the agent itself.
  • No cross-channel continuity between chat and voice; each channel is a separate custom build.

Botpress

  • Voice is available through integrations such as Twilio and Vonage.
  • Good fit for lighter IVR, phone-triggered workflows, or voice entry points attached to a web/chat agent.
  • Teams depend on external providers for telephony behavior, audio handling, latency, and voice-channel operations.
  • Cross-channel continuity depends on how the team designs identity, state, and channel handoff around Botpress.

RASA

  • Native voice stack: Rasa Voice built from the ground up for enterprise voice automation.
  • Built-in Voice Stream connectors for Twilio Media Streams, Jambonz, AudioCodes, and Genesys Cloud.
  • Voice-digital parity: the same orchestration logic, policies, integrations, and analytics apply to both voice and chat.
  • Voice deployment can be designed around the customer’s infrastructure and provider requirements. ASR and TTS provider choices determine where audio is processed.
  • Choose your ASR (Deepgram, Azure) and TTS (Cartesia, Deepgram, Azure, Rime) providers.

Compliance and Enterprise Governance

LangSmith gives teams tracing, evals, monitoring, and deployment tooling for agent runs. Regulated conversation governance still needs to be designed around the stack. Rasa gives teams a more complete governance surface for conversations: event-based conversation history, tracker stores, conversation review, role-based team workflows, controlled skills, deployment ownership, and traceable behavior across the agent lifecycle.

LangChain

  • No built-in RBAC, audit logging, or compliance reporting.
  • Governance features must be built by the engineering team and validated by compliance.
  • Compliance documentation for regulated enterprise procurement requires custom instrumentation of the LangChain stack.
  • Data sovereignty determined by the infrastructure the team builds around LangChain.
  • No out-of-the-box interaction traceability; adding it is an engineering project.

Botpress

  • RBAC, logs, version history, and enterprise support are available.
  • Infrastructure is Botpress-managed and hosted on AWS.
  • Watchout: validate self-hosting, data residency, audit export, retention, SSO, and regulated-industry requirements directly with Botpress.

RASA

  • RBAC, audit logs, and interaction traceability included in the platform.
  • Every agent decision and action logged through traceable orchestration; full interaction traceability for regulatory review.
  • Architectural governance over agent behavior via guided skills and prompt-driven skills.
  • Rasa does not hold keys, credentials, or data on behalf of customers.

Integration and LLM Ecosystem

LangChain has a genuine and substantial lead on ecosystem breadth. Its library of LLM, vector store, retrieval, and tool integrations is the broadest available in any framework. Rasa's integration model is different in kind: LLM-agnostic core plus enterprise integration patterns optimized for voice, CRM, and backend systems.

LangChain

  • Broadest LLM ecosystem: integrations with essentially every major LLM provider and open-source model.
  • Extensive vector store integrations (Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma, Milvus, and dozens more).
  • Large retrieval and tool ecosystem; pre-built components for most common LLM application patterns.
  • Community-contributed integrations accelerate prototyping for novel agent architectures.
  • Ecosystem strength is real; teams evaluating novel agent patterns often start here for a reason.

Botpress

  • Botpress Hub for installing integrations.
  • Integrations SDK for custom integrations.
  • Actions for reusable TypeScript logic inside Autonomous Nodes.
  • Watchout: custom logic lives inside the Botpress model rather than a fully owned engineering stack.

RASA

  • LLM-agnostic: plug in any compatible model (OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Llama, fine-tuned domain models).
  • Native Voice Stream connectors: Twilio Media Streams, Jambonz, AudioCodes, Genesys Cloud.
  • Custom Actions and MCP tools for CRM, ITSM, databases, internal APIs, and proprietary systems.
  • MCP server integration, A2A (Agent-to-Agent) protocol, APIs, channel connectors, and voice connectors.
  • Engine-level extension: teams modify the RAG pipeline, command generator, NLU pipelines, and rephraser.

Pricing and Total Cost of Ownership

LangChain and LangGraph are open-source. LangSmith is commercial: free developer tier, paid team tier, usage-based traces, paid deployment, and custom enterprise pricing for self-hosting, SSO/RBAC, support SLA, training, and architecture guidance. Rasa Developer Edition is free with usage limits. Enterprise pricing is custom and based on annual conversation volume, deployment needs, and support requirements. It is not seat-based, so team growth does not create a per-user tax.

LangChain

  • Free library under MIT license.
  • LLM API costs billed separately by the model provider.
  • LangSmith observability platform available as a separate commercial product.
  • Infrastructure costs determined by the team-built stack (deployment, voice, monitoring, governance).
  • Total cost of ownership is framework cost plus months of platform engineering plus ongoing maintenance overhead.

Botpress

  • Plan-and-usage pricing: Pay-as-you-go, Plus, Team, Managed, and Enterprise.
  • AI Spend is separate from the subscription and billed at provider cost.
  • Incoming messages and events count toward monthly plan limits.
  • Plus and Team add higher limits, support, collaboration, analytics, and production features.
  • Add-ons cover extra messages/events, bots, collaborators, table rows, Vector DB storage, file storage, and Always Alive.
  • Enterprise is custom-priced with custom workspace limits, onboarding, and dedicated support.

RASA

  • Developer Edition (Free): full access to Rasa. One bot per company, up to 1,000 external conversations/month (100 for internal agents). Community support via the Rasa Forum.
  • Enterprise (Custom): premium support, dedicated CSM, advanced security features, custom onboarding, Rasa Studio for refining design and review.
  • Annual pricing is based on conversation volume, not seats.
  • Separate from license cost, Rasa’s benchmark showed lower assistant runtime cost in the tested customer-service workflow.CTA: Explore Rasa pricing or request a custom Enterprise quote → Rasa Pricing

Customer Success and Support

Support and customer success models reflect each project's philosophy. LangChain is a community-driven open-source framework with commercial LangSmith observability. Rasa Enterprise includes premium support, FDE, CSM, custom onboarding, enterprise security/compliance features, and support for complex self-hosted deployments.

LangChain

  • Active open-source community with extensive documentation and community examples.
  • LangSmith commercial platform adds observability, tracing, and evaluation.
  • Community support via GitHub issues, Discord, and Stack Overflow.
  • No bundled enterprise support tier for the core framework.
  • Breaking changes between LangChain versions require active maintenance of production integrations.

Botpress

  • Pay-as-you-go includes community support through forums, docs, and Discord.
  • Community forum, documentation, and integration templates.
  • Paid support tiers available at Team and Enterprise levels.
  • Self-serve documentation suited to the developer-first audience.
  • Community-contributed integration templates and cookbook examples.

RASA

  • Rasa Enterprise: premium support with dedicated customer success manager.
  • Community support via the Rasa Forum, active since 2016.
  • Documentation at rasa.com/docs. Learning at learning.rasa.com.
  • Direct engineering engagement available on Enterprise for complex deployments.
  • Partner network for implementation and systems integration in regulated industries.
Verdict

Which one fits your team

Choose LangChain to build your own agent layer, Botpress for a fast visual cloud build, and Rasa when the conversation itself is the product and has to be owned, governed, and voice-native.

CHOOSE

LangChain

  • You are building your own agent platform layer.
  • Your core workload is RAG, tool automation, research, document processing, or custom multi-agent architecture.
  • Your engineers want maximum control over graph structure, state, tools, models, and deployment.
  • Your team is comfortable owning the conversation behavior and operating model around the agent.
CHOOSE

Botpress

  • Your team wants a visual cloud builder.
  • Web chat is the main channel.
  • The use case is routing, or internal workflow automation.
  • Common integrations cover most of what you need.
  • You do not need self-hosted deployment for new projects.
  • Your conversation volume is moderate and per-message pricing stays predictable at your scale.
CHOOSE

Rasa

  • Your core workload is real customer or employee conversation.
  • Users correct themselves, switch topics, return later, use voice, or need handoffs with context preserved.
  • Multiple teams need to review, improve, and govern the agent after launch.
  • You need deployment control, traceable behavior, and a platform layer built for regulated production environments.
  • You want engineering time spent on business capabilities, not rebuilding the conversation operating layer.
How we built this comparison

Our methodology

This comparison draws on user reviews from G2, Capterra, TrustRadius, and GetApp, combined with vendor documentation, published pricing, enterprise buyer interviews, and production deployment research. Our research methodology separates verified platform capabilities from vendor marketing claims. We review product documentation, feature releases, and published benchmarks from both sides directly. For cost and latency, we reference Rasa’s published CALM vs LangGraph benchmark and link the methodology directly.  We cross-reference with enterprise buyer interviews focused on regulated industries (banking, telco, healthcare, government) where production-ready dialogue management and architectural governance are hard gates. Conflict of interest disclosure: This comparison is published on Rasa's website. Rasa is a commercial conversational AI platform and stands to benefit from enterprises choosing its platform over a framework-composition approach. We address this by (1) publishing genuine LangChain strengths in the Steel Man section, (2) using factual documentation and published benchmarks as the primary evidence, and (3) avoiding dismissiveness about what LangChain does well. Last comprehensive review: July 2026. Verified against LangChain and LangGraph documentation, Rasa Enterprise documentation, and Rasa's published CALM vs LangGraph benchmark.

Common questions

Frequently asked questions

LangChain vs Botpress vs Rasa: Which is the best AI agent framework for enterprise?

Best depends on the team profile. 

LangChain is the best general-purpose open source LLM agent framework for engineering-led teams (25M+ downloads). 

Botpress is the best no-code visual builder for fast time-to-launch on cloud (v12 self-hosted OSS sunset). 

Rasa is the best enterprise platform for regulated-industry deployment with self-hosted, on-premises, and air-gapped options, plus architectural governance over agent behavior.

Is LangChain better than Rasa for AI agents?

LangChain is better when the engineering team wants maximum framework flexibility and is willing to build production hardening (governance, voice, multi-channel orchestration, audit) around the framework. 

Rasa is better when the team wants enterprise platform primitives (patented Orchestrator, native voice, multi-channel orchestration, RBAC, audit) built in rather than built by the team. 

Many teams use both: LangGraph for agent reasoning underneath a Rasa-orchestrated multi-channel platform.

Is Botpress still open source in 2026?

Botpress v12 self-hosted open source has been officially sunset. 

The current Botpress platform is cloud-delivered through Botpress Cloud with the visual Studio, integrated LLM support, and pre-built integrations. 

For organizations needing genuine open source self-hosted deployment, Rasa offers a free Developer Edition with full platform access for up to 1,000 conversations per month, plus a paid Enterprise tier.

Can you self-host LangChain, Botpress, or Rasa?

LangChain is self-managed by design; the team operates the runtime on any infrastructure. 

Botpress v12 self-hosted open source has been officially sunset; the current Botpress is cloud-only. 

Rasa is self-hosted from day one with on-premises, private cloud, and air-gapped deployment options as a first-class capability.

Which has the best voice capability: LangChain, Botpress, or Rasa?

Rasa is the only one of the three with a native voice channel. 

Rasa Voice ships built-in Voice Stream connectors for Twilio Media Streams, AudioCodes, Genesys Cloud, and Jambonz with pluggable ASR (Deepgram, Azure) and TTS (Cartesia, Deepgram, Azure, Rime) providers. 

LangChain has no native voice; the team builds a custom ASR + agent loop + TTS pipeline. 

Botpress is chat and messaging focused, with no native voice channel.

How do LangChain, Botpress, and Rasa compare on pricing?

LangChain and LangGraph are free under MIT license; LangSmith observability is Developer free, Plus $39/seat/month, Enterprise custom. 

Botpress is free with 500 messages, Plus $150/month, Team $750/month, Enterprise custom. 

Rasa is free Developer Edition (1,000 conversations/month) with Enterprise custom annual conversation-volume licensing. 

For three-year TCO predictability at enterprise scale, Rasa's conversation-volume model is the most forecastable.

Is Rasa better than LangChain for production AI agents?

For regulated industry production where self-hosted deployment, architectural governance over agent behavior, native voice and chat orchestration, RBAC, and audit logging are required, Rasa is the stronger fit. 

LangChain is a framework that requires the team to build all those layers around it. For engineering-led custom builds where maximum flexibility outweighs platform primitives, LangChain is the stronger fit. 

Many production teams use both.

Which is best for regulated industries (BFSI, healthcare, government)?

Rasa is the strongest fit for regulated industries with self-hosted, on-premises, and air-gapped deployment as a first-class option, patented Orchestrator for architectural governance over agent behavior, conversation-level audit trails, and Forrester Wave Strong Performer 2026 recognition. 

LangChain can run in regulated environments with significant engineering investment to build governance, RBAC, audit, and compliance controls. 

Botpress Cloud is typically disqualified by regulated industry data sovereignty mandates.

Can LangChain handle multi-channel voice and chat like Rasa?

Not natively. LangChain provides the agent reasoning layer but not the voice channel, chat channel orchestration, shared state across channels, or unified memory. 

Building multi-channel voice and chat on LangChain means engineering ASR + agent loop + TTS + telephony for voice, separate chat channel integrations, and a custom orchestration layer to share state across them. 

Rasa provides all of this as platform primitives with native Voice Stream connectors and multi-agent orchestration, maintaining shared state.

How long does it take to build a production agent on LangChain vs Botpress vs Rasa?

LangChain prototypes deploy in hours; production-grade deployments with governance, testing, and monitoring layers take weeks to months. 

Botpress initial bots deploy in hours; production deployments with integrations take days. 

Rasa enterprise production deployments typically run 8-20 weeks, including integrations and governance configuration (Swisscom went from prototype to production in 20 weeks). 

The differences reflect what the team builds versus what the platform provides.

Which platform has the best community and support?

LangChain has the largest community by download volume (25M+ downloads) and the most extensive open source knowledge base. 

Botpress has a strong community around the cloud platform with active forums and documentation. 

Rasa Enterprise includes premium support with a dedicated CSM and defined SLAs; Rasa Developer Edition includes community support via the Rasa Forum. 

Documentation quality is similar across the three.

Can you migrate from LangChain or Botpress to Rasa?

Yes. LangChain to Rasa migration maps LangChain chains and LangGraph workflows to Rasa's guided and prompt-driven skills, with LLM providers and tools reused through Rasa's pluggable architecture and Action Server. 

Botpress to Rasa migration exports Botpress Studio flows, intents, and integrations, then reimplements them in Rasa with Studio for non-technical design. 

Both migrations typically take 8-20 weeks for a single production agent. 

Teams typically migrate to recover self-hosted deployment (post Botpress v12 OSS sunset), gain architectural governance over agent behavior, or add native voice capability.

What is the difference between LangChain, LangGraph, and Rasa?

LangChain is the open source LLM application framework with chains, agents, memory, and 100+ integrations. 

LangGraph is LangChain's graph-based state management extension for stateful multi-step agent workflows with durable execution and checkpointing. 

Rasa is an enterprise conversational AI platform with the patented Orchestrator (dialogue manager) for architectural governance over agent behavior, native voice and chat orchestration, and self-hosted deployment. LangChain/LangGraph are frameworks engineering teams build with; Rasa is a platform that provides primitives the team uses.

Should I use LangChain inside Rasa, or pick one or the other?

They’re largely complementary. Many production teams use LangChain or LangGraph as the agent reasoning layer underneath a Rasa-orchestrated multi-channel platform. 

Rasa provides channel abstraction, voice orchestration, deterministic flow primitives, and enterprise governance. LangGraph provides stateful agent reasoning. 

The combination delivers both architectural governance over agent behavior and engineering flexibility on the reasoning side.

Keep comparing

Related comparisons

AI that adapts to your business, not the other way around

Build your next AI

agent with Rasa

Power every conversation with enterprise-grade tools that keep your teams in control.