Bots.Church is a $39/mo church chatbot trained on your website. AskMyChurch is $99+/mo and adds sermon-cited answers, per-answer sources, a crisis gate, and automatic Spanish. What the difference buys.
Most products churches compare us against do a different job — giving platforms, website builders, ChMS. Bots.Church is the rare direct comparison: a chatbot for church websites, trained on the church's own content, answering visitors around the clock. It also costs less than we do. So this page is the honest version of the conversation: what's the same, what's different, and what the price gap actually buys.
As of this writing, bots.church lists one plan at $39/month with unlimited conversations, cancel anytime, positioned as risk-free. The bot trains on your church's website, sermons, and mission per their how-it-works page (the hero says "trained only on your church's website"), installs by pasting one snippet, answers 24/7 in a tone they describe as pastoral and personal, and captures visitor contact details, emailing summaries to your staff. When your website changes, you let them know and they rescan it. The founder is named on the site and the product line reads focused and sincere — this is a real church-specific tool, not a generic widget with a cross on it.
Taking your questions from your own website instead of the open internet is the single most important design decision a church chatbot can make, and Bots.Church made it. Good.
The differences are specific, so here they are specifically.
Citations on every answer. AskMyChurch includes the source as part of each answer, and a runtime check re-verifies the answer against your content before it sends. When your content doesn't hold the answer, it says so and hands off to a person. Bots.Church's site doesn't describe citations or a verification step.
A crisis gate that runs before the AI does. Every incoming message is screened for acute distress — in English and Spanish — before any AI responds. Crisis messages route to the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, the Crisis Text Line (text HOME to 741741), and your church's care team. The AI never attempts a pastoral response in a crisis. Bots.Church's site describes handling prayer requests warmly but does not state a crisis protocol.
Spanish, automatically. AskMyChurch detects English or Spanish and answers in kind, on every plan. Bots.Church's site doesn't mention Spanish or multilingual answers.
Sermons, indexed weekly, cited to the minute. The Canon layer answers teaching questions from your pastor's actual preached words with a link to the exact moment. Bots.Church's site says it trains the AI on your church's website, sermons, and mission; it does not describe indexing new sermons weekly or citing an answer to the moment it was preached.
Updates without a request. New sermons ingest automatically each week, and because the assistant answers from your site's current published content, a website fix becomes a fixed answer. Bots.Church's published model is you tell them, they rescan.
| AskMyChurch | Bots.Church | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $99 / $249 / $500 mo by weekend attendance | $39/mo, one plan |
| Grounded in your church's website | Yes | Yes |
| Sermon answers, cited to the minute | Yes (Canon, auto-indexed weekly) | Trains on sermons (stated); citing to the minute not stated |
| Source cited on every answer | Yes | Not stated |
| Re-verifies answers before sending | Yes | Not stated |
| Crisis-safety gate before any AI runs | Yes — hard-coded, EN + ES | Not stated |
| Spanish | Yes — auto-detected, every plan | Not stated |
| Content updates | Sermons weekly, automatic; answers follow your current site | Site rescans on request |
| Lead capture to staff email | Routes prayer, serve, and visit requests to the right leader | Yes — chat summaries emailed to staff |
| Install | Link or QR code, ~30 minutes | One pasted snippet |
(Bots.Church facts verified 2026-07-11 from bots.church. "Not stated" means the claim was not published on their site when we checked — it is not a claim that they lack it. Ask them directly; a good vendor will answer plainly.)
Yes. Bots.Church lists one plan at $39/month with unlimited conversations. AskMyChurch starts at $99/month. If price is the deciding factor, Bots.Church wins on price.
As of this writing, bots.church does not state per-answer source citations, a crisis-safety gate, or Spanish support. AskMyChurch includes all three in every plan, plus the Canon sermon layer: answers from your pastor's indexed sermons, cited to the minute — a citation depth Bots.Church's site doesn't describe.
Both products say they answer from your church's website rather than the open internet. AskMyChurch also indexes your pastor's sermons automatically each week and cites answers to the minute; Bots.Church says it trains on your church's website, sermons, and mission, with rescans when you tell them your site changed.
Yes — closer than most pairs on our comparison pages. Both are congregant-facing church chatbots grounded in your website. The differences are in safety guarantees, citations, languages, sermons, and how updates happen.
Updated 2026-07-11 · AskMyChurch by Vision Genesis · Knoxville, TN
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