---
title: "ZeroChats Review (2026): First Honest Look at the Price It Won't Publish"
slug: zerochats-review
author: "Leonardo Maldonado"
category: "Tools & Alternatives"
articleType: product-review
tags: ["ZeroChats pricing","is ZeroChats legit","ZeroChats for fitness coaches","ZeroChats free trial","ZeroChats alternatives"]
publishedAt: 2026-08-20T09:00:00.000Z
updatedAt: 2026-10-17T12:00:00.000Z
canonical: https://setluca.com/blog/zerochats-review
---# ZeroChats Review (2026): First Honest Look at the Price It Won't Publish

> ZeroChats is a fully automated AI setter for Instagram, aimed at fitness coaches, with a Business plan that includes 3,000 chats a month once you sign up: the site itself shows no price. We rate it 2.8/5 on published evidence alone. The seven-day free trial is real, the feature list is focused, but the price is undisclosed until you're in the app, WhatsApp costs extra, and almost nothing about the company can be verified. Take the trial before you believe anyone, including us.

## Key takeaways

- ZeroChats doesn't publish a price on its site at all: the plan and price only appear inside the app after you start a trial. The current in-app plan is Business, 3,000 chats a month (36,000 a year on annual billing), plus WhatsApp as a paid add-on (docs.zerochats.com, retrieved September 2026).
- The seven-day free trial is real, though whether it requires a credit card isn't confirmed from the official site. That's still better trial access than many tools in this category.
- The site publishes no legal pages, company details, founder names, or documentation that we could find, and its performance multipliers carry no methodology.
- ZeroChats doesn't publish a price to compare; you only see it after signing up. For reference, Luca starts at $99/mo, Setter AI starts at $497/mo on monthly billing, and SetSmart starts at $25.
- Our verdict is 2.8/5, scored conservatively on what's verifiable. Only the trial can score the part that matters most: how the AI actually converses.

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ZeroChats is a fully automated Instagram AI setter for fitness coaches. On published evidence we rate it 2.8 out of 5. The seven-day free trial is real, but the site shows no price, WhatsApp costs extra, and almost nothing about the company can be verified. As far as we can tell, this is also the first ZeroChats review published anywhere. We searched in mid-August 2026 and found no coverage to check ours against, and no G2 or Capterra profile. That cuts both ways. You get a first look with no affiliate spin, and we get no second opinion to lean on.

The sourcing here is strict. We build Luca, the DM sales platform for coaches, and it competes with ZeroChats for the same customers. This review is research-based. Every claim below comes from ZeroChats' own site and help centre, in English and Spanish, read closely in September 2026. Where something's missing, we say so. We haven't run ZeroChats on a live account. Where we can't know something without running the product, we say so.

## How did we evaluate ZeroChats?

The rating uses five criteria at equal weight, scored only on published evidence. They are feature scope as documented, pricing and value, transparency, trial access, and channel coverage. Conversation quality, the thing you'd most want scored, is deliberately absent, because we can't measure it from a landing page and won't pretend to.

## What is ZeroChats and who is it built for?

ZeroChats is an AI appointment setter for Instagram DMs. Its pitch is full replacement. The hero text reads "Replace your setters with Artificial Intelligence." The system qualifies leads, handles objections, follows up and books calls with no human in the thread. If that category is new to you, our explainer on [what an AI DM setter is](/blog/what-is-an-ai-dm-setter) covers the basics.

The target customer is specific, and it's the site's clearest strength. ZeroChats speaks to fitness coaches, nutritionists, and trainers selling on Instagram, with course creators second. The primary site is in Spanish, with an English version at /en, and the testimonials read Spain and Latin America. Our guide to [AI setters for fitness coaches](/blog/ai-setter-for-fitness-coaches) explains why that niche suits automation better than most.

On paper the feature list is credible for the category. It has specialised agents for sales, objections and qualification, a conversation simulator, a built-in CRM, scheduled follow-ups, comment-to-lead capture and weekly reports. The named integrations are Instagram through Meta's official API, WhatsApp, Calendly, GoHighLevel, and HubSpot. All of it is vendor description, not something we've operated.

## How much does ZeroChats cost in 2026?

No price is published for the Business plan on the public site, you only see it inside the app after you start a trial. The plan includes 3,000 chats a month, or 36,000 a year on annual billing. It also covers audio, image and video handling, the simulator, the GoHighLevel integration, community and academy access, and advanced reports. WhatsApp accounts are paid add-ons on top, also at a price the site doesn't publish (docs.zerochats.com, retrieved September 2026).

The seven-day free trial is a genuine feature of the sign-up flow, though whether it requires a credit card isn't confirmed from the public site. Setter AI, often compared with ZeroChats, now starts at $497 a month on monthly billing. Its pricing page shows no free tier (checked October 15, 2026).

What the pricing doesn't tell you matters more. The site doesn't publish a price at all, you only see it after you're inside the app. It doesn't define a "chat" either: one conversation, one message, or one contact. It doesn't publish an overage rate past 3,000 chats, the WhatsApp add-on price, or cancellation terms. None of this makes the price you're eventually shown wrong. It just means you can't check it in advance, so treat every missing term as a question to ask in writing before you pay.

## How does ZeroChats' price compare with the alternatives?

ZeroChats doesn't publish where it sits in the price range; the number only appears after signup. Every other figure below was read from each vendor's own pricing page, with Setter AI and Luca rechecked on October 15, 2026.

| Tool | Entry price (monthly) | Included at entry | Channels | Human review option | Free trial |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ZeroChats | Not published | 3,000 chats (in-app) | Instagram (WhatsApp paid add-on) | No, override optional | 7 days |
| Setter AI | $497/mo (monthly billing) | 500 credits | WhatsApp, SMS, website widget | No | No free tier shown |
| Luca | $99/mo ($249 and $499 plans) | 1,250 replies | Telegram, Instagram and Messenger live; WhatsApp coming soon | Yes, auto-send on by default, review on any channel | Yes, 7 days (card required) |
| SetSmart | $25/mo (Light; Pro $97) | 250 AI messages | Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger | No | 7 days on Pro and above |
| ManyChat | $17/mo (Essential) | 250 Active Contacts | Up to 7 channels by plan | N/A, flow builder | 14 days |

Two caveats keep the table honest. ManyChat builds scripted flows rather than sales conversations, so it's here as a price anchor, not a substitute. Our full [ManyChat review](/blog/manychat-review) explains the difference. And the included units don't line up across rows. A ZeroChats "chat" is undefined, a SetSmart message is one AI reply, and a Luca reply is one reply Luca drafts for you. So 3,000 chats could be generous or thin, depending on the definition.

The fairer comparison, since replacement is ZeroChats' own pitch, is a human setter. Paid on what they close, human setters typically cost several times a software subscription. Our breakdown of [what an appointment setter costs](/blog/how-much-does-an-appointment-setter-cost) walks through. Against a human, whatever ZeroChats ends up costing is likely to look cheap. Against the software category it claims to sit in, without a published number there's no way to say where it lands. For side-by-side looks at the other tools, see our [DM tool comparisons](/comparison).

## What can you verify about ZeroChats, and what can't you?

Less than you'd want. In either language, the site publishes no terms of service, no privacy policy we could find, no company registration, no address, and no team names. There's no blog, no documentation, no changelog, and no presence on review platforms. The booking widget for its own sales calls runs on GoHighLevel, which suggests the GHL integration is real infrastructure rather than a logo.

The marketing numbers are loud and unanchored. The homepage shows a counter of 27,493,636 messages processed, plus booking-rate multipliers, none with a time window, sample, or method attached. We treat those the way we'd want our own marketing treated: as claims, not evidence. It's the same reason this blog publishes no Luca performance numbers, only what the product does and what it costs.

To be fair about what this thinness means: an unknown company is not the same as a bad product. Plenty of young tools ship before they write legal pages, and a Spanish-first team has little reason to court English review sites. But you are being asked for roughly EUR 6,000 a year by a vendor you cannot look up. That asymmetry belongs in the score, and it's the main reason ours is conservative.

## What would only a trial tell you?

The whole middle of the product. A landing page can't show you how the AI handles "I've been burned by two online coaches already." It can't show whether the objection agent pushes when it should hold back, or whether follow-ups read as care or as nagging. Those conversations are the product.

Published pages can't tell us six things. Reply quality in English versus Spanish. Latency and pacing. How the qualification agent orders its questions. How the manual override behaves mid-conversation. Whether the AI admits it's an AI when asked. And what support is like after you've paid. A review that scored those from screenshots would be fiction. Ours leaves them unscored, which is why the trial section below exists.

## ZeroChats pros and cons

**Pros**

- Seven-day free trial, unusually good access for the category
- Sharp focus on fitness coaches and Instagram DM sales, with the feature list to match
- Uses Meta's official API for Instagram rather than browser automation, per the site
- Calendly, GoHighLevel, and HubSpot integrations named, with GHL visibly used in-house
- Conversation simulator lets you test the AI before it touches real leads
- A flat monthly fee with a clear included-chat allowance, no per-contact meter, once you see the number

**Cons**

- The price isn't published anywhere on the public site, and WhatsApp costs extra on top of whatever it turns out to be
- "Chat" is undefined, and overage, add-on, and cancellation terms are unpublished
- No legal pages, company details, docs, or independent reviews to check
- Homepage statistics carry no methodology and can't be verified
- Fully automated by design; no review-first mode for coaches who approve replies
- Spanish-first product, and English-language support quality is unknown

## ZeroChats review verdict: 2.8 out of 5

**★★★☆☆ 2.8/5**, scored on published evidence only. The rubric from our methodology section:

| Criterion | Score /5 |
| --- | --- |
| Documented feature scope | 3.5 |
| Pricing and value, undisclosed until signup | 2.5 |
| Transparency and verifiability | 1.5 |
| Trial access and time-to-start | 4.0 |
| Channel coverage | 2.5 |
| Overall (equal weights) | 2.8 |

Feature scope scores well because the documented list covers what the job needs, from multi-agent qualification to a simulator, though it's all vendor-described. Trial access is the standout: a full seven days, with a claimed sub-15-minute setup, though whether it's card-free isn't confirmed. Pricing loses points because the number itself isn't published anywhere, on top of the undefined chat unit and unpublished overage terms. Transparency is the anchor dragging the score down: a company you can't identify making claims you can't check. Channel coverage is Instagram plus paid WhatsApp, with no Telegram or Messenger mentioned.

Read the 2.8 as a research score with the biggest criterion missing, not a verdict on how well the AI sells. A strong trial week could reasonably move your personal score a full point in either direction.

## Who should consider ZeroChats?

A narrower group than the homepage suggests, and a real one.

**Consider it if you're a Spanish-speaking fitness coach or nutritionist selling on Instagram at volume.** That's who the product is visibly built for, and the community and academy likely run in the founders' first language. If your inbox sees hundreds of DMs a month and you want them handled end to end, the trial costs you nothing but seven days.

**Consider it if you already run GoHighLevel.** ZeroChats integrates with GHL and runs its own booking on it, so the plumbing between DM and calendar should be short. Calendly and HubSpot users get the same logic, on the site's word.

**Look elsewhere if you approve your own replies.** ZeroChats is built to replace the setter, with an override for exceptions. If you want to review every message before it sends, you're fighting the product's design. We cover that split in [hiring a setter versus using AI](/blog/hire-a-setter-vs-ai). If you'd rather see a number before you commit, plenty of tools publish their price up front. Our roundup of the [best AI DM setters](/blog/best-ai-dm-setter) compares them, ours included.

## A worked example: Marta's math without a published price

Illustrative composite, not a real client. Marta is an online fitness coach selling a EUR 1,200 twelve-week program, with about 350 inbound Instagram DMs a month from Reels and story replies.

**The allowance.** If a "chat" means a conversation, 350 sits far inside 3,000. If it means a message, a typical four-reply thread makes 1,400, comfortably inside the 3,000 allowance either way. Same inbox, two different answers, and only ZeroChats can tell her which meter she's on.

**The break-even.** ZeroChats doesn't publish an annual figure to test against Marta's EUR 1,200 program, you'd need her actual invoice to run this math for ZeroChats. On Luca's Pro plan at $249, the yearly bill is $2,988, and the same test needs about two and a half attributed clients. SetSmart's Pro tier at $97 needs one.

**The unpriced parts.** Marta closes about a third of her sales on WhatsApp. For ZeroChats that's a paid add-on with no listed price, on top of a base plan that isn't priced publicly either. Her real comparison is two unknown numbers, against tools that publish the whole bill. That's the arithmetic the trial week should finish.

## What should you test in the seven-day trial?

Treat the trial as an audit, since the public pages can't be one, and go in with a list.

| What to test | How | Red flag |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Objection handling | Feed the simulator your three most common objections, in your words | Generic reassurance instead of a question back |
| The chat meter | Ask support to define a "chat" and show the usage counter | No clear answer in writing |
| Disclosure | Have a friend ask the AI directly if it's a bot | The AI denies being AI |
| English support | Send a pre-sales question in English, time the reply | Days of silence or Spanish-only responses |
| Booking accuracy | Run a test lead through to a Calendly booking, wrong timezone included | Calls landing at the wrong hour |
| The exit | Ask for cancellation terms and the WhatsApp add-on price before day seven | Terms only available after payment |

Spend most of your attention on the objection test. Our list of [lead qualification questions for coaches](/blog/lead-qualification-questions-for-coaches) doubles as a script for testing any AI setter before you buy.

## Which edge cases should you plan for?

**The English-speaking coach.** The product is Spanish-first, and the English site is a translation of unknown depth. Community, academy, and support may all run in Spanish, so verify every touchpoint in English during the trial, not after.

**The WhatsApp-dependent funnel.** WhatsApp is an add-on with no listed price. WhatsApp's own rules also add a limit no vendor can remove: Meta's 24-hour customer service window controls when a business can send free-form messages. Ask how ZeroChats handles the window before moving your best channel there.

**The month you outgrow **3,000 chats. No overage rate is published. Your options at chat 3,001, and their cost, are undefined, and a launch month is the worst time to find out. Get the answer in writing first.

**The exit.** With no visible terms of service, you're relying on whatever the checkout flow says about renewal and cancellation, so screenshot it. Running on Meta's official API keeps the [Instagram DM automation](/blog/is-instagram-dm-automation-safe) side safe; contract risk is separate, and this contract is invisible until you're in it.

## What mistakes do buyers make with a tool like this?

Three repeat constantly with thin-site vendors, and a fourth is specific to this category.

**Reading the multipliers as benchmarks.** A booking-rate multiplier with no baseline, window, or sample size is an ad. Nothing on the site lets you check it, so plan your economics as if the lift were modest, then be pleasantly surprised.

**Skipping the trial and negotiating annual.** Annual billing bundles the same Business plan into a locked yearly rate, which can read as appealing exactly when you should be slowest. Seven free days exist. Use all seven before any twelve-month conversation.

**Assuming 3,000 chats means 3,000 leads.** Until the unit is defined in writing, budget as if it were messages, the least generous reading. If it turns out to be conversations, your math only improves.

**Handing full automation your highest-ticket threads on day one.** Whatever tool you pick, read transcripts weekly at minimum. An unreviewed wrong answer to a EUR 1,200 lead costs more than the subscription, and with auto-send on, you find out late.

## The decision criteria: trial it, pick an alternative, or pass

**Take the trial** if you're in the bullseye. That's a Spanish-speaking fitness or nutrition coach on Instagram with hundreds of inbound DMs a month, happy with full automation, and willing to get a quote before committing. Firsthand evidence beats this review.

**Pick an alternative** if any single condition fails. Need Telegram or Messenger (both live on Luca), or the option to review replies first? Luca drafts each reply. Auto-send is on by default on every channel, and you can switch any channel to review. Need the lowest price for hands-off booking: SetSmart starts at $25. Capturing commenters rather than closing: a flow tool is cheaper. The [complete guide to AI setters](/ai-setter) maps the whole field.

**Pass entirely** if unpublished terms are a dealbreaker for you on principle, or your volume is small enough to answer personally within the hour. At low volume, personal replies beat any software.

## One honest limit of this ZeroChats review

Two, in this case. The first is ours as a reviewer. We haven't run ZeroChats, so this review can't tell you the one thing that decides the purchase: whether its AI can hold a real sales conversation with your leads. The rubric scores what's public. The trial scores the product. Don't let the first substitute for the second.

ZeroChats may suit Spanish-speaking fitness coaches; run the trial before you pay.

The second limit is ours as a competitor. ZeroChats ships comment-to-lead capture and a full-replacement model that some high-volume coaches genuinely want. Luca deliberately does neither. We're reply-only and human-paced, drafting the way you write with auto-send on by default and review available on any channel, because we think the coach should stay the closer. If you've decided you want the setter fully replaced, ZeroChats' design matches your goal better than ours does. And whichever way you go, no AI reads a hesitant, half-decided lead the way a good human does. Keep yourself in the conversations that pay for everything else.

If ZeroChats' unpublished price made you check the category's other price tags, flat plans from $99 are on [Luca's pricing](/pricing) page. Every Luca plan comes with a 7-day free trial (card required).


## FAQ

### What is ZeroChats?

ZeroChats is an AI appointment setter for Instagram DMs, aimed mainly at fitness coaches, nutritionists, and trainers. It qualifies leads, handles objections, sends follow-ups, and books calls automatically, with a manual override. The company is Spanish-first, with an English version of its site at zerochats.com/en.

### How much does ZeroChats cost?

ZeroChats doesn't publish a price anywhere on its public site: the number only appears inside the app once you start a trial. The plan itself, called Business, includes 3,000 chats a month (36,000 a year on annual billing), a conversation simulator, GoHighLevel integration, and reports. WhatsApp accounts are paid add-ons at unlisted prices, and overage and cancellation terms aren't published either (retrieved September 2026).

### Does ZeroChats have a free trial?

Yes. ZeroChats offers a seven-day free trial with full access to the product; whether it requires a credit card isn't confirmed from the public site. It's strong trial access for the category, and the only way to evaluate its conversation quality, which no published page demonstrates.

### Is ZeroChats legit?

Unclear from public evidence. The product and its Meta API integration appear real, but the site publishes no company details, legal pages, or documentation, and we found no independent reviews as of August 2026. The free trial lets you verify the product yourself before paying anything, though whether it's card-free isn't confirmed.

### What channels does ZeroChats support?

Instagram is the core channel, connected through Meta's official API according to the site. WhatsApp is available as a paid add-on rather than included. Telegram and Facebook Messenger aren't mentioned anywhere on the site. Calendly, GoHighLevel, and HubSpot are the named integrations.

### Does ZeroChats work in English?

The site offers an English version, but the product is Spanish-first and its testimonials come from Spanish-speaking coaches. Whether the AI, community, academy, and support perform equally well in English isn't documented, so English-speaking coaches should test every touchpoint during the free trial.


## Sources

1. [ZeroChats: English homepage (no public price shown anywhere on the page; Business plan, integrations, marketing claims). Retrieved October 17, 2026.](https://zerochats.com/en)
2. [ZeroChats: Spanish homepage (primary-language site, positioning, testimonials, site structure). Retrieved October 17, 2026.](https://zerochats.com/)
3. [Setter AI: Pricing (monthly $497 for 500 credits, shown as 1,000 for a limited period, then $2,297 and $3,497; yearly plans about $397, $1,997 and $2,997 a month; no free tier shown). Retrieved October 15, 2026.](https://www.trysetter.com/pricing)
4. [SetSmart: Pricing (Light $25/mo 250 messages; Pro $97/mo 1,000; Scale $297; Enterprise $797; 7-day trial). Retrieved October 17, 2026.](https://setsmart.io/pricing)
5. [Manychat: Pricing (Essential $17/mo monthly billing, 250 Active Contacts, 14-day trial)](https://manychat.com/pricing)
6. [Meta for Developers: Messenger Platform policy overview (24-hour customer service window)](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/policy)
7. [ZeroChats. "Créditos, planes y suscripción" (help centre). Retrieved September 25, 2026.](https://docs.zerochats.com/credits-and-plans/)

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