Connect your account
Link your Instagram professional account once. No password sharing, no browser automation — just Instagram Login.
For Instagram professional accounts
· Early access
Turn Instagram comments into customers for creators, shops & agencies
Someone comments LINK on your post or reel, and i8chat DMs them your link, usually within seconds, through Instagram’s official API.
Free · no card · sign in with Google. Early access: we switch on your Instagram within about a day, then you accept one tester invite in the Instagram app.
<60s
Typical comment-to-DM time
0
Passwords stored
24/7
Comment monitoring
250
Free DMs every month
Comment in. Link out. Usually within seconds.
What one campaign looks like, from comment to click.
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Comment
@your.follower LINK
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Public reply
@yourbrand Sent it to your DMs! 📩
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DM
Hey! Here’s the link you asked for 👇
How it works
Three steps. Connect an account, build a campaign, and let it run.
Build a campaign
Pick a post or reel, set the keywords to watch, write the public reply and the DM — with up to two tappable link buttons.
Deliver in seconds
Instagram notifies us of new comments within seconds, and a sweep every few minutes re-checks your campaign posts for comments it didn’t push.
Everything you need
One focused workflow: keyword, post, reply, link, result.
Four ways to trigger a DM:
- Post comments
- Reel comments
- Story replies
- DMs with a keyword
Keyword matching
Match one or many keywords per post, whole-word or partial. LINK, SHOP, GUIDE, PRICE — you decide what triggers the DM.
Built for Arabic comments
i8chat ignores Arabic diacritics and tatweel, treats أ, إ and آ as ا, ة as ه and ى as ي, and reads Arabic digits, so رَابِط matches رابط, طفوله matches طفولة and ١٠٠ matches 100. Arabic keyword suggestions add both رابط and الرابط in one tap, with ready-made Arabic replies.
Tracked links
Swap any link for a tracked redirect and see clicks and CTR per campaign — up to two link buttons per DM, each with its own stats.
Follow gate
Ask for a follow before the link is delivered, verified through Meta’s own follow status — and it always fails open, so real followers are never trapped.
Tap-to-reveal
Send an opening DM with a button; the link arrives after they tap it.
Broadcasts
Message the people who talked to you, inside Meta’s 24-hour messaging window. A broadcast stays open for up to 7 days and reaches people as they next message you or tap a button.
Client-ready reports
Send clients a read-only link with sends, clicks, CTR and top keywords. No login, no screenshots.
Workspaces & roles
Owner, admin and member roles with invite links. Run several Instagram accounts under one roof on Pro and Agency — built for client work.
Full delivery logs
Every send, skip, and failure is logged with a reason. No black box — you always know what happened.
Start from a template
Copy a ready-made campaign, change the keyword and link, and go live.
Social commerce
DTC Product Link Drop
- LINK
- SHOP
- BUY
Creator funnels
Fitness Plan Download
- PLAN
- FIT
- START
Local services
Beauty Service Price List
- PRICE
- MENU
- BOOK
Events
Event RSVP Campaign
- RSVP
- TICKET
- JOIN
Early access, in the open
Simple, honest pricing
Start free. Upgrade when your campaigns grow. Every plan runs on the official Instagram API.
Free
$0 /mo
For your first campaigns.
Follow gate + tracked links included, even on Free
- 1 Instagram account
- 1 active campaign
- 250 DMs per month
Creator
$9 /mo
For creators finding their rhythm.
- 1 Instagram account
- 5 active campaigns
- 2,000 DMs per month
Pro
$19 /mo
For creators who post daily.
- 5 Instagram accounts
- Unlimited active campaigns
- 5,000 DMs per month
Agency
$49 /mo
For teams and client work.
- Unlimited Instagram accounts
- Unlimited active campaigns
- 25,000 DMs per month
- Separate workspaces for each client (each starts on Free and has its own plan)
- Priority support
What counts as a DM? Every DM i8chat sends for you, except a repeated follow prompt. A DM that sends the link straight away is 1 DM; campaigns that send an opening DM and reveal the link after a tap, or use the follow gate, use 2 per person (3 with the optional follow-up), so 250 DMs reach about 125–250 people. Public comment replies don’t count.
Every plan includes
- Keyword-to-DM replies
- Public comment replies
- DM logs & delivery status
- Tracked links with clicks & click rate
- Two link buttons per DM
- Follow gate
- {username} personalization
- Campaign templates
- Shareable campaign reports
- Unified DM inbox
- Team invites with owner, admin & member roles
- Story-reply & DM keyword triggers
- Broadcasts inside Meta’s 24-hour window
- Arabic-aware keyword matching
Flat monthly price by DMs, no per-contact fees. Creator is $9/mo for 2,000 DMs.
Switching from Manychat? See how i8chat compares →All plans send only through Meta’s Instagram API, within Meta’s published rate limits, with per-account rate limiting and queued sends. Cancel anytime. During early access, paid plans unlock once your Instagram account is switched on and connected.
What a campaign can look like
How creators, shops and agencies can turn comment sections into customers.
Illustrative examples, not customer data.
27.7%
click-through rate on the DMs sent during a 30-day product drop
Example: e-commerce brand
The product drop that answered everyone
One instruction under every reel: comment LINK. i8chat matches each comment, posts a public reply and sends a tracked link in a DM, while the team packs orders.
1,284DMs sent
1,284comments matched
356tracked link clicks
41%
of commenters followed before getting the link
Example: course creator
A course launch that ran overnight
With the follow gate on, i8chat asks each commenter to follow first, checks it through Meta’s follow status, then sends the course link, personalized with their username.
4,856commenters
1,991follows verified
1,991course links sent
Questions, answered
What is an Instagram comment auto-reply?
It’s a DM sent automatically to someone who comments a keyword on your post or reel. i8chat sends it through Instagram’s official API, usually within seconds, with your link as a button.
Is this allowed by Instagram?
Yes. i8chat sends through Meta’s official Instagram API for private replies, the same API Meta provides for business tools, and stays under its cap of 750 private replies per hour. There is no password and no bot login: i8chat never scrapes, never automates a browser and never asks for your Instagram password.
Which Instagram accounts can I connect?
Business and Creator (professional) accounts. Personal accounts don’t receive Meta’s comment notifications, and switching takes about a minute in the Instagram app.
What happens after I sign up?
i8chat is in early access while Meta completes its review of our app, so we switch on each Instagram account personally:
- Sign up with Google and leave your Instagram @handle in Settings.
- We switch your account on, usually within a day, and email you.
- Accept i8chat’s tester invite in the Instagram app (Settings and activity → Apps and websites → Tester invites; on older versions, Website permissions → Apps and websites), then connect your account and build your first campaign.
What counts as a DM?
Every DM i8chat sends for you counts once: the opening DM, the link after a tap, an optional follow-up, replies to DM keywords and story replies, and broadcasts. A repeated follow prompt, sent when someone taps the follow button before they follow, doesn’t count. A DM that sends the link straight away is 1 DM; campaigns that send an opening DM and reveal the link after a tap, or use the follow gate, use 2 per person (3 with the optional follow-up), so 250 DMs reach about 125–250 people. Public comment replies don’t count.
Can I use i8chat in Arabic?
Yes. Keywords, public replies, DMs and buttons all work in Arabic and with emoji, matching understands Arabic spelling variants, and the builder offers ready-made Arabic suggestions. The dashboard itself is in English for now, but everything your audience sees can be fully in Arabic.
What happens if I hit Meta’s rate limit?
i8chat stays under Meta’s documented cap of 750 private replies per hour per account. Overflow is queued and retried for up to about a day, and anything that still can’t go out is marked in your logs so you can follow up. That is separate from your plan’s monthly DM allowance: once the allowance is used, new DMs stop until the next month or an upgrade, and comments held back in the last 48 hours are answered after an upgrade.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. Plans are month to month. Cancel or switch plans in Billing → Manage billing. Your plan stays active until the end of the period you paid for; after that the workspace uses the Free plan’s limits. Campaigns that are already on keep running within the Free plan’s monthly DMs, and your campaigns, logs and data are kept.
Put your next reel to work
No card required. Sign up today — we switch on your Instagram account personally, usually within a day.
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