Telegram
Optional, with beacon. Free; its sink needs Resend's free plan.
Where you answer your site's visitors, from your phone. The AI never answers in Telegram: the group gets the visitor's words, and the visitor gets yours.
At a glance
Without it
No account
- Works: Visitors' messages reach you
- Not here: A topic per visitor, answered from your phone
- Not here: Live chat with a person
Free
$0
- Works: Visitors' messages reach you
- Works: A topic per visitor, answered from your phone
- Works: Live chat with a person
Paid
Paid broadcasts: regatta uses none of it
- Works: Visitors' messages reach you
- Works: A topic per visitor, answered from your phone
- Works: Live chat with a person
What it brings, by module
lighthousebeacon's Telegram sink: each form message, chat hand-off or mail to the site's address opens a topic in your team's group. Your reply there reaches the visitor in the open chat within 3 seconds, or by mail.
Free plan
- Bots message their users at no cost.
- A bot sends at most 20 messages a minute in a group and about one a second in a chat: plenty for a site's visitors.
Paid plans
Paid broadcasts 0.1 Stars a message
- Only past 30 messages a second, for bots with 100,000 monthly users. regatta uses none of it.
As listed on core.telegram.org/bots/faq, read 2026-10-24.
Without it
- beacon's GitHub sink: each form message becomes an issue, you reply from your own mail, and the visitor's answer does not come back to the issue. No live chat with a person.
Sources
Prices and limits as each page listed them on 2026-10-24.