# Streamlabs Cloudbot alternative

How Bloopbot compares with Streamlabs Cloudbot: every command, alert and timer is a flow you can open and change, and AI works as checks inside those flows.

Checked September 2026 against [Streamlabs](https://streamlabs.com).

## Streamlabs Cloudbot and Bloopbot compared

Both chat bots run in the cloud and are free to start. Cloudbot sits inside the Streamlabs suite, beside its streaming app and tipping. Bloopbot is a chat bot with hosted overlays that you add to the streaming app you already use. Song requests, hosted overlays, Twitch polls and AI steps may not be available on your channel yet.

|  | Streamlabs | Bloopbot |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Building commands | Custom commands with variables | Flows of triggers, checks and actions on a canvas |
| Timers | Timers | A flow with an **On a timer** trigger |
| Moderation filters | Caps, emotes, paragraphs, links, symbols and profanity | Blacklist, links, caps, symbols, emotes and repetition filters on **Moderation** |
| Loyalty | A loyalty store | Points and watch time, with `!points`, `!top` and `!give` |
| Giveaways | Giveaways | Keyword entry, tickets that can cost points, a draw and a panel on stream |
| Polls | Polls | Twitch polls and predictions, started or announced from a flow |
| Quotes | Quotes | A numbered quote book, with `!quote` |
| Media requests | Media share | Spotify song requests, through your own Spotify account |
| Alerts and overlays | Part of the Streamlabs suite | Hosted overlays with alert layers, added to OBS as a Browser Source |
| AI | Intelligent Streaming Agent, a 3D co-host for specific games that runs on your own RTX graphics card | Checks inside your flows that read what a message means and pick a path |
| The bot’s name | Renaming the bot needs Ultra | Your own bot account, which may not be included on your plan |
| Streaming app and tipping | Streamlabs Desktop and tipping | Not part of Bloopbot |
| Platforms | Twitch, YouTube and Kick | Twitch |
| Price | Free, with Ultra at $27 a month or $189 a year | Free plan |

## How an AI step works in a flow

An AI step in Bloopbot answers a question about a chat message or a viewer’s typed-in text, then your flow takes the path you wired to that answer. It never writes a reply of its own, so nothing viewers read is written by the AI.

The **Check reward text before it goes on stream** template shows how that works:

1. **On a reward redeemed** starts the flow when a viewer redeems a reward and types something.
2. Inside the flow’s **Screen reward text** group, **AI: text OK to show?** reads what they typed.
3. Clean text plays your `redemption` alert with the viewer’s name and what they typed. Flagged text never reaches the screen, and the flow asks Twitch to refund the points, which Twitch allows for a reward Bloopbot created.

[AI features and what’s included](https://bloopbot.com/docs/ai-features) lists each AI step and shows how to check which ones your channel has.

## Moving over from Cloudbot

There’s no importer for Cloudbot, so you rebuild the commands you use as flows. You can keep Cloudbot running while you try Bloopbot.

1. Sign in with Twitch, then make the bot a moderator in your chat with the `/mod` command the Setup guide shows you.
2. Install the **Starter** pack from **Flows → Explore packs**. Its flows arrive paused.
3. Open a flow, change its command and message to match the Cloudbot command it replaces, and switch it on.
4. Switch the Cloudbot command off, so chat never gets two replies.

![The Explore packs page: the category filters All, Alerts, Moderation, Music, Community and Utility, then the Starter pack card marked Popular with 11 flows and the Alerts pack card marked New with 7 flows, whose description says it shows your alert designs on your overlay with a thank-you in chat, each with its Use pack button.](https://bloopbot.com/docs/screenshots/flow-templates.jpg)

_Explore packs: install a ready-made pack, then change any step._

## When Streamlabs is the better fit

Streamlabs puts a streaming app, overlays, tipping and a chat bot in one suite, with multistreaming and a mobile app. If you want all of that from one company, or you stream on YouTube or Kick as well as Twitch, Streamlabs is the better choice.