Rose bot alternative: Replio vs Rose for Telegram groups

Rose (MissRose_bot) is one of the most widely used free moderation bots on Telegram: a huge set of chat commands for bans, warnings, blocklists and locks, plus federations that share bans between groups. Replio is a different kind of bot. It answers members from your business's own knowledge base, alerts your team when a person is needed, and runs contests that reward real members. This page says which one a group needs, and when the answer is both.

We read Rose's own documentation and FAQ on 30 September 2026. Rose changes slowly and is run by one developer, but check missrose.org before you decide, and where we could not confirm something in its docs we say so rather than guess.

The short answer

• Choose Rose if your group needs order kept and nothing more: a community or hobby group where admins want granular commands, and where free matters. Rose is very good at that and nothing on this page should talk you out of it.
• Choose Replio if the group is a place where customers ask your business things, such as prices, order problems, opening times or how a promotion works, and the answers should come from what you have actually written down, in the member's language, with a route to a human.
• Run both if you have a large community that is also a support channel. Rose moderates, Replio answers.

What Rose does, according to its own docs

Rose launched in 2018 as the successor to an older bot called Marie. It is closed source and, according to its About page, owned and developed by one person, with volunteers helping in the support chat. You add @MissRose_bot to a group and make it an admin; without admin rights it cannot moderate. Everything is done with commands, and there is no web dashboard that we could find. To change settings without typing in the group you use connections: send Rose a direct message, connect to a group you administer, and issue the same commands privately.

The documentation's module list covers:

• Moderation: admin tools, bans, mutes, kicks, warnings and logging.
• Anti-spam: locks, a captcha, blocklists, antiflood and antiraid.
• Filters and notes: a keyword you choose triggers a reply you wrote, and notes are saved messages members can pull up by name. Greetings and goodbyes sit alongside.
• Federations: a shared ban list. Groups that join the same federation apply its bans automatically, so a scammer removed from one chat is removed from all of them.
• Housekeeping: cleaning of messages and service messages, message formatting with buttons, silent actions, import and export of settings, forum topics, and more than 30 interface languages.

The public bot is free. Rose says it is paid for by custom clones and occasional brand collaborations, and that it does not sell user data. The paid clones, Rose Core and Rose Premium, give a group its own bot name and picture, scheduled and repeated messages, announcement broadcasts and higher limits on filters and notes.

What we did not find in Rose

None of this is a criticism, because a moderation bot is not meant to be a support agent. But it is the reason people go looking for an alternative, so we will be precise about it. In Rose's documentation we found no AI features, no analytics or statistics, no giveaway or contest tool, no hand-off to a support team and no channel other than Telegram. Treat those absences as our reading, not a guarantee: some of its command pages were not reachable when we checked, so a feature could exist that we did not see.

The practical consequence is that Rose answers what you have pre-written. A filter for "price" can post your price list. It cannot read your refund policy and answer "I paid twice, what happens now?", and it cannot notice that a message is a complaint that needs a person.

Where Replio is genuinely different

Answers from your knowledge base, not from a list of triggers

Replio's agent reads what you give it: your FAQ, website, policies and price list. When a member asks a question in the group, it answers with your facts in the member's language, and if your knowledge base does not cover it, it says so instead of inventing an answer. You do not have to guess every question in advance, which is the limit of a filter list.

People are brought in when they should be

Complaints, payment problems and requests for a human trigger an alert to your team on WhatsApp or Telegram with the conversation attached, and the member is told what happens next. Messages that look like scams in the group, such as fake "support" accounts or wallet-drainer links, also alert the team, even when the bot itself stays quiet.

One agent across channels

Members who ask in your Telegram group also write on WhatsApp, Messenger and your website. The same agent answers on all of them from one knowledge base, and every conversation lands in one shared inbox. Rose is Telegram only.

Contests with anti-farming rules

Replio runs Invite and Win contests where a join counts only after the new member solves the captcha and stays past a 24-hour gate, quiz rounds on Telegram's native quiz polls where every correct answer scores, task campaigns where members submit proof, and raffles. Announcements can be scheduled to every linked group. The bot also knows which contest is live, so when someone asks how to enter, it tells them.

Replio vs Rose, row by row

Where Rose is the better choice

If your group has a few thousand members, an admin team who like commands and no customer questions to speak of, Rose costs nothing and does the job better than Replio would. Its federations are the standout: a shared ban list built up by many communities is something a newer bot cannot replicate by writing code. Its filters and notes cover the fixed-answer questions well, it can be run from DMs through connections, and it has been running since 2018. The honest limits on Replio's side are that its moderation is basic and that it costs money. If those two facts settle it, stay with Rose.

Running Replio and Rose in the same group

1. Keep one captcha. If you rely on Rose's, leave Replio's join captcha off. Two captchas on one join lock people out.
2. Keep one moderator. Rose owns bans, locks and blocklists. Use Replio's keyword blocking only for words specific to your business, or not at all.
3. Add Replio for questions. Add the Replio bot, make it an admin, send the link code from your dashboard in the group, and turn on mention-only mode so it replies only when @mentioned or replied to.
4. Point members to it. Replio posts and pins a short "how to get help" note when you link it. Move any Rose filter that tries to answer a question Replio can now answer, so the two bots do not reply to the same message.

How to add Replio to a Telegram group

1. Start the 7-day trial and add your knowledge base: paste your FAQ, or give it your website.
2. Add @Replio_live_bot to the group as an admin with Restrict members and Delete messages if you want the captcha and spam removal.
3. Send the /link code from your dashboard in the group, from your own account rather than anonymously as the group.
4. Choose captcha, mention-only replies, the welcome message and who gets escalation alerts.
5. @mention the bot with a real question your members ask, and check the answer before you announce it.

Telegram and the website widget come with every paid plan. Starter is $49 a month with one of WhatsApp, Instagram or Messenger, 2 seats and 8,000 AI replies. Scale is $149 with all three, 5 seats and 30,000 AI replies. Pro is $349 with 15 seats, 50,000 AI replies and your own branded Telegram bot. Customer messages are unlimited on every plan, and contests need a paid plan rather than the trial.

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Last updated 2026-09-30. Rose details come from missrose.org (docs, FAQ, About and custom-instances pages) as read on 2026-09-30; they change, so please confirm current features on Rose's own site.