Instagram DM automation that runs in the real Instagram app
Auto replies, comment-to-DM, follow-ups and an AI agent that answers in your voice, on real Android phones or cloud phones. For personal, creator and business accounts.
Most automation never opens Instagram.
MationX works inside it.
ManyChat, LinkDM, Inrō and the rest run on Instagram's official messaging API: professional accounts only, the other person has to start, and automated replies have to come within 24 hours. Private-API tools and DM bots imitate the app from a server or a browser tab instead.
MationX works the Instagram app itself, on an Android phone or a cloud phone, the way a person would. So it runs on any account, follows up when it makes sense, and keeps several accounts going from one place.
Your DMs answered in your voice, from your real account.
01The difference
Not limited to what the API allows. Everything Instagram sees is a person using the app.
- Personal, creator and business accountsProfessional accounts only
- The Instagram app on a phone, used like a personMeta's API, from a server
- Follow-ups days later, when they make senseAutomated replies within 24 hours of their last message
- You can write first and follow upThe other person has to start
- New accounts warmed up, every account watchedNot part of the tool
- Anything a person can do in the appOnly what the API exposes
The official API is built for brands answering inbound messages. That is why the tools on it need a professional account, wait for the customer to write first, and stop automating when the 24-hour window closes.
MationX does not connect to an API at all. Our app on the phone reads the screen and works the Instagram app: it opens the chat, reads, types and sends, at a person's pace. Personal accounts work the same as business ones, and nothing has to be connected to Meta.
Compare with ManyChat, private APIs, DM bots and cloud phones02What you get
Auto replies, comment-to-DM and an AI agent. On any account, in the real app.
On your post
COMMENTmaya.rose now
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Sent you a DM ✨
Maya Rose
maya.rose
Maya Rose
maya.rose · Instagram
View profileToday 11:02
The linen shirt, sand
yourstore.com
Seen
Your webhook
EVENTdm.received
{
"from": "@maya.rose",
"text": "Do you have it in M?"
}Instagram auto reply for DMs and comments
Every comment and DM answered, on personal accounts too. Each message also comes to your webhook, so your CRM, n8n, Make or Zapier sees the whole conversation.
An AI agent on every account
Answers in the customer's language and your brand's tone, qualifies the lead, hands it to a person.
Tue 18:40 · no reply
Thu 10:02
Follow-ups after 24 hours
A reminder for people who asked and went quiet, days later if that is when it makes sense.
Any kind of account
Personal, creator or business. No account switch, nothing connected to Meta.
Many accounts, one place
For agencies and creators with several accounts, each one on its own device.
New accounts warmed up
A new account browses and replies for a couple of weeks before it automates at full pace.
An account in trouble steps out
A warning pauses that account and tells you, before anything else happens to it.
Kept working after updates
Instagram changes its screens often. Every step is logged, and fixing it is our job.
Plugs into what you already use. A webhook for every message: n8n, Make, Zapier, your CRM, or any code that can receive a request.
MationX sends every Instagram message to a webhook, so it works with n8n, Make, Zapier, Google Sheets, Slack, Notion, Gmail and any system that can receive an HTTP request; the AI agent runs on ChatGPT or DeepSeek with your own key.
03How it works
A phone, our app, the Instagram app. And your system on the other end.
01
Your phone or cloud phone
Android handsets, box phones or the cloud phones you already rent. One account per device.
02
MationX Client reads the screen
Our app on the phone sees the chat the way you do and works the Instagram app with taps and typing.
03
The real Instagram app
Replies, comments and DMs go out from the app itself, typed at a person's pace.
dm.received
{ "from": "@maya.rose",
"text": "Have it in M?" }
04
Your webhook and AI agent
Every message comes to your system; the agent's answer goes back the same way.
One account, one device
Each account lives on its own phone or cloud phone, so accounts never share a device.
Fast enough for a DM
The phone opens the chat, reads and types. Replies land within a minute or two, not in milliseconds.
Yours end to end
Your phones, your accounts, your model key. We set it up and keep it running.
04Compared
A ManyChat alternative, and the other kinds too. Every way to automate Instagram DMs, side by side.
 The real app, run for you | Official API toolsManyChat, LinkDM, Inrō, InstantDM, SetSmart | Private-API servicesinstagrapi, Unipile, DM Champ | Browser and session botsColdDMs, Apify bulk DM actors | Cloud phones with templatesGeeLark, DuoPlus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runs the real Instagram app on a device | Meta's API | Imitates the app from a server | A web session in a browser | Cloud phones | |
| Works on personal accounts | Professional only | ||||
| Can write first and follow up after 24 hours | Meta's 24-hour window | ||||
| An AI agent that answers in your voice | Included on some, extra on others | You build it | Not stated | Your key, you wire it up | |
| New accounts warmed up, every account watched | Not offered | Not stated | Not stated | A template you run | |
| Set up, run and fixed after updates for you | Self-serve, one managed plan | Self-serve, code | Self-serve | Self-serve | |
| How you pay | $49 for 1 account, $299 for 10 | $10–39 a month per account; SetSmart $99 | Free library; Unipile €49 a month for 10 accounts | ColdDMs $99 a month for 100 DMs a day | $8–17 per phone a month, plus usage |
Prices are entry prices listed on each vendor's own site in November 2026. The official API tools share Meta's rules: professional accounts, the customer writes first, automated replies within 24 hours. The rest are self-serve: you get a library, a bot or a phone, and keeping the accounts healthy is up to you. Running one business account that only needs inbound flows? An official API tool is the simpler choice, and we will tell you so.
05Pricing
Monthly, accounts included. Move the slider to see your plan.
Starter
One account answering for you, for a creator or a business with one Instagram.
- 1 account
- Auto replies, comment-to-DM, follow-ups
- AI agent replies, bring your own model key
- Warm-up and account monitoring
Growth
Most teams10 accounts, warmed up and watched. Each extra account $10, $8 from 100.
Growth plus 15 accounts at $10.
- 10 accounts included
- Auto replies, comment-to-DM, follow-ups
- AI agent replies, bring your own model key
- Webhooks for n8n, Make, Zapier, your CRM
- Warm-up and account monitoring
Managed setup
We build it around your business: the flows, the agent's voice and the systems it reports to.
- Flows written for your accounts
- AI agent tuned to your brand voice
- Integration with your CRM
- Warm-up plan for new accounts
Billed monthly, in advance. Above 300 accounts, custom pricing. Phones or cloud phones and your AI model key stay on your side, billed to your own accounts; we do not sell or rent phones.
Questions. About Instagram DM automation.
Something we didn't cover?
Tell us how many accounts you run and what they should answer. You get an answer within a day, from the person who would set it up.
Yes, for the same jobs: auto replies, comment-to-DM and an AI chatbot. ManyChat, LinkDM and Inrō run on Instagram's official messaging API, so they need a professional account connected to Meta, wait for the other person to write first, and automate replies only within 24 hours of their last message. MationX works the real Instagram app on an Android phone, the way a person would, so it runs on any account and can follow up days later. If one business account with inbound flows is all you need, ManyChat is the simpler choice and we will say so.
Private-API tools such as instagrapi or Unipile log in from a server by imitating the app, and DM bots run on a session in your browser; both are self-serve, and keeping the accounts healthy is up to you. Cloud phone platforms such as GeeLark run the real app too, with templates you set up and maintain yourself. MationX runs the real app on your phones or the cloud phones you rent, and we set it up, warm the accounts up, watch them and fix the flows after every Instagram update.
Yes. Personal, creator or business: MationX uses the app the way you do, so there is no account type to switch to and nothing to connect to Meta.
Yes, MationX supplies the software. Your own Android phones, box phones or cloud phones you rent all work; each account runs on its own device. We do not sell or rent phones.
Someone comments a keyword under your post or reel, the phone sends them a DM with your link, and whatever they answer goes to the AI agent or to your team, and to your webhook.
Answer from your products, prices and policies, in the customer's language and your brand's tone, ask what you need to know, and hand the conversation to a person with a summary. It runs on your own model key, ChatGPT or DeepSeek, billed at cost to your own account.
Nobody can honestly promise that. The real app, human pacing, a warm-up for new accounts and daily limits remove the risks that come from automating badly, and an account that gets a warning is paused and you are told. What you send, and to whom, decides the rest.
Replies land within a minute or two: the phone opens the chat, reads and types, the way a person does. You get a price within a day of your first message, and most setups run within days after that.
Yes. Every message comes to your webhook, so n8n, Make, Zapier, your CRM or your own code can react to it.
Starter is one account for $49 a month. Growth includes 10 accounts for $299; each extra account is $10 a month, accounts past 100 are $8, and above 300 we agree a price together.
Monthly, in advance. You get one price for the whole setup before you commit, and AI usage is billed at cost to your own account.
Tell us what your accounts should answer. A price for the whole setup within a day.
- How many accounts, and what kind
- What people write to you about
- Whether an AI agent should answer
- Which phones or cloud phones you have
Answer every DM, in your voice
The real Instagram app, on your phones. A price for your accounts within a day.
Instagram is a trademark of Meta Platforms, Inc. MationX is not affiliated with Meta.
maya.rose now
LINK 🙏
linen.studio now
Sent you a DM ✨
Comment-to-DM
A keyword under a post or reel, and the DM with your link goes out on its own.