title: Is Microsoft's botframework free of cost?
body: <p>I made an application in Microsoft's bot framework and hosted it online using azure bot channel registration, however, later I found out that only 10000 msgs/month are alotted according to the free plan, and the other one costs a huge $0.5 per 1000 messages which is quite expensive if many customers are going to use it at a time. So is there any other way to create a bot channel free of cost (after the last update?, because there was a way before, but since Microsoft changed its policy from March 18' it seems we'll have to at least register the bot for channeling which will cost further after your one month trial is over).</p>
  
  <p>I want to have a plan of unlimited requests free of cost, so any other alternatives to bot framework? Also, if there is none, can we build the bot with our own built UI and Get/Post requests, etc and construct it into a web Api? Any tutorials for such task which could help me? </p>
  
  <p>I've already hosted the bot on IIS server, all I'm looking for is a channel so that I can embed my bot on other websites. </p>