Hi Microsoft Teams, I was looking on creating and hosting bots. I thought that it is required to host the bot in Azure but according to documentation it is not but it needs to registered in Azure bot framework using https://dev.botframework.com/bots/new. It also tells that we should also add Microsoft Teams as channel after the bot is registered. How does it work? What are the requirements to host it outside of Azure? Does it mean that it is free to register our bot? Please let me know the details because the documentation doesn't tell more information about this. Thank you.

avillanueva You can register you bot with dev.botframework.com. And you need to set the bot endpoint URL where bot is hosted, It can be hosted in Azure of course, or somewhere else (e.g. AWS, on premises, whatever). And you should also add Microsoft Teams as channel after the bot is registered. If you want to register your bot in azure and make Azure Web Application as default hosting for your bot then you can choose Azure Bot framework (Bot Channels Registration). In this case, you have to pay for Azure services. So If you are not hosting your bot using Azure services, you can always go for https://dev.botframework.com/bots/new.

avillanueva , Also here is a link for reference How bot calls work.

subhasish-MSFT hi, I just published my bot which is remotely hosted on a server and created a web chat channel but I get the following error "There was an error sending this message to your bot: HTTP status code Unauthorized, I need help, this project It is very important to me

Hi subhasish-MSFT , Thank you for the response but it didn't answer my question. If I register my bot with https://dev.botframework.com/bots/new., is it free? No additional fee if I'm not using any Azure services and only register the bot with https://dev.botframework.com/bots/new.?

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pierreneu
Copper Contributor
Mar 31, 2025
It seems the bot framework portal doesnt allow to create a bot anymore. What is the new way of doing this?
paradisosolutions
Copper Contributor
Feb 04, 2025
I'm facing the below error

I've been trying to create the teams bot for my org. I've been using teams toolkit for development and trying to validate the application with it's package. But it gives me error bot not registered .
Kindly help us out with the Solution here.
subhasish-MSFT
Microsoft
Jun 26, 2020
avillanueva
You can register you bot with dev.botframework.com. And you need to set the bot endpoint URL where bot is hosted, It can be hosted in Azure of course, or somewhere else (e.g. AWS, on premises, whatever). And you should also add Microsoft Teams as channel after the bot is registered.

If you want to register your bot in azure and make Azure Web Application as default hosting for your bot then you can choose Azure Bot framework (Bot Channels Registration). In this case, you have to pay for Azure services.

So If you are not hosting your bot using Azure services, you can always go for https://dev.botframework.com/bots/new.
- avillanueva
  Copper Contributor
  Jun 26, 2020
  Hi subhasish-MSFT ,
  
  Thank you for the response but it didn't answer my question. If I register my bot with https://dev.botframework.com/bots/new., is it free? No additional fee if I'm not using any Azure services and only register the bot with https://dev.botframework.com/bots/new.?
  - subhasish-MSFT
    Microsoft
    Jun 26, 2020
    Yes, It is free
- subhasish-MSFT
  Microsoft
  Jun 26, 2020
  avillanueva , Also here is a link for reference How bot calls work.

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