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Every AI receptionist price, read off the vendor's own page.
Search "best AI receptionist" and page one is nine vendors ranking themselves first. This site is the other thing: 18 vendors, their real published plans, what they don't publish, and a link plus a date on every number.
- Vendors tracked
- 18
- Publish a real price
- 14 of 18
- Cheapest for 30 calls/mo
- $49/mo
- Head-to-head pages
- 136
Cheapest on the same basket of calls
Same-basket cost = cheapest plan covering 30 answered calls a month, 3 minutes each.
| Vendor | Kind | Starts at | Billed | Same-basket cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rosie | AI only | $0/mo | per minute | $49Professional |
| Goodcall | AI only | $66/mo | flat | $79Starter (monthly) |
| Simple Phones | AI only | $97/mo | per call | $97Basic |
| Dialzara | AI only | $19/mo | per minute | $99Business Pro |
| My AI Front Desk | AI only | $99/mo | per minute | $99Business-in-a-Box |
| Smith.ai | AI + human backup | $0/mo | per call | $150AI Receptionist — Pro (75 calls) |
| PATLive | Human agents | $100/mo | mixed | $270Live Web Chat - Standard |
| Abby Connect | AI + human backup | $165/mo | per minute | $329Essential |
| AnswerConnect | Human agents | $350/mo | per minute | $350Entry |
| Ruby | Human agents | $115/mo | per minute | $395Virtual receptionist — 100 minutes |
| Sameday AI | AI only | $449/mo | per minute | $449Launch |
4 vendors publish no price at all — Nexa, Numa, Retell AI, Vapi. Booking a sales call is the only way to find out.
What it needs to handle in your trade
A dental office needs insurance verification. An HVAC shop needs no-heat triage at 2am. Same price, different job.
Dental
Toothache and dental-trauma calls after hours and at weekends: knocked-out or fractured tooth, lost crown or filling, abscess with facial swelling, post-extraction bleeding, broken denture, orthodontic wire poking the cheek.
Electrical
Partial-outage calls, such as half the house dark or a breaker that keeps tripping, clustered first thing in the morning and again in the early evening when household load peaks.
HVAC
No-heat calls concentrated in the first hard freeze of the season and in the overnight hours, with a spike before 7 a.m. when households wake up to a cold house.
Law Firm
Crisis calls with no schedule: arrests and bond hearings overnight and on weekends, car crashes, workplace injuries, emergency protective orders, and immigration detention notices.
Medical Practice
Symptom calls that need triage rather than scheduling, ranging from a sore throat to chest pain, shortness of breath, one-sided weakness, severe abdominal pain, or a post-operative fever.
Plumbing
Burst pipe and active leak calls that arrive the moment the damage starts, clustered overnight and in the first hard freeze of the winter.
Roofing
Storm surges where one hail or wind event puts hundreds of calls into 48 hours, concentrated in a handful of zip codes.
Salon and Spa
Evening and weekend calls from clients booking around their own working day, landing when the floor is fullest and nobody can reach the phone.
How this site is different
Every number here comes from the vendor's own pricing page or docs, with the date we read it. Nothing is copied from review sites or listicles.
Where a vendor hides its pricing, we say so instead of quietly ranking them last. Where a feature isn't stated in their own docs, the cell reads unstatedrather than "no". The dataset was last refreshed August 19, 2026.
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