Every AI receptionist we track, cheapest first

Developer and enterprise voice AI platform that owns its own telephony, speech-to-text, LLM, text-to-speech and pathway orchestration stack and sells it on a per-minute rate plus a monthly platform fee, so buyers build and operate their own phone agents rather than buying a packaged receptionist.

AI answering service for US small businesses and home-services trades that answers calls 24/7, takes custom messages, books appointments and transfers callers to the owner's own team.

AI calling platform for small and mid-sized businesses led by an AI receptionist on flat monthly tiers of included talk minutes, with separately priced outbound voice agents, an AI SMS agent and a website chatbot in the same account.

Agentic voice AI phone agents for local, multi-location and enterprise businesses, sold per agent per month with unlimited call minutes and a monthly cap on unique callers instead of per-minute billing.

Turnkey AI phone answering service for small businesses: Simple Phones generates a starter agent from your business details, assigns a number you forward missed calls to, and their team makes ongoing agent customizations on request rather than you building the agent yourself.

Self-serve AI receptionist from AI Front Desk, Inc. (now branded 'Frontdesk') sold to generic small businesses and to agencies who resell it white-labeled, bundling inbound voice, web chat, two-way SMS, email drafting, an AI CRM and automation sequences into one credit-metered subscription.

Voice AI phone concierge purpose-built for full-service restaurants and hospitality groups that answers inbound calls 24/7 and books, changes, and cancels reservations directly in OpenTable, SevenRooms, Resy, Yelp, and Fishbowl.

Turnkey AI phone platform sold to home-service contractors (HVAC, plumbing, roofing, pest control, cleaning, solar): AI CSRs answer, qualify and book jobs into the field-service system, and outbound Campaigns work the existing customer list by call and text. Positioned as a revenue/sales system as much as a receptionist — their own integrations page calls it an "AI-powered sales agent", and the product includes outbound reactivation, estimate follow-up, membership sales and review-request plays plus per-rep booking-rate coaching. It is not a developer platform; API access is Enterprise-only and onboarding runs through a demo.

Enterprise voice AI platform with in-house telephony for automating inbound and outbound calls, sold through sales-scoped contracts rather than published self-serve plans, with the agent designed, tested and launched by the customer in Synthflow's Flow Designer or Prompt Builder.

AI operating system sold to franchise car dealerships and dealer groups that answers service and sales calls and texts with live DMS context, books service appointments, flags at-risk customers, and centralizes every conversation in one dealership inbox.

Developer-oriented platform to build, test, deploy and monitor AI voice and chat agents, billed a la carte per minute: a Retell voice-infrastructure rate plus a separately priced text-to-speech voice, a separately priced LLM and separately priced telephony.

Developer platform for building voice AI agents: Vapi hosts the orchestration layer and charges a per-minute hosting fee, while you pick and pay for your own speech-to-text, LLM, text-to-speech and telephony providers and write the assistant, tools and server hooks yourself.

Smith.ai sells small and mid-sized businesses two products off one platform: an AI Receptionist that answers, qualifies and books 24/7 with escalation to its North America-based Live Agent Network, and a fully human Virtual Receptionist service, both billed per call rather than per minute.

US-based virtual receptionist company selling a dedicated human receptionist team, an AI receptionist, or a mix of both on a single shared pool of "Abby Minutes", aimed at small and mid-sized professional service firms.

People-powered 24/7 call answering, client intake, inbound and outbound sales and live chat/text service for home services, healthcare, legal and real estate businesses, with an optional Voice + AI agent that can hand calls off to human agents.

24/7 live answering service staffed entirely by US-based human virtual receptionists who screen and transfer calls, take messages, capture leads, book appointments and handle web chat for small businesses.

Ruby is a US-based live virtual receptionist and website chat service for small businesses, sold in monthly buckets of receptionist minutes and chats, where AI is used only to assist its human receptionists rather than to answer calls.

AnswerConnect (AnywhereWorks, Inc. dba AnswerConnect) is a 24/7 live answering and virtual receptionist service sold in monthly minute buckets, staffed entirely by remote human receptionists, with the company publicly pledging not to use AI agents on calls.