AI Receptionists · interactive · updated Jun 10, 2026
Effective cost at your call volume
Headline prices do not compare across billing models. Set your own workload and we recompute every vendor's effective monthly cost on the same basis — flat, per-minute and per-call alike. Quote-only vendors, and any plan needing an overage rate the vendor never published, show no number rather than a guess.
At 200 calls/mo (3 min average), 21 of 25 tracked vendors are priceable from published figures, starting at $30/mo. 4 are quote-only or publish no overage rate — recorded as gaps, never estimates.
As of Jun 10, 2026 · every figure sourced in the table below
| # | Vendor | Effective monthly | On plan | Billing model | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vapi | $30 | Build (Pay As You Go) | Per minute | Sep 2, 2026 |
| 2 | Retell AI | $42 | Pay As You Go | Per minute | Sep 2, 2026 |
| 3 | Synthflow | $54 | Pay As You Go | Per minute | Jun 27, 2026 |
| 4 | Goodcall | $79 | Starter | Flat monthly | Sep 2, 2026 |
| 5 | Bland | $84 | Start (Free) | Per minute | Sep 2, 2026 |
| 6 | My AI Front Desk | $145 | Free | Flat monthly | Jun 27, 2026 |
| 7 | Rosie | $149 | Scale | Flat monthly | Sep 2, 2026 |
| 8 | Phonely | $150 | Pro | Flat monthly | Sep 2, 2026 |
| 9 | Trillet | $159 | Studio | Flat monthly | Sep 2, 2026 |
| 10 | Upfirst | $159.95 | Pro | Per call | Sep 2, 2026 |
| 11 | AIRA | $159.95 | Pro | Per call | Sep 2, 2026 |
| 12 | NextPhone | $199 | Pro | Flat monthly | Sep 2, 2026 |
| 13 | Loman | $199 | Starter | Flat monthly | Jun 10, 2026 |
| 14 | Dialzara | $239 | Business Plus | Flat monthly | Sep 2, 2026 |
| 15 | CallSprout Sage | $256.95 | Business (per user) | Per minute | Sep 9, 2026 |
| 16 | ServiceAgent | $279 | Franchise | Flat monthly | Sep 2, 2026 |
| 17 | Smith.ai | $385 | Pro — 150 calls/mo | Per call | Sep 9, 2026 |
| 18 | Slang.ai | $399 | Core | Flat monthly | Sep 2, 2026 |
| 19 | ReceptionHQ | $423 | MessageExpress | Per call | Sep 2, 2026 |
| 20 | Thoughtly | $500 | Flex | Flat monthly | Sep 2, 2026 |
| 21 | PATLive | $1,170 | Pro | Per minute | Jun 10, 2026 |
Quote-only and unpriceable vendors are omitted from the ranking at the selected volume. See the full matrix for their published base prices, or the methodology for how the normalizer works.