AI Receptionists · interactive · updated Sep 29, 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), 20 of 29 tracked vendors are priceable from published figures, starting at $42/mo. 9 are quote-only, publish no overage rate, or price in a shape this model cannot express — recorded as gaps, never estimates.
As of Sep 29, 2026 · every figure sourced in the table below
| # | Vendor | Effective monthly | On plan | Billing model | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Retell AI | $42 | Pay As You Go | Per minute | Sep 27, 2026 |
| 2 | Hey Jodie | $49 | Basic | Flat monthly | Oct 12, 2026 |
| 3 | Goodcall | $79 | Starter | Flat monthly | Oct 23, 2026 |
| 4 | Bland | $84 | Start (Free) | Per minute | Sep 27, 2026 |
| 5 | AptaBook | $99 | Starter | Flat monthly | Oct 13, 2026 |
| 6 | My AI Front Desk | $145 | Free | Flat monthly | Jun 27, 2026 |
| 7 | Rosie | $149 | Scale | Flat monthly | Sep 27, 2026 |
| 8 | Phonely | $150 | Pro | Flat monthly | Oct 12, 2026 |
| 9 | Trillet | $159 | Studio | Flat monthly | Sep 2, 2026 |
| 10 | Upfirst | $159.95 | Pro | Per call | Sep 27, 2026 |
| 11 | AIRA | $159.95 | Pro | Per call | Sep 27, 2026 |
| 12 | NextPhone | $199 | Pro | Flat monthly | Sep 27, 2026 |
| 13 | Dialzara | $239 | Business Plus | Flat monthly | Sep 27, 2026 |
| 14 | ServiceAgent | $349 | Franchise | Flat monthly | Sep 27, 2026 |
| 15 | KaiCalls | $349 | Kai Office | Flat monthly | Oct 12, 2026 |
| 16 | Smith.ai | $385 | Pro — 150 calls/mo | Per call | Sep 9, 2026 |
| 17 | Slang.ai | $399 | Core | Flat monthly | Sep 2, 2026 |
| 18 | ReceptionHQ | $423 | MessageExpress | Per call | Sep 27, 2026 |
| 19 | Thoughtly | $500 | Flex | Flat monthly | Sep 27, 2026 |
| 20 | 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.