9 Best AI Receptionists of 2026

Upfirst puts its main features on every plan instead of saving them for higher tiers. Starter costs $24.95 a month on monthly billing and covers 30 calls, with $1.50 per extra call, while Premium at $59.95 covers 90 calls and Pro at $159.95 covers 300. All plans include 24/7 answering, two-way texting, warm transfers, appointment scheduling, call recordings, a knowledge base, a phone number, Zapier and API integrations, team access and zero data retention. The receptionist books into Google Calendar, Outlook, Calendly, Acuity, Square and Clio, and Custom Actions let it look up or log data in other apps with an API during the call. Setup starts from your website, and Upfirst also publishes a guide so ChatGPT or Claude can configure the agent for you. It lists 35+ languages and switches when the caller does. The trade-off is the small call allowance on Starter, and compliance BAAs require the Enterprise plan.

Rosie is built for owners who are on a job site or with a customer when the phone rings. Setup pulls details from your Google business profile and website, and you add FAQs, a custom greeting, an agent name and a local area code. Professional costs $49 a month and includes 250 minutes, two custom message-taking scenarios, appointment links sent by text, spam detection and a website chat widget. Scale at $149 adds 1,000 minutes, direct booking on your calendar, warm and live transfers and texting callers during the call. Growth at $299 adds 2,000 minutes, waterfall transfers that try several numbers, custom training documents and white-glove onboarding. Every plan includes English and Spanish, simultaneous calls, recordings, transcripts and Zapier. The weak spot is that booking and transfers, which many businesses want first, are not on the entry plan, so the realistic price for many users is $149.

Frontdesk sells the AI receptionist as part of a wider front office. Business-in-a-Box costs $99 a month, or $79 a month billed annually, and includes 200 voice minutes plus 100 website chatbot conversations, 400 text messages, 500 email drafts, 300 website form submissions and unlimited sequence workflows. An AI-native CRM stores each lead, and automations can trigger a follow-up call, a booking or an escalation when a record changes. Up to 20 outbound calls a day handle reminders. The vendor lists 20+ languages, HIPAA compliance, Zapier and setup in about five minutes from your website and documents. A 1,000-credit overage pool is included each month, with auto-reload at $10 per 1,000 credits. The trade-offs are a single self-serve tier, a hard cap on outbound calls, and credit-based overage that is harder to predict than a simple per-minute rate.

Smith.ai comes from a long-running human answering service, and its AI receptionist keeps that option close. The Free plan includes 25 real calls a month, then $3.00 per call, along with 24/7 answering, recordings, transcripts and summaries, lead qualification, call routing, AI scheduling, analytics and native integrations such as Clio and Zapier. A Quality Studio lets you test the receptionist with simulated calls before it answers real ones. Pro starts at $150 a month for 75 calls and adds dedicated onboarding, live phone, email and chat support and custom SMS branding, with lower per-call rates at 150 or 300 calls. Enterprise from $500 adds custom prompting, full-service setup and multi-location support. Calls the AI should not handle can go to more than 500 North America-based receptionists as a per-call add-on. The cost per call is higher than most rivals here.

Dialzara keeps pricing simple and minute-based. Business Lite costs $29 a month for 60 minutes of talk time, then $0.48 per minute, and Business Pro at $99 raises that to 220 minutes and adds warm transfer. Plus at $199 includes 500 minutes and Elite at $349 includes 1,000 minutes with priority support, multi-location setup and API access. Every plan has a self-editable prompt, message taking with custom questions, blind transfer, Zapier and Make integrations, a US phone number, call recordings, summaries and email or SMS notifications after each call. The vendor lists over 50 voices and 10 languages. Setup takes about 15 minutes: answer onboarding questions, import website content, test, then forward your number. For businesses that would rather not write prompts, Done for You starts at $1,500 a month. The Lite allowance is small, and outbound calls, SMS and website chat cost extra.

Goodcall prices its AI phone agent by how many different people it helps each month, not by minutes or calls. Starter costs $79 a month for 100 unique customers, then 79 cents each, which the vendor estimates at about 150 calls. Growth at $129 covers 500 unique customers with five external tools, five team members and 90-day call history, and Scale at $299 covers 2,000 with 15 tools and unlimited history. You can start free with a demo agent and add a phone number when ready, or keep your number with call forwarding. The agent connects to Google Calendar, transfers calls with a backup if nobody picks up, and connects to other apps through Zapier. Goodcall states SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance. The entry plan is restrictive on tools, seats and history, and the pricing page does not list supported languages.

Quo, a business phone service for small teams, includes its Sona AI agent on every plan. Starter costs $15 per user per month billed annually and includes a local or toll-free number per user, US and Canadian calling and texting, voicemail transcripts and the Quo API. Every plan gets 1,000 free automation credits, which equals 10 calls handled by Sona, and paid credit tiers start at $25 a month for 4,000 credits. You place Sona at points in your call flow, give it your hours, services, pricing and FAQs, and instruct it to take messages, send scheduling links, transfer calls or route to departments. Calls are recorded and summarized in the same inbox the team uses. Sona supports English, Spanish and French but cannot switch languages mid-call. It is a strong add-on for teams already choosing a phone system, but the included AI call allowance is small.

Newo.ai bills by units drawn from one shared voice and text balance. A voice session from 30 seconds to three minutes costs one unit, a short session or voicemail costs 0.2 units, longer calls are billed in three-minute increments, and a text session of up to 15 agent messages costs half a unit. Pay As You Go starts at $0 with 50 free units once per new account, then $1.75 per unit, with no payment method needed. The AI Receptionist plan at $299 a month includes 200 units and drops extra units to $1.50, and adds outbound calling. Every plan includes inbound calls, web chat and social messaging, and calls disconnected as spam within 30 seconds cost nothing. Newo.ai signs a BAA before handling health data and holds SOC 2 Type 1. The subscription is expensive for a small shop, and the unit model takes more planning than a flat minute allowance.

RingCentral AI Receptionist, called AIR, plugs into the RingCentral phone system rather than standing alone. It answers calls around the clock, handles FAQs, books appointments and collects leads, and it now answers text messages as well, including booking by text. Routing works by names, locations and keywords, and when a call goes to a person the agent passes along a summary so callers do not repeat themselves. The receptionist recognizes the caller's language and switches during the call, and setup uses your website, FAQs or uploaded documents. RingCentral lists AIR as an add-on on its Core, Advanced and Ultra RingEX plans and includes it in the AI Customer Engagement Bundle, which is priced on request. We could not confirm a standalone US dollar price for AIR on the pricing page, so the price is pending. It is most practical for organizations that already run their phones on RingCentral.