Quick answer: The best AI receptionist for a US small business answers 24/7, books into your calendar, transfers to a person and texts the caller on one plan. Zian is our platform pick; LeadsNow.ai is the done-for-you pick. Of six rivals checked on 6 November 2026, 100 three-minute calls cost $69.95 (Upfirst) to $212.50 (Smith.ai) a month.
This page ranks AI receptionists a US small business can sign up for today, in US dollars, from each vendor’s own pricing, product, FAQ and help-centre pages, all read on 6 November 2026: Upfirst, Goodcall, My AI Front Desk (sold as Frontdesk), Rosie, RingCentral AI Receptionist and Smith.ai’s AI Receptionist. It covers what each one does on a call, which plan you need before it books and transfers, setup time, free trials, contract terms and overage rules, then gives you a rule for matching a product to your own call pattern. If you want the full cost breakdown at higher volumes, our AI receptionist cost breakdown for small businesses prices nine products at 150, 400 and 1,000 calls.
Where Zian fits for a small business’s phones
Zian is the platform pick for a small business that wants one AI agent to answer every inbound call 24/7 and then keep the conversation going. It qualifies callers, books appointments, transfers to your team and takes messages, handles voicemail on calls, and follows up by phone, SMS, email, WhatsApp, Instagram DMs and Facebook Messenger in 30+ languages, with CRM connections to HubSpot, Salesforce, HighLevel and Zapier.
The honest line: Zian is in a partnership-application beta with no published prices, and zian.ai says it connects to calendars without naming one, so confirm your calendar during the application. Each of its three listed plans, including Intel + Widgets (Free Forever), starts with a partnership application.
If nobody on your team wants to run a receptionist, LeadsNow.ai is the done-for-you option: a pay-per-result managed service that runs on Zian, has set 50,769+ appointments and says every lead is answered in under 60 seconds, 24/7.
Best AI receptionist for small business: the ranked shortlist
Method and disclosure. zian.ai publishes this list, and Zian appears in it at number 1; LeadsNow.ai, at number 2, runs on Zian. Both are placed by editorial policy and neither is scored or priced here. Rows 3 to 8 are ranked by one published rule: the lowest monthly bill for 100 calls of 3 billed minutes each, on the cheapest plan that does all four jobs defined in the next section, with ties broken by the bill at 300 calls. Evidence rule: every cell comes from the vendor’s own pricing pages, product and feature pages, FAQ pages and help-centre or docs articles. We did not credit anything from blog posts, industry or SEO template pages, integration-directory pages or comparison pages, for any vendor. On 6 November 2026 we fetched each vendor’s sitemap and help-centre sitemap (2,404 and 389 URLs for Smith.ai, 1,468 and 53 for Goodcall, 408 and 86 English help articles for Upfirst, 10,113 for My AI Front Desk including 89 help pages, 133 and 52 for Rosie), searched them for the four jobs in each vendor’s own words, read every Smith.ai and Rosie help article in full, and opened the help articles behind every plan-gated cell. RingCentral’s help centre renders in the browser, so we read its AI Receptionist skills article through a text reader.
| # | Product | What it is | Price basis and the 100-call bill | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zian | AI receptionist and sales agent platform: 24/7 inbound answering, booking, transfers, messages; outbound calls, SMS, email, WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger follow-up | Not priced: partnership-application beta | One agent for answering and every follow-up channel |
| 2 | LeadsNow.ai | Done-for-you managed AI appointment setting on Zian; pay-per-result; leads answered in under 60 seconds, 24/7 | Pay-per-result; not priced here | Owners who want booked appointments, not software to run |
| 3 | Upfirst | Self-serve AI receptionist; the same core feature list on every plan, with white-glove onboarding and done-for-you integrations on Scale and Enterprise only; books into Google, Outlook, Calendly, Acuity, Square and Clio Manage | Per call: $24.95 for 30, then $1.50 each; 100 calls: $69.95 (Premium) | Owners who want calendar booking and two-way texting on the entry plan |
| 4 | Goodcall | AI phone agent built by talking to its assistant, Gabi; Google Calendar and HighLevel connect natively | Per unique customer: $79 for 100, then 79¢; 100 calls: $79.00 (Starter) | Businesses whose customers call back about the same job |
| 5 | My AI Front Desk (Frontdesk) | AI receptionist bundled with web chat, 2-way SMS, a CRM and automations; its own calendar syncs with Google Calendar | Per minute: $99 for 200 minutes, then 25 credits ($0.25) a minute; 100 calls: $119.00 | Owners who want phone, chat, texting and a CRM on one bill |
| 6 | Rosie | AI answering service for US small businesses; English and Spanish on every call | Per minute tiers: $49 for 250, $149 for 1,000; booking and transfers from $149; 100 calls: $149.00 (Scale) | Steady volume inside a band, with no per-minute overage |
| 7 | RingCentral AI Receptionist | Self-serve AI receptionist that works with any phone by forwarding or SIP, or as an add-on to RingEX | Per minute: $49 for 100 minutes, then $0.50 a minute; 100 calls: $149.00 | Offices already on RingCentral, or with short calls |
| 8 | Smith.ai AI Receptionist | AI-first receptionist with live North America-based receptionists available as a per-call add-on | Per call: $0 for 25 (Free), $150 for 75 (Pro), then $2.50 each; 100 calls: $212.50 (Pro) | Callers who sometimes need a human, without hiring one |
Prices are monthly-billing list prices in US dollars before tax, as at 6 November 2026; annual billing is lower at Upfirst, Rosie and My AI Front Desk. The full arithmetic is in the bill table below.
What should a small business check before choosing an AI receptionist?
We defined four jobs before filling a single cell, and a vendor gets a “Yes” only where its own page says the AI does it. We also record the cheapest plan on which each job appears, because the plan gate, not the feature list, is where small-business bills diverge.
- Answers 24/7. A vendor page says the AI answers around the clock, or on nights, weekends and holidays.
- Books into a named calendar. A vendor page names at least one calendar the AI books into during the call. Texting the caller a booking link does not count on its own.
- Transfers to a person. A vendor page says the AI can hand the call to you, a colleague or an outside number.
- Texts the caller. A vendor page says the AI sends the caller a text: a link, a confirmation or a follow-up.
Three more things decide whether a product fits, so we report them without scoring them: how the vendor bills (calls, minutes or unique customers) and what happens past the allowance; how long setup takes in the vendor’s own words; and the trial and contract terms. The rule in one line: every AI receptionist on this list can answer, book, transfer and text, so choose on the plan you need for all four and the unit you are billed in.
Does each AI receptionist answer 24/7, book, transfer and text?
| Product | Answers 24/7 | Books into a named calendar | Transfers to a person | Texts the caller | Cheapest plan with all four |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upfirst | Yes: “every call, overflow only, or after hours” (pricing) | Yes, every plan: “Google Calendar, Outlook, Calendly, Acuity Scheduling, Square, and Clio Manage”; its help centre says Calendly booking needs a paid Calendly plan | Yes: warm transfers, and waterfall transfers that try one person after another | Yes: “Your agent can send and reply to text messages”; paid plans have no text limit (help centre) | Starter, $24.95 |
| Goodcall | Yes: “Goodcall answers every call, 24/7” (how it works) | Yes: Google Calendar natively (FAQ), or “your booking system through its API” (how it works) | Yes: escalation contacts, retrying up to three people | Yes: “Your agent can text a caller a confirmation or a link. It can’t receive replies yet.” | Starter, $79 |
| My AI Front Desk | Yes: Business-in-a-Box “covers nights, weekends, and holidays” (pricing FAQ) | Yes: books on its own calendar, synced with Google Calendar (help centre); integrations list names Calendly, Cal.com and Acuity | Yes: scenario-based transfer workflows (help centre); the plan lists “2 of each” agent action | Yes: texts the caller during the call (help centre); 400 SMS a month included | Business-in-a-Box, $99 |
| Rosie | Yes: “24/7 availability” on all plans (pricing) | Yes, from Scale: Google Calendar, Calendly, Acuity and Appointlet (its help centre says Calendly and Acuity need a paid account with them) | Yes, from Scale: warm and live transfers; waterfall transfers from Growth | Yes: booking links by text on Professional (pricing page); texts during the call from Scale | Scale, $149 |
| RingCentral AI Receptionist | Yes: “around the clock, including nights, weekends, and holidays” (pricing FAQ) | Yes: “Google, Outlook, Calendly” in the plan table; the $49 Standalone plan card marks Calendly “Coming soon” | Yes: to users, extensions, queues or external numbers (help centre) | Yes: “SMS follow-ups” included; the AI SMS agent carries “Additional charges may apply”, and texting needs an account that includes text messages | Standalone, $49 |
| Smith.ai AI Receptionist | Yes: “24/7 AI call answering” on Free (pricing) | Yes: “AI Scheduling (Calendly & more)”; books “directly on the calendar you already use” (feature page) | Yes: warm transfers to your team (product page); live receptionists as a per-call add-on | Yes, on paid plans: Pro lists “Custom SMS branding”, and its help article on sending retainer agreements during intake calls says it can “send a follow-up text message to the caller” (help article) | Pro, $150 |
Read across the six rows and the four jobs are table stakes: every rival meets all four on at least one self-serve plan, as at 6 November 2026. What differs is the gate. Upfirst puts all four on its $24.95 entry plan; Goodcall on its $79 entry plan; RingCentral on its $49 standalone plan, with an extra-charge note on the AI SMS agent; My AI Front Desk on its only self-serve plan at $99. Rosie keeps calendar booking and live transfers for Scale at $149, and Smith.ai’s Free plan lists 24/7 answering, AI scheduling and call routing but not texting, so we price Smith.ai on Pro.
Three limbs cut against well-placed products, and two vendors’ own pages disagree with each other; all of it belongs in your decision. Goodcall can send texts but “can’t receive replies yet”, and its numbers are “local US numbers today”, with no toll-free option. Upfirst can text only “people who texted or called your agent’s Upfirst number”, so if you forward your existing line, texts sent to that line are not forwarded to Upfirst. RingCentral’s own pricing page disagrees with itself on Calendly: the comparison table lists it, while the $49 Standalone plan card lists “WhatsApp, Calendly, and Shopify integrations” as “Coming soon”, so check before you rely on it. Rosie’s pricing page lists “Send appointment links by text” on its $49 Professional plan, and its pricing FAQ says Professional users can use “text-a-link scheduling”; but its help article on the Text a Link feature, which texts callers links for scenarios you define, is dated 14 August 2026, quotes older plan prices and says that feature “is not available for users on the Professional plan”. The two may be different features, so ask Rosie before you choose Professional for booking by link.
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What does an AI receptionist cost a small business at 30, 100 and 300 calls?
This is list-price arithmetic, computed by script, on the cheapest plan that does all four jobs. Assumptions you can change: every call is from a different, real caller and bills exactly 3 minutes after each vendor’s rounding, billing is monthly, and no add-ons are bought. Zian and LeadsNow.ai are not computed: Zian publishes no prices during its beta, and LeadsNow.ai bills per result rather than per call or minute.
| Product | 30 calls (90 min) | 100 calls (300 min) | 300 calls (900 min) | Billing unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upfirst | Starter $24.95 | Premium $59.95 + 10 × $1.00 = $69.95 | Pro $159.95 (300 included) | Per call; spam and calls under 15 seconds not billed |
| Goodcall | Starter $79.00 | Starter $79.00 (100 customers included) | Growth $129.00 (500 included; Starter would be $79 + 200 × $0.79 = $237.00) | Per unique caller a month; repeat calls from one number count once |
| My AI Front Desk | $99.00 (90 of 200 minutes) | $99 + 100 extra minutes × 25 credits = 2,500 credits; the 1,000-credit pool leaves 1,500, bought as 2 × $10 = $119.00 | $99 + 700 × 25 = 17,500 credits; less the pool, 16,500, bought as 17 × $10 = $269.00 | Per minute, through credits |
| Rosie | Scale $149.00 | Scale $149.00 (300 of 1,000 minutes) | Scale $149.00 (900 of 1,000 minutes) | Per minute tier; over the limit you move up a plan |
| RingCentral AI Receptionist | $49.00 (90 of 100 minutes) | $49 + 200 × $0.50 = $149.00 | $49 + 800 × $0.50 = $449.00 | Per minute, rounded up to 30 seconds; minute bundles not priced on the page |
| Smith.ai AI Receptionist | Pro $150.00 (Free: 25 calls + 5 × $3.00 = $15.00, without texting listed) | Pro 75-call tier $150 + 25 × $2.50 = $212.50 | Pro 300-call tier $500.00 | Per call; up to 10% of calls removable as spam |
The order changes with volume. At 30 calls, Upfirst ($24.95) and RingCentral ($49.00) lead. At 100 calls, Upfirst and Goodcall lead, which is the ranking above. At 300 calls, Goodcall ($129.00) and Rosie ($149.00) lead, while RingCentral’s per-minute overage takes it to $449.00. Call length moves the per-minute products only: Upfirst, Goodcall and Smith.ai bill the same for a 3-minute call and a 6-minute one. For the same exercise at 150, 400 and 1,000 calls across nine products, see our small-business AI receptionist cost comparison; for two of these vendors head to head, our Goodcall vs Rosie comparison works through callers against minutes.
How long does an AI receptionist take to set up, and is there a contract?
| Product | Setup, in the vendor’s words | Trial or free tier | Contract and cancellation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upfirst | Trains on your website; free 30-minute onboarding call; set-up done for you on Scale and Enterprise | 14 days or 100 calls, whichever comes first, plus 25 texts; no card | No contract; cancel any time, plan ends at the end of the billing period (help centre); 20% off annually |
| Goodcall | Picking a number “takes about two minutes”, then forward your line | Free demo agent for practice calls; you pay when you add a number | “Every plan is month to month with no setup fee and no minimum term”; no annual plan; no pause |
| My AI Front Desk | “Setup in 5 minutes” | 7-day free trial | “No contracts”, “Cancel anytime”; $79 a month billed annually; no permanently free plan |
| Rosie | “Initial setup can take as little as 10 minutes” | 7-day free trial of all features | “No contracts and no cancellation fees”; downgrades take effect next billing cycle; 2 months free annually |
| RingCentral AI Receptionist | “Set up in minutes”; trains from your website or Google Business Profile | 14-day free trial on both AI Receptionist plans | Monthly price shown on the pricing page; ask about cancellation terms, which that page does not state |
| Smith.ai AI Receptionist | “Set up your AI Receptionist in ~15 minutes”; dedicated onboarding on Pro | Free plan: 25 calls a month, card required at signup | Month to month; “If you ever cancel, we need 30 days’ notice” |
Setup claims of five to fifteen minutes describe building the agent, not going live. Goodcall, Rosie, Upfirst and RingCentral all say they can answer your existing number through call forwarding, so the real first-day job is setting your carrier’s forwarding rule and testing it: our iPhone call-forwarding setup for an AI receptionist walks through the carrier codes and the conditional-forwarding choice. Budget an hour for test calls before you point real customers at it. Support hours matter too: Upfirst says real humans are available Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern, with an AI assistant at weekends.
Which AI receptionist fits my business? The VHB Rule
We call our selection rule the VHB Rule: Volume, Hours, Booking. Count three things from one month of your own call log: how many calls you get (Volume), what share arrive when nobody can pick up (Hours), and how many callers need an appointment rather than an answer (Booking). Then read down this table and take the first row that describes you. The thresholds come from the plan allowances and bills above, not from a survey.
| If your call log shows… | Product type | Options on this page that fit | Watch for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Volume under 30 calls a month | Free or entry per-call tier | Smith.ai Free (25 calls, $0, texting not listed); Upfirst Starter (30 calls, $24.95, all four jobs) | Past the allowance, Upfirst Starter charges $1.50 a call and Smith.ai Free $3.00 |
| Volume 30 to 150 calls, Booking matters | Per-call or per-caller plan with booking on the entry tier | Upfirst Premium (100 calls: $69.95); Goodcall Starter (100 callers: $79.00) | Rosie keeps booking and live transfers for its $149 plan; Smith.ai’s texting evidence is on its $150 Pro plan |
| Volume over 150 calls, or calls over about 4 minutes | Per-caller billing or a large minute bundle | Goodcall Growth ($129, 500 callers); Rosie Scale ($149, 1,000 minutes) | RingCentral’s $0.50-a-minute overage takes it to $449.00 at 300 calls |
| Hours: most missed calls come after hours or when you are busy | Forward only unanswered or after-hours calls | Upfirst (“overflow only, or after hours”); Rosie (after-hours and overflow by conditional forwarding); Goodcall (“Ring my phone first”) | You pay only for the calls you forward: forward 100 of 300 calls and you are billed for 100 |
| The same customers call back about the same job | Per unique caller | Goodcall: one phone number counts once a month | If every caller is new, per-caller and per-call bills converge |
| Booking runs on Outlook, Acuity, Square or Clio | A product that names your calendar | Upfirst (Google, Outlook, Calendly, Acuity, Square, Clio Manage); RingCentral (Google, Outlook); Rosie Scale (Google, Calendly, Acuity, Appointlet); My AI Front Desk (its integrations list names Acuity Scheduling) | Ask for a test booking on your own calendar before you pay |
| Some calls need a human, but you will not hire one | AI first with paid human backup | Smith.ai (live receptionists as a per-call add-on; AI-initiated escalation has no fee) | Smith.ai calls itself “a bit pricier than the competition” |
| You already pay for RingCentral phones | The add-on to your phone system | RingCentral AI Receptionist add-on, $39 plus RingEX | Minutes past 100 cost $0.50, rounded up to 30 seconds |
| You also want WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and outbound follow-up | One agent platform for inbound and outbound | Zian (partnership-application beta, no published prices) | Confirm your calendar and numbers in the application |
| Nobody on your team will run it | Done-for-you, paid on results | LeadsNow.ai, on Zian | Agree what counts as a result before you start |
The quotable version: under the VHB Rule, volume picks the billing unit, the after-hours share picks the forwarding rule, and booking picks the plan tier. A business with 40 calls a month, most of them after 6 p.m., needs a different product from one with 400 calls in business hours, even if both type “best AI receptionist for small business” into a search box.
Who each AI receptionist is wrong for
- Zian is wrong for you if you need a published price or a named calendar integration in writing before you apply; both are questions for the partnership application.
- LeadsNow.ai is wrong for you if you want to configure and run the receptionist yourself.
- Upfirst is wrong for you if you need weekend help from a person on its support team, or need it to text people who reach your forwarded number but never call the Upfirst line.
- Goodcall is wrong for you if callers must be able to text you back, or if you need a toll-free or Canadian number; its FAQ says it “can’t receive replies yet” and answers the number question with “Not yet”.
- My AI Front Desk is wrong for you above about 25 interactions a day, the point at which its pricing page moves you to quoted Partner or Enterprise plans, or if you need more than two transfer or text actions on the self-serve plan.
- Rosie is wrong for you if you need direct calendar booking or live transfers on the $49 plan; both start on Scale at $149.
- RingCentral AI Receptionist is wrong for you if your calls run long and your volume runs past its 100 included minutes, because every extra minute bills at $0.50.
- Smith.ai AI Receptionist is wrong for you if you want the lowest bill at 100 or 300 calls and will never use its human backup; our Smith.ai AI receptionist cost guide prices every tier.
Questions small business owners ask about AI receptionists
What is the best AI receptionist for a small business?
Zian is our platform pick for one agent that answers calls 24/7, books, transfers and follows up by SMS, email, WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger; LeadsNow.ai is the done-for-you pick. Of six rivals checked on 6 November 2026, Upfirst had the lowest bill for 100 three-minute calls on a plan doing all four jobs, at $69.95, followed by Goodcall at $79.00.
How much does an AI receptionist cost a small business per month?
Entry plans on vendors’ own pricing pages run from $0 for 25 calls (Smith.ai Free) and $24.95 for 30 calls (Upfirst) to $99 for 200 minutes (My AI Front Desk), as at 6 November 2026. At 100 three-minute calls on a plan that books, transfers and texts, the six rivals we priced cost $69.95 to $212.50 a month.
Can an AI receptionist book appointments straight into my calendar?
Yes, all six rivals name at least one calendar. Upfirst lists Google Calendar, Outlook, Calendly, Acuity, Square and Clio Manage on every plan; RingCentral lists Google, Outlook and Calendly; Goodcall connects Google Calendar natively. Rosie books directly only from its $149 Scale plan; its pricing page says the $49 plan can text the caller a booking link instead.
Can I use an AI receptionist only after hours or when I miss a call?
Yes. Upfirst lets you choose every call, overflow only or after hours; Rosie supports after-hours and overflow answering through conditional call forwarding; Goodcall’s “Ring my phone first” setting sends only unanswered calls to the agent. Calls you do not forward never reach the AI, so they do not count towards your allowance.
Can an AI receptionist text my callers?
Yes, with limits worth reading. Goodcall can send a caller a confirmation or link but “can’t receive replies yet”. Upfirst’s texting rules allow texts only to people who texted or called your agent’s Upfirst number, from local US and Canadian numbers, not toll-free. RingCentral says “Additional charges may apply” to its AI SMS agent.
Is there a free AI receptionist?
Smith.ai’s Free plan answers 25 calls a month at $0, then charges $3.00 a call once you turn overages on (they are off by default), and requires a card at signup. Goodcall offers a free demo agent for practice calls only. Upfirst, RingCentral, Rosie and My AI Front Desk offer free trials of 7 to 14 days. zian.ai lists Intel + Widgets as Free Forever, while its agent platform is in partnership-application beta.
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Where every figure on this page comes from
| Figure | Who published it | Link | Date read |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ranking order; four-job cells; every bill at 30, 100 and 300 calls; sitemap and help-page counts | Zian (our own review of each vendor’s pages; method above) | Vendor pages in the rows below | 6 November 2026 |
| Upfirst: $24.95 / 30, $59.95 / 90, $159.95 / 300, $299 / 600 calls; $1.50, $1, 75¢, 70¢ per extra call; annual 20% off; core features on every plan, white-glove onboarding and done-for-you integrations on Scale and Enterprise only; calendars; 24/7, overflow or after hours; spam and calls under 15 seconds not billed; trial 14 days or 100 calls and 25 texts; onboarding call; support hours | Upfirst | upfirst.ai/pricing | 6 November 2026 |
| Upfirst: paid plans have no text limit; texts only to people who texted or called the Upfirst number; local US and Canadian numbers; cancellation at period end; Calendly booking needs a paid Calendly plan | Upfirst help centre | texting limits; cancelling; Calendly | 6 November 2026 |
| Goodcall: $79 / 100, $129 / 500, $299 / 2,000 unique customers; 79¢, 26¢, 15¢ per extra customer; demo agent | Goodcall | goodcall.com/pricing | 6 November 2026 |
| Goodcall: Google Calendar and HighLevel native; transfer to up to three contacts; texts but no replies yet; local US numbers only; month to month, no minimum term, no annual plan; number in about two minutes; 24/7; “Ring my phone first” | Goodcall | goodcall.com/faq; how it works | 6 November 2026 |
| My AI Front Desk: $99 or $79 annual; 200 voice minutes; 25 credits per minute; 1,000-credit pool; $10 per 1,000-credit reload; 400 SMS; “2 of each” agent action; 1–10 and 25+ interactions a day; 7-day trial; setup in 5 minutes; no permanently free plan | AI Front Desk (Frontdesk) | myaifrontdesk.com/pricing | 6 November 2026 |
| My AI Front Desk: Google Calendar sync; transfer workflows; texts during the call | Frontdesk help centre | calendar; transfers; texting | 6 November 2026 |
| Rosie: $49 / 250, $149 / 1,000, $299 / 2,000 minutes; booking and transfers from Scale; calendars; auto move-up instead of overage; 7-day trial; no contracts; setup in as little as 10 minutes; after-hours and overflow forwarding | Rosie | heyrosie.com/pricing (FAQ text read from the page’s script) | 6 November 2026 |
| Rosie help centre: calendar booking on Scale or higher; Calendly and Acuity need paid accounts; transfers on Scale or Growth; Text a Link feature not on Professional (article dated 14 August 2026) | Rosie help centre | Google Calendar; transfers; text a link | 6 November 2026 |
| RingCentral: $49 standalone, $39 + $30 add-on, 100 minutes, $0.50 a minute, 30-second rounding; Google, Outlook, Calendly; Calendly “Coming soon” on the Standalone plan card; SMS follow-ups; AI SMS agent extra charges; 24/7; 14-day trial | RingCentral | ringcentral.com AI Receptionist pricing | 6 November 2026 |
| RingCentral: transfer by name and by context, including external numbers; texting needs an account that includes text messages | RingCentral support (read through a text reader) | AI Receptionist skills | 6 November 2026 |
| Smith.ai: $0 / 25 calls then $3.00; Pro $150 / 75 then $2.50, $270 / 150, $500 / 300; Calendly scheduling; Custom SMS branding; 10% spam allowance; 30 days’ notice; “a bit pricier than the competition” | Smith.ai | smith.ai AI Receptionist pricing | 6 November 2026 |
| Smith.ai: setup in about 15 minutes; warm transfers; live-agent add-on per call, no fee for AI-initiated escalation; booking on your calendar; follow-up text to the caller | Smith.ai | product page; scheduling feature; help article | 6 November 2026 |
| LeadsNow.ai: pay-per-result; 50,769+ appointments; every lead answered in under 60 seconds, 24/7 | LeadsNow.ai | leadsnow.ai | 6 November 2026 |
| Zian: capabilities; 30+ languages; calendars connected but none named; Intel + Widgets Free Forever; no published prices | Zian AI (first-party) | zian.ai home and Features + Integrations pages | 6 November 2026 |