The best AI receptionists for contractors in 2026: 15 products, priced the same way

AI receptionists are hard to compare because each vendor bills in its own unit: minutes, calls, callers or conversations. This guide covers 15 products sold to contractors and home-service companies, from a $24.95 standalone service to receptionists built into ServiceTitan and Jobber, and prices them all the same way. We read every price on the vendor's own pricing or product page on October 31, 2026, and every review signal on Trustpilot or a marketplace listing the same day. The products are grouped by how they bill, and the order is not a ranking. We sell AI reception too, so we're in the list, last, with no price claims. To price all of them at your own call volume, use the AI receptionist cost calculator, which reads the same price file as this page.

How we chose and priced these 15

Each product here answers a business phone line with AI, is sold to US service businesses, and had a pricing or product page we could read on October 31, 2026. We took a spread on purpose: standalone services you can buy tonight, add-ons inside a phone system, receptionists built into field software, and two trade-focused vendors that sell by demo. Human answering services such as Ruby are left out; our AI receptionist versus answering service comparison covers that choice.

Every number below is a US list price, month to month where a vendor offers both, before taxes, carrier fees and any plan the product needs. Where we did arithmetic, the line says DERIVED and shows it: plan price divided by what the plan includes. For plans that bill by the call, we also give a per-minute figure at three minutes a call. That call length is our assumption, so swap in your own. Reviews are a signal, not a verdict. Several products have no reviews of their own, so we say whether the rating covers only the receptionist or the whole company. How the four billing units work is explained in AI receptionist pricing explained.

The 15 at a glance

The last column prices one example month: 200 calls of 3 minutes each, every caller a different number, on the cheapest published plan that covers it. The figures come from the calculator's own math. Entry tiers often skip booking or transfers, so read the vendor's section before you compare totals.

The first five bill by the minute. Long calls cost more, short calls less, and the overage rule decides what a busy month costs.

1. Rosie

Best for: Owner-operators and small crews who want a published price, a free trial and Spanish on every call, and who are fine booking on a connected calendar rather than inside their field software.

• Price and unit: Professional: $49 a month for 250 minutes; Scale: $149 a month for 1,000 minutes; Growth: $299 a month for 2,000 minutes. No per-minute overage rate is published. Rosie's terms (section 3(c)) say going over your minutes moves you automatically to a higher plan, so the calculator prices the smallest plan that covers your minutes. Annual billing is advertised as two months free, with no annual price shown. Website texting is an add-on at $50 a month for 25 conversations, then $1 each. Pricing source, read October 31, 2026.
• Cost per included unit (DERIVED): $49 ÷ 250 minutes = $0.196 a minute (Professional); $149 ÷ 1,000 minutes = $0.149 a minute (Scale); $299 ÷ 2,000 minutes = $0.149 a minute (Growth).
• Booking: Calendar booking, warm transfers and live transfers start on Scale; Professional texts callers an appointment link. Its Jobber integration logs calls, texts and chats and creates new clients, and the help article says booking still runs through your connected calendar, so visits don't land on the Jobber schedule. One CRM per account.
• Spanish: Yes. The pricing page lists English and Spanish on every call.
• Demo: No line labeled as a demo on the home page. A 7-day free trial, cancel anytime.
• Terms and your number: Subscriptions run 30 days and renew automatically; cancel from the dashboard, and payments are non-refundable. Numbers you don't port away within three months after you leave may be released or reassigned, and your data is deleted 30 days after cancelling (terms dated February 5, 2026).
• Reviews: An unclaimed Trustpilot profile with no reviews.

2. Dialzara

Best for: Owners who want booking and Spanish on the cheapest tier and an overage rate printed next to every plan.

• Price and unit: Business Lite: $29 a month for 60 minutes, then $0.48 a minute; Business Pro: $99 a month for 220 minutes, then $0.45 a minute; Business Plus: $199 a month for 500 minutes, then $0.40 a minute; Business Elite: $349 a month for 1,000 minutes, then $0.35 a minute. Each plan lists its own per-minute overage. The pricing page doesn't say how call time is rounded. A Done for You plan is quoted from $1,500 a month. Pricing source, read October 31, 2026.
• Cost per included unit (DERIVED): $29 ÷ 60 minutes = $0.483 a minute (Business Lite); $99 ÷ 220 minutes = $0.450 a minute (Business Pro); $199 ÷ 500 minutes = $0.398 a minute (Business Plus); $349 ÷ 1,000 minutes = $0.349 a minute (Business Elite).
• Booking: Appointment booking and CRM or calendar integration are listed from Business Lite up. Blind and warm transfers to your team appear only on Business Elite and Done for You.
• Spanish: Yes. English and Spanish are listed on Business Lite.
• Demo: Yes. The home page lists a live demo number to call. A 7-day free trial on inbound voice plans.
• Terms and your number: Billed monthly with no setup fees; the Elite card says no contract, cancel anytime. The pricing page doesn't cover phone numbers.
• Reviews: Trustpilot 4.2 from 20 reviews. The newest, October 1, 2026, complains that support is hard to reach; five-star reviews from spring 2026 praise easy setup, natural call handling, booking and help with a login problem.

3. My AI Front Desk (Frontdesk)

Best for: Owners who want calls, website chat, texts and follow-up emails in one $99 plan, and who don't need booking straight into Jobber or ServiceTitan.

• Price and unit: Business-in-a-Box: $99 a month for 200 minutes, then $0.25 a minute. Overage is paid in credits worth $0.01, at 25 credits ($0.25) a voice minute. The plan's monthly pool of 1,000 credits ($10) pays for the first overage; the calculator spends it on voice minutes only, though texts and chats draw on the same pool. $79 a month on annual billing. Extra credits are $10 for 1,000 and don't expire. Pricing source, read October 31, 2026.
• Cost per included unit (DERIVED): $99 ÷ 200 minutes = $0.495 a minute (Business-in-a-Box).
• Booking: The pricing page lists booking and appointments, with rescheduling handled by the AI, and other calendars and CRMs connect through Zapier. The help center lists a Housecall Pro connection by API key without saying what it does; Jobber and ServiceTitan aren't listed.
• Spanish: The pricing page says 20+ languages without naming Spanish.
• Demo: The home page FAQ points to an AI demo line you can call, and the plan has a 7-day trial. That FAQ also describes a Free plan, while the pricing FAQ says there is no permanently free plan, so ask which is current.
• Terms and your number: No contract, cancel anytime, renews automatically. Refunds are generally not provided, and usage fees apply during the trial (terms updated October 18, 2026). The terms don't mention phone numbers or porting.
• Reviews: Trustpilot 3.3 from 16 reviews, most of them five-star and a quarter one-star. Complaints from June to October 2026 cover charges after a trial, a refused refund and sign-up errors; two April reviews praise setup and round-the-clock answering.

4. RingCentral AI Receptionist (AIR)

Best for: Companies already on RingCentral's phone system, or owners with light volume who want calendar booking and a long language list at a low entry price.

• Price and unit: Standalone: $49 a month for 100 minutes, then $0.50 a minute. Past the included minutes, pay-as-you-go is $0.50 a minute, and RingCentral bills each call in 30-second blocks, rounding up. The calculator rounds each call up to the next 30 seconds, but it treats every call as your average length; real calls vary, and each one can round up by as much as 30 seconds, so a real bill runs higher. The $49 is shown as a starting price. As an add-on: $39 a month plus $30 for the RingEX Core plan, with the same 100 minutes. Pricing source, read October 31, 2026.
• Cost per included unit (DERIVED): $49 ÷ 100 minutes = $0.490 a minute (Standalone).
• Booking: Its AI Receptionist page says it books and reschedules appointments on Google or Outlook calendars and texts the caller a confirmation.
• Spanish: Yes. Its FAQ lists English, Spanish, French, Italian, German and Portuguese, and says it switches to the caller's language during the call.
• Demo: Yes. The AI Receptionist page lists a toll-free number to call and hear it. The pricing page has a Try free button with no trial length stated.
• Terms and your number: No contract term on the AI Receptionist pricing page.
• Reviews: RingCentral as a whole: Trustpilot 1.7 from 2,024 reviews. The recent ones we saw were about support, billing and cancelling, and none mentioned the AI receptionist.

5. Sameday

Best for: Multi-truck trade companies on ServiceTitan or another field platform that want the AI booking onto the real schedule and have the call volume for a $449 floor.

• Price and unit: Launch: $449 a month for 500 minutes; Scale: $789 a month for 1,000 minutes. Sameday says overage is billed at the plan's per-minute rate but doesn't publish the rate, so the calculator prices the smallest plan that covers your minutes and stops at 1,000 minutes. Both prices are starting prices. Enterprise is custom. Sign-up is by demo. Pricing source, read October 31, 2026.
• Cost per included unit (DERIVED): $449 ÷ 500 minutes = $0.898 a minute (Launch); $789 ÷ 1,000 minutes = $0.789 a minute (Scale).
• Booking: Its AI CSR page says it books into ServiceTitan and the other systems trades run, and lists Service Fusion, ServiceTitan, Jobber, FieldRoutes and Housecall Pro among the tools it works with. Both plans list Pro scheduling.
• Spanish: Not on the pricing page. Multilingual voices are listed on Enterprise.
• Demo: No demo phone line. The home page has a voice demo you talk to in your browser, and the pricing FAQ answers the sign-up question with a demo booking.
• Terms and your number: The pricing page states no trial or contract term.
• Reviews: No rating on its ServiceTitan Marketplace listing and no Trustpilot profile found. The listing claims nearly 2,000 home service businesses.

The next two bill by the call, however long it runs, which suits owners whose customers like to talk.

6. Smith.ai AI Receptionist

Best for: Very low volume, thanks to 25 free calls a month, or businesses that run on HubSpot, Salesforce or Clio. None of the big field-service platforms is named.

• Price and unit: Free: $0 a month for 25 calls, then $3.00 a call; Pro, 75-call tier: $150 a month for 75 calls, then $2.50 a call; Pro, 150-call tier: $270 a month for 150 calls, then $2.30 a call (that total is our arithmetic, 150 calls × $1.80 a call); Pro, 300-call tier: $501 a month for 300 calls, then $2.17 a call (that total is our arithmetic, 300 calls × $1.67 a call); Enterprise, 300-call tier: $500 a month for 300 calls, then $2.17 a call; Enterprise, 500-call tier: $800 a month for 500 calls, then $2.10 a call (that total is our arithmetic, 500 calls × $1.60 a call). Each tier has its own rate for calls past the tier. Smith.ai shows the $150 and $500 prices and a per-call rate for every tier; the other tier totals are our arithmetic (calls × rate). Smith.ai lets you take spam calls off the bill, up to 10% of a month's calls; the calculator ignores that credit. Enterprise above 1,000 calls is custom. Pricing source, read October 31, 2026.
• Cost per included unit (DERIVED): $150 ÷ 75 calls = $2.00 a call (Pro, 75-call tier); $270 ÷ 150 calls = $1.80 a call (Pro, 150-call tier); $501 ÷ 300 calls = $1.67 a call (Pro, 300-call tier); $500 ÷ 300 calls = $1.67 a call (Enterprise, 300-call tier); $800 ÷ 500 calls = $1.60 a call (Enterprise, 500-call tier). At 3 minutes a call, the lowest of those is $0.533 a minute.
• Booking: Every plan lists AI scheduling through Calendly and other tools. The native CRM integrations named are Salesforce, HubSpot, Clio Grow and Clio Manage, plus Zapier and Make; Jobber, Housecall Pro and ServiceTitan aren't mentioned.
• Spanish: Yes. The AI Receptionist page lists conversational fluency in English and Spanish.
• Demo: No public demo line. A free account lets you make test calls to your own receptionist and run simulated calls.
• Terms and your number: Month to month with no long-term contract, but cancelling takes 30 days' notice.
• Reviews: Trustpilot 4.3 from 375 reviews, which also cover Smith.ai's human receptionists. The newest, October 9, 2026, says cancelling took more than a week; most praise the human answering, and a December 2025 reviewer said the AI isn't their clients' favorite.

7. Upfirst

Best for: Owners who would rather pay by the call and want booking, transfers and texting on a $24.95 entry tier.

• Price and unit: Starter: $24.95 a month for 30 calls, then $1.50 a call; Premium: $59.95 a month for 90 calls, then $1.00 a call; Pro: $159.95 a month for 300 calls, then $0.75 a call; Scale: $299 a month for 600 calls, then $0.70 a call. Each plan lists its own per-call overage. Spam, calls under 15 seconds and calls where the caller never speaks are not billed. Annual billing saves 20%: $20, $48, $128 and $240 a month. Each extra agent is $9.95 a month. Pricing source, read October 31, 2026.
• Cost per included unit (DERIVED): $24.95 ÷ 30 calls = $0.832 a call (Starter); $59.95 ÷ 90 calls = $0.666 a call (Premium); $159.95 ÷ 300 calls = $0.533 a call (Pro); $299 ÷ 600 calls = $0.498 a call (Scale). At 3 minutes a call, the lowest of those is $0.166 a minute.
• Booking: Every plan lists appointment booking (Google Calendar, Outlook, Calendly, Acuity, Square and Clio Manage), live warm transfers and texting during the call. Zapier is on every plan, and custom integrations start on Pro.
• Spanish: 35+ languages with automatic switching are listed; Spanish isn't named on the pricing page.
• Demo: Yes. The home page FAQ gives a number to call its AI receptionist. A 14-day trial with no card.
• Terms and your number: No contract; cancel, upgrade or downgrade anytime. Porting your number in is free, and forwarding needs no port.
• Reviews: A Trustpilot profile, claimed in May 2025, with no reviews.

One vendor bills by the caller instead of the call or the minute.

8. Goodcall

Best for: Businesses with many repeat callers or long calls, since one number counts once a month however long or often it calls.

• Price and unit: Starter: $79 a month for 100 unique callers, then $0.79 a unique caller; Growth: $129 a month for 500 unique callers, then $0.26 a unique caller; Scale: $299 a month for 2,000 unique callers, then $0.15 a unique caller. Goodcall bills unique customers, which it defines as one phone number once a month, and says it never meters minutes. The calculator turns your repeat-caller share into unique callers. Enterprise is volume priced. Annual prices are not shown. Pricing source, read October 31, 2026.
• Cost per included unit (DERIVED): $79 ÷ 100 unique callers = $0.790 a unique caller (Starter); $129 ÷ 500 unique callers = $0.258 a unique caller (Growth); $299 ÷ 2,000 unique callers = $0.149 a unique caller (Scale). At 3 minutes a call, the lowest of those is $0.050 a minute.
• Booking: Its demo shows booking on a connected Google Calendar and leads sent to HighLevel or your own system. Jobber, Housecall Pro and ServiceTitan aren't mentioned.
• Spanish: Not mentioned on the home or pricing page.
• Demo: Voice samples on the site and a free start with a demo agent; no demo phone line.
• Terms and your number: Every plan includes a local number, or you forward your existing one. Its terms (last revised September 28, 2024) let you cancel from the dashboard and state no minimum term; payments are final, though you may request a refund for the current month. The terms don't address phone numbers.
• Reviews: Trustpilot 2.5 from 5 reviews, all one star. Two from June 2026 describe billing disputes and charges after cancelling. Five reviews is a small sample.

The next three are add-ons. Each needs the vendor's own phone or field software underneath, and the price shown is the AI part only.

9. Quo Sona

Best for: Teams already paying for Quo phone lines who want overflow and after-hours answering for little or nothing extra.

• Price and unit: Included tier: $0 a month for 10 calls, then $1.00 a call; 40-call tier: $25 a month for 40 calls, then $0.75 a call; 100-call tier: $49 a month for 100 calls, then $0.65 a call; 250-call tier: $99 a month for 250 calls, then $0.55 a call; 600-call tier: $199 a month for 600 calls, then $0.45 a call. Each tier lists its own per-call overage. Ten calls a month (1,000 credits) come with every Quo plan. Quo plans are $15, $23 and $35 a user a month billed annually. Needs a paid Quo phone plan ($19, $33 or $47 a user a month, billed monthly). Pricing source, read October 31, 2026.
• Cost per included unit (DERIVED): $25 ÷ 40 calls = $0.625 a call (40-call tier); $49 ÷ 100 calls = $0.490 a call (100-call tier); $99 ÷ 250 calls = $0.396 a call (250-call tier); $199 ÷ 600 calls = $0.332 a call (600-call tier). At 3 minutes a call, the lowest of those is $0.111 a minute.
• Booking: Sona answers, takes messages, transfers and texts a scheduling link during the call; the page doesn't say it books on a calendar itself. It answers inbound calls only.
• Spanish: The Sona page contradicts itself: its visible FAQ lists English, Spanish and French and says Sona can't switch languages mid-call, while the FAQ data embedded in the same page says English only. Test it before you rely on it.
• Demo: Yes. The Sona page lists a number you can call to talk to it.
• Terms and your number: Quo's pricing FAQ says you cancel in the app and the plan stays active to the end of the billing cycle. Sona has a 7-day trial for workspaces already on a paid Quo plan.
• Reviews: Quo as a whole: Trustpilot 4.2 from 1,122 reviews; none of the recent ones mention Sona.

10. Jobber Receptionist

Best for: Jobber users. It books into the schedule you already run on, and the add-on price stays low until volume climbs.

• Price and unit: Add-on: $29 a month for 30 conversations, then $0.79 a conversation. Jobber counts a call once the receptionist is actually talking with the caller; spam and calls with no real interaction are free. Text conversations count too, and the calculator leaves them out. Needs a Jobber Core, Connect or Grow plan (Core is $49 a month with no commitment, or $29 billed annually); included with unlimited use on Plus. Pricing source, read October 31, 2026.
• Cost per included unit (DERIVED): $29 ÷ 30 conversations = $0.967 a conversation (Add-on). At 3 minutes a call, the lowest of those is $0.322 a minute.
• Booking: The help article lists booking jobs in your schedule using your Online Booking settings, creating requests, and cancelling and rescheduling. Trigger words you choose, such as emergency or urgent, send the call to a team member as a transfer or a text alert.
• Spanish: The help article doesn't say.
• Demo: Yes. The feature page lists a US number to call the receptionist; bookings made in the demo aren't real. Jobber plans come with a 14-day trial.
• Terms and your number: It needs a Jobber dedicated phone number; you keep your own number by forwarding calls to it. The add-on is offered on Core, Connect and Grow, and included on Plus.
• Reviews: Jobber as a whole: Trustpilot 4.2 from 234 reviews; none on the page mention the receptionist.

11. GorillaDesk Maya AI

Best for: Pest control and lawn route businesses already on GorillaDesk, where a per-conversation price is cheap at low volume.

• Price and unit: Billed per completed conversation: $1.00 for a static one (questions and answers) and $1.75 for a dynamic one (capturing a lead or scheduling a booking). The calculator prices every call as dynamic. No monthly AI fee is stated. Needs a GorillaDesk plan (Basic from $49 or Pro from $99 a month for the first route, billed monthly; the AI agents page doesn't say which plans include Maya). Pricing source, read October 31, 2026.
• Cost per included unit (DERIVED): $1.75 a conversation ÷ 3 minutes = $0.583 a minute, if each call runs 3 minutes.
• Booking: GorillaDesk says Maya turns inbound calls and web leads into booked jobs around the clock, and its dynamic conversations include scheduling a pending booking.
• Spanish: Not mentioned.
• Demo: No line labeled as a demo. GorillaDesk offers a 14-day free trial with no card.
• Terms and your number: The AI agents page states no monthly AI fee, contract or plan requirement.
• Reviews: A Trustpilot profile, unclaimed, with no reviews.

The last four publish no price. You get a number after a demo.

12. Avoca

Best for: Larger HVAC, plumbing and home-service companies on ServiceTitan that want a demo-led rollout and can accept a fixed-term contract.

• Price and unit: No price on the site; the home page offers a 20-minute demo. Pricing source, read October 31, 2026.
• Cost per included unit (DERIVED): Nothing to derive without a published price.
• Booking: Its home page says it books jobs around the clock, calls its ServiceTitan connection a certified app with deep CRM integration, and shows Housecall Pro and FieldRoutes logos.
• Spanish: Not mentioned on the home page.
• Demo: A Talk to our AI page lets you hear it live; buying starts with a 20-minute demo.
• Terms and your number: Its Master Customer Agreement (December 17, 2025) renews automatically unless you give notice 30 days before renewal, has no termination for convenience, makes fees non-refundable and bills renewals at then-current rates. It doesn't address phone numbers.
• Reviews: No rating on its ServiceTitan Marketplace listing, which claims 800+ home service operators.

13. Housecall Pro CSR AI

Best for: Housecall Pro users who want jobs booked on the calendar they already use.

• Price and unit: No price on the CSR AI page. Needs a Housecall Pro plan. Pricing source, read October 31, 2026.
• Cost per included unit (DERIVED): Nothing to derive without a published price.
• Booking: Books jobs and schedules appointments on your Housecall Pro calendar, and answers calls and chats around the clock; texts are marked alpha and text answering coming soon.
• Spanish: Not mentioned.
• Demo: Housecall Pro offers a demo of CSR AI and a free trial with no card.
• Terms and your number: Not stated on the CSR AI page, including which plans can add it.
• Reviews: Housecall Pro as a whole: Trustpilot 2.9 from 699 reviews. Two (April and October 2026) complain that support is handled by AI.

14. ServiceTitan AI Virtual Agent

Best for: ServiceTitan shops that want calls booked straight to the dispatch board by job type, location and skills.

• Price and unit: No price on the AI Virtual Agent page; the route in is a demo request. Needs ServiceTitan. Pricing source, read October 31, 2026.
• Cost per included unit (DERIVED): Nothing to derive without a published price.
• Booking: Books to the dispatch board using real-time technician availability and Adaptive Capacity. It can run alongside your current phone platform or inside Contact Center Pro.
• Spanish: Not mentioned.
• Demo: Yes. The page offers a Try It Out option to call the agent live, a video and a demo request.
• Terms and your number: Not stated on the page.
• Reviews: ServiceTitan as a whole: Trustpilot 4.0 from 423 reviews; none of the recent ones mention the virtual agent.

15. Workiz Genius Answering

Best for: Workiz users who want calls, texts and email answered inside Workiz, including after hours only.

• Price and unit: Listed as sold separately, with no price. Needs a Workiz plan (also priced by request). Pricing source, read October 31, 2026.
• Cost per included unit (DERIVED): Nothing to derive without a published price.
• Booking: The feature page lists booking, rescheduling and cancelling jobs, and the plan table lists live transfers to your team and custom questions and answers.
• Spanish: The plan table lists English, Spanish and French; the feature page FAQ mentions English and Spanish.
• Demo: A Hear it in action button that opens a booking form for a 15-minute walkthrough, and a 7-day free trial with no card.
• Terms and your number: No term on the pricing page; ask for the contract length in writing before you add it.
• Reviews: Trustpilot 2.0 from 127 reviews. Two with identical wording (May and August 2026) complain about an AI answering service and a year-long contract.

16. Dillard's Digital (us)

Best for: service businesses that want the receptionist, the phone number and the CRM it books into all set up in their own name, and are willing to get a written quote instead of a price list.

• Price and unit: no published price. AI reception is its own month-to-month line in a written quote, separate from the phone line.
• Booking: it answers in your company's name, asks the questions you would ask, books the visit in your CRM and texts the customer a confirmation. Emergencies you define ring your on-call phone.
• Spanish: our service page doesn't promise it, so ask before you count on it.
• Demo: no public demo line.
• Terms and your number: your existing number is ported or forwarded, so customers keep calling the number they have. Each monthly line can be stopped on its own.
• Reviews: none yet.

We run our own service companies on the same stack. If you already live in Jobber, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan or Workiz, price their built-in receptionist first; our built-in versus independent comparison lays out the trade. See the AI reception service page for how ours is set up.

Where to start

1. Count a real month. Pull last month's inbound calls and average length from your phone bill or call log, and put them in the calculator. Count the calls you want the AI to take (after hours, overflow, everything), not every call you get.
2. Start with the software you already run. On Jobber, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan, Workiz or GorillaDesk, get the built-in price first, because it books into the schedule your crew already works from. Our guides to receptionists that book into Jobber and the Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan and Workiz options go deeper.
3. Test two, then get it in writing. Call the demo line or set up the trial and ring it after dark with a tough question about your own services, in Spanish if your customers speak it. Then get the plan, the overage rule, the term and what happens to your number in writing. Our list of questions to ask an AI receptionist provider has the rest, and what happens to your number when you cancel covers the exit.

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