Alternatives
Smith.ai alternatives.
14 answering services to weigh against Smith.ai, starting with ours, then the ones most like Smith.ai. Prices, trials and who answers, from each company’s own public pages, dated.
Checked between and · each competitor’s details from their own public pages
What Smith.ai offers
Smith.ai in short.
Smith.ai sells two things: live receptionists, priced per call, and an AI receptionist that can hand a call to one of their people. prepaid.ai is an AI phone line only, with no live staff, sold as prepaid plans of minutes with no contract. If you want a person on the line, Smith.ai offers that and we do not.
Smith.aiAI and live receptionists
- Starting price
- AI receptionist: a free plan with 25 calls a month, then Pro from $150/month. Live receptionists: from $300/month for 30 calls.
- How you pay
- Per call: a monthly plan includes a set number of calls, then a fee for each extra call.
- Free trial
- The free AI plan (25 calls a month). A money-back guarantee for new clients on the live receptionist plans.
- Contract
- Month to month, no long-term contract. The AI plans ask for 30 days’ notice to cancel.
Read on Smith.ai’s own pages on . Full side by side with sources →
The alternatives
14 options, one by one.
- 1 prepaid.aiAI receptionist
- Starting price
- US$29 for 100 minutes every 30 days (Lite, United States).
- How you pay
- Prepaid plans of 30 days with minutes included, metered per second. Top up when you need more.
- Free trial
- 7 days free, no card. Build your AI and talk to it in the browser first.
- Contract
- None. A plan runs 30 days; recharge when you want to.
- You want to pay ahead: a 30-day plan with minutes included, and no contract.
- You want callers told it’s an AI at the start of every call.
- You want it to book into Google Calendar while the caller is on the line.
- 2 MoneypennyAI and live receptionists
- How you pay
- Quoted per business: “flexible and based on your needs, such as call volumes and hours of coverage”.
- Free trial
- A free trial of the telephone answering service; no length stated.
- Contract
- Telephone answering: a “minimum contract length of three months” on schemes of 150 minutes and below, then one month’s notice. Larger schemes need six or twelve months, with three months’ notice.
- Good if you want a live UK receptionist to take the calls the AI cannot.
- Good if you need payments taken or a switchboard run. They list both as services.
From Moneypenny AI receptionist (UK), read . prepaid.ai vs Moneypenny →
- 3 RubyLive receptionists
- Starting price
- $250/month for 50 minutes.
- How you pay
- Monthly plans of receptionist minutes.
- Good if you want every call answered by a person, day and night.
- Good if you need bilingual call answering. They list Spanish and bilingual handling.
From Ruby pricing, read . prepaid.ai vs Ruby →
- 4 DialzaraAI receptionist
- Starting price
- $29/month for 60 minutes (Business Lite), then $0.48 a minute.
- How you pay
- Monthly plans of minutes, then a per-minute rate for extra minutes.
- Free trial
- 7-day free trial.
- Contract
- “No contract.”
- Good if you need English and Spanish. Both are listed on their entry plan.
- Good if you want a website chatbot or an outbound calling product from the same company.
From Dialzara pricing, read . prepaid.ai vs Dialzara →
- 5 GoodcallAI receptionist
- Starting price
- $79/month for 100 unique callers (Starter), then 79¢ each.
- How you pay
- Per unique caller each month; minutes and calls are not metered.
- Free trial
- A free demo agent; you pay when you connect a number.
- Good if the same people call you again and again, since you pay per caller, not per minute.
- Good if your business already runs on HighLevel.
From Goodcall pricing, read . prepaid.ai vs Goodcall →
- 6 RosieAI receptionist
- Starting price
- $49 per month listed for 250 minutes (Professional). The page offers monthly or annual billing and does not say which the figure is.
- How you pay
- Plans of minutes, billed monthly or annually.
- Free trial
- 7-day free trial with all features.
- Contract
- “Cancel anytime.”
- Good if you need English and Spanish on every call.
- Good if you want a website chat widget in the same product.
From Rosie pricing, read . prepaid.ai vs Rosie →
- 7 AlloAI receptionist
- Starting price
- AI receptionist: $45 month to month, or $32 a month billed yearly.
- How you pay
- Per seat each month; the AI receptionist takes one Business seat.
- Free trial
- 3-day free trial.
- Contract
- No contracts; upgrade, downgrade or cancel anytime.
- Good if you want a phone system for a whole team, not only a receptionist.
- Good if you need numbers in more countries than we sell in.
From Allo pricing, read . prepaid.ai vs Allo →
- 8 My AI Front DeskAI receptionist
- Starting price
- $99/month, or $79/month billed annually, with 200 voice minutes.
- How you pay
- A monthly plan with usage included, then credits.
- Free trial
- 7-day free trial; “No credit card required”.
- Contract
- “No contracts, no hidden fees”; cancel anytime.
- Good if you want chat, email and web forms handled alongside the phone.
- Good if your callers speak many languages. They list “20+ languages”.
From My AI Front Desk pricing, read . prepaid.ai vs My AI Front Desk →
- 9 UpfirstAI receptionist
- Starting price
- $24.95/month for 30 calls (Starter), or $20/month billed annually, then $1.50 a call.
- How you pay
- Per call: a monthly plan includes a set number of calls, then a fee for each extra call. Spam, and calls under 15 seconds, are not billed.
- Free trial
- 14 days or 100 calls, whichever comes first; “No credit card required”.
- Contract
- “There are no contracts, and you can cancel from your account.”
- Good if your calls are short and frequent, since you pay per call, not per minute.
- Callers speak languages other than English. They list English, Spanish and “35+ other languages”.
From Upfirst pricing, read . prepaid.ai vs Upfirst →
- 10 Reception by ElevenLabsAI receptionist
- Starting price
- $29/month for 75 minutes (Basic).
- How you pay
- Monthly plans of phone minutes, then a per-minute overage rate. “Billed monthly.”
- Free trial
- A free trial, no credit card required.
- Good if you want your own staff to answer first, with the AI as the backstop.
- Callers speak many languages. Their pages list Spanish and dozens more.
From Reception by ElevenAgents, read . prepaid.ai vs Reception by ElevenLabs →
- 11 RingCentral AI ReceptionistAI receptionist
- Starting price
- $49/month with 100 minutes on its own, or $39/month added to a RingEX Core plan at $30/month.
- How you pay
- Monthly, with included minutes, then $0.50 a minute, billed in 30-second increments.
- Good if your team already uses RingCentral for its phones.
- Callers speak Spanish, French, Italian, German or Portuguese. All are listed.
From RingCentral AI Receptionist pricing, read . prepaid.ai vs RingCentral AI Receptionist →
- 12 RinglyAI receptionist
- Starting price
- “$99 a month minimum, which covers your first 50” conversations, then $1.99 each.
- How you pay
- Per billable conversation, not per minute. Spam, hang-ups, wrong numbers and callers passed straight to a human are free.
- Free trial
- “Try for free”, with no trial length stated, and a 30-day money-back guarantee.
- Contract
- No contract, month to month; “Cancel anytime.”
- Good if you run a Shopify store and most calls are about orders, tracking and returns.
- Good if your support team works in Gorgias or Zendesk and wants calls as tickets.
From Ringly pricing, read . prepaid.ai vs Ringly →
- 13 WaboomAI receptionist
- Starting price
- NZ$500 of credit at 95c a minute (525 minutes), plus NZ$130 a month for the platform, excluding GST. In Australia, A$500 plus A$130 a month.
- How you pay
- Prepaid credit billed “to the second”, plus a monthly platform fee. “Credit never expires.”
- Free trial
- A “30-day money-back guarantee on every plan”, and browser demos that run up to four minutes.
- Contract
- “There is no contract.” Month to month, cancelled from the portal.
- Good if you want credit that never expires, and use the line rarely.
- Callers need Mandarin. They list an agent that starts in English and switches.
From Waboom voice agent pricing, read . prepaid.ai vs Waboom →
- 14 SophiieAI receptionist
- Good if you run a trade business and want quotes, invoices and crew scheduling in the same product.
- Good if you already use ServiceM8, Simpro or Xero.
From Sophiie home page, read . prepaid.ai vs Sophiie →
Prices and plans change, so check each company’s own page before you decide. Anything their pages did not state is left out rather than guessed.