Comparison
prepaid.ai vs Allo
Allo is a business phone system for teams — calling, shared numbers, a dialer — with an AI receptionist you add as a seat. prepaid.ai is only the AI phone line: one AI that answers your number, sold as prepaid plans of minutes. If you want your whole team’s phones in one place, Allo covers more.
Last checked · their details from Allo’s own public pages, prices as listed there
Side by side
What each one offers.
Ours is read from our live plans in the United States. Theirs is what their own pages said; the small number beside a fact points to the page it came from.
| Feature | prepaid.ai | Allo |
|---|---|---|
| How you pay | Prepaid plans of 30 days with minutes included, metered per second. Top up when you need more. | Per seat each month; the AI receptionist takes one Business seat.12 |
| Starting price | US$29 for 100 minutes every 30 days (Lite, United States). | AI receptionist: $45 month to month, or $32 a month billed yearly.2 |
| Free trial | 7 days free, no card. Build your AI and talk to it in the browser first. | 3-day free trial.12 |
| Contract | None. A plan runs 30 days; recharge when you want to. | No contracts; upgrade, downgrade or cancel anytime.1 |
| Who answers | An AI phone line. We don’t offer live human receptionists. | An AI receptionist, inside a team phone system.2 |
| Books appointments | Yes, during the call, into a time it has checked is free. | Yes — “books appointments into your calendar”.2 |
| Calendars named | Google Calendar. | Not stated on their public pages |
| Tells callers it’s an AI | Yes — at the start of every call, in the words each country asks for. | Not stated on their public pages |
| Numbers and countries | A local number in the United States, New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada, or forward the number you have. | New numbers in 80+ countries, from $5/month each; port your own free.1 |
| Integrations and API | An MCP server, an API and webhooks. | HubSpot, Pipedrive, Attio, Salesforce, Zapier and Make among those named.1 |
Which fits
Honest about where each one wins.
Choose Allo if…
- You want a phone system for a whole team, not only a receptionist.
- You need numbers in more countries than we sell in.
- You make a lot of outbound sales calls — they sell a power dialer.
Choose prepaid.ai if…
- 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.
- You want a local number in the United States, New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada.
- You want to hear your own AI before you pay — 7 days free, no card.
Sources
Allo’s details were read on their own pages on . Prices and plans change — check their page before you decide. Anything their pages did not state is left blank above rather than guessed.
- 1Allo — pricingwww.withallo.com/pricing
- 2Allo — AI receptionistwww.withallo.com/ai-receptionist