AI Receptionist Pricing Study 2026
What small businesses actually pay for AI and human phone answering, built only from vendors' public pricing pages. All pages checked 2026-10-25.
Key findings
- Published entry prices for the three AI receptionists we checked run from $49/mo (Rosie Professional) to $99/mo (My AI Front Desk, $79/mo billed annually).
- Price per included AI minute falls with plan size: about $0.196 on Rosie Professional and about $0.15 on Rosie Scale and Growth, versus about $0.495 on My AI Front Desk monthly (which also bundles chat, SMS, CRM and automations).
- The human answering service we checked, Smith.ai human-first, starts at $300/mo for 30 calls, or $10 per included call, falling to $7 per call on its Pro plan.
- Billing units differ: minutes (Rosie, My AI Front Desk), unique customers (Goodcall), calls (Smith.ai). Unit costs are not directly comparable across those units.
The data
| Plan | Published price | Included | Price per included unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rosie Professional | $49/mo | 250 minutes | $0.196 per minute |
| Rosie Scale | $149/mo | 1,000 minutes | $0.149 per minute |
| Rosie Growth | $299/mo | 2,000 minutes | $0.149 per minute |
| My AI Front Desk (monthly) | $99/mo | 200 voice minutes | $0.495 per minute |
| My AI Front Desk (annual) | $79/mo | 200 voice minutes | $0.395 per minute |
| Goodcall Starter | $79/mo | 100 unique customers | $0.790 per unique customer |
| Goodcall Growth | $129/mo | 500 unique customers | $0.258 per unique customer |
| Goodcall Scale | $299/mo | 2,000 unique customers | $0.149 per unique customer |
| Smith.ai Starter (human) | $300/mo | 30 calls | $10.000 per call |
| Smith.ai Basic (human) | $810/mo | 90 calls | $9.000 per call |
| Smith.ai Pro (human) | $2,100/mo | 300 calls | $7.000 per call |
Unit cost = monthly price divided by included units, before overages. Goodcall says it does not meter minutes; its own page estimates about 1.5 calls per unique customer.
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Chart 2: AI price per included minute
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Methods
- We read each vendor's public pricing page on 2026-10-25: heyrosie.com/pricing, myaifrontdesk.com/pricing, goodcall.com/pricing, smith.ai/pricing/receptionists.
- We recorded only published list prices and included usage. No sales calls, quotes, discounts, or hands-on testing.
- Unit costs are simple division of price by included units. Overage, add-ons, taxes, and phone fees are excluded.
- We include vendors with clear published pricing. Rosie is an affiliate partner of this site; that did not change any number. We earn nothing from Goodcall or Smith.ai.
Unverified or missing
- Rosie's per-minute overage rate is not shown on its pricing page, so overage costs are not compared.
- Ruby's virtual receptionist minute prices did not appear in the page content we could read, so Ruby is excluded.
- My AI Front Desk's page lists competitor prices (for example ai-receptionist.com from $14/mo); we did not verify those and do not use them.
- Goodcall's statement that live answering services run about $1.50 to $1.90 per minute is the vendor's claim, not verified by us.