AI Receptionist vs Answer AI
The short answer
- AI Receptionist costs least at both 100 and 500 calls a month.
- Answer AI has the lowest advertised price ($10), but costs 72.50 GBP via sales at 100 calls.
- Only Answer AI has receptionists of its own to take over a call on every plan.
- Only AI Receptionist transfers calls on every plan.
 AI Receptionistsolo professionals and small businesses that miss calls while workingVisit site |  Answer AIUK sole traders and SMEs that miss calls out of hours, from locksmiths to law firmsVisit site | |
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| Cost | ||
| At 100 calls a month | AI Receptionist$57.75Lowest | Answer AI72.50 GBP via sales |
| At 500 calls a month | AI Receptionist$261.50Lowest | Answer AI300 GBP via sales |
| Advertised from | AI Receptionist$14 a month | Answer AI$10 a month |
| The advertised plan covers | AI ReceptionistThe $14 plan covers 30 of 100 calls.70 cost extra. | Answer AIThe 10 GBP plan covers 0 of 100 calls. Growth costs less for all 100. |
| Bills | AI Receptionistper minute | Answer AIper call |
| Keeps answering past your allowance | AI ReceptionistPartlyCalls are not auto-upgraded or billed down: once the monthly minutes run out the… | Answer AIYesEach plan bundles a call allowance and extra calls simply continue at £0.85 each… |
| Free trial or plan | AI ReceptionistPartlyA 7-day trial lets it answer your real line: you get 30 minutes of live calls and can… | Answer AINoThere is no free plan or free trial on your own line: the cheapest plan is a paid monthly… |
| Month to month, cancel online | AI ReceptionistYesMonth-to-month with no contract, and you cancel yourself in the app without phoning anyone | Answer AIYesPlans are monthly with no long-term commitment… |
| On the call | ||
| Books appointments | AI ReceptionistPartlyIt books into the caller’s slot during the call… | Answer AIPartlyThe vendor says appointment scheduling is a core capability but only on the two upper… |
| Transfers to a person | AI ReceptionistYesTransfers are warm by default: it texts you who is calling and why… | Answer AIPartlyLive transfer is excluded from the cheapest Lite plan… |
| Human receptionists as backup | AI ReceptionistNoNo human agents sit behind the AI | Answer AIYesCalls can be routed to the company's own human answering operators rather than only to… |
| After-hours rules | AI ReceptionistPartlyAnswering is 24/7 on every plan including weekends and holidays… | Answer AIPartlyRound-the-clock answering is stated plainly for every plan… |
| Urgent calls escalated | AI ReceptionistYesEmergency recognition is a documented behaviour: the vendor says it triages urgent calls… | Answer AIPartlyUrgency recognition is claimed for emergency trades… |
| Texts your callers | AI ReceptionistYesCallers can text the same number and hold a full SMS conversation answered from the same… | Answer AINot stated |
| Call summary by text | AI ReceptionistYesYou can get per-call alerts by SMS as well as email… | Answer AIYesMessage delivery is by email and the online portal as standard… |
| Language, privacy and trying it | ||
| Languages | AI ReceptionistYes57 languages | Answer AIPartlyThe vendor claims 32 supported languages but publishes no list and gates multilingual… |
| HIPAA, with a signed BAA | AI ReceptionistNoNo BAA today on any plan: the vendor lists HIPAA compliance and Business Associate… | Answer AINot stated |
| Hear it before you buy | AI ReceptionistYesThree live demo receptionists are published with their phone numbers and suggested… | Answer AIYesA public number is published to call the AI receptionist… |
| What it connects to | ||
| Google Calendar | AI ReceptionistYesGoogle Calendar is the only calendar it books into, included from the $14 plan up | Answer AINot stated |
| Outlook | AI ReceptionistYesthe vendor says support for other calendar platforms is still to come… | Answer AIYesBooking into a calendar is possible where an integration is configured… |
| Calendly | AI ReceptionistYesthe vendor says support for other calendar platforms is still to come… | Answer AIYesBooking into a calendar is possible where an integration is configured… |
| Your trade’s software | AI ReceptionistNot stated | Answer AINot stated |
| Keep your number | AI ReceptionistYesYou keep your existing line and forward it with carrier star codes… | Answer AIYesYou keep your existing line and divert to the dedicated number supplied at no extra cost… |
| In short | ||
| What it is | AI ReceptionistAI Receptionist is a 24/7 AI phone answering service for small businesses and solo operators. It greets callers, answers their questions from your own business information, books appointments, screens spam and sends you a summary of every call.All answers for AI Receptionist | Answer AIAnswer AI is a UK AI virtual receptionist from Answer.co.uk that answers calls around the clock, handles FAQs from your website or documents, captures caller details and sends messages by email or SMS. It is sold on four monthly plans with per-call charging.All answers for Answer AI |
| Checked | AI ReceptionistOctober 14, 2026 | Answer AIOctober 14, 2026 |
Costs are for 100 or 500 calls a month of 2½ minutes each, on the cheapest public plan. How we price