Allo vs Answer AI
The short answer
- Allo costs least: $90 a month for 100 calls and $90 for 500.
- Answer AI has the lowest advertised price, £10 (about $13), but costs £72.50 (about $96) through sales at 100 calls.
- Pick Allo if you want the lower bill.
- Pick Answer AI if you want their own people to take over a call.
 Allosmall sales and service teams that want one phone system to answer and log every callVisit site |  Answer AIUK sole traders and SMEs that miss calls after hours, from locksmiths to law firmsVisit site | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | ||
| At 100 calls a month | Allo$90Lowest | Answer AI£72.50 (about $96) through salesabout $96 |
| At 500 calls a month | Allo$90Lowest | Answer AI£300 (about $397) through salesabout $397 |
| Advertised from | Allo$45 a month | Answer AI£10 (about $13) a monthabout $13 |
| The advertised plan covers | AlloThe $45 plan covers all 100 calls. | Answer AIThe £10 (about $13) plan it advertises covers 0 of 100 calls. Growth costs less for all 100. |
| Bills | Alloflat fee | Answer AIper call |
| Keeps answering past your allowance | AlloPartlyNational calls are unlimited so there is no call allowance to exceed | Answer AIYesEach plan bundles a call allowance and extra calls simply continue at £0.85 (about $1.13) each |
| Free trial or plan | AlloPartlyYou can run Allo on a real line for seven days on the Business plan before paying | Answer AINoThere is no free plan or free trial on your own line |
| Month to month, cancel online | AlloYesMonth-to-month is offered on every plan and you cancel yourself from Settings | Answer AIYesPlans are monthly with no long-term commitment |
| On the call | ||
| Books appointments | AlloNot stated | Answer AIPartlyThe vendor says appointment scheduling is a core capability |
| Transfers to a person | AlloPartlyRules in plain language send a caller to a teammate, another line or an outside number | Answer AIPartlyLive transfer is excluded from the cheapest Lite plan |
| Human receptionists as backup | AlloNoAllo staffs no answering service behind the AI | Answer AIYesCalls can be routed to the company's own human answering operators rather than only to the customer |
| After-hours rules | AlloNot stated | Answer AIPartlyRound-the-clock answering is stated plainly for every plan |
| Urgent calls escalated | AlloPartlyYou can write a rule that pushes urgent calls straight to a person | Answer AIPartlyUrgency recognition is claimed for emergency trades |
| Texts your callers | AlloPartlyMissed callers get an automatic text back | Answer AINot stated |
| Call summary by text | AlloPartlyEvery handled call lands in the app with its summary | Answer AIYesMessage delivery is by email and the online portal as standard |
| Language, privacy and trying it | ||
| Languages | AlloPartlyEnglish, Spanish and French | Answer AIPartlyThe vendor claims 32 supported languages but publishes no list |
| HIPAA, with a signed BAA | AlloPartlyA Business Associate Agreement is signed for healthcare customers | Answer AINot stated |
| Hear it before you buy | AlloYesRecorded sample calls play on the product page | Answer AIYesA public number is published to call the AI receptionist, and a form issues a test number |
| What it connects to | ||
| Google Calendar | AlloNoThe vendor names its booking integrations as a closed set of three | Answer AINot stated |
| Outlook | AlloNoThe vendor names its booking integrations as a closed set of three | Answer AIYesBooking into a calendar is possible where an integration is configured |
| Calendly | AlloNoThe vendor names its booking integrations as a closed set of three | Answer AIYesBooking into a calendar is possible where an integration is configured |
| Your trade’s software | AlloPartlyTrade-adjacent tools are covered through Jobber, JobNimbus and Follow Up Boss | Answer AINot stated |
| Keep your number | AlloYesYou keep your existing line and forward it to Allo | Answer AIYesYou keep your existing line and divert to the dedicated number supplied at no extra cost |
| In short | ||
| What it is | AlloAllo is a business phone system for teams under 250 people, sold per seat, with an AI receptionist add-on that answers calls, books into your calendar and writes every call up. It runs on mobile, desktop and web apps.All answers for Allo | 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 | AlloOctober 15, 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
“About” figures are converted at the European Central Bank rate of Oct 15, 2026.