Newo vs Boulevard AI Receptionist (Beau)
The short answer
- Boulevard AI Receptionist (Beau) costs least at 100 calls a month: $155.
- Newo costs least at 500: $749.
- Pick Newo if you want the lower bill at 500 calls.
- Pick Boulevard AI Receptionist (Beau) if you want the lower bill at 100 calls.
 Newodental practices and home-service firms that book into their own scheduling softwareVisit site |  Boulevard AI Receptionist (Beau)salons, spas and medspas already running on Boulevard that miss booking callsVisit site | |
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| Cost | ||
| At 100 calls a month | Newo$175 | Boulevard AI Receptionist (Beau)$155Lowest |
| At 500 calls a month | Newo$749Lowest | Boulevard AI Receptionist (Beau)$755 |
| Advertised from | Newo$299 a month | Boulevard AI Receptionist (Beau)$125 a month |
| The advertised plan covers | NewoThe $299 plan it advertises covers all 100 calls. | Boulevard AI Receptionist (Beau)The $125 plan covers 80 of 100 calls.20 cost extra. |
| Bills | Newoin credits | Boulevard AI Receptionist (Beau)per minute |
| Keeps answering past your allowance | NewoYesCalls keep being answered past the allowance and extra units bill at the plan rate | Boulevard AI Receptionist (Beau)YesCalls keep being answered past the 200 included minutes and each extra minute costs $0.60 |
| Free trial or plan | NewoYesA new account starts on Pay As You Go with 50 free units and a provisioned number | Boulevard AI Receptionist (Beau)PartlyAll call minutes and texts are free from August to November 2026 on your real forwarded line |
| Month to month, cancel online | NewoYesAll plans bill monthly with no annual option | Boulevard AI Receptionist (Beau)YesThe add-on carries no minimum term and no cancellation fee |
| On the call | ||
| Books appointments | NewoYesIt reads live availability in your scheduler and writes the booking back during the call | Boulevard AI Receptionist (Beau)PartlyIt never books during the call: it texts a booking link with the right service preselected |
| Transfers to a person | NewoPartlyTransfers to a named human destination are configurable per scenario | Boulevard AI Receptionist (Beau)PartlyIt transfers on request or when stuck and hands staff an AI call summary |
| Human receptionists as backup | NewoNoNewo supplies no human agents of its own | Boulevard AI Receptionist (Beau)NoNo vendor-staffed agents sit behind the AI |
| After-hours rules | NewoYesA free-text working-hours attribute drives open/closed answers, booking validation | Boulevard AI Receptionist (Beau)PartlyCoverage is either 24/7 or after-hours-only off your Boulevard location hours |
| Urgent calls escalated | NewoYesEmergency intent is recognized and put through to the on-call person | Boulevard AI Receptionist (Beau)PartlyUrgent callers are handed to your team whenever transfers are configured |
| Texts your callers | NewoYesThe same agent holds two-way SMS threads from the same history as the phone call | Boulevard AI Receptionist (Beau)PartlyIt can send at most one outbound text per call - a booking or client-portal link from your existing Boulevard line - |
| Call summary by text | NewoYesPost-session reports go out by email and SMS to managers after every conversation | Boulevard AI Receptionist (Beau)PartlyEvery call produces an AI summary with action items |
| Language, privacy and trying it | ||
| Languages | NewoYes15+ languages | Boulevard AI Receptionist (Beau)Not stated |
| HIPAA, with a signed BAA | NewoYesNewo acts as a business associate | Boulevard AI Receptionist (Beau)YesThe vendor states the receptionist is covered by your existing BAA with Boulevard |
| Hear it before you buy | NewoPartlyYou can enter your website, get an agent trained on it and talk to it within minutes | Boulevard AI Receptionist (Beau)YesA public live demo line lets anyone phone Beau and behave like a client |
| What it connects to | ||
| Google Calendar | NewoYesCalendly, Cal.com and Google Calendar are documented with setup guides | Boulevard AI Receptionist (Beau)YesBoulevard offers a 2-way calendar sync with your personal Google Calendar |
| Outlook | NewoYesCalendly, Cal.com and Google Calendar are documented with setup guides | Boulevard AI Receptionist (Beau)NoGoogle and Apple Calendar are offered only as two-way personal-calendar sync |
| Calendly | NewoYesCalendly, Cal.com and Google Calendar are documented with setup guides | Boulevard AI Receptionist (Beau)NoGoogle and Apple Calendar are offered only as two-way personal-calendar sync |
| Your trade’s software | NewoYesTrade systems with setup guides span dentistry (Dentrix, Open Dental, Eaglesoft, Denticon) | Boulevard AI Receptionist (Beau)PartlyBoulevard is itself the salon and medspa system of record |
| Keep your number | NewoYesYou keep your published number and set delayed carrier forwarding | Boulevard AI Receptionist (Beau)YesYou keep the number clients already dial and forward it to your Boulevard booking line |
| In short | ||
| What it is | NewoNewo is a ready-to-deploy voice AI employee that answers a small business's phone, texts and web chat as one agent with one memory. It books, reschedules and routes the work inside the practice-management, CRM and field-service systems the business already runs.All answers for Newo | Boulevard AI Receptionist (Beau)Boulevard AI Receptionist, called Beau, is an add-on to the Boulevard salon, spa and medspa platform that answers inbound calls on your existing number. It answers service and policy questions from your Boulevard data, texts booking links, transfers callers or takes messages.All answers for Boulevard AI Receptionist (Beau) |
| Checked | NewoOctober 15, 2026 | Boulevard AI Receptionist (Beau)October 14, 2026 |
Costs are for 100 or 500 calls a month of 2½ minutes each, on the cheapest public plan. How we price