VoiceFleet vs Answer AI
The short answer
- Answer AI costs least at both 100 and 500 calls a month.
- Only Answer AI has receptionists of its own to take over a call on every plan.
 VoiceFleetlocal service firms in Ireland and the UK that lose booking calls to voicemailVisit 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 | VoiceFleet99 EUR | Answer AI72.50 GBP via salesLowest |
| At 500 calls a month | VoiceFleet599 EUR | Answer AI300 GBP via salesLowest |
| Advertised from | VoiceFleet$99 a month | Answer AI$10 a month |
| The advertised plan covers | VoiceFleetThe 99 EUR plan covers all 100 calls. | Answer AIThe 10 GBP plan covers 0 of 100 calls. Growth costs less for all 100. |
| Bills | VoiceFleetper minute | Answer AIper call |
| Keeps answering past your allowance | VoiceFleetNoThere is no overage rate at all: instead of billing extra minutes automatically… | Answer AIYesEach plan bundles a call allowance and extra calls simply continue at £0.85 each… |
| Free trial or plan | VoiceFleetPartlyEvery plan starts with a 7-day free trial you can run on real business calls while… | 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 | VoiceFleetYesBilling is month to month with no lock-in | Answer AIYesPlans are monthly with no long-term commitment… |
| On the call | ||
| Books appointments | VoiceFleetPartlyIt books into the diary during the call only where the connected provider supports API… | Answer AIPartlyThe vendor says appointment scheduling is a core capability but only on the two upper… |
| Transfers to a person | VoiceFleetPartlyTransfer to your own staff is an add-on on Starter and included from Growth upward | Answer AIPartlyLive transfer is excluded from the cheapest Lite plan… |
| Human receptionists as backup | VoiceFleetNoNo human receptionists sit behind the AI: the vendor positions itself as AI-first against… | Answer AIYesCalls can be routed to the company's own human answering operators rather than only to… |
| After-hours rules | VoiceFleetYesIt answers 24/7 on every plan and you configure time zone, holiday hours… | Answer AIPartlyRound-the-clock answering is stated plainly for every plan… |
| Urgent calls escalated | VoiceFleetYesEmergency flagging is listed on all three plans and urgent calls can be routed to staff… | Answer AIPartlyUrgency recognition is claimed for emergency trades… |
| Texts your callers | VoiceFleetNot stated | Answer AINot stated |
| Call summary by text | VoiceFleetYesAfter each call you get caller details, reason for calling and urgency as an instant… | Answer AIYesMessage delivery is by email and the online portal as standard… |
| Language, privacy and trying it | ||
| Languages | VoiceFleetPartly30+ languages | Answer AIPartlyThe vendor claims 32 supported languages but publishes no list and gates multilingual… |
| HIPAA, with a signed BAA | VoiceFleetNoNo Business Associate Agreement is offered anywhere | Answer AINot stated |
| Hear it before you buy | VoiceFleetPartlyYou can run a live AI receptionist call in the browser and play two recorded sample calls… | Answer AIYesA public number is published to call the AI receptionist… |
| What it connects to | ||
| Google Calendar | VoiceFleetYesGoogle Calendar and Microsoft 365 (Outlook) book directly… | Answer AINot stated |
| Outlook | VoiceFleetYesGoogle Calendar and Microsoft 365 (Outlook) book directly… | Answer AIYesBooking into a calendar is possible where an integration is configured… |
| Calendly | VoiceFleetYesGoogle Calendar and Microsoft 365 (Outlook) book directly… | Answer AIYesBooking into a calendar is possible where an integration is configured… |
| Your trade’s software | VoiceFleetYesTrade and practice systems are supported, including Open Dental, Phorest… | Answer AINot stated |
| Keep your number | VoiceFleetYesYou keep your existing business number and forward it to the VoiceFleet number | Answer AIYesYou keep your existing line and divert to the dedicated number supplied at no extra cost… |
| In short | ||
| What it is | VoiceFleetVoiceFleet is an inbound AI voice receptionist for small businesses that answers forwarded calls, answers approved FAQs, captures booking requests and routes urgent callers. It sells prepaid monthly minute plans with a local business number and booking-system integrations.All answers for VoiceFleet | 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 | VoiceFleetOctober 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