Data · Q4 2026

AI Receptionist Price Index.

By Cameron Drummond, editor. Data read October 2026.

Short answer: the median AI receptionist starts at US$89/mo. Published entry plans run $0–$600/mo across 14 vendors.

$89

Median entry price

Lowest (Smith.ai)

$600

Highest self-serve entry

No fixed monthly price

Key facts.

14 of 31 tracked vendors publish a self-serve monthly price under $2,000.
Median lowest plan: $89/mo. Excluding free tiers: $99/mo.
Range: $0 to $600/mo.
12 vendors are usage-based or quote-only.
Developer voice platforms: $0.05–$0.31 per minute published. Synthflow sells enterprise contracts from $30,000/yr.
Every figure links to the vendor's own pricing page.

Entry price by vendor.

Excludes plans of $2,000/mo or more (Synthflow enterprise) and vendors without a fixed monthly price.

By segment.

Segment	Vendors	Min	Median	Max
Dental	2	$399	$499.5	$600
General SMB	7	$0	$49	$99
Restaurants	1	$399	$399	$399
Trades (HVAC/plumbing)	4	$49	$284.5	$449

Per-minute API costs.

Platform	Published price	Source
Vapi	$0.05/min hosting + models & telephony at cost	pricing pageAffiliate link. What this means
Retell AI	$0.07–$0.31/min all-in ($0.055 infra)	pricing page
ElevenLabs Agents	~$0.08/min	pricing pageAffiliate link. What this means
Bland AI	$0.14/min Start; $0.12 + $299/mo Build; $0.11 + $499/mo Scale	pricing page
OpenAI gpt-realtime-2.1 (model only)	~$0.019/min listening, ~$0.077/min speaking ($32/$64 per 1M audio tokens)	pricing page
Synthflow	No per-minute price; Enterprise from $30,000/yr	pricing page

Headline per-minute rates include different parts of a call (platform only vs all-in), so compare like for like.

Cite this.

AI Receptionist Price Index, Q4 2026: of 31 AI receptionist vendors tracked, 14 publish a self-serve monthly price under $2,000. Their lowest published plans range from $0 to $600 a month, with a median of $89 (median $99 excluding free tiers). 12 vendors publish no fixed monthly price (usage-based or quote only). Developer voice platforms list $0.05–$0.31 per minute. Source: AI Receptionist Index, https://www.aireceptionistindex.com/price-index-q4-2026/ (2026-11-02).

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Method.

Lowest published plan on each vendor's own pricing page, USD, monthly billing where shown, read October 2026. No estimates. Free tiers count as $0. Licence CC BY 4.0. Full methodology and sources.