What an AI receptionist costs per month by the minute
Some AI receptionist services bill by the minute of talk time. Type your own three numbers and the page works out how many minutes that is a month and what it comes to in dollars, beside a flat monthly tier for comparison. Nothing is pre-filled: every field starts blank, the numbers are yours, and the arithmetic runs in your browser with nothing sent anywhere.
Published per-minute rates for AI receptionist voice minutes ran from 8 to 16 cents a minute as of September 15, 2026. That range is shown beside the rate field as a hint; the rate you use is yours to pick, inside it or outside it.
How this is worked out. Minutes per month equals calls per month times average minutes per call. Dollars per month billed by the minute equals minutes per month times the per-minute rate in cents divided by 100. The flat tier does not change with the minutes.
Our receptionist is one flat price whatever the minutes. It answers the calls you miss and asks the caller what the problem is, where the job is and when they need someone. It doesn't book appointments or send texts yet.
What this number is, and what it is not
It is an estimate built from the three numbers you typed, nothing more. If your calls per month or your minutes per call is a guess, the result is a guess of the same size. Change one input and watch the result move to see which of the three matters most for you.
It is not a quote from any provider and it is not a claim about what any business pays. We have not counted your calls and we do not know which rate you would be offered. The page holds no figures of its own beyond the published rate range and its date; the rest are the ones you put in.
What the missed-call receptionist does
Every missed call answered and qualified
The missed-call receptionist answers the calls you miss and asks the questions that tell a real job from a wrong number. Text-back and booking are not live yet. It is 149 dollars a month with the first month at 49 dollars, whatever the minutes; after-hours coverage is priced on a call.
Several locations, a call center, or anything larger than one business line is a conversation instead of a price: book thirty minutes.