Smith.ai alternatives

2 · AI receptionists and answering

Zanus AI

$99 / mo · Per company

Zanus AI sells an 'AI Front Office': modules that answer your phone, website chat, e-mail and web forms, book appointments, send quotes, follow up and support customers. You buy single functions à la carte or one of four bundled levels, priced per company rather than per seat.

• Priced per company rather than per seat, with operators included in each level ($49/month for each additional one). Source
• Broad module catalogue under one login: phone, chat, e-mail, forms, booking, CRM, quoting, tickets, outbound auto-call and team knowledge tools. Source

Lists, where Smith.ai does not: outbound AI calling campaigns, caller memory across calls, quotes and proposals, email campaigns and sequences, projects and tasks and field service and work orders.

Not listed, where Smith.ai has it: live human receptionists, two-way SMS and API and webhooks.

3 · AI receptionists and answering

Goodcall

$79 / mo · Per account, billed by unique customers per month

Goodcall is an AI answering service and virtual receptionist that answers calls 24/7. Its agent 'Gabi' builds and manages the phone agent from a plain-language description of the business.

• Billing is per unique customer, not per minute, so long calls and repeat calls from the same number in a month don't add cost. Source
• Low-friction start: a free demo agent you build by describing your business, and billing only once you connect a number. Source

Lists, where Smith.ai does not: caller memory across calls, MCP for AI assistants, team seats, roles and access and compliance and certifications.

Not listed, where Smith.ai has it: live human receptionists, invoices and payments and website chat with AI replies.

4 · AI receptionists and answering

Slang.ai

$399 / mo per location · Per location per month, quote-based ('Get a quote'), with published…

Slang AI is an AI phone-answering product for restaurants. It handles reservations, guest questions, VIP routing and private-event inquiries, and its 'Superhost' offering is described as 'Voice AI answers the phone. Superhost answers the guest.'

• Built specifically for restaurants, with prebuilt restaurant prompts and no manual AI training. Source
• Direct reservation-platform integrations: OpenTable, Resy, SevenRooms and Yelp, plus Tripleseat and Perfect Venue for private events. Source

Lists, where Smith.ai does not: caller memory across calls, projects and tasks, team seats, roles and access and compliance and certifications.

Not listed, where Smith.ai has it: live human receptionists, CRM and sales pipeline, invoices and payments, website chat with AI replies and API and webhooks.

5 · AI receptionists and answering

Rosie

$49 / mo · Per account, monthly plans with included minutes

Rosie is an AI call answering service for small businesses. It is trained on your website and Google Business Profile, and it answers calls 24/7, books appointments, takes messages and texts you call details.

• Low entry price ($49/month for 250 minutes) with a 7-day free trial. Source
• Quick setup: Rosie trains itself from your website and Google Business Profile, and you keep your number via call forwarding. Source

Lists, where Smith.ai does not: field service and work orders and mobile app.

Not listed, where Smith.ai has it: live human receptionists, invoices and payments and API and webhooks.

6 · AI receptionists and answering

My AI Front Desk

$99 / mo · Per account: one self-serve plan with included usage, plus credits for…

My AI Front Desk (branded 'Frontdesk', from AI Front Desk, Inc.) is an AI-powered front office platform for small and medium businesses. Its AI receptionist answers calls, texts, e-mails and chats, and keeps one memory per customer across channels.

• One plan covers voice, SMS, e-mail, chatbot, web forms, CRM and automations, with published usage allowances and overage rates. Source
• Transparent credit pricing: 1 credit = $0.01, voice overage $0.25/min, purchased credits don't expire. Source

Lists, where Smith.ai does not: outbound AI calling campaigns, caller memory across calls, voice cloning, email campaigns and sequences, website and landing pages and projects and tasks.

Not listed, where Smith.ai has it: live human receptionists and invoices and payments.

7 · AI receptionists and answering

Dialzara

$29 / mo · Per account, with monthly plans that include minutes plus per-minute overage

Dialzara is an AI phone answering service for small businesses. Its AI receptionist answers calls 24/7, books appointments and captures leads, and the same platform runs outbound voice agents, a two-way SMS agent and a website chatbot.

• Low entry price ($29/month) and a clear ladder of minute bundles with published overage rates. Source
• The website chatbot is bundled free with any voice plan (100 sessions/month), and SMS and outbound share the same knowledge base and dashboard. Source

Lists, where Smith.ai does not: outbound AI calling campaigns, caller memory across calls, projects and tasks, team seats, roles and access and white label for agencies.

Not listed, where Smith.ai has it: live human receptionists and invoices and payments.

8 · Field service software

Housecall Pro

$79 / mo · Per plan tier with a set number of users (1, 5, 8)

Housecall Pro is field service software for scheduling, dispatch, estimates, invoicing and payments, with a built-in AI team and paid add-ons including CSR AI 24/7 call answering, Voice and the HCP Assist live answering service.

• Full field-service workflow on every plan: online booking, scheduling and dispatch, estimates, invoicing, payments, consumer financing, job costing and review management. Source
• AI team (Analyst AI, Coach AI, Marketing AI, Help AI and CSR AI chat) included on all plans. Source

Lists, where Smith.ai does not: quotes and proposals, contracts and e-signature, email campaigns and sequences, website and landing pages, reviews and reputation and projects and tasks.

9 · Customer messaging and reviews

Podium

By quote · Quote: plans are custom-priced through sales (no prices shown to visitors)

Podium is a desktop and mobile platform for local businesses that combines a unified inbox, reviews, webchat, text marketing, payments and phones, with an add-on AI Employee that answers calls and messages and books appointments.

• Strong reviews toolset: text review invites, Google, Facebook and industry review sites, review leaderboard and AI review responses. Source
• Unified inbox across texts, calls, email, webchat and social, with unlimited contacts, one-to-one texts and team members. Source

Lists, where Smith.ai does not: outbound AI calling campaigns, caller memory across calls, quotes and proposals, email campaigns and sequences, reviews and reputation and field service and work orders.

Not listed, where Smith.ai has it: live human receptionists.

10 · AI voice agent platforms

ElevenLabs Agents

$6 / mo · Monthly subscription tiers that include a call-minute allowance

ElevenAgents is ElevenLabs' platform to configure, deploy and monitor human-sounding voice and chat agents, with no-code setup plus developer SDKs and APIs. It is billed per call minute on monthly subscription tiers, with LLM usage passed through separately.

• Low entry price with published tiers: a free plan and paid plans from $6/mo, each with an included call-minute allowance and a flat $0.08/min for extra minutes. Source
• Broad voice and language coverage, drawing on ElevenLabs' own TTS models; agents page cites 90+ languages and a library of thousands of voices. Source

Lists, where Smith.ai does not: outbound AI calling campaigns, power dialer for your reps, caller memory across calls, voice cloning, WhatsApp and projects and tasks.

Not listed, where Smith.ai has it: live human receptionists.