My AI Front Desk alternatives
If you're looking past My AI Front Desk, you may want the phone answering without the rest of the bundle. Its call-answering plan is $99 a month for 200 voice minutes, with chat, SMS and a CRM folded in (checked September 2026). Here are AI receptionists priced for calls, with GreetKeeper's $49 for 200 answered calls first.
| Service | Bills by | Entry price | Overage published? |
|---|---|---|---|
| GreetKeeper | Answered call | $49 for 200 calls | Yes, $0.45 a call |
| Smith.ai | Per call | Free tier at $0 for 25 calls, then $3.00 a call | Yes |
| Ruby | Per minute | $250/mo for 50 minutes | No |
| Rosie | Per minute | Professional $49/mo for 250 minutes | No |
| Goodcall | Per unique caller | Starter $79/mo ($66 annual) for 100 unique customers | Yes |
| My AI Front Desk | Per voice minute | Business-in-a-Box $99/mo, or $79/mo billed annually, with 200 voice minutes | Yes |
Read from each vendor's own pricing page in September 2026, except vendors who gate pricing behind a form. Check before you buy.
What GreetKeeper does differently from My AI Front Desk
Every line below is on our pricing page or in the product today.
Why teams switch to GreetKeeper
- GreetKeeper's Starter is $49 for 200 answered calls, and each call counts once, however long it runs.
- Past your allowance, GreetKeeper prints a flat rate per call: $0.45, $0.35 or $0.25 by plan.
- Booking into Google Calendar or Outlook is on every plan, and the assistant reads the name, number and time back before it books.
- Calls that arrive together are answered at the same time, so nobody queues.
- Robocalls and spam calls are dropped before the greeting and never count toward your plan.
- Each number can have its own hours, greeting and calendar, and the Multi-location plan runs from $299 per location.
- Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial, every feature on, with no card.
Why people leave My AI Front Desk
Not a general complaint about the category. The specific wall this vendor puts in front of you.
My AI Front Desk packs a lot into one plan. Web chat, two-way SMS, a CRM, ticketing and sequence automations all sit beside the phone line. If you already pay for a CRM and a website chat, you're buying a second copy of each. The phone side runs on minutes, too. Past the 200 included minutes, each voice minute draws 25 credits from a prepaid pool, and auto-reload tops it up $10 at a time.
What the bill does as you grow
The entry price is the cheapest month you will ever have. This is the shape of the rest.
My AI Front Desk meters voice by the minute. The $99 plan covers 200 of them, and every minute after that costs 25 credits from your pool. Say you take 300 calls a month at three minutes each: that's 900 minutes, 700 past the plan. On GreetKeeper, those 300 calls fit inside Professional's 750 for $149. Past 750, an extra call is $0.35, and a very short or screened call doesn't count.
What moving off My AI Front Desk actually involves
Forwarding takes five minutes. Here is the part that takes an afternoon.
Moving to GreetKeeper is a forwarding change at your carrier or phone system. Before that, export the contacts and leads My AI Front Desk collected, since that list lives in its CRM. Then point GreetKeeper at your website for a first draft of your hours, services and FAQs, and correct what it gets wrong. From the first call, a signed webhook posts the caller's name, number, reason and summary to the CRM you already run.
Common questions
What are the cheapest My AI Front Desk alternatives?
Dialzara starts at $29 a month for 60 minutes and Rosie at $49 for 250 minutes (checked September 2026). GreetKeeper starts at $49 a month for 200 answered calls, with booking included and $0.45 per extra call. Only GreetKeeper of the three counts calls instead of minutes.
Is My AI Front Desk charged per call or per minute?
Per minute. The $99 plan includes 200 voice minutes, and each extra minute uses 25 credits from a prepaid pool (checked September 2026). GreetKeeper charges per answered call, so a long call costs the same as a short one.
Can I try GreetKeeper before I cancel My AI Front Desk?
Yes. Every GreetKeeper plan starts with a 14-day free trial, every feature on and no card. Forward your overflow or after-hours calls first, read two weeks of transcripts, then move the main line.
Price your calls, not minutes
Starter is $49 for 200 answered calls. Try every feature free for 14 days.