Comparison
They are far cheaper to start than we are — $14 against $75 — and once you use minutes, their 25¢ overage lands within a dollar of our plans. We are not going to pretend otherwise. So the choice between these two is not price: it is what happens when a month runs long, and what else the money buys.
| PhonePick | AI-Receptionist.com |
|---|---|
| Front Desk $75300 minutes · answers, books, writes up every call it answers | Essential $1460 minutes |
| Operations $149600 minutes · plus deposits, confirmations, invoices, receipts | Starter $3960 minutes |
| Growth $4491,500 minutes · your AI sales rep: Operations, plus sales calls | Solopreneur $99200 minutes |
| — | Business $199400 minutes |
AI-Receptionist.com's prices as published on their own pricing page, checked 10 September 2026. Prices move — if you are reading this much later, check theirs and tell us if ours is out of date.
The PhonePick prices in this table are US dollars. In Canada the same three plans are CA$99, CA$199 and CA$599 a month, and our pricing page shows either.
Their pricing page names no currency, and its US and Canadian versions list the same figures (checked 21 September 2026), so they are compared here with our US prices. If they bill Canadians those figures in Canadian dollars, they are cheaper in Canada than we are: CA$74 for 300 minutes against our CA$99.
Written by us, about a competitor, so read it with that in mind — but these are real and we would rather you knew before you bought than after.
Their Essential plan is under a fifth of our Front Desk. If you genuinely take only a handful of calls a month, that is the cheaper answer and you should take it.
Their $14 Essential plus 25¢ a minute comes to $74 for 300 minutes and $149 for 600 — within a dollar of our first two plans — and $374 for 1,500, against $449 for our Growth, which is sold for its sales calls rather than its minutes. It is less for any month in between too, because you pay for the minutes you use rather than the next plan up.
They advertise 55+ languages, including bilingual English and Canadian French. We answer in 85 languages, French among them, and move to the caller's mid-call, but we do not promise a Canadian French voice. If you need one, this comparison ends here.
We do not have one. They also list SIP integration and sending images by MMS during a call, neither of which we do.
Theirs is 25¢ a minute past your allowance, on every plan. Ours stops answering at the allowance and your calls ring through to your own phone instead, so a busy month cannot produce a bill you did not expect. That is the single biggest difference between these two products, and it cuts both ways: past the allowance they keep answering, and we do not.
Their $39 Starter includes the same 60 minutes as their $14 Essential — the extra $25 buys features, not answering time. Every step up our ladder buys more minutes: 300, 600, then 1,500.
A 600-minute month costs $149 with either of us, on their Essential plan. On our Operations plan that $149 also takes deposits on the call, sends confirmation texts, chases invoices and files receipts. Whether their plans do any of that is on their feature list rather than their pricing page, so check it.
Per minute we cost almost exactly the same, so the difference is what the minutes come with. This is ours; their feature list has theirs.
Growth is your AI sales rep: Operations plus sales calls, with 1,500 minutes. Every Operations and Growth feature is off until you switch it on. No free trial, no contract, no setup fee; cancel any time. Every plan, feature by feature.
In the US, texting starts once carriers approve your business, which usually takes one to three weeks. Calls are answered from day one.
If your phone rings a few times a month, their $14 plan is cheaper and you should take it. If you use minutes, the two of us cost almost exactly the same per minute, so decide on the rest: they keep answering past the allowance and bill for it, we stop and ring through to you; they advertise 55+ languages including Canadian French, we answer in 85 including French; and our $149 plan also runs deposits, confirmations, invoices and receipts. Work out roughly how many minutes you will actually use, then which of those matters to you.
How this page is kept honest. Every figure comes from AI-Receptionist.com's own published pricing, dated above. We name what they do better because a comparison written only one way is an advertisement, and you can tell. If anything here is wrong or out of date, email support@phonepick.ai and we will correct it.
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