The Cost of an AI Receptionist vs a Full-Time Receptionist, Side by Side
The honest way to judge the cost of ai receptionist vs full time receptionist coverage is with your own numbers, not a vendor's averages. Enter your call volume, how many calls go unanswered, what an average job is worth, and what you currently pay for receptionist or answering-service coverage. The calculator does the rest — live, on this page — and every result is labelled an estimate built from the inputs you gave it. That is what a straight ai answering service pricing comparison should look like, and it is the only honest way to frame the roi of call answering automation: your calls, your job value, your current cost.
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Your current cost (your input): — per month · Alice Founding: $49 per month
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How the estimate works: missed calls = calls per month × the missed percentage you entered. Estimated revenue lost = missed calls × your average job value. That treats every missed call as a lost job at full value, which is a ceiling, not a promise — some missed callers ring back, and not every answered call becomes a job. Use it to size the problem, not as a guarantee of revenue, savings, or results.
For context only: 62% of calls to small businesses never reached a person — voicemail, busy signal, or nobody there (411 Locals study, 2016). This calculator does not use that figure; it uses only the four numbers you entered above.
What Alice costs, in plain numbers
Founding membership: $49/mo. Individual AI agents: $29–$50/mo each. Optional one-time Done-For-You Setup: $1,500. Founding guarantee: 10 leads in 60 days or we work free. No pricing is hidden behind a demo wall — the comparison above uses the same $49 Founding price we publish on our pricing page.
Alice is the AI office on your own business page: she answers customer questions, quotes from your own prices, books jobs into your booking flow, and follows up — in English and Spanish — while you are on a job. Her office on your page works around the clock, evenings and weekends included.
Built by Madison Hoskins, Founder, Alice AI Office Hub — the office he needed at his own company, Capital 7 Logistics in Wilkes-Barre, PA, before he offered it to anyone else.