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How Heyline compares, honestly.
Nine AI receptionists and answering services next to Heyline, on the six things an owner actually decides on. Every price and capacity was read from the company's own site on one day, and dated.
No card · No setup · Keep your number · No website? Start here
Which AI receptionist should a service business pick?
It depends on what your phone has to do. If you need real openings booked into a calendar at the entry price, Heyline sits at the cheap end of the products that do that. If you need a person on the hard call, or a dispatch board written to, another product on this page wins.
Every competitor figure on this page was read from that company's own pricing page or help center on one day. Prices checked September 2, 2026. Nothing came from a review site, and nothing was carried over from an older check. Where a company publishes no figure, the cell says so instead of guessing.
Heyline's side is simple to state: $99, $199 and $499 a month for 200, 500 and 1,500 minutes, with real-time Google Calendar booking on all three. See what each plan includes. If you would rather not read a table at all, paste your website and listen to the receptionist first.
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Heyline vs Rosie (HeyRosie)
Heyline vs Rosie, compared on first-party facts: what each plan includes, where real-time Google Calendar booking starts, and which one you can hear first.
Read moreHeyline vs Goodcall: which one books the call?
Heyline vs Goodcall, compared fairly and dated: how each one bills you, what happens when a caller asks to book, and which suits a small shop.
Read moreHeyline vs Smith.ai: per-minute or per-call
Heyline vs Smith.ai, compared honestly: per-minute pricing and Google Calendar booking on every plan against per-call billing and live agents on demand.
Read moreHeyline vs Abby Connect for small shops
Heyline vs Abby Connect for a small shop: who answers, who books into your Google Calendar, what a minute costs on each side, and what you can test free.
Read moreHeyline vs Ruby: AI or human receptionist
Heyline vs Ruby, compared fairly: who picks up, what a minute of answering costs on each, what a human desk still does better, and how to try an AI one.
Read moreAI receptionist vs answering service, compared
AI receptionist vs answering service: what each one does with your calls, what a person still does better, and what a minute costs on both sides.
Read moreAI receptionist or voicemail: the missed call
AI receptionist vs voicemail, compared plainly: what one missed call becomes with each, what voicemail really costs you, and how to keep it as a backup.
Read moreAI receptionist vs voice-agent platforms
Voice-agent platforms sell you the parts. An AI receptionist is the finished thing. See who each one is for, what they publish, and how to hear one today.
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How do these AI receptionists compare on price and booking?
Ten products, six columns, one check date. Every cell with a figure carries the page it was read from — follow it, because these numbers move.
| Product | Entry price | Included minutes or calls | Real-time calendar booking | Demo before signup (per their site) | Moves your existing number (per their site) | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heyline | $99/mo | 200 minutes/mo | Yes — Google Calendar, on every plan | Yes — your own receptionist, in your browser, no account | No — keep your number and forward the calls you miss | Owner-run US and Canadian service businesses that want booking at the entry price |
| Rosie | $49/mosource, checked | 250 minutes/mosource, checked | From the $149 tier Rosie calls Scale; the $49 tier texts the caller a booking link insteadsource, checked | None found; every button starts a free trial | Not offered; they walk you through call forwarding | Shops that want a lower entry price and transfers to a person up the tiers |
| Goodcall | $79/mo per agentsource, checked | Goodcall lists unlimited minutes; 100 unique customers/mo, then $0.50 per extra customersource, checked | Not in their plan table; their appointment help doc's default is to text the caller a booking linkOne appointment-writing integration exists, for the wellness booking system Boulevard.source, checked | None found; the "Try now" buttons open signup | Not supported; their FAQ says forward your line instead | US shops with long calls that can live with a texted booking link |
| Smith.ai | $0/mosource, checked | 25 real calls/mo free; 75 calls for $150/mosource, checked | Yes, through Calendly or Acuity on a paid Calendly plan; their scheduling list names Calendly, Acuity, Appointy, AppointmentCore and Apptoto, not Google Calendarsource, checked | A shared demo line; browser calls to your own agent come after a free signup | Yes, at no charge | Businesses that want a free tier and a person available on the hard call |
| Abby Connect | $165/moTheir signup page prints $164 for the same plan.source, checked | 50 Abby Minutes — 50 human minutes, or up to 100 AI minutessource, checked | Yes, on every plan; they name Google Calendar, Calendly and Acuity among the targetssource, checked | None; recorded sample calls and a sales line | Not mentioned anywhere on their site; forwarding only | Offices that want AI and a US-based human receptionist on one bill |
| Ruby | $250/mosource, checked | 50 receptionist minutes/mosource, checked | Yes, on every plan — a receptionist books inside your own Calendly or Google Calendarsource, checked | None; a recorded video walkthrough and a sales call | Yes, at no charge — Ruby hosts your published number | Businesses that want Ruby's people answering, in English or Spanish, around the clock |
| Dialzara | $29/mosource, checked | 60 receptionist minutes/mo, then $0.48/minsource, checked | Yes, on every plan — their pages describe checking your Google Calendar during the callsource, checked | A shared line running their own receptionist, not yours | Yes, free, for a US or Canadian number | Shops that want the lowest entry price, porting, or more than one language |
| Frontdesk AI (formerly My AI Front Desk) | $20/mo, but that plan answers no calls; $99/mo is the cheapest one that doessource, checked | 0 voice minutes on the $20 plan; 200 voice minutes on the $99 plansource, checked | Listed on their site; mechanism not documented | A published demo line; your own agent in the browser after signup | Yes — a full port, which they say they coordinate for you | Owners who want their existing number moved, plus chat and texts on one bill |
| Sameday AI | Starts at $449/mosource, checked | Starts with 500 minutessource, checked | Yes, on every paid plan — into field-service software such as ServiceTitan; Google Calendar is not listedsource, checked | A browser voice demo of their own assistant, no signup | Yes — port in, or forward | Multi-crew shops already running a dispatch board |
| Slang AI | Starting at $399 per locationsource, checked | Not published on their sitesource, checked | Yes, from the entry tier — into OpenTable, Resy, SevenRooms and Yelp, not a calendarsource, checked | None found; every route is a sales demo request | Not documented; they give you a new number, or you forward | Restaurants running OpenTable, Resy or SevenRooms |
Prices in USD. Every competitor cell was read from that company's own pages on September 2, 2026.
Decide with your ears — not a sales deck.
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What does each one do better than Heyline?
A comparison that only attacks is not worth reading. Here is the honest answer for each one, in a sentence, with no figure that is not in the table above.
Rosie
A lower entry price than Heyline, and a transfer ladder Heyline has nothing to match: warm transfers, live transfers, then waterfall transfers that try several numbers until a person picks up.
Read moreGoodcall
Goodcall gives unlimited talk time on every paid plan, billed by unique customer rather than by the minute. For a shop with long, chatty calls that beats any metered plan, Heyline's included.
Read moreSmith.ai
A free plan that is not a countdown: real calls every month with no card, plus browser and agent-versus-agent test calls. A North America-based receptionist can also take over a call for a flat fee.
Read moreAbby Connect
Two decades of human answering folded into the same subscription as their AI, so a caller who needs a person gets one mid-call. No feature gating between tiers, and a long list of booking targets.
Read moreRuby
Real people, in English or Spanish, around the clock — and a person handles the unscripted, confused or angry caller in ways no script covers. Every tier gets the same features; only minutes change.
Read moreDialzara
Real-time Google Calendar booking on their cheapest plan, a published per-minute rate at every tier, free porting of a US or Canadian number, and answering in more than one language. Three of those Heyline does not do at all.
Frontdesk AI (formerly My AI Front Desk)
They will actually move your number: a full port they say they coordinate for you, with new numbers available in more countries than Heyline covers. Their help documentation is public, specific and unusually thorough.
Sameday AI
Built for shops already running a dispatch board. Bookings land on the real board, matched to a technician who can do the job, and a waitlist refills cancellations. Heyline writes a calendar event and stops there.
Slang AI
The deepest vertical product here. For a restaurant on OpenTable or SevenRooms, writing straight into the reservation book beats any general receptionist, and they publish an honest matrix of what each platform cannot do.
Can you talk to any of these before you sign up?
Not to your own receptionist. As of September 2, 2026, none of Rosie, Goodcall, Smith.ai, Abby Connect, Ruby, Dialzara, Frontdesk AI, Sameday AI or Slang AI lets a prospect talk to their own auto-built receptionist in the browser before creating an account.
The nuance matters, so here it is. Sameday AI's homepage runs a browser voice demo, and so do the developer platforms Vapi and Bland — but you are talking to their own generic assistant, not to one built from your website. Smith.ai and Frontdesk AI both give you browser calls to your own agent, after you create an account.
Heyline's test call runs through the same setup that answers a real phone call. Paste your website, wait about sixty seconds, and ask her what your customers ask — no account, no card. She requests your microphone before anything else. How the browser test works.
Which comparison should I read next?
Three of these pages compare a category rather than a company. Start with whichever one describes what your phone does today.
You have voicemail today
What happens to a call that reaches a recording, next to a call that gets answered and booked — with the booking-rate numbers behind it.
Read moreYou are pricing an answering service
Cost per minute, coverage and consistency for a human desk against an AI line, and the calls a person still handles better.
Read moreSomeone told you to build your own
Voice-agent platforms such as Vapi, Bland and Synthflow are built for developers, not owners — priced by the minute or by annual contract. Who each is for, and what building your own really asks of you.
Read moreYou want a head-to-head
Five pages take one company at a time — Rosie, Goodcall, Smith.ai, Abby Connect and Ruby — with the same dated figures and a fair account of what each does better.
Read more
What Heyline never does, in any of these comparisons
She never puts a caller through to you or to anyone else, and she never calls or texts a customer back. Ruby and Smith.ai both put a person on the line. Heyline does not.
She books into Google Calendar and nothing else — no Outlook, no Calendly, no dispatch board — and she speaks English only, in the US and Canada.
She never states a price that is not in her notes, never gives medical or legal advice, and never takes card details. If a caller starts reading out a card number, she stops them.
Heyline does not move your number either. You keep it where it is and forward the calls you miss: here are the codes, carrier by carrier.
Frequently asked questions
How were these prices checked?
Every figure on this page was read from the company's own pricing page or help center on September 2, 2026, and the source sits next to the number. Nothing came from a review site or a roundup. Where a company publishes no figure, the cell says so rather than guessing. Prices move, so check the link before you buy.
What is not compared here, and why?
Three things. Call quality — no website can prove it, so hear one yourself instead of reading a claim. The technology underneath: Heyline runs on managed voice infrastructure you never see or configure, and that is a supplier question, not a receptionist one. And any number a company does not publish, which stays blank here rather than guessed.
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Sources
- All competitor prices and capacities checked September 2, 2026 on the pages below
- Rosie pricing page
- Goodcall pricing page
- Goodcall help center
- Smith.ai AI Receptionist pricing
- Abby Connect pricing page
- Ruby plans and pricing
- Dialzara pricing page
- Frontdesk AI pricing page
- Sameday AI pricing page
- Slang AI pricing page
- Vapi homepage browser demo, checked September 2, 2026
- Bland homepage browser demo, checked September 2, 2026
- Pre-signup demo check across all nine vendor homepages, September 2, 2026
- Heyline prices, PRD §8
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