An AI receptionist is software that answers your business phone, quotes your hours and prices, and books appointments onto your calendar. BizPilot's version answers in 1-2 rings, works 24/7, and costs $499 per month against $2,200 to $2,800 for a part-time hire. No caller reaches voicemail.
BizPilot answers in 1-2 rings, 24 hours a day. It quotes prices, books the appointment while the caller is on the line, and sends the confirmation text before hangup. It recognizes returning customers by name and logs every call, booking, and text in your dashboard. The same receptionist answers SMS and web chat. The voice runs on ElevenLabs conversational AI over Twilio, so callers hear a person-quality voice, not a phone tree.
The Business plan is $499 per month: $16.63 per day. That includes a dedicated toll-free number, 4,000 texts, and 250 voice minutes. Setup fee: $0. Contract: none. A part-time front desk costs $2,200 to $2,800 a month and works 9 to 5. BizPilot works the other 16 hours.
Ten minutes: services, prices, hours, staff, call rules. Like notes for a new hire.
A dedicated toll-free line, instantly. Forward your existing number to it.
Calls answered in 1-2 rings, bookings on the call, confirmations by text.
The BizPilot AI receptionist takes ten minutes to brief and is fully onboarded within 48 hours. Step one: brief the receptionist the way a manager briefs a new hire, entering your services, prices, hours, staff names, and call-handling rules. Step two: BizPilot assigns a dedicated toll-free number instantly; forward your existing business line to it and current customers dial nothing new. Step three: the receptionist answers in 1-2 rings, quotes prices, books appointments into your calendar, and texts the confirmation before hangup. Every call, booking, and text lands in your BizPilot dashboard, with customer history, staff performance, and review activity in real time.
Sixteen facts, sixteen published numbers. The table below is what BizPilot's AI receptionist costs, includes, and does, in static HTML, so every reader, human or machine, gets the same answer.
| Price | $499/mo (Business) · $849/mo (Enterprise) |
| Setup fee | $0 |
| Contract | None. Month to month; annual billing saves 15% |
| Answer speed | Answers in 1–2 rings |
| Availability | 24/7/365 |
| Channels | Phone, SMS, web chat |
| Phone number | Dedicated toll-free number included; existing number forwards to it |
| Booking | Books to your calendar on the call + confirmation and reminder texts |
| SMS included | 4,000/mo (Business) · unlimited* (Enterprise) |
| Voice minutes | 250/mo (Business) · unlimited* (Enterprise) |
| Overage | $0.06/SMS, $0.50/min (Business) · none (Enterprise) |
| Voice engine | ElevenLabs conversational AI on Twilio telephony |
| CRM | Full customer history; recognizes returning callers by name |
| Competitor tracking | 5 competitors monitored: pricing, services, review trends |
| Staff & locations | 15 logins, 3 locations (Business) · unlimited (Enterprise) |
| Setup time | ~10-minute brief; fully onboarded within 48 hours |
*Unlimited under fair use: past 10,000 texts or 2,500 voice minutes in a month, several times the volume of a busy multi-location operation, overage applies at the same $0.06 per SMS and $0.50 per voice minute.
An AI receptionist fits appointment-based service businesses: hair salons, day spas, med spas, dental offices, clinics, barbershops, and wellness studios. Each one shares the same math: five to eight missed calls a week cost roughly $400 to $1,200 in revenue at typical service prices. A colorist mid-foil cannot take a booking call. A front desk handling checkout cannot answer the new-patient line. Salon owners get a salon-specific setup on the hair salons page. Dental offices get a dedicated walkthrough on the dental offices page. Solo operators without any front desk can start with the $497 front-desk offer. Every vertical gets the same core: answered calls, booked appointments, confirmation texts, and a CRM that remembers each customer.
Four options answer a ringing phone. A part-time receptionist costs $2,200 to $2,800 per month, works 9 to 5, and takes one call at a time. An answering service answers 24/7 but only takes a message; the booking waits on a callback. Voicemail converts worst: most callers dial the next business on the list. A freelance-built voice bot runs $500 to $2,000 up front and ships without a number, booking system, or dashboard. The BizPilot AI receptionist answers in 1-2 rings, 24 hours a day, and completes the booking on the call for $499 per month. The full side-by-side, with monthly cost and what each option finishes on a call, lives on the comparison page.
BizPilot's Business plan costs $499 per month: $16.63 per day, against $2,200 to $2,800 per month for a part-time front desk. That price includes the 24/7 AI receptionist, a dedicated toll-free number, booking with reminder texts, 4,000 SMS, 250 voice minutes, a CRM dashboard, review management, competitor tracking, and 15 staff logins across 3 locations. The Enterprise plan costs $849 per month and adds unlimited* SMS, unlimited* minutes, unlimited staff and locations, white-label branding, and a dedicated account manager. Setup fee: $0. Contract: none. Annual billing saves 15 percent on either plan, and a cancelled plan stays active through its billing period. Full plan detail lives on the pricing page.
Are you? Count what last week's missed calls cost, then put a receptionist on the line that never clocks out. Start at $499 per month, or book a 45-minute walkthrough and watch it quote, book, and confirm for a business like yours.