AI receptionists in Canada compared: prices and plans (surveyed October 23, 2026)

AI receptionists from Canadian companies

This is the largest group in the table: OKAI Canada, Voxara, Aillo, RoehAI, Aria, Allie (Allema), Clémentine (Allesi), Polaris Voice, Virtual Assistant Canada, Dialbox, Sofia (Nexia), Agent IA Vocal, Zenicall, Allô Clinique, Nova Secrétariat, Voxify, VocalOps, SYNAPSE.ai and AutoScale AI. The minute is the dominant unit here; Dialbox and Allô Clinique count calls, Voxify and SYNAPSE.ai advertise no call cap, and Clémentine does not publish its volume.

Two of them target one industry: Allô Clinique serves clinics and SYNAPSE.ai restaurants. Six publish a setup fee, from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars: Clémentine, Sofia, Agent IA Vocal, Zenicall, Allô Clinique, which refunds it on conditions, and Nova Secrétariat. Voxara, Aria, Virtual Assistant Canada, Voxify and VocalOps state that they charge none.

French is named as a call language by Aillo, Aria, Allie, Clémentine, Sofia, Agent IA Vocal, Zenicall, Nova Secrétariat, Voxify, SYNAPSE.ai and AutoScale AI; the other pages do not name languages or only say “bilingual”, which is checked by listening. Planevia, also Canadian, sells AI reception by the minute on top of a Planevia plan, with no minutes included.

Foreign providers selling to Canadian businesses

Dialzara, Rosie, Goodcall, Simple Phones, My AI Front Desk and Smith.ai AI Receptionist are American companies; Hey Jodie is British and publishes a Canadian pricing page, in Canadian dollars. The others show their prices in US dollars, which the table does not convert: at equal face value, a plan in US dollars costs more than one in Canadian dollars, and the gap depends on the day's exchange rate.

Their units vary: Goodcall counts unique customers, Simple Phones and Smith.ai count calls, Hey Jodie advertises no minute cap, and the others count minutes. Dialzara and Rosie name English and Spanish, without French; Simple Phones and Hey Jodie name French.

AI options from phone-system providers

Two business phone systems sell AI answering as an add-on. Ooma's AI Answering Service is added on top of an Ooma Office plan, so its price does not include the phone subscription it requires. RingCentral publishes its AI Receptionist with a floor price, without detailing what raises it. If you already use one of these systems, the add-on keeps everything on one bill.

Human answering services

Ruby, an American company, sells minutes with a human receptionist, billed in US dollars, with no setup fee; its page names Spanish, not French. A real person can handle a delicate conversation better, where judgement matters more than speed. In return, a minute costs more than with an AI receptionist, and the volume included at the entry price is counted in tens of minutes rather than hundreds.

Implementation agencies

AI Humans and Agentyx, two Canadian agencies, build an agent to order and maintain it every month. Their setup fees run into the thousands of dollars, and Agentyx publishes the highest monthly entry price in the table. In exchange, an agency adapts the agent to your own systems, which a self-serve product does not do beyond the connections it offers.

What the table does not show

Other providers sold in Canada are not in it: their official page publishes no price, refers you to a sales representative, or could not be read on the survey date. No price is guessed for them, and no figure read anywhere other than the provider's own page is reused.

It also does not record booking, the summary, where the data lives or the commitment. And it shows the entry price, not the price of your month: beyond the included volume, each provider has its own rule, and a busy month can cost several times the entry price.

Where Zenvox fits

Zenvox is a bilingual AI receptionist, in English and French, sold self-serve to small businesses in Canada. It answers calls, asks the questions specific to your trade, books appointments in your calendar based on your availability and sends you a summary after every call.

The price is a fixed plan per industry, in Canadian dollars per month: the lowest and the highest of the eight plans appear on the Zenvox row of the table. Each plan includes 50 Standard calls, whatever their length, and one local number, with no setup fee and no contract. Free trial: 7 days, up to 20 answered calls, no card, add-ons included.

The account is created with your email, with no consultation and no technical setup. Where your call records live and where the voice is processed are written in one sentence at the bottom of this page, the same one across the site.

Set against the table, the Zenvox plan counts calls rather than minutes, has no setup fee and names French; its entry price, on the other hand, is not the lowest.

When another choice is better

If you want a human voice on the line, a service like Ruby meets that need, at the price of a person. If your phone system is already Ooma Office or RingCentral, your provider's add-on avoids a second subscription. If you need an agent connected to internal systems nobody else connects to, an implementation agency builds that link.

If you get a few short calls a month and price is your only criterion, some minute-based entry plans cost less than the cheapest Zenvox plan. And if your clinic or restaurant wants a product built for that one industry, Allô Clinique and SYNAPSE.ai present themselves that way.

Method and survey date

Zenvox publishes this page and is one of the providers compared; read it with that in mind. That is why every row links to the provider's official page, why the Zenvox row is marked as the publisher's, and why the page carries no rating, no review and no ranking.

The entry price is the cheapest published paid monthly plan that includes a volume, or states it has none, at the monthly billing rate when the page also offers annual billing. A permanent free plan or a pay-as-you-go formula with no included volume is not an entry, unless it is the only thing the provider sells, and the row says so.

The pages were read on October 23, 2026. The currency is the one the page states; when it only writes “$”, the currency of the company's home country is used and the row carries an asterisk. No amount is converted. The survey is redone every month, and the table caption tells you which one you are reading.