How much does Smith.ai AI Receptionist cost?
- Free plan
- Yes
- Usage price
- $1.60/minute
- Enterprise
- Contact sales
In your favor
- No long-term contract. Month-to-month, no long-term contract, 30 days notice to cancel
- Free plan. Free plan: 25 calls per month at $0, then $3.00 per call after that
Watch out for
- Extra usage is billed. Extra per real call rate applies beyond included calls (Free $3.00; Pro $2.50 to $2.17; Enterprise $2.17 to $2.10)
- Going over the Free allowance costs $3 per call. Included: 25 calls.
- Their pages disagree: calls handled and years in business. "25M+ calls handled over 11+ years" vs "answering over 20 million calls for businesses in the past 10 years"
How you buy and get started
- Sign up
- Self-serve signup on the Free and Pro plans "Start free"
- Setup
- Pro includes dedicated onboarding setup "Dedicated onboarding setup"
- When sales steps in
- Enterprise plan is reached through Talk to us "Talk to us"
- Support
- Pro and Enterprise: live phone, email and chat support "Live phone support"
- Support
- Enterprise: priority support "Priority support"
What Smith.ai AI Receptionist does
Smith.ai answers business calls with AI first and can hand off to a North American live agent network, with Free, Pro and Enterprise plans billed per call. It syncs call data to CRMs and scheduling tools and is marketed mainly to law firms, with home services and IT services also listed.
- Good for
- Law firms and other small to mid-size businesses (home services, IT services) that want every call answered, leads qualified and consultations booked, with human backup.
- Channels
- Voice calls, SMS, Web chat, Outreach campaigns
- Main product
- AI Receptionist (AI-first call answering, with hybrid and human-first live receptionist options)
- Also includes
- 24/7 AI call answering, Quality Studio to test before going live, Call recording, transcription and summaries, Lead qualification and call routing, AI scheduling (Calendly and more), Native integrations (Clio, Zapier and more)
- Connects to
- Clio, Filevine, Lawmatics, MyCase, PracticePanther, Smokeball, Litify, Rocket Matter, Zapier, Calendly, 1-VoIP, 3CX
- Public API
- Yes
- MCP server
- Not stated
- Answers calls with AI
24/7 AI call answering
- Books appointments
AI Scheduling (Calendly & more)
- Transfers to a person
Route to a Human Agent
- Texts callers
you may receive an SMS with a booking confirmation or request for further action
- Connects to your tools
Native integrations (Clio, Zapier & more)
- Other languages
Bilingual fluency
- Takes messagesNot stated
- Answers 24/7
24/7 AI call answering
The same 8 checks appear on every tool in AI receptionists. Each tick quotes the vendor's own site.
Security and your data
| Question | Their answer | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|
| Trains AI on your data? | Not stated | |
| HIPAA (signs a BAA) | Not stated | |
| SOC 2 | Not stated | |
| GDPR | Not stated | |
| CCPA | Not stated | |
| PCI | Not stated | |
| ISO 27001 | Not stated | |
| Single sign-on | Not stated | |
| Trust center | Not stated |
Security answers are the vendor's own claims, quoted. We don't audit them.
Every plan
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Included | Over the allowance | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freemo | $0 | – | 25 calls | $3/call | "**$0 mo** 25 calls/mo ($3.00/call after that)" |
| Promo | $150 | – | 75 calls | $2.50/call | "**$150/mo** $2.00/call (~2–3 calls/day)" |
| Enterprisemo | $500 | – | 300 calls | $2.17/call | "**$500/mo** $1.67/call (~10 calls/day)" |
| AI-first (per call)call | $1.60per minute | – | – | – | "AI-first — starting at $1.60/call" |
| Hybrid (per call)call | $2.50per minute | – | – | – | "Hybrid — starting at $2.50/call (most firms start here)" |
| Human-first (per call)call | $7per minute | – | – | – | "Human-first — starting at $7/call" |
Free plan: Free plan: 25 calls per month at $0, then $3.00 per call after that
Smith.ai AI Receptionist price history
No price changes on Smith.ai AI Receptionist's pricing page since 2025Q1, across 8 archived reads.
From archived copies of the pricing page in the Internet Archive, one per quarter, in USD.
Fine print
- Billing increment
- Per call "Why do you bill by the call?"
- Billed beyond usage
- Extra per real call rate applies beyond included calls (Free $3.00; Pro $2.50 to $2.17; Enterprise $2.17 to $2.10) "Extra per real call rate"
- Contract
- Month-to-month, no long-term contract, 30 days notice to cancel "AI Receptionist is a month-to-month service."
- Refunds
- Not stated
- Auto renew
- Not stated
- Price change notice
- Not stated
"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.
About the company
- Legal name
- Smith.ai, Inc.
- Online since
- Dec 16, 2017 Domain registration date
- Customers
- "5,000+ law firms trust Smith.ai" their claim
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Questions
Is Smith.ai AI Receptionist free?
Yes. Free plan: 25 calls per month at $0, then $3.00 per call after that Paid plans start at $150/month.
How much does Smith.ai AI Receptionist cost?
Paid plans start at $150 per month.
