AI receptionist India platform index
AI receptionist platforms in India, and which of them publish a price
An AI receptionist in India is a voice agent that answers a business phone line 24/7, holds a conversation in English, Hindi or a regional language, and completes a task such as booking a slot, capturing a lead or transferring the caller to a person. Of the seven platforms in this index, read first-party on 9 Sept 2026, 4 publish a rate and 3 publish none at all. Published rates run from ₹2 per whole billed minute to roughly ₹5.52 a minute quoted in US dollars and billed in 30-second pulses.
Published 9 Sept 2026 · last updated 9 Sept 2026 · 7 platform pages checked 9 Sept 2026 · CC BY 4.0
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platforms in this index publish no per-minute or monthly rate on their own site. Their total cost cannot be compared without contacting sales.
₹2/min
the lowest published rate in the set, on Dvaarik Bharat Essential, billed by the whole minute with ₹0 setup.
₹5.52/min
the highest published rate in the set, quoted by Bolna as 6.00¢ in US dollars and billed in 30-second pulses.
9 to 23
the spread in supported language counts across the platforms that state one, from SquadStack's nine to the 23 on Dvaarik Standard at ₹3.
Seven AI receptionist platforms serving India, in their own published units
This is a comparable shortlist, not a league table. Every row uses the platform’s own current page and keeps its published unit and currency. A rupee whole-minute rate is not the same product as a dollar 30-second pulse rate, and neither can be compared to a platform that publishes nothing. Where a platform states no price, the row says so rather than carrying an estimate.
| Platform | Publishes a price | Published price | Billing unit | Currency | Languages | What the rate excludes | First-party source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dvaarik AIus | Yes | ₹1,500/month per plan · ₹0.30 per started call minute. Setup ₹0. | Whole billed minute, rounded up | INR | Follows the speech providers the business connects — Sarvam covers Indian languages, Google and Azure add wider international coverage | Platform usage only. Telephony, speech and the AI brain are billed to the business by its own connected provider accounts, and the phone number is bought inside the business own Plivo account. Customer-account top-ups carry no platform or processing surcharge. | Read 9 Sep 2026 |
| ConnectAI | Yes | ₹800/month, or ₹499/month as an add-on to the AI Clinic Automation Suite, plus ₹4/min | Per minute, billed as 8 credits per minute | INR | 11 — English, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Kannada, Gujarati, Malayalam, Punjabi, Odia | The page states setup takes 15 days. Scoped to clinics. | Read 9 Sep 2026 |
| Bolna AI | Yes | 6.00¢ per minute, shown as ₹5.52, falling to 4.51¢ at the $3,000 tier | 30-second pulses | USD — the rate card is denominated in dollars | 10+ vernacular Indian languages including Hinglish, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu | Credits from $10 to $5,000, no commitment. $5 in free credits on signup. Pilot plan is 12,000 minutes with a free phone number for the first 30 days. Bring-your-own LLM, TTS and ASR keys supported. | Read 9 Sep 2026 |
| VaniAgent | Yes | ₹4.5–₹5.5/min | Per minute | INR | Indian English, Hindi, Hinglish and regional languages | Carried forward from the 18 Aug 2026 read in the India AI Voice Agent Pricing Index; not re-verified on 9 Sep 2026. | Read 18 Aug 2026 |
| Rootle | No | No price published | Not published | Not published | 20+ Indian languages including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Malayalam, Odia, Rajasthani | Publishes first 100 calls free and go-live within 48 hours. Routes to an existing phone number with no PBX change. No rate appears anywhere on the receptionist page. | Read 9 Sep 2026 |
| SquadStack | No | No price published — quote only | Not published | Not published | 9 — Hindi, English, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Malayalam, Gujarati, Bengali | The site quotes an industry range rather than its own rate: voice AI in India is priced per minute, typically between ₹2 and ₹5 a minute. Prospects are directed to a demo or sales. | Read 9 Sep 2026 |
| FrontivaAI | No | No price published | Not published | Not published | Not published on the page read | No pricing, concurrency or phone-number arrangement is stated on the page read. | Read 9 Sep 2026 |
Rows marked read 18 Aug 2026 are carried forward from the India AI Voice Agent Pricing Index and were not re-verified on 9 Sept 2026.
What an AI receptionist actually does
These six capabilities are what separates an AI receptionist from an IVR menu or a voicemail box. Each is written to be read on its own.
Answering every call, including out of hours
An AI receptionist picks up inbound calls at any hour, so enquiries arriving at night, during lunch, or while the line is already busy are answered instead of going to voicemail.
Speaking Indian languages and code-mixed speech
Indian callers switch between English, Hindi and a regional language inside one sentence, so an AI receptionist for India is judged on Hinglish and code-mixed handling rather than on language count alone.
Booking into a real calendar
The agent checks live availability, locks a slot and confirms it during the call, which is the step that separates a receptionist from a message-taking answering service.
Recovering missed and abandoned calls
When a call is missed the system calls the number back or opens a WhatsApp thread, which is where most recovered revenue in Indian service businesses actually comes from.
Handing off to a human with context
A qualified or high-value caller is transferred to a person along with the transcript and captured fields, so the customer does not repeat themselves.
Writing the outcome back to a system of record
Call summaries, captured fields and booking outcomes are pushed to a CRM or sheet, which is what makes the calls measurable rather than merely answered.
How to read a per-minute rate before you compare two of them
The billing unit moves the invoice more than the headline rate
Dvaarik bills whole minutes rounded up, the telecom standard. Bolna bills in 30-second pulses. Across a set of short 45-second calls those two units produce materially different invoices at the same nominal rate, so the unit belongs next to the number.
Currency matters when the rate is not INR
Bolna's card is denominated in US dollars at 6.00¢ a minute, shown as ₹5.52. A dollar rate moves with the exchange rate, so an Indian buyer's rupee cost is not fixed by the published figure.
The phone line is a separate cost from the voice minutes
A per-minute voice rate rarely includes the phone number or the concurrent line that lets two callers be answered at once. One channel means one simultaneous call, whatever the number count attached to it.
Platform and payment fees sit on top of the credit amount
Dvaarik top-ups carry an 18% platform fee and a 2.36% payment-processing fee on top of the credit purchased. These are price components, and a comparison that ignores them on any platform understates that platform.
A language count is not the same as code-mixed handling
Indian callers switch between English, Hindi and a regional language inside one sentence. A platform listing 20 languages may still handle Hinglish worse than one listing nine, so this is tested on real calls rather than read off a page.
Questions buyers ask about AI receptionists in India
An AI receptionist in India is a voice agent that answers a business phone line 24/7, holds a natural conversation in English, Hindi or a regional language, and completes a task such as booking an appointment, capturing a lead or transferring the caller to a person. It replaces the voicemail and the press-1 menu rather than the front-desk role itself.
Published per-minute rates read on 9 Sep 2026 run from a ₹0.30 platform fee per started minute plus your own provider bills (Dvaarik) to ₹4/min plus ₹800 a month (ConnectAI) and roughly ₹5.52 a minute (Bolna, quoted at 6.00¢ in US dollars and billed in 30-second pulses). Three of the platforms Google names for this query — Rootle, SquadStack and FrontivaAI — publish no rate at all, so their total cost cannot be compared without contacting sales.
Of the seven platforms in this index, four publish a rate on their own site: Dvaarik, ConnectAI, Bolna AI and VaniAgent. Three do not: Rootle, SquadStack and FrontivaAI. SquadStack publishes an industry range of ₹2 to ₹5 a minute but not its own rate.
Per-minute pricing makes a pilot and uneven demand easier to budget because the cost follows actual minutes and stops when calls stop. A monthly bundle is better when the business reliably consumes the included allowance every month. Compare the same monthly minute volume, the concurrency limit, the phone-number cost, the setup fee and the billing unit before choosing.
The billing unit changes the effective price more than the headline rate does on short calls. Dvaarik bills whole minutes rounded up, the telecom standard. Bolna bills in 30-second pulses. On a set of 45-second calls those two units produce materially different invoices at the same nominal rate, so the unit has to be read alongside the number.
A voice rate usually excludes the phone number and concurrent line, WhatsApp and Instagram access, call transfer, setup, integrations, support and taxes or platform fees. Dvaarik top-ups, for example, carry an 18% platform fee and a 2.36% payment-processing fee on top of the credit amount. Add the channel costs a business actually needs before comparing two rates.
Hear one answer the phone before you compare another rate card
Dvaarik publishes its full rate card and runs a live agent you can call. Voice from ₹2 per whole billed minute on Bharat Essential across 10 languages, or ₹3 for all 23. ₹0 setup, credits that never expire.
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