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 a ₹0.50 platform fee per call minute, charged in 30-second steps with the business’s own provider bills beside it, to roughly ₹5.52 a minute quoted in US dollars and billed in 30-second pulses.
Published 9 Sept 2026 · last updated 1 Oct 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.
₹0.50/min
the Dvaarik platform fee per call minute, charged in 30-second steps with ₹0 setup and no monthly fee. Phone, speech and AI providers bill the business directly for their part.
₹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 20+
the spread in supported language counts across the platforms that state one, from SquadStack's nine to Rootle's 20+. Dvaarik's coverage follows the speech models a business connects.
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 per-minute rate is not the same product as a dollar 30-second pulse rate or a platform fee with provider bills beside it, and none of them 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 | No monthly fee · ₹0.50 per call minute · ₹0.05 per AI text reply. Setup ₹0. | 30-second steps, ₹0.25 a step | 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's own Plivo, Telnyx or Twilio account. Rupee credit top-ups carry a 3% payment-processing fee and no other Dvaarik fee. | Read 1 Oct 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. The Dvaarik row shows the prices in force from 1 Oct 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 charges in 30-second steps and Bolna bills in 30-second pulses, while some platforms round every call up to a whole minute. A 20-second call is charged as 30 seconds on a 30-second unit and as 60 seconds on a whole-minute unit, so across a set of short calls the two units produce materially different invoices at the same nominal rate, and 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 capacity that lets two callers be answered at once. On Dvaarik both sit in the business's own Plivo, Telnyx or Twilio account, which bills the business directly.
Platform and payment fees sit on top of the credit amount
Dvaarik rupee top-ups carry a 3% payment-processing fee on top of the credit purchased, and no other Dvaarik fee. Fees like this 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 run from a ₹0.50 platform fee per call minute plus your own provider bills (Dvaarik, in force from 1 Oct 2026) 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), the last two read on 9 Sep 2026. 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 charges in 30-second steps, and Bolna bills in 30-second pulses. A platform that rounds every call up to a whole minute charges a 20-second call as 60 seconds, where a 30-second unit charges it as 30, 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's ₹0.50 call fee, for example, excludes the phone company and the speech and AI providers, which bill the business directly, and a rupee credit top-up carries a 3% payment-processing fee. Add the 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. No monthly fee: ₹0.50 for each call minute, charged in 30-second steps, and ₹0.05 for each AI text reply, with your phone and AI providers billing you directly. ₹0 setup, credits that never expire.
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