AI phone assistant: reviews, statistics and news
AI on a small business's own phone line: business phone apps built around an AI assistant, and self-serve AI phone agents that a solo operator or small team sets up on its own number. They answer and screen calls, take messages, send texts and put the important calls through to you. Receptionist services for a business's main line are under AI receptionist, and services built around missed and after-hours calls, often with human receptionists behind them, under AI answering service. Each one will take the same set of scripted calls and be tested on call handling, voice quality, messages, routing, setup and what it costs.
Every AI phone assistant I follow
Every AI phone assistant I follow, in alphabetical order. None has been through my bench yet: each one is queued for the nine tests, and the first reviews appear here as they are finished. The statistics measure 4 of them each month. 19 more listed tools are not measured here: 9 are measured in the category of their main product and 10 sit on shared domains whose traffic is not their own. Each of those is marked on its card.
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Abby Connectabby.comAnswering service with US-based human receptionists and a standalone AI receptionist, for small and mid-sized service businesses.Not tested yetMeasured in AI answering services
Allowithallo.comBusiness phone system with an AI receptionist and AI agents for calls and texts, aimed at small teams.Not tested yet
Carlyusecarly.comAI personal assistant run by email that makes and answers phone calls, schedules and updates a CRM for individuals and small teams.Not tested yetMeasured in AI personal assistants
CloudTalk AI Receptionistcloudtalk.ioAI receptionist inside the CloudTalk business phone system that answers calls, books appointments and routes callers, with a free 50-minute tier.Not tested yetNot measured: shared domain
Dialpad AI Receptionistdialpad.comAI receptionist built on Dialpad's phone platform that answers inbound calls, understands the request in plain language and routes or books without a person picking up.Not tested yetNot measured: shared domain
Dialzaradialzara.comAI phone answering service that acts as a 24/7 receptionist, books appointments and qualifies leads for small businesses.Not tested yetMeasured in AI answering services
Goodcallgoodcall.comAI answering service and receptionist for small businesses that handles phone calls 24/7 with a self-serve setup.Not tested yetMeasured in AI receptionists
Google Voicegoogle.comGoogle Workspace phone service with a business number, voicemail transcription and spam filtering.Not tested yetNot measured: shared domain
GoTo Connect AI Receptionistgoto.comAI receptionist inside the GoTo Connect phone system that handles incoming calls, schedules meetings and collects caller details.Not tested yetNot measured: shared domain
IsOn24ison24.comAI call agent and answering service that handles calls, texts, bookings and leads around the clock for small businesses and trades.Not tested yet
Nextiva XBertnextiva.comAI receptionist add-on to Nextiva's business phone service that answers, routes and books calls for businesses up to 200 employees.Not tested yetNot measured: shared domain
NextPhonegetnextphone.comAI receptionist and answering service with flat monthly pricing for law, accounting, insurance and home-service firms.Not tested yetMeasured in AI receptionists
Nucleusnucleus.comAI phone agent platform with a free AI receptionist tier for small businesses, giving a US or Canadian number and 24/7 answering.Not tested yet
Ooma AI Answering Serviceooma.comAI answering service add-on to the Ooma Office phone system that greets callers, answers questions and takes details, from $14.99 a month with 40 minutes.Not tested yetNot measured: shared domain
Phonelyphonely.aiVoice AI platform that answers business phone calls and builds agents for chat and SMS, from small firms to call centres.Not tested yetMeasured in AI receptionists
Quo (Sona)quo.comAI phone agent called Sona inside the Quo business phone system, formerly OpenPhone; answers calls, takes messages, books and transfers.Not tested yetNot measured: shared domain
Reception by ElevenLabselevenlabs.ioSelf-serve AI receptionist from ElevenLabs that answers calls and chats, books appointments and texts confirmations, from $29 a month for 75 minutes.Not tested yetNot measured: shared domain
RingCentral AI Receptionistringcentral.comAI receptionist sold on its own or as an add-on to RingCentral's phone system; answers calls and texts, books appointments and routes callers.Not tested yetNot measured: shared domain
Rosieheyrosie.comAI call answering service for small businesses that answers, books appointments and texts call details to the owner.Not tested yetMeasured in AI answering services
Simple Phonessimplephones.aiAI phone agent service that answers missed or forwarded calls, books appointments and takes messages for small businesses.Not tested yet
Smith.aismith.aiAI receptionist with human receptionist backup that answers calls, qualifies leads and books appointments, used mostly by law firms and service businesses.Not tested yetMeasured in AI answering services
Upfirstupfirst.aiAI phone answering service for small service businesses that handles calls around the clock, books appointments and routes urgent calls.Not tested yetMeasured in AI answering services
Zoom Virtual Agent Receptionistzoom.comZoom's AI receptionist, sold standalone for any phone system or with Zoom Phone; answers questions, books appointments and routes calls.Not tested yetNot measured: shared domain
Related categories
Neighbouring categories, and how each differs from AI phone assistants. A tool is measured in one category only: the one its main product belongs to.
- AI receptionists: Receptionist services that answer a whole business's main line.
- AI answering services: Services built around a business's missed and after-hours calls, often with human receptionists behind the AI.
Data to September 2026
AI phone assistant statistics and data
AI phone assistants in numbers, measured every month from named sources; this edition covers September 2026. These pages monitor the AI phone assistant market with measured data. They are not rankings: RankDude ranks only what it has tested.
- Search visits a month
- 180K
- all tracked AI phone assistant sites, September 2026
- Visits, year on year
- +4485%
- same month last year
- Searches by brand name
- –
- United States, vs a year ago
- Forecast, October 2026
- 170K
- range 67.9K to 272K
Estimated search visits to every measured AI phone assistant site, worldwide
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- AI phone assistant search trendsFive years of interest in AI phone assistantsGoogle Trends for "ai phone assistant", worldwide and in the United States, plus the term's search volume in the US and 9 other countries, and where the visitors to tracked sites come from.
- AI phone assistant demandAre AI phone assistants growing or shrinking?24 months of search visits to AI phone assistant sites, brand searches, who grew and who shrank.
- AI phone assistant industry reportThe September 2026 AI phone assistant report, to citeMarket size, demand, geography, the largest sites by measured traffic, movers and outlook in one dated document. 1 edition so far; past editions keep their URLs.
- AI phone assistant monthly analysisThe AI phone assistant market in September 2026: what the data saysEvery number I track for the AI phone assistant sites I follow, read as one month. Search visits up 4485.0% on a year ago and up 171.5% on the month before, with the Google positions, the demand and who moved.
- AI phone assistant monthly forecastAI phone assistant market, October 2026: the month ahead, marked in public170K visits expected, range 67.9K to 272K. Every past call is scored against what actually happened.
- AI phone assistant data and toolsEvery AI phone assistant figure defined, every file downloadableThe AI phone assistant market and site datasets as CSV with definitions and dates, and a page for each tool behind the numbers: what it measures and what it cannot tell you.
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