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What an AI receptionist costs in India
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How much does an AI receptionist cost in India?
AutoCallDesk starts at ₹1,999 a month. That package includes the call minutes, the WhatsApp messages and a phone number. It is the whole bill for a normal month, not a subscription plus a meter. Larger packages cover businesses taking more calls, and if you go past what your package holds you top up a prepaid balance yourself rather than receiving a bill you did not expect.
In detail
The longer answer
A package, not a per-minute rate
A rate per minute asks you to estimate your own call volume before you can work out what anything costs, and the answer always sounds expensive because a minute is a small thing to put a price on. A package is a number you can compare with what you already spend. Every package is on the pricing page with exactly what is in it.
What a package includes
Call minutes: inbound and outbound, covering the phone line, understanding the caller, the AI working out the answer and the voice that replies as one charge. WhatsApp messages, by kind. A phone number, where the package includes one. Your dashboard, and everybody at your business who needs to see your customers and orders.
What costs nothing
A job you have not switched on: it is not configured, not running, and has no billable categories at all. A quiet day. Adding people to your team, because there is no charge per user. Messages customers send you. Topping up.
Compared with a receptionist
A receptionist in an Indian city costs roughly ₹12,000 to ₹18,000 a month, works eight hours, takes leave and answers one call at a time. That comparison is the honest one to make, and it is not a fair fight in either direction: a person does things no software does, and software answers the 2am call nobody was ever going to take.
Going past your package
Usage past what your package includes comes out of a prepaid balance you top up yourself, so a busy month is never an invoice arriving after the fact. Your dashboard shows what a top-up buys before you pay for it, and afterwards every charge names the call or the message that caused it.
Questions
What else people ask
Is there a contract?
No contract, no notice period and no cancellation fee. A package runs a month at a time, and switching a service off stops it from your next month.
Is there a charge per user?
No. Adding the people at your business who need to see your customers, calls and orders costs nothing.
What if none of the packages fits?
Ask, and we will build one around your month. That is a normal request rather than an exception, particularly for a business with unusual call volumes.
Do I pay for calls the AI could not handle?
A call that the AI answers uses minutes whether or not it ends with a person, because the line, the listening and the reply all happened. What you are not charged for is a job you never switched on.
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Other questions we have written up
Is there an AI receptionist that works properly in India?
An AI receptionist built for India: answers your existing business number, speaks eleven Indian languages, works on WhatsApp, and hands anything it should not handle to a named person.
Can I use AutoCallDesk if my business is not in India?
An honest answer: AutoCallDesk is built for India today (Indian numbers, rupee billing) and here is what that means if your business is somewhere else.
Give your business an AI employee.
Start with one job. Add more when you need them. Nothing goes live until you say so.
Or talk to a person first.