My AI Front Desk vs Vapi
My AI Front Desk publishes its pricing; Vapi does not.
Both pages checked by August 19, 2026
- My AI Front DeskAI only
- $99/mo
- Business-in-a-Box plan
- Self-serve AI receptionist from AI Front Desk, Inc. (now branded 'Frontdesk') sold to generic small businesses and to agencies who resell it white-labeled, bundling inbound voice, web chat, two-way SMS, email drafting, an AI CRM and automation sequences into one credit-metered subscription.
- VapiAI only
- Pricing not published
- no published plan
- Developer platform for building voice AI agents: Vapi hosts the orchestration layer and charges a per-minute hosting fee, while you pick and pay for your own speech-to-text, LLM, text-to-speech and telephony providers and write the assistant, tools and server hooks yourself.
The differences that matter
- My AI Front Desk offers a trial (Start 7-day free trial); Vapi advertises none.
- My AI Front Desk publishes prices. Vapi makes you ask.
Feature by feature
| Capability | My AI Front Desk | Vapi |
|---|---|---|
| Live transfer | Yes | Yes |
| Books appointments | Yes | Yes |
| Text follow-up | Yes | Yes |
| Outbound calls | Yes | Yes |
| Spanish | Yes | Yes |
| Human backup | No | No |
| Call recordings | Yes | Yes |
| Transcripts | Yes | Yes |
| Spam screening | Yes | unstated |
| Custom voice | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
"unstated" means the vendor doesn't claim it in their own documentation. It is not the same as no — it means nobody will put it in writing.
My AI Front Desk plans
| Plan | Published price | Includes | Over that |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | $20 /mo or $16/mo billed annually | — | Voice (per minute) 25 credits; SMS (per message) 4 credits; Chatbot (per conversation) 5 credits; Form Submission (per lead) 4 credits; Web Voicebot (per minute) 25 credits. 1 credit = $0.01. Auto-reload: $10 for 1,000 credits. Never expire. |
| Business-in-a-Box | $99 /mo or $79/mo billed annually | 200 min | Voice (per minute) 25 credits; SMS (per message) 4 credits; Chatbot (per conversation) 5 credits; Form Submission (per lead) 4 credits; Web Voicebot (per minute) 25 credits. 1 credit = $0.01. Auto-reload: $10 for 1,000 credits. Never expire. |
| Partner / Enterprise | Custom | — | Voice (per minute) As low as 7 credits; Web Voicebot (per minute) As low as 7 credits; SMS, chatbot and form rates Custom. 1 credit = $0.01. |
Vapi plans
| Plan | Published price | Includes | Over that |
|---|---|---|---|
| Build | $0.05 / min | — | — |
| Scale | Fixed Platform fee and committed volume(annual billing) | — | — |
My AI Front Desk sources
- Pricing page (all three tiers, monthly/annual toggle, full feature comparison table, credit overage rate table, FAQ)myaifrontdesk.com · read August 19, 2026
- Help center indexmyaifrontdesk.com · read August 19, 2026
- Help center: Plans & Pricing (subscribe, upgrade with proration, cancel at end of period, pause, watermark removal, coupons)myaifrontdesk.com · read August 19, 2026
- Help center: Credits & Usage (free vs purchased credits, per-feature entitlements, auto-reload)myaifrontdesk.com · read August 19, 2026
- Help center: Call Transfer Workflows (cold/hot transfer, whisper handoff, backup numbers, blast calling, extensions, up to 100 scenarios)myaifrontdesk.com · read August 19, 2026
- Help center: Language Settings (40+ languages, tier gating, hang-up warning)myaifrontdesk.com · read August 19, 2026
- Help center: Advanced Settings (AI model choice, extension digits, voicemail, bulk transfers, call recording, spam blocking)myaifrontdesk.com · read August 19, 2026
- Help center: Calls & Logs (history, transcripts, recordings, voicemail logs, text logs)myaifrontdesk.com · read August 19, 2026
- Help center: Phone Numbers (provisioned number, call forwarding, non-US regulatory docs)myaifrontdesk.com · read August 19, 2026
- Help center: Integrations (Zapier, Google Calendar, webhooks, API workflows, Gmail, Shopify, AppFolio, HubSpot, GoHighLevel, Housecall Pro)myaifrontdesk.com · read August 19, 2026
- Help center: Voice (voice library, pronunciation guide, voice cloning)myaifrontdesk.com · read August 19, 2026
- White-label reseller page (wholesale purchase, own branding and pricing, Stripe rebilling, no published rates)myaifrontdesk.com · read August 19, 2026
Vapi sources
- Pricing page (Build and Scale plan cards, full comparison table, usage calculator)vapi.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Docs FAQ (developer positioning, vendor cost pass-through, Server URL requirement, volume discounts, white-labelling, on-prem)docs.vapi.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Docs: Introduction ("the developer platform for building voice AI agents", provider choice)docs.vapi.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Docs: Understanding Call Concurrency (10 slots default, queueing behaviour, buying reserved lines)docs.vapi.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Docs: How voice agent component costs work (billing units: transcriber per minute of audio, model per million tokens, voice per character)docs.vapi.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Docs: Vapi Enterprise (what an enterprise contract can include)docs.vapi.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Docs: Multilingual support (automatic language detection via Deepgram, Google STT, Gladia)docs.vapi.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Docs: Manage pay-as-you-go billing and credits (buy credits, $10 minimum purchase, auto reload, invoices)docs.vapi.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Docs index (transfer-call tool, Google Calendar and GoHighLevel integrations, call recording/logging/transcribing, outbound campaigns, inbound SMS US-only, Twilio/Telnyx/DIDWW number import, custom voices)docs.vapi.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Terms of Service (entity: Vapi Inc., a Delaware corporation)vapi.ai · read August 19, 2026