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Rosie vs Vapi

Rosie publishes its pricing; Vapi does not.

Both pages checked by August 19, 2026
RosieAI only
$0/mo
Website Chat (add-on) plan
AI answering service for US small businesses and home-services trades that answers calls 24/7, takes custom messages, books appointments and transfers callers to the owner's own team.
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

  • Rosie offers a trial (7-day free trial. Cancel anytime.); Vapi advertises none.
  • Rosie publishes prices. Vapi makes you ask.

Feature by feature

CapabilityRosieVapi
Live transferYesYes
Books appointmentsYesYes
Text follow-upYesYes
Outbound callsunstatedYes
SpanishYesYes
Human backupNoNo
Call recordingsYesYes
TranscriptsYesYes
Spam screeningYesunstated
Custom voiceunstatedYes
APIunstatedYes

"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.

Rosie plans

PlanPublished priceIncludesOver that
Professional$49 per month250 min—
Scale$149 per month1000 min—
Growth$299 per month2000 min—
Custom Plannot published——
Website Texting (add-on)$50 per month—$1 per additional conversation
Website Chat (add-on)Free with all plans——

Vapi plans

PlanPublished priceIncludesOver that
Build$0.05 / min——
ScaleFixed Platform fee and committed volume(annual billing)——

Rosie sources

Vapi sources