Handled vs My AI Front Desk.
My AI Front Desk is the name that comes up when someone goes looking for a cheap AI receptionist, and the headline price is genuinely low. It's a self-serve tool with a credit meter behind it — you set it up, you top it up. It's a real product and the entry price is honest; it's just a different deal from the one Handled makes.
Their prices change — verify on their site. Ours are public on /pricing.
My AI Front Desk · checked August 2026
- Basic
- no voice minutes at all · chat + SMS only · 7-day free trial
- $20/mo
- Business-in-a-Box
- 200 voice minutes · overage 25 credits/min ($0.25) · Zapier · 7-day free trial
- $99/mo
- Partner / Enterprise
- volume pricing, voice from 7 credits/min · API access
- custom
Handled · public pricing
- Starter
- 500 min · $500 one-time setup · 30-day money-back
- $249/mo
- Pro
- 1,500 min · calls land in your software · tuned monthly · 30-day money-back
- $549/mo
- Industry
- Unlimited · built for your industry · tuned every two weeks
- $1,200/mo
A person builds your line from your own price list, it answers in English or Spanish from the first ring, and it's live in 48 hours — plus websites, apps and AI staff from the same shop.
Where each one actually wins.
// where My AI Front Desk wins
The lowest way in
$20/mo to start, and a 7-day free trial before you pay anything. Nothing here is cheaper to try.
20+ languages
Handled does English and Spanish properly. If you need callers answered in a language neither of us listed, they cover more ground.
You control the meter
Credits, top-ups, auto-reload. If you like watching the number and turning it down, that's a real preference and this suits it.
// where Handled wins
Read the $20 plan twice
Basic includes zero voice minutes — it does not answer your phone. The plan that actually picks up is $99/mo with 200 minutes, and that is the number to compare.
The per-minute rate is almost identical
$99 for 200 minutes is about 50¢ a minute. Handled Starter is $249 for 500 minutes — about 50¢ a minute too. The headline prices are far apart; the rate you actually pay is not. Handled's overage is $0.20/min against their $0.25.
Someone builds it
Their price is low because you do the work. Handled's setup fee buys a person loading your real prices, your booking rules and your awkward cases, then tuning it after it's live.
Nothing to top up
No credits, no auto-reload, no meter to watch. A plan, a number of minutes, and $0.20 a minute if you go over.
Pick My AI Front Desk
Pick My AI Front Desk if you want the cheapest possible start, you're happy setting it up yourself, and you don't mind managing a credit balance.
Pick Handled
Pick Handled if you'd rather hand someone your price list and have a line answering in English and Spanish 48 hours later, with no meter to watch.
// straight answers
- Is My AI Front Desk cheaper than Handled?
- On the sticker, yes — $20/mo against $249/mo. But their $20 plan includes no voice minutes and doesn't answer calls. The plan that answers the phone is $99/mo for 200 minutes, which works out to roughly the same per-minute rate as Handled Starter's $249 for 500. Handled adds a $500 setup and a person who does the setting up. Prices checked August 2026 — check both sites before you decide.
- What is a credit?
- Their pricing runs on credits at $0.01 each. A voice minute is 25 credits on the $20 and $99 plans, so 25¢ a minute over your included time. Handled charges $0.20 a minute over your included minutes and doesn't use credits.
- Which one gets me answering calls faster?
- Theirs, if you're willing to build it — you can be live the same afternoon on a free trial. Handled takes 48 hours because a person builds it from your price list first.
// don't trust our comparison? ask an AI
Sources, checked August 2026: My AI Front Desk pricing. Competitor prices are theirs to change; if something above is out of date, tell us and we'll fix it.
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