AI receptionist comparison: 10 Dutch providers and cost

Ten companies answer business phones in the Netherlands with AI. They start between €0.15 a minute and €1,499 a month, and with eight of the ten the bill grows with how long people talk.

Below is what each one costs at one hundred, two hundred, three hundred and four hundred calls a month. All figures are from 11 October 2026 and come from the provider’s own pricing page. Unless stated otherwise they exclude VAT.

Four different units make this field hard to compare

The providers do not bill in the same unit. Eight charge per minute, one per conversation, one per appointment and one in thirty-second tokens.

That is why price lists in this field so rarely add up. €50 for 115 minutes, €99 for 200 conversations and €75 for 50 tokens are not on the same scale, and putting them under each other compares nothing.

To get one table out of it, everything below is calculated at three minutes per call. That figure is not ours. Loekas converts its own bundle into “over 130 calls of 3 minutes”, and VoIPenAI uses three minutes as the worked example in its own token table. Further down the same table runs at one, two and five minutes, so you can see what happens with your own calls.

What you pay diverges as soon as the phone really rings

At one hundred calls a month the field sits between €45 and €1,499. At four hundred calls only the BeepSweep bill is still standing still.

At three minutes per call, using each provider’s cheapest plan that covers the volume. The vertical axis is logarithmic, because otherwise Callio at €1,499 presses everything else against the floor.

Nine lines climb. One stays flat. That is the whole difference between a bundle and a flat fee, and it is also why you need to know your own call volume first.

At higher volumes the order reverses

If you take few calls, paying per minute is cheaper. Take many and that is where you pay most, and a flat fee wins.

	100 calls	200	300	400
BeepSweep	€99	€99	€99	€99
Flireo / NeemtOp	€45	€90	€135	€180
CallingBird	€105	€210	€315	€420
fonio	€119	€119	€119	€149
Bonnie	€135	€175	€215	€295
Voicelabs	€149	€224	€299	€339
Loekas	€149	€299	not published	not published
Sainer	€199	€349	€499	€649
VoIPenAI	€212	€362	€512	€662
Callio	€1,499	€1,499	€1,499	€1,499

As of 11 October 2026, using each provider’s cheapest plan that covers the volume. Loekas publishes no per-minute rate above its bundle, so above 800 minutes no figure can be calculated.

Two things stand out. Flireo is cheaper than we are up to roughly 660 call minutes a month, which is about 220 calls of three minutes. Below that you would be paying us for room you are not using.

And at four hundred calls BeepSweep is the cheapest of the whole field. Not because we priced it sharply, but because at that point our bill is still the same one.

A longer call costs more at eight of the ten

Below, the number is fixed at two hundred calls a month. Only call length changes, and at eight providers the bill moves with it.

	1 minute	2 minutes	3 minutes	5 minutes
BeepSweep	€99	€99	€99	€99
Flireo / NeemtOp	€30	€60	€90	€150
CallingBird	€70	€140	€210	€350
fonio	€119	€119	€119	€119
Bonnie	€135	€135	€175	€215
Voicelabs	€149	€174	€224	€299
Loekas	€149	€149	€299	not published
Sainer	€199	€249	€349	€549
VoIPenAI	€162	€262	€362	€562
Callio	€1,499	€1,499	€1,499	€1,499

As of 11 October 2026, at two hundred calls a month.

This is the table that gets overlooked most easily. A call where the assistant asks which boiler it is, takes down the address and then transfers you runs to three minutes. A call where only a name and a number get written down takes one.

On a per-minute rate you pay three times as much for that first call as for the second, while it is the first one that takes work off your hands. So you are not only choosing a provider. You are choosing whether your bill moves with how good the call was.

What sits in each plan and what it costs above that

Below is each provider’s entry point and its rate above the bundle, in plain terms. These are the figures the tables above are built on.

Flireo charges roughly €0.15 per call minute, billed by the second, with no minimum and credit that does not expire. They even publish the build-up: 7 cents for their own platform and 6 to 8 cents for the language model. Under the names NeemtOp and InstallatieTelefoniste they sell the same service in fixed packages, where setup costs €250 or €595 once.

CallingBird works without plans: €0.35 per call minute with a €20 monthly minimum, and according to their own page every feature is included.

fonio gives 1,000 minutes for €119. Above that each 100 minutes costs €15 more. Their Team plan is €359 with 3,600 minutes.

Bonnie starts at €135 with 500 call minutes and charges €0.40 a minute above that, or €0.48 with a premium voice. Their pricing page does not say whether those amounts include VAT.

Voicelabs gives 300 minutes for €149 and charges €0.25 a minute above that. They work it out themselves: at 600 minutes you pay €224.

Loekas gives 400 call minutes for €149 and 800 for €299. What a minute above the bundle costs is not on their page.

Sainer has the cheapest entry plan of the lot at €50, but on that plan the assistant cannot transfer a call. See the next section. The plan where it can is €199, with €0.50 a minute above the bundle.

VoIPenAI charges €75 a month per extension with 50 tokens, plus €500 setup once. You get one token when a call is answered and one per thirty seconds, so a three minute call is six tokens. Above the bundle a token is €0.25, which makes that call €1.50.

Callio asks €1,499 or €2,499 a month. Their whole page compares against the employer cost of a full-time receptionist rather than against other software.

AI Receptionisten is not in the tables above, and that is deliberate. They charge €50 a month for 200 booked appointments, with an automatic bundle of €50 for 200 more above that. On minutes their page says only “included under fair use”. A call that does not end in an appointment therefore has no price there, and that cannot fairly sit next to a minute bundle.

BeepSweep is €99 a month for the company, with 200 conversations, and €15 per extra colleague. Nothing is added per call or per minute.

Where a plan stops matters more than its price

A cheap entry plan sometimes lacks the thing you need. Three examples sit in the pricing tables themselves and are easy to miss.

Sainer’s entry plan cannot transfer a call. In their feature table the maximum number of transfer destinations is blank on Start, three on the plan above it and ten above that. So if you want the AI to put callers through to a colleague, you start at €199 and not at €50.

fonio Solo handles one call at a time. In their own comparison table Solo shows a 1 for simultaneous calls and Team a 3. On a main company number that means a second caller does not get through while the assistant is still talking. Solo is also one user, and more people means Team at €359.

At Voicelabs the integrations start on the second plan. The calendar integration is in every plan, but CRM integrations and your own webhooks are listed as not included on Starter.

It is also worth looking at how many phone numbers a plan includes and how long recordings are kept. Sainer keeps recordings for seven days on Start and 365 days on the higher plans.

Four names from our previous overview no longer do this

This field moves fast. Of the twelve Dutch names we noted in June, four have disappeared or moved on within four months.

Kollie no longer exists: kollie.nl shows the bare welcome page of its host. Agentfabriek now focuses on purchase invoices for factories and wholesalers. LoodgieterAI and STUDIOLEE sell a marketing subscription in which an AI phone line is one part alongside a website and weekly articles, which is a different thing from a phone assistant you buy on its own.

That is not a criticism of those companies. It is a reason to check when any list was made, including this one.

Check the date, including on the provider’s own site

Prices and plan limits change, and a site is not updated everywhere at once. Twice the same site said two different things in two places.

CallingBird’s pricing page said “30 days free trial” at the top and “14 days free trial” in the questions below it. The homepage said 30 days again.

Bonnie’s homepage mentions calls in 20+ languages. Its pricing page lists two languages on the entry plan, four on the middle one and ten on the most expensive. Twenty appears nowhere.

That is no reproach, because this happens to everyone who grows quickly. It does mean reading the page the amount is printed on, and asking what will be in your own quote if you are unsure.

Which one suits which situation

No provider is the best for everyone. It depends on your call volume, your call length and whether calls need transferring. And on whether an AI suits your calls at all; when you are better off without one is covered separately.

Few and short calls: Flireo or CallingBird. You pay per minute, so a quiet month genuinely costs less.

High volume or long calls: a flat fee. This is where per-minute models climb hard.

Hospitality: Bonnie, with links to reservation systems. Outside that trade it fits less well.

Analysis of every call, including the ones your people handle: Sainer, with transcription, sentiment and reporting on the higher plans.

Many languages: fonio, with 60 languages and over 120 voices.

Phone, WhatsApp and website chat in one subscription: Voicelabs on their Groei plan.

How BeepSweep handles it

BeepSweep is €99 a month excluding VAT for the company, with 200 conversations and €15 per extra colleague. Nothing per call and nothing per minute.

Go past those 200 conversations and we currently add nothing. That is how it works today rather than a promise for ever, and we would rather say so plainly than put the word unlimited on a page.

Every connected colleague gets an AI voicemail on their own number with the same knowledge base behind it. Transferring to the right colleague and the right department is included. If nobody answers there, BeepSweep asks when the caller can be rung back.

What we are not is the cheapest. If you take few calls you are better off at Flireo or CallingBird, and that sits in the table above as well.

To hear how it sounds, try BeepSweep. Questions are welcome on WhatsApp at +31 85 083 5355.

Frequently asked questions

How long does a call with an AI phone assistant usually take?

That differs per trade and no provider publishes a measurement of it. The three minutes used here come from the worked examples of Loekas and VoIPenAI themselves.

Can I keep my own phone number?

With almost every provider you can, through call forwarding. How that works is set out in call forwarding codes.

What is the difference with an ordinary answering service?

An answering service writes down a name and a number and charges per call. The difference is worked out in an AI receptionist against an answering service.

What is an AI receptionist exactly?

Software that answers your phone, asks what the call is about and sends you a readable briefing. It is explained in what an AI receptionist is.

How is a monthly fee like this built up?

The build-up and the hidden items are in what an AI receptionist costs.

I work alone. Is this really for me?

That depends on how often you are called while you cannot answer. The trade-off is set out in how to never miss a business call.

My phone provider now offers AI too. Is that the same?

No. The AI from KPN and Voys summarises calls and turns voicemail into text, but does not answer the phone itself. The difference is in AI from your phone provider or a separate AI receptionist.