The short answer
Based on the published prices of 12 firms and products serving Vancouver, checked on October 12, 2026: an AI receptionist subscription costs $14 to $699 a month, with enterprise and managed plans starting around $990. A single automation built for you costs $1,500 to $8,000, a project covering several workflows $10,000 to $30,000, and strategic custom work $25,000 and up. A team workshop costs $1,500 to $5,000. The headline price matters less than how the plan is metered: in the example below, the same call volume costs anywhere from $99 to $699 a month.
How I collected these prices
I build voice agents and AI employees in Vancouver, and the first question owners ask me is what this "should" cost. So I took the firms and products that showed up in local searches for AI consulting, AI automation and AI receptionists in Vancouver, and kept only the ones that publish a price on their own website. I opened each pricing page on October 12, 2026 and copied the numbers as written. Prices are in Canadian dollars where the page says so; where a page does not name a currency, the table says so. Taxes are extra everywhere.
Two notes on fairness. This is not a ranking: plans include very different features, and a cheaper plan is not a worse product. And plenty of good local firms do not publish prices at all. AdaptAI in Surrey, for example, says it does not publish rate cards and sends a fixed-price proposal after a free call, and Highridge AI confirms price on a free scoping call. Aitoflo is in that group too, which I explain near the end.
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Book a callAI receptionists and voice agents: monthly plans
| Firm or product | What it sells | Published price | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Voksha | AI phone answering; booking on Premium | Starter $14/month with 15 calls, then $1 per call. Premium $99/month with 150 calls, then $1 per call. Enterprise from $990/month. Currency not stated | voksha.com | Oct 12, 2026 |
| Aria | AI receptionist and website chat, English and French | $59, $189 or $389 CAD a month for 150, 600 or 1,200 voice minutes. No setup fee | heyaria.ca | Oct 12, 2026 |
| Polaris Voice | AI answering service | $99/month (150 minutes, then $0.75 a minute), $199 (500 minutes, then $0.50), $299 (1,500 minutes, then $0.30). Currency not stated | polarisvoice.ca | Oct 12, 2026 |
| Canadian AI Lab | AI voice agent, set up for you | $99/month with all inbound minutes included, or $999/year. Currency not stated | canadianailab.ca | Oct 12, 2026 |
| NetWit | AI voice agents | $99 CAD a month, shown as a limited offer (regular $299) | netwit.ca | Oct 12, 2026 |
| Dialbox | AI front desk with phone line, texting and booking | $129, $299 or $699 CAD a month for 100, 300 or 900 AI-handled calls. Managed plans from $999/month | dialbox.ca | Oct 12, 2026 |
The entry point is about $14 a month, but look at what changes between plans: call or minute allowances, booking, texting, number of locations, and who does the setup. Canadian AI Lab says it handles the full setup and most businesses are live in one to two weeks; the self-serve products talk about minutes.
AI consulting and automation projects
| Firm | What it sells | Published price | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Signal & Form | AI consulting, readiness assessments, automation builds | Quick Check $1,500 (one workflow); Readiness Assessment $3,500; automation build from $3,500; growth package from $5,000; strategic from $12,500 | signalandform.ca | Oct 12, 2026 |
| Rex Automaton | Fixed-fee automation builds | One workflow $1,500 to $8,000; phase one (two to four workflows) $10,000 to $30,000; strategic $25,000 and up | rexautomaton.com | Oct 12, 2026 |
| The Automators | AI automation agency | Projects from $3,000; US$125 or CA$175 an hour | theautomators.ai | Oct 12, 2026 |
| chatgpt.ca | Fixed-price AI consulting, delivered remotely | $3,500 to $25,000 per engagement | chatgpt.ca | Oct 12, 2026 |
| RAS AI | Paid one-to-one scoping session with an engineer | $75 (30 minutes), $105 (45 minutes), $135 (60 minutes) | rasai.ca | Oct 12, 2026 |
Two things stand out. The ranges overlap: one workflow lands between $1,500 and $8,000 at almost every firm that publishes. And not every firm that shows up for Vancouver works from here. chatgpt.ca, for example, says it serves Vancouver remotely from Markham, Ontario. Remote can work well; just know which one you are buying.
AI training and workshops
| Provider | What it sells | Published price | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UBC Sauder Professional Growth | "AI for Everyone", online and self-paced, about 6 hours | $395 per person | growth.sauder.ubc.ca | Oct 12, 2026 |
| Signal & Form | Leadership briefings and team workshops | Strategy Briefing $1,500 (2 hours); Executive Brief $3,500 (half day); team sessions quoted | signalandform.ca | Oct 12, 2026 |
| chatgpt.ca | Team workshops | Half day $2,000 to $3,000; full day $3,500 to $5,000; executive briefing $1,500; monthly retainer $1,500 | chatgpt.ca | Oct 12, 2026 |
What drives the cost
Call volume. Voice plans are metered three ways: by the minute (Polaris Voice, Aria), by the call (Voksha, Dialbox), or flat (Canadian AI Lab includes all inbound minutes). Long calls favour per-call pricing. Many short calls can favour per-minute. Count your monthly calls and average call length before you compare anything.
Integrations. Answering the phone is the easy part. Booking into your calendar, writing to your CRM, checking a job status and texting the caller a confirmation is where the work is. Dialbox includes one standard integration on its entry plan and unlimited on the next one up; custom builds charge for each connection in build time. Every system the AI touches needs access set up, tested, and kept working when that system changes.
Languages. Many plans list one or two languages: Aria covers English and French, and Voksha's Premium plan lists two. In Metro Vancouver you may need Punjabi, Hindi, Mandarin or Korean. The real-time voice models we build with officially support English, Punjabi, Hindi, Mandarin, Korean, French and Filipino, but support on paper is not the same as working well on a noisy phone line. Ask to hear a test call in your customers' language.
After-care. Something has to watch the system after launch. Rex Automaton, for example, includes 30 days of same-day support; others sell a monthly retainer. If nobody owns after-care, the system drifts: your hours change, a new service launches, and the AI keeps giving the old answer.
The hidden costs
Overages. Per-minute and per-call overages are where monthly bills grow. Here is one example volume run through the published plans above.
Setup. Some products have no setup fee because you do the setup yourself. Others include setup only on higher plans: Polaris Voice includes "white-glove setup" on its $299 plan. With a custom build, most of the price is setup.
Your own time. Every option needs you in the first couple of weeks: answering setup questions about your services, prices and rules, calling the line yourself, and reading the first transcripts. A done-for-you service cuts this time. It does not remove it.
Model and phone fees on custom builds. With a custom build, AI model usage and the phone line's per-minute charges are usually billed on top of the build fee. The Automators states it plainly: "Model usage and third-party licences are separate costs." Ask for a monthly running-cost estimate at your volume, in writing.
Small add-ons. Extra staff seats ($35 per licence a month on Dialbox), a toll-free number ($30 a month on Dialbox), changing a number ($25 on Dialbox), travel outside Metro Vancouver (Signal & Form charges a travel fee), and paid scoping calls (RAS AI charges $75 to $135, while most firms offer a free first call).
Currency. A US-dollar rate costs more than it looks. The Automators lists US$125 or CA$175 an hour, so check which one your contract says.
Subscription, done-for-you, or custom?
A $14 to $129 subscription is right when you need missed calls answered, messages taken, and your questions are simple. A done-for-you plan makes sense when you want someone else to set it up and keep it current. A custom build is worth paying for when the AI has to do work inside your systems: book into your scheduling software, look up a job, qualify a lead by your rules, follow up by text and email after the call, or call people back. That last group is where most of the value sits, and where the project prices above come from.
How we price at Aitoflo
We do not publish prices. Every job we build touches different systems, call volumes and languages, so a rate card would be wrong for most people who read it. You book a free 30-minute call, and we send a written plan with one clear price: the build, the monthly running cost at your volume, and what after-care includes. No hourly meter.
What that price buys is the same setup we run ourselves. We run our own company on about 35 AI employees and more than 70 scheduled jobs, and some of the voice agents I have built handle millions of calls. See what we build: AI voice agents and receptionists, AI agents that do whole jobs, custom software and owner dashboards, and hands-on AI workshops. If you are comparing firms in town, our AI consultant in Vancouver page explains how we work in person across Metro Vancouver.
Questions to ask any vendor before you sign
- What is the total monthly cost at my call volume and average call length, including overages?
- Which of my systems will it read from or write to, and who sets up that access?
- Which languages have you tested on real phone calls, and can I hear one?
- When my hours, prices or services change, who updates it, and how fast?
- Who watches it after launch, and what does that cost?
- If I leave, do I keep my phone number, my data and my call recordings?