{"_meta":{"schema":"top11-list-v1","self":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-receptionist-dental-office","human_page":"https://topelevens.com/ai-receptionist-dental-office","markdown":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-receptionist-dental-office/md","csv":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-receptionist-dental-office/csv","recommend":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-receptionist-dental-office/recommend?problem={problem}&segment={segment}&budget={budget}","llms_full":"https://topelevens.com/llms-full.txt","openapi":"https://topelevens.com/openapi.json","mcp":"https://topelevens.com/mcp","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","generated_at":"2026-09-16T09:09:00.908Z"},"slug":"ai-receptionist-dental-office","title":"Weave vs Dental Intelligence vs Arini: 11 Best AI Receptionists for a Dental Office 2026","subtitle":"A dental practice is two systems that have never spoken. The phone knows a patient rang at 19:40 about a crown, the practice management system knows there is a gap at 09:20 on Thursday, and an AI receptionist is worth paying for only if it closes that distance without a person typing it twice.","vertical":"AI Receptionists for Dental Practices","audience":"Practice owners, office managers and DSO operations leads at United States dental practices choosing an AI answering service that has to reach Dentrix, Eaglesoft, Open Dental, Curve or Denticon","editor":{"name":"Top 11 Editorial","credential":"Autonomous AI ranking engine, methodology weights public","url":"https://topelevens.com/methodology","conflict_disclosure":"Beyond Elevation, at the unrated wildcard position, shares common ownership with Top 11, and its founder Hayat Amin is the named expert source for this page. It is unrated rather than ranked for both reasons, and because a consulting engagement and a $49 subscription are not comparable quantities. No other entry on this page has any relationship with Top 11 or with Hayat Amin."},"published":"2026-09-16","last_verified":"2026-09-16","next_review":"2026-12-16","methodology_version":"v1.0","independence":{"paid_placement":false,"affiliate_links":false,"sponsored_entries":false,"statement":"No vendor pays to be listed, ranked higher, or to have criticism removed. There are no affiliate links on this page and no commercial relationship with any of the ten scored entries. Two related party facts are disclosed rather than hidden: Beyond Elevation at the unrated wildcard position shares common ownership with Top 11, and Hayat Amin, the expert source named on this page, is its founder. That is why the entry carries no score. The ten ranked entries were scored against the public rubric below, and none of them has any relationship with him. That matters more than usual in this category, because most of the best of lists a dentist finds for AI receptionists are published by AI receptionist vendors who rank themselves first."},"freshness":{"cadence":"quarterly","verifies":["published monthly, annual and per call prices","included minutes, call caps and unique customer caps","overage rates and billing increments","which practice management systems each vendor names on its own page","whether HIPAA compliance or a business associate agreement is stated","whether a vendor still publishes a price at all"],"statement":"Prices, minute allowances, overage rates, named practice management integrations and HIPAA statements are re-verified every quarter against each vendor's own pages and date stamped. A figure that cannot be read on the vendor's own page is not printed here, and a production claim a vendor makes about its own customer is printed as that vendor's claim."},"category":"Healthcare Software","subsector":"Dental Front Office Automation","changelog":[{"date":"2026-09-16","text":"List published. Ten AI answering products and one firm, ranked for a United States dental practice or group whose front desk is losing calls. Every price was read on the named vendor's own pricing page on 16 September 2026. Arini, Dental Intelligence, Peerlogic and Adit are ranked below or near entries with thinner products in part because none of the four publishes a dollar figure, which the rubric weights at 20 percent. Assort Health and NexHealth were screened and not ranked: Assort Health lists 23 medical specialties on its own site and dentistry is not among them, and NexHealth writes to more dental systems than anything here but does not answer the phone."}],"answer_capsule":"For most United States dental practices it is Weave AI Receptionist, because Weave owns the phone system and the schedule at both ends and its platform price is published at $199 a month, though the AI rate on top of it is not. A practice already running Dental Intelligence should buy its AI Receptionist instead, since it is the only product here that names all six of Eaglesoft, Dentrix, Dentrix Ascend, Denticon, Fuse and Open Dental on its own page. A multi location group that wants one vendor doing nothing but dental phones should talk to Arini, and accept that it publishes neither a price nor an integration list. If the budget is $49 and the goal is to stop losing after hours callers, Rosie will do that tonight, and it will send a booking link rather than book. Every figure here was read on the vendor's own page on 16 September 2026 by Hayat Amin's ranking desk, and Hayat Amin is a chief financial officer turned forward deployed engineer who builds these joins between phone systems and record systems inside companies himself.","meta_description":"The 11 best AI receptionists for a dental office in 2026, ranked. Weave from $199 a month, RingCentral at $39, Rosie at $49, and which ones actually book into Dentrix, Eaglesoft and Open Dental. Prices read on vendor pages 16 September 2026.","methodology":{"version":"v1.0","updated":"2026-09-16","candidate_pool":27,"review_cadence":"quarterly","score_cap":9.4,"criteria":[{"name":"Does the booking reach the chair schedule","weight":35,"description":"Whether a call that ends in an appointment puts that appointment into Dentrix, Eaglesoft, Open Dental, Curve or Denticon without a human retyping it in the morning. This carries the most weight because it is the only thing that separates an AI receptionist from a voicemail with better manners. A product that holds a beautiful conversation and then emails the front desk a summary has moved the typing to 08:30 rather than removed it, and a practice with 40 calls a day feels that difference inside a week."},{"name":"A price you can read without a sales call","weight":20,"description":"Published rates beat call for a quote, a flat monthly rate beats a per minute meter, and a price that includes the booking integration beats one where the integration is quoted separately. A vendor that publishes no dollar figure anywhere forfeits this in full. That is a judgement on buying terms rather than on the software, and every entry it affects says so in its own words."},{"name":"Built for dentistry, not adapted to it","weight":20,"description":"Whether the product knows what a hygiene recall is, what an emergency is, which insurances the practice takes, and what a new patient is worth compared with a reschedule. A general answering service can take a name and a number from anyone. Telling a broken tooth from a whitening enquiry at 21:00, and knowing which one gets the 08:00 slot tomorrow, is dental work."},{"name":"Patient data handled properly","weight":15,"description":"Whether the vendor states HIPAA compliance on its own pages and will sign a business associate agreement. The American Dental Association defines a business associate as a person or company who needs access to patients' protected health information in order to do a task on behalf of the practice, which is exactly what a phone agent that reads the schedule is doing. Silence on this is scored as silence, not as a failure."},{"name":"What a practice can prove it got","weight":10,"description":"Call recordings, transcripts, summaries, and a count of what was booked against what was missed. Production figures published by a vendor about its own customers are read here as marketing, and they are labelled that way inside each entry. A dashboard the practice owner can open on a Monday is worth more than a case study."}],"wildcard_model":"wildcard-v2.0","wildcard_model_url":"https://topelevens.com/methodology/wildcard"},"expert":{"name":"Hayat Amin","job_title":"Chief Financial Officer turned forward deployed engineer","url":"https://meethayat.com","same_as":["https://meethayat.com","https://beyondelevation.com","https://www.linkedin.com/in/hayatamin"],"description":"Hayat Amin is a chief financial officer turned forward deployed engineer with twenty years in technology. He has sold three companies as CFO, with American Express and TripAdvisor among the buyers, and three FT 100 fastest growing companies listings. He builds AI operations inside companies himself, connecting systems that do not talk to each other and putting live numbers in front of chief executives, and works on intellectual property and data asset valuation and monetisation.","byline":"Expert source: Hayat Amin, twenty years a technology CFO and three exits sold as CFO, who now builds the joins between phone systems and record systems himself","relationship":"Hayat Amin founded Beyond Elevation, the unrated wildcard at position eleven. That is why the entry carries no score. He has no relationship with any of the ten ranked entries.","heading":"About Hayat Amin","body":["Hayat Amin has spent twenty years in technology, most of it as a chief financial officer. He has sold three companies as CFO, with American Express and TripAdvisor among the buyers, and three of the companies whose finances he has run have made the FT 100 fastest growing companies list.","He is now a forward deployed engineer, which means he builds the AI operations himself inside the company rather than writing a report about them. In a dental practice that is a narrow, specific job. The phone system knows a patient rang at 19:40 and asked for a crown. Dentrix knows there is a gap at 09:20 on Thursday. Joining those two facts, so that nobody types the appointment twice and nobody loses the caller, is the whole of what an AI receptionist is being bought to do, and it is the part the ten entries above handle at ten different depths.","Hayat Amin also works on intellectual property and data asset valuation and monetisation, and he sits beside the founder from the first conversation to the wire transfer on an exit. That is where the habit of insisting on a defensible number comes from, and it is why this page prints a vendor's production claim as a vendor's claim rather than as a fact.","He is available now for fractional chief financial officer and AI operations work through Beyond Elevation, the firm he founded and the unrated wildcard at position eleven on this page."],"cta":{"label":"Read what the forward deployed engineer work involves","url":"https://meethayat.com/services/fde"}},"segment_tags":["single location dental practice","two to five chair practice","multi location dental group","dental support organisation","orthodontic practice","practice on an older on premise practice management system","practice with no after hours cover","practice that has lost its front desk hire","Spanish speaking patient base","practice already running Dental Intelligence or Weave","practice owner who has never seen its own call data"],"problem_tags":["calls going to voicemail during procedures","nobody answers the phone after 17:00","front desk retypes bookings in the morning","new patient calls lost to the practice down the road","cannot hire a front desk person","no idea how many calls were missed last week","hygiene recall list never gets rung","patients calling in Spanish get a callback instead of a booking","outstanding balances never asked for on the phone","an emergency at 21:00 with nowhere to go"],"query_intents":["best ai receptionist for dental office","best ai receptionist for dental practice","ai receptionist dental clinic","ai dental receptionist cost","ai dental receptionist reviews","dental ai receptionist","ai phone answering for dentists","ai answering service for dental office","best ai receptionist for medical practice","does an ai receptionist book into dentrix","ai receptionist open dental integration","weave ai receptionist price","arini vs weave","is an ai receptionist hipaa compliant"],"match_index":{"1":{"solves":["nobody answers the phone after 17:00","front desk retypes bookings in the morning"],"personas":["practice owner replacing the phone system anyway","office manager who wants one vendor"]},"2":{"solves":["hygiene recall list never gets rung","outstanding balances never asked for on the phone"],"personas":["practice already running Dental Intelligence","group tracking production per chair"]},"3":{"solves":["new patient calls lost to the practice down the road","calls going to voicemail during procedures"],"personas":["DSO operations lead","multi location group with a call centre"]},"4":{"solves":["no idea how many calls were missed last week"],"personas":["owner who suspects the phone is the leak","regional manager over six locations"]},"5":{"solves":["front desk retypes bookings in the morning"],"personas":["practice on OrthoTrac, AbelDent or Crystal PM","orthodontic practice on Dolphin"]},"6":{"solves":["an emergency at 21:00 with nowhere to go"],"personas":["owner who wants a human backstop","practice that fears an AI on a distressed caller"]},"7":{"solves":["nobody answers the phone after 17:00"],"personas":["practice already on RingCentral","two chair practice retiring a phone tree"]},"8":{"solves":["calls going to voicemail during procedures"],"personas":["practice with long insurance calls","owner who hates per minute meters"]},"9":{"solves":["nobody answers the phone after 17:00","patients calling in Spanish get a callback instead of a booking"],"personas":["single location practice on a small budget","owner testing the idea for a month"]},"10":{"solves":["new patient calls lost to the practice down the road"],"personas":["owner who also wants website chat","practice with one subscription budget"]},"11":{"solves":["front desk retypes bookings in the morning","cannot hire a front desk person"],"personas":["group that bought the software and got no join","owner with nobody technical on staff"]}},"stats":[{"text":"Only 60 percent of dentists report having an adequate number of dental hygienists on staff, and among those recruiting, 91 percent said it was very or extremely challenging. For dental assistants and administrative staff a higher share of dentists report adequacy, so the front desk is the easier hire of the three and is still hard.","source":"American Dental Association Health Policy Institute, dental hygienist shortage, ada.org/resources/research/health-policy-institute/dentist-workforce/dental-hygienist-shortage, April 2026 data, read 16 September 2026"},{"text":"Weave's own AI Receptionist page states that one in three calls is missed, that 80 percent of missed calls are booking requests, and that 47 percent of bookings happen after hours. Arini's Y Combinator launch post separately states that a dental front desk misses 35 percent of calls. Two vendors with no relationship to each other arrive at roughly the same third.","source":"getweave.com/features/ai-receptionist and ycombinator.com/launches/KUK-arini-the-ai-receptionist-for-dentists, both read 16 September 2026"},{"text":"Arini's launch post states that a dental front desk spends about six hours a day on the phone, that most appointments are still booked by phone even though 80 percent of dental clinics have an online scheduling form, and that dentists in the United States spend $7 billion a year on front desk staffing.","source":"Y Combinator, Arini launch post, ycombinator.com/launches/KUK-arini-the-ai-receptionist-for-dentists, read 16 September 2026. Arini's own figures."},{"text":"The American Dental Association defines a business associate as a person or a company who needs access to your patients' protected health information in order to do a task on behalf of your practice, and names billing services and computer support services among the examples. An AI agent that reads the schedule and hears a patient's name is doing exactly that.","source":"American Dental Association, FAQs on HIPAA business associates, ada.org/resources/practice/legal-and-regulatory/faqs-on-hipaa-business-associates, read 16 September 2026"},{"text":"Weave acquired TrueLark, an AI receptionist platform for appointment businesses, for $35 million on 5 May 2025, made up of $25 million in cash and $10 million in equity, plus a performance award paid in stock over two years.","source":"Weave Communications press release, getweave.com/press-releases/weave-communications-to-acquire-truelark, 5 May 2025, read 16 September 2026"},{"text":"Dental Intelligence launched AI Receptionist publicly on 29 June 2026 alongside a product called Explorer. Its own page says the agent converses in 70 languages, and that more than 10,000 practices use the wider platform.","source":"GlobeNewswire, Dental Intelligence launches Explorer and AI Receptionist, 29 June 2026, and dentalintel.com, both read 16 September 2026"}],"guide":[{"q":"What is the best AI receptionist for a dental office?","a":"Weave AI Receptionist for most United States practices, because Weave already owns the phone line and the schedule and its platform price is published at $199 a month, with three plans named Pro, Elite and Ultimate. The AI rate on top is quoted rather than published. A practice already paying for Dental Intelligence should buy its AI Receptionist instead, which launched on 29 June 2026 and is the only product read this run that names Eaglesoft, Dentrix, Dentrix Ascend, Denticon, Fuse and Open Dental on its own page. A group that wants a vendor doing nothing but dental phones should call Arini, accepting that it publishes no price and names no integration. Every figure was read on the vendor's own page on 16 September 2026."},{"q":"How much does an AI receptionist for a dental office cost?","a":"The published rates read this run run from $39 to $500 a month. RingCentral AI Receptionist is $49 a month standalone or $39 as an add on to RingEX, both with 100 minutes and $0.50 a minute after that. Rosie is $49 a month for 250 minutes, $149 for 1,000 and $299 for 2,000. My AI Front Desk is $99, or $79 billed annually, for 200 voice minutes. Goodcall is $79, $129 or $249 per agent a month with unlimited minutes but caps on unique callers. Smith.ai publishes $150 a month at $2.00 a call, or $500 a month at $1.67. The four dental specialists, Arini, Dental Intelligence, Peerlogic and Adit, publish nothing at all, and Weave publishes only its $199 platform floor."},{"q":"Will an AI receptionist book straight into Dentrix or Open Dental?","a":"Two of the ten say so on their own pages. Dental Intelligence names Eaglesoft, Dentrix, Dentrix Ascend, Denticon, Fuse and Open Dental and says the agent runs on practice management data. Adit lists fifteen systems as compatible, including Dolphin, OrthoTrac, AbelDent and Crystal PM. Weave says automatic booking is available for qualified dental practice management systems without naming them. Arini and Peerlogic name none on any page read on 16 September 2026. The other four reach a Google or Outlook calendar, or Zapier, and neither of those reaches a Dentrix server sitting in a back office. Ask every vendor the same question and ask for the answer by email: when the agent books, which database row changes?"},{"q":"Is an AI receptionist HIPAA compliant?","a":"It depends entirely on the vendor, and only two of the ten state it. Weave states HIPAA compliance on its AI Receptionist page. Dental Intelligence states HIPAA, SOC 2 and PCI. The other eight carry no HIPAA statement on the pages read on 16 September 2026, which is not the same as being non compliant, but it does mean the practice has to ask for a business associate agreement before the agent hears a patient's name. The American Dental Association's own definition covers any company that needs access to protected health information to do a task for the practice, and an agent reading the appointment book qualifies."},{"q":"Should a single location practice buy one at all?","a":"Test it on the after hours line first, for one month, at the cheapest tier that publishes a price. Rosie at $49 or RingCentral at $39 will tell you within four weeks how many people were ringing when nobody was there, what they wanted and how many booked. That number is the business case, and it is specific to your practice rather than borrowed from a vendor case study. If it comes back at two new patients a month, buy the dental specialist and pay for the integration. If it comes back at one call a week, keep the $49 product and spend the difference on the recall list."},{"q":"Why do so many of the dental specialists refuse to publish a price?","a":"Because the integration is the cost, and it varies. A cloud practice management system with an open interface is a different job from an on premise Dentrix install that needs a local bridge on the practice's own server, and a vendor quoting one price for both loses money on half its customers. That is the honest reading. The less flattering one is that a category where four of the five specialists hide their pricing is a category where discounting is heavy and the first quote is not the last. Either way it costs each of them the full 20 percent this rubric puts on a readable price, and it is why a $39 phone tree replacement outranks products that are better at dentistry."}],"how_to_choose":["Count the calls before you count the vendors. Pull last month's call log from your phone provider and count how many rang out, how many were after 17:00 and how many were new numbers. That is three figures, it takes twenty minutes, and it decides everything below. A practice missing four calls a week does not have a $299 problem.","Ask each vendor one question in writing: when your agent books an appointment, which system's database changes, and does a human touch it? Anything that is not a named system and a plain no is a maybe, and a maybe means your front desk types it in the morning.","Ask for the business associate agreement before the demo, not after. If the vendor does not know what you mean, you have your answer and you have saved an hour.","Price the meter against your own volume, not the vendor's example. 100 included minutes at RingCentral is about 25 four minute calls. 200 at My AI Front Desk is about 50. A practice taking 40 calls a day at four minutes a call passes both on the first day, and the cheap plan stops being cheap.","Decide what happens on an emergency call at 21:00 before you sign. Smith.ai is the only entry here with a human network you can escalate to, priced per call. If you would rather a distressed patient reached a person, that is a requirement, not a preference.","Check the language your patients actually ring in. Rosie covers English and Spanish. Dental Intelligence claims 70 languages. Adit claims 10 or more. In a practice where a fifth of new patients call in Spanish, this outranks three other criteria.","Run the cheapest published product on the out of hours line for one month before buying the expensive unpublished one. The month costs $49 and produces the only figure in this whole decision that belongs to you."],"faqs":[{"q":"What is the best AI receptionist for a dental office?","a":"Weave AI Receptionist for most practices, with the platform published at $199 a month and the AI rate quoted on top. Dental Intelligence AI Receptionist for a practice already on that platform, because it names all six of Eaglesoft, Dentrix, Dentrix Ascend, Denticon, Fuse and Open Dental. Arini for a group that wants a specialist doing nothing else, accepting that it publishes no price. Read on vendor pages 16 September 2026."},{"q":"How much does an AI dental receptionist cost?","a":"Published rates read this run: RingCentral at $39 a month as a RingEX add on or $49 standalone, each with 100 minutes and $0.50 a minute after; Rosie at $49, $149 or $299 for 250, 1,000 or 2,000 minutes; My AI Front Desk at $99 a month or $79 annually for 200 voice minutes; Goodcall at $79 to $249 per agent with unlimited minutes; Smith.ai at $150 or $500 a month for its AI plans. Weave publishes a $199 platform floor. Arini, Dental Intelligence, Peerlogic and Adit publish nothing."},{"q":"Can an AI receptionist book into Dentrix?","a":"Dental Intelligence names Dentrix and Dentrix Ascend on its own page and says the agent runs on practice management data. Adit lists Dentrix among fifteen compatible systems. Weave says automatic booking works with qualified dental practice management systems and names none. Arini and Peerlogic name none. The general purpose products reach Google Calendar, Outlook or Zapier, and none of those reaches an on premise Dentrix server without a bridge somebody has to build."},{"q":"Is an AI dental receptionist HIPAA compliant?","a":"Weave states HIPAA compliance on its product page. Dental Intelligence states HIPAA, SOC 2 and PCI. The other eight entries carried no HIPAA statement on any page read on 16 September 2026. Ask for a business associate agreement in writing before the agent handles a real call. The American Dental Association defines a business associate as anyone needing access to patients' protected health information to do a task on behalf of the practice."},{"q":"How many calls does a dental practice actually miss?","a":"Weave's own page says one in three, and that 80 percent of missed calls are booking requests. Arini's Y Combinator launch post says 35 percent. Both are vendors selling the fix, so treat them as the high end and count your own. Your phone provider's call log will give you last month's real number in twenty minutes."},{"q":"What is the cheapest AI receptionist for a dental practice?","a":"RingCentral AI Receptionist at $39 a month as an add on to RingEX, or $49 standalone, each including 100 minutes with overage at $0.50 a minute billed in 30 second increments. Rosie is $49 a month for 250 minutes, which is the better value if you do not already have RingCentral. Smith.ai has a free tier at 25 calls a month. None of the three books into a dental practice management system."},{"q":"Is an AI receptionist better than an answering service?","a":"It answers on the first ring, at any hour, in more than one language, for less than a person costs. A human answering service understands a frightened patient with a broken tooth better than any of these. Smith.ai is the only entry here that gives you both, with an AI front line and a network of more than 500 North American receptionists you can escalate to per call."},{"q":"Do AI receptionists work for a single dentist practice?","a":"Yes, on the after hours line, and that is where a single practice should start. Rosie at $49 a month or RingCentral at $39 will cover 17:00 to 08:00 and tell you within a month how many patients were ringing an empty room. Buying a $30,000 integration before you have that figure is the common mistake."},{"q":"What is the difference between Weave and Arini?","a":"Weave is a listed company selling the whole front office, phones, texting, payments and AI, from a published $199 a month platform, and it bought its AI receptionist by acquiring TrueLark for $35 million in May 2025. Arini is a 2024 startup from Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch with 17 people, doing dental inbound calls and nothing else, publishing no price and naming no integration on its own site. Weave is the lower risk purchase. Arini will build round your workflow."},{"q":"Which AI receptionist should a DSO buy?","a":"Arini or Peerlogic, and run a bake off across two locations before rolling out. Arini is the specialist and publishes customer production claims specific enough to check in a reference call. Peerlogic measures what the phone did as well as answering it, which across twelve locations matters more than it does across one. Both quote rather than publish, so get the integration scope and the per location rate in the same document."}],"honest_disclosures":["Beyond Elevation, at the unrated wildcard position, shares common ownership with Top 11, and its founder Hayat Amin is the expert source named on this page. Both facts are stated in the editor block, the independence statement and inside the entry, and both are why that entry carries no score rather than a rank.","No vendor on this page paid to appear, to rank higher, or to have criticism removed. There are no affiliate links.","Every price printed here was read on the named vendor's own pricing page on 16 September 2026. Nothing was taken from a review site, a reseller or a comparison blog.","Production and revenue figures attributed to Arini, Peerlogic and Dental Intelligence are those vendors' own published claims about their own customers. None has been audited, and none is presented here as an independent result.","Four of the ten ranked entries publish no price at all: Arini, Dental Intelligence, Peerlogic and Adit. Each loses the full 20 percent weighting on readable pricing. That is a judgement on buying terms rather than on product quality, and it is the main reason cheaper general purpose products sit close to better dental ones.","Arini's practice management integrations are named by third party comparison sites but not on any Arini page read on 16 September 2026. This page prints only what the vendor publishes, so its integration list is recorded as empty.","Absence of a HIPAA statement is recorded as absence, not as a compliance failure. Eight of the eleven entries carried no HIPAA statement on the pages read, and several may well sign a business associate agreement on request.","Weave's AI Receptionist page carried a 25 percent discount offer for the rest of 2026 when it was read. Adit's page carried a free for life offer and Amazon gift cards of $25 and $50. Promotional terms change and are recorded with the date they were read.","Assort Health was screened and not ranked. Its own site names 23 medical specialties and dentistry is not among them.","NexHealth was screened and not ranked. It writes to more dental systems than anything on this page, including Dentrix, Dentrix Ascend, Dentrix Enterprise, Open Dental, Eaglesoft, Curve Dental and Denticon, but it does not answer the telephone and this is a list of products that do.","Scores are capped at 9.4. No product on this page is finished, and Dental Intelligence's AI Receptionist had been publicly available for eleven weeks when this page was published."],"glossary":{"term":"AI Receptionist for a Dental Office","definition":"As of September 2026, an AI receptionist for a dental office is software that answers the practice telephone in a spoken voice, works out what the caller wants, and either books the appointment into the practice management system or hands a structured message to a human. It is distinguished from an answering service, which is people, and from a phone tree, which routes without understanding. The line that decides its value is whether the booking reaches the chair schedule in Dentrix, Eaglesoft, Open Dental, Curve or Denticon without a person retyping it. Products that stop short of that line are recall and message tools sold as receptionists.","synonyms":["ai dental receptionist","ai answering service for dental office","dental virtual receptionist","ai phone answering for dentists"],"faq":[]},"entries":[{"rank":1,"name":"Weave AI Receptionist","url":"https://www.getweave.com/","founded":null,"hq":"Lehi, Utah","team_size_band":"Listed company, sold as a platform subscription per location","best_for":"A dental practice that wants the phone system, the texting, the payments and the AI answering to arrive on one bill from one vendor that is old enough to still be there in three years","best_for_short":"Practices that want the phone, the texting, the payments and the AI on one bill","pricing_band":"$$ (platform starts at $199 per month; three plans named Pro, Elite and Ultimate; AI Receptionist is sold on top and its own rate is not published)","score_out_of_94":9,"verdict":"The safest purchase on this page, and the one a practice owner is least likely to regret in 2028. Weave didn't build its voice agent in a hurry. It bought TrueLark on 5 May 2025 for $35 million, $25 million of that in cash and $10 million in equity, and folded an AI receptionist that had already been answering calls for appointment businesses into the phone system dental offices were already renting. That matters because the hardest part of this product category is not the voice. It's the handover between the call and the schedule, and Weave owns both ends of it. The product page states HIPAA compliance and says automatic appointment booking is available for qualified dental practice management systems, which is a narrower promise than the marketing elsewhere on this page makes, and an honest one.","verdict_short":"It owns the phone and the schedule at both ends, and it bought the AI rather than rushing one. From $199 a month.","praise":"Weave publishes a floor price, which almost nobody in dental software does: $199 a month, three named plans. It is a listed company that spent $35 million on this capability rather than bolting a voice model onto an existing dialler. Its own product page gives you the arithmetic for the purchase in three numbers, all of them read on 16 September 2026: one in three calls is missed, 80 percent of missed calls are booking requests, and 47 percent of bookings happen after hours. HIPAA compliance is stated on the page rather than implied, which on this list is unusual enough to be worth a point on its own.","praise_short":"A published $199 floor, a $35 million acquisition behind the AI, and HIPAA stated plainly on the product page.","criticism":"The $199 is the platform, not the AI, and Weave does not publish what AI Receptionist costs on top of it. The page carried a 25 percent discount for the rest of 2026 when it was read on 16 September 2026, which is a sign the list price is a negotiation rather than a rate card. Automatic booking is limited to qualified dental practice management systems and the page names none of them, so a practice on an older on premise Dentrix server has to get that answer from a salesperson. And you are buying a phone system, so this is the wrong entry entirely for a practice that has just signed three years with somebody else.","criticism_short":"The AI price isn't published, the booking integration list isn't named, and you have to change phone provider.","sources_pending":["https://www.getweave.com/pricing/","https://www.getweave.com/features/ai-receptionist/","https://www.getweave.com/press-releases/weave-communications-to-acquire-truelark/"],"risk_signals":{"level":"none","checked":"2026-09-16","summary":"Live product from a listed company. Platform floor price of $199 a month read on getweave.com/pricing on 16 September 2026; product claims and HIPAA statement read on the AI Receptionist feature page the same day; the $35 million TrueLark acquisition and its $25 million cash and $10 million equity split read on Weave's own press release of 5 May 2025. No adverse public signals found.","signals":[]},"price_min":199,"price_max":null,"currency":"USD","free_tier":false,"setup_fee":null,"integrations":["Weave phone system","Weave calendar","qualified dental practice management systems","Weave payments","Weave messaging"],"compliance":["HIPAA"],"regions":["US"],"onboarding_days":14,"min_team_size":1,"max_team_size":null,"facts":"Platform from $199 a month · bought TrueLark for $35m in May 2025 · HIPAA stated on the product page","problems_solved":["nobody answers the phone after 17:00","front desk retypes bookings in the morning"],"personas":["practice owner replacing the phone system anyway","office manager who wants one vendor"],"_entry_api":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-receptionist-dental-office/1","_entry_md":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-receptionist-dental-office/1/md","_anchor":"https://topelevens.com/ai-receptionist-dental-office#rank-1"},{"rank":2,"name":"Dental Intelligence AI Receptionist","url":"https://www.dentalintel.com/ai-receptionist","founded":null,"hq":"Pleasant Grove, Utah","team_size_band":"Add on to the Dental Intelligence Engagement Module","best_for":"A practice already running Dental Intelligence for analytics, that wants the phone answered by something which can already see the schedule, the recall list and the outstanding balance","best_for_short":"Practices already on Dental Intelligence that want the phone answered from inside it","pricing_band":"$$$ (no price published anywhere; sold as an add on to the Engagement Module, so the cost sits two purchases deep)","score_out_of_94":8.9,"verdict":"The entry that names its integrations, which sounds like a low bar until you read the other ten. Dental Intelligence lists Eaglesoft, Dentrix, Dentrix Ascend, Denticon, Fuse and Open Dental by name on its own page, and says the AI Receptionist runs inside Dental Intelligence using data from your practice management system. It launched publicly on 29 June 2026 alongside a product called Explorer, so it is roughly eleven weeks old at the time of writing. What it does with that data is the part worth noticing. It recognises the caller, creates a chart for a new patient, confirms which insurances the practice takes, mentions an outstanding balance and texts a secure payment link during the call. HIPAA, SOC 2 and PCI compliance are all stated on the page.","verdict_short":"Names its six practice management systems by name, takes payment on the call, and is eleven weeks old.","praise":"It knows things a general answering service cannot know. The caller is recognised, the balance is visible, the hygiene recall is visible, and a one time PIN confirms identity before any of that is discussed. Dental Intelligence says more than 10,000 practices use the wider platform and that the average practice increased revenue by $180,000 in its first year, both read on dentalintel.com on 16 September 2026 and both the company's own figures. The AI converses in 70 languages, which for a practice in Queens or Houston is a real operational fact rather than a specification.","praise_short":"Recognises the caller, sees the balance and the recall, takes payment by text, and speaks 70 languages.","criticism":"No price, anywhere, for anything. It is an add on to the Engagement Module of a platform, so the real number is three purchases deep and every one of them is quoted rather than published, which costs it the whole of the 20 percent this rubric puts on readable pricing. Eleven weeks of production is not a track record. The page describes the AI as running inside Dental Intelligence using practice management data and does not state plainly that a booked appointment is written back into Dentrix, so ask that question first and get the answer in writing. And it is the wrong purchase for a practice that does not already want the analytics platform underneath it.","criticism_short":"No published price at any level, eleven weeks old, and write back to the PMS is described rather than stated.","sources_pending":["https://www.dentalintel.com/ai-receptionist","https://www.dentalintel.com/","https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/06/29/3319223/0/en/dental-intelligence-launches-explorer-and-ai-receptionist-bringing-purpose-built-ai-to-dentistry-s-only-end-to-end-practice-performance-platform.html"],"risk_signals":{"level":"none","checked":"2026-09-16","summary":"Live product launched publicly on 29 June 2026 per the company's own GlobeNewswire release, read 16 September 2026. Named practice management compatibility, HIPAA, SOC 2 and PCI statements, the 70 language claim and the 10,000 practice figure all read on dentalintel.com the same day. No price is published. No adverse public signals found.","signals":[]},"price_min":null,"price_max":null,"currency":"USD","free_tier":false,"setup_fee":null,"integrations":["Eaglesoft","Dentrix","Dentrix Ascend","Denticon","Fuse","Open Dental"],"compliance":["HIPAA","SOC 2","PCI"],"regions":["US"],"onboarding_days":14,"min_team_size":1,"max_team_size":null,"facts":"Names six practice management systems · launched 29 June 2026 · HIPAA, SOC 2 and PCI · no published price","problems_solved":["hygiene recall list never gets rung","outstanding balances never asked for on the phone"],"personas":["practice already running Dental Intelligence","group tracking production per chair"],"_entry_api":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-receptionist-dental-office/2","_entry_md":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-receptionist-dental-office/2/md","_anchor":"https://topelevens.com/ai-receptionist-dental-office#rank-2"},{"rank":3,"name":"Arini","url":"https://www.arini.ai/","founded":2024,"hq":"San Francisco, California","team_size_band":"Seed stage, 17 people per its Y Combinator profile","best_for":"A multi location group or DSO that wants one thing done properly, the inbound phone, by a company that does nothing else and will build round the practice's own workflow","best_for_short":"Groups and DSOs that want the phone done properly by a vendor that does nothing else","pricing_band":"$$$ (no price published; every figure comes from a sales conversation)","score_out_of_94":8.7,"verdict":"The purest version of this product, and the one with the thinnest paper trail. Arini came out of Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch, is based in San Francisco, and had 17 people on its Y Combinator profile when that page was read on 16 September 2026. Its founders, Abdul Jamjoom and Rami Rustom, came from Threads. The company's own launch post gives the argument better than any analyst could: a dental front desk misses 35 percent of calls, the front desk spends about six hours a day on the phone, and dentists in the United States spend $7 billion a year on front desk staffing. Nothing else on its site is a specification. It is a wall of customer production figures, which is either the strongest evidence here or the weakest, depending on how much weight you give a number a vendor publishes about its own client.","verdict_short":"One product, done properly, from a 17 person company with no published price and no named integrations.","praise":"Focus is the product. Arini does dental inbound calls and nothing else, and its customer claims are specific enough to check in a reference call rather than vague enough to be safe: Wolfe Dental at $140,000 of added production against 500 missed calls a month, Pearl Street Dental at $342,000 of production value in ten months, Unified Dental Care at 12 percent revenue growth, and a site wide counter reading 1,000,000 booked appointments. All were read on arini.ai on 16 September 2026. A seed stage vendor that will build round your workflow is worth more to a 14 location group than a listed vendor that will not.","praise_short":"Does dental inbound calls and nothing else, and its customer claims are specific enough to check.","criticism":"Arini publishes no price and, on the pages read on 16 September 2026, names no practice management system it integrates with. Third party comparisons list Dentrix, Eaglesoft, Open Dental and Curve; Arini's own homepage lists none of them, and this page prints what the vendor prints. It is a company founded in 2024 with 17 people, which is a real risk for a group signing a three year phone dependency. Every production figure on the site is Arini's own account of its own customer, unaudited. And there is no HIPAA statement on the pages read, which for a vendor handling protected health information is the first question, not the last.","criticism_short":"No published price, no named integrations on its own pages, no HIPAA statement, 17 people, founded 2024.","sources_pending":["https://www.arini.ai/","https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/arini","https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KUK-arini-the-ai-receptionist-for-dentists"],"risk_signals":{"level":"low","checked":"2026-09-16","summary":"Live seed stage company, Y Combinator Winter 2024, San Francisco, 17 people per its Y Combinator profile read 16 September 2026. Customer production figures read on arini.ai the same day and printed here as the vendor's own claims. No price, no named practice management integration and no HIPAA statement on any page read. Risk marked low rather than none because of company age and the absence of a published integration list, not because of any adverse signal.","signals":["Founded 2024, seed stage, 17 people","No published price and no named PMS integration on its own pages"]},"price_min":null,"price_max":null,"currency":"USD","free_tier":false,"setup_fee":null,"integrations":[],"compliance":[],"regions":["US"],"onboarding_days":14,"min_team_size":1,"max_team_size":null,"facts":"Y Combinator Winter 2024 · 17 people · 1,000,000 booked appointments claimed · no published price","problems_solved":["new patient calls lost to the practice down the road","calls going to voicemail during procedures"],"personas":["DSO operations lead","multi location group with a call centre"],"_entry_api":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-receptionist-dental-office/3","_entry_md":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-receptionist-dental-office/3/md","_anchor":"https://topelevens.com/ai-receptionist-dental-office#rank-3"},{"rank":4,"name":"Peerlogic (Aimee)","url":"https://www.peerlogic.com/","founded":null,"hq":"Scottsdale, Arizona","team_size_band":"Dental and veterinary call intelligence platform with a voice and text agent","best_for":"A group that suspects the phone is losing money and wants the evidence before it buys the fix, because Peerlogic counts what the front desk did with every call as well as answering the ones nobody picks up","best_for_short":"Groups that want the phone measured and coached, not only answered","pricing_band":"$$$ (no price published; demo and sales call only)","score_out_of_94":8.4,"verdict":"The only entry here that treats the phone as a number to be managed rather than a job to be removed. Aimee answers calls, texts back the ones that were missed, books appointments and then reports on what happened, and the reporting is the part Peerlogic sells hardest. Its case figures, read on peerlogic.com on 16 September 2026, are the most legible on this page: 144 appointments worth $47,088 recovered from calls that were never answered, 311 appointments booked across six locations at one Florida group, 38 percent fewer missed appointments and an average $16,000 increase in production. Those are Peerlogic's own customer figures. For a practice owner who cannot yet say how many calls went unanswered last Tuesday, that measurement is worth more than the agent.","verdict_short":"Answers the phone and then counts it. The clearest published case figures on this page, all its own.","praise":"Measurement first is the right instinct in a practice that has never seen its own call data. Aimee covers voice and text rather than voice alone, which matters because a patient who rings at 20:00 and gets a text back at 20:01 is recovered by the text, not the call. Peerlogic serves veterinary practices as well as dental, so the same call patterns have been tested on a second appointment business. The missed call follow up is the highest value single feature on this page and Peerlogic leads with it.","praise_short":"Measures the phone, follows up missed calls by text, and tested on dental and veterinary both.","criticism":"No published price. The site says Peerlogic is built to integrate with most major practice management systems and then names none of them, so the 35 percent of this rubric that rides on booking into the chair schedule is being taken on trust. Analytics products have a way of becoming dashboards nobody opens after month three, and a practice buying this for the reporting should ask who on the team is contracted to read it. It is also the wrong entry for a single location office with six calls a day, where the measurement will tell you something you already know.","criticism_short":"No published price, names no practice management system, and the reporting needs somebody paid to read it.","sources_pending":["https://www.peerlogic.com/","https://www.peerlogic.com/aimee"],"risk_signals":{"level":"none","checked":"2026-09-16","summary":"Live product. Aimee's voice and text capability, the missed call follow up and every case figure printed here were read on peerlogic.com and peerlogic.com/aimee on 16 September 2026 and are the vendor's own customer claims. No price published and no practice management system named on either page. No adverse public signals found.","signals":[]},"price_min":null,"price_max":null,"currency":"USD","free_tier":false,"setup_fee":null,"integrations":[],"compliance":[],"regions":["US"],"onboarding_days":14,"min_team_size":1,"max_team_size":null,"facts":"Voice and text agent · $47,088 recovered from 144 missed call appointments, its own figure · no price","problems_solved":["no idea how many calls were missed last week"],"personas":["owner who suspects the phone is the leak","regional manager over six locations"],"_entry_api":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-receptionist-dental-office/4","_entry_md":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-receptionist-dental-office/4/md","_anchor":"https://topelevens.com/ai-receptionist-dental-office#rank-4"},{"rank":5,"name":"Adit AI Front Desk","url":"https://adit.com/ai-front-desk","founded":null,"hq":"Houston, Texas","team_size_band":"Dental practice platform with an AI front desk module","best_for":"A practice on an unusual or older practice management system, because Adit publishes the longest compatibility list read anywhere this run and includes the systems most vendors quietly skip","best_for_short":"Practices on older or unusual practice management systems that other vendors skip","pricing_band":"$ to $$ (no rate card; the page was running a free AI Front Desk for life offer with signup when it was read)","score_out_of_94":8.1,"verdict":"The widest compatibility list and the loosest commercial terms, in the same product. Adit names fifteen practice management systems on its own page: Dentrix, Dentrix Ascend, Eaglesoft, Open Dental, Dolphin, CareStream, Jane, OrthoTrac, PracticeWorks, RevolutionEHR, Crystal PM, Curve, Easy Dental, AbelDent and ChiroTouch. If your practice runs OrthoTrac or AbelDent, that list is the reason to make this call first. Alongside the AI Front Desk sits AI Call Intelligence, which listens to calls and flags bookings the team lost. The commercial side is where it gets strange. On 16 September 2026 the page offered free AI Front Desk for life, free phones and VoIP for life, and Amazon gift cards of $25 and $50 for taking a demo.","verdict_short":"Fifteen named practice management systems, and a commercial offer that tells you what the sales motion is.","praise":"Nobody else read this run names fifteen systems. Adit also covers the awkward middle of dentistry, orthodontics on Dolphin and OrthoTrac, chiropractic on ChiroTouch, where the specialist vendors stop. The AI Call Intelligence layer that reviews calls for lost bookings is the same idea Peerlogic charges for, bundled. A practice that has been told by three vendors that its system isn't supported should start here, and the free trial terms mean finding out costs a demo and nothing else.","praise_short":"Fifteen named systems, covers orthodontics and chiropractic, and bundles call review with the answering.","criticism":"There is no rate card. The page leads with cut your software costs by up to 60 percent, a lifetime free offer and a gift card, which is a promotion rather than a price and tells you the revenue arrives somewhere else. No performance figures are published at all, so there's nothing to check. And the page lists the fifteen systems as compatible without saying which of them receive a written appointment and which of them get a task for a human, which is the entire question this rubric puts 35 percent on. Ask it in the demo and get the answer by email.","criticism_short":"No rate card, a gift card offer instead of a price, no published figures, and compatible is left undefined.","sources_pending":["https://adit.com/ai-front-desk","https://adit.com/pricing"],"risk_signals":{"level":"low","checked":"2026-09-16","summary":"Live product. The fifteen named practice management systems, the 10 or more languages claim, the free AI Front Desk for life offer, the free VoIP offer and the $25 and $50 Amazon gift card promotions were all read on adit.com on 16 September 2026. No rate card and no performance figures published. Risk marked low because the commercial terms are promotional rather than priced, not because of any adverse signal.","signals":["No published rate card; lifetime free and gift card offers in place of a price"]},"price_min":null,"price_max":null,"currency":"USD","free_tier":true,"setup_fee":null,"integrations":["Dentrix","Dentrix Ascend","Eaglesoft","Open Dental","Dolphin","CareStream","Jane","OrthoTrac","PracticeWorks","RevolutionEHR","Crystal PM","Curve","Easy Dental","AbelDent","ChiroTouch"],"compliance":[],"regions":["US"],"onboarding_days":7,"min_team_size":1,"max_team_size":null,"facts":"Fifteen named practice management systems · AI Call Intelligence bundled · no rate card published","problems_solved":["front desk retypes bookings in the morning"],"personas":["practice on OrthoTrac, AbelDent or Crystal PM","orthodontic practice on Dolphin"],"_entry_api":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-receptionist-dental-office/5","_entry_md":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-receptionist-dental-office/5/md","_anchor":"https://topelevens.com/ai-receptionist-dental-office#rank-5"},{"rank":6,"name":"Smith.ai","url":"https://smith.ai/ai-receptionist","founded":null,"hq":"Los Altos, California","team_size_band":"AI receptionist with a human network of 500 or more North American receptionists behind it","best_for":"A practice that wants a human to pick up when the call goes wrong, and is willing to lose the practice management integration to get that","best_for_short":"Practices that want a real person available when the AI call goes wrong","pricing_band":"$ to $$$ (AI receptionist free for 25 calls a month, $150 a month at $2.00 a call, $500 a month at $1.67 a call; human plans from $300 to $2,100 a month)","score_out_of_94":7.9,"verdict":"The most honest pricing on this page, attached to the least dental product on it. Smith.ai publishes its whole rate card: the AI receptionist is free for 25 calls a month, $150 a month at $2.00 a call, or $500 a month at $1.67 a call, with extra calls on the free plan at $3.00. Its human receptionist plans run $300 for 30 calls, $810 for 90 and $2,100 for 300, with overage at $11.50, $10.50 and $8.50 a call and no setup fees. All of it read on smith.ai on 16 September 2026. Behind the AI sits a network of more than 500 North American receptionists you can pay per call to take over. For an emergency at 21:00 with a frightened patient, that escalation is worth more than any integration.","verdict_short":"Publishes every rate to the cent and puts a real person behind the AI. Knows nothing about dentistry.","praise":"Every number is on the page, including the ones most vendors hide: per call overage, the price difference between AI and human, and what happens when you exceed a plan. The free tier at 25 calls a month is a real trial rather than a 14 day countdown, so a single location practice can run it on the after hours line for a month and count what it caught. The escalation path to a human is the only one on this list, and it is priced per call rather than bundled into a retainer.","praise_short":"Every rate published to the cent, a real free tier at 25 calls, and a human you can escalate to per call.","criticism":"The native integrations read on 16 September 2026 are Clio Grow, Clio Manage, Salesforce and HubSpot. Those are law firm and sales tools. There is no dental practice management system on the list, so a booked appointment arrives as a calendar entry or a Zapier step and somebody types it into Dentrix. Dental is not among the industries named on the page, and neither HIPAA compliance nor a business associate agreement is stated on the pages read, which a dental practice needs before the agent hears a patient's name. On the rubric's heaviest criterion, this entry scores near the floor.","criticism_short":"Built for law firms. No dental PMS integration, no dental industry page, and no HIPAA statement read.","sources_pending":["https://smith.ai/ai-receptionist","https://smith.ai/pricing"],"risk_signals":{"level":"none","checked":"2026-09-16","summary":"Live product with the full rate card for both the AI receptionist and the human receptionist plans read on smith.ai on 16 September 2026. Native integrations named on the page are Clio Grow, Clio Manage, Salesforce and HubSpot, with 5,000 or more apps via Zapier and Make. No dental practice management integration, no dental industry page and no HIPAA or business associate agreement statement on the pages read. No adverse public signals found.","signals":[]},"price_min":0,"price_max":2100,"currency":"USD","free_tier":true,"setup_fee":0,"integrations":["Clio Grow","Clio Manage","Salesforce","HubSpot","Zapier","Make"],"compliance":[],"regions":["US"],"onboarding_days":3,"min_team_size":1,"max_team_size":null,"facts":"AI free to 25 calls, then $150 or $500 a month · human plans $300 to $2,100 · no dental PMS","problems_solved":["an emergency at 21:00 with nowhere to go"],"personas":["owner who wants a human backstop","practice that fears an AI on a distressed caller"],"_entry_api":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-receptionist-dental-office/6","_entry_md":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-receptionist-dental-office/6/md","_anchor":"https://topelevens.com/ai-receptionist-dental-office#rank-6"},{"rank":7,"name":"RingCentral AI Receptionist (AIR)","url":"https://www.ringcentral.com/ai-receptionist.html","founded":null,"hq":"Belmont, California","team_size_band":"Add on to a listed business phone platform, or standalone","best_for":"A practice that already runs RingCentral and wants to replace the phone tree with something that speaks, for $39 a month, without changing anything else","best_for_short":"Practices already on RingCentral that want to retire the phone tree cheaply","pricing_band":"$ ($49 a month standalone with 100 minutes, $39 a month as a RingEX add on with 100 minutes, then $0.50 a minute)","score_out_of_94":7.6,"verdict":"The cheapest way to stop a patient hearing press 1 for appointments, and the clearest pricing page on this list. RingCentral publishes $49 a month standalone including 100 minutes, or $39 a month as an add on to RingEX with the same 100 minutes, with usage beyond that at $0.50 a minute billed in 30 second increments, and a 14 day free trial. All read on ringcentral.com on 16 September 2026. It answers around the clock, resolves routine questions, routes with context, captures intake and books appointments into Google or Outlook calendars. Healthcare is one of the industries named on the page. For a two chair practice replacing an auto attendant, this is a rational $39.","verdict_short":"The clearest price here: $39 a month with RingEX, 100 minutes, then 50 cents. Books into a calendar, not a chair.","praise":"Every number a buyer needs sits on one page: the standalone rate, the add on rate, the included minutes, the overage, the billing increment and the trial length. It comes from a listed company with a support organisation, which for a practice manager who does not want a startup's Slack channel is the point. Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho, Google Calendar and Outlook are named integrations, and the agent switches language mid conversation.","praise_short":"Published rate, published overage, published billing increment, and a listed company behind the support desk.","criticism":"100 minutes is about 25 calls of four minutes. A practice taking 40 calls a day at four minutes a call burns the 100 minutes before lunch on the first day. Across 21 working days that is about 3,400 minutes, and 3,300 of them bill at $0.50, so the $39 line item is closer to $1,700. That arithmetic is mine, from RingCentral's published rate and a stated call volume, not a figure RingCentral publishes. Nothing on the integration list touches a dental practice management system, so bookings land in a Google or Outlook calendar and the front desk retypes them into Dentrix in the morning. Healthcare is named as an industry, but no dental workflow is, and the page read carries no HIPAA statement. It is a better phone tree, not a receptionist.","criticism_short":"100 minutes runs out fast, bookings land in a calendar not the chair schedule, and no HIPAA statement.","sources_pending":["https://www.ringcentral.com/ai-receptionist.html","https://www.ringcentral.com/pricing/ai-receptionist.html"],"risk_signals":{"level":"none","checked":"2026-09-16","summary":"Live product from a listed company. The $49 standalone rate, the $39 RingEX add on rate, 100 included minutes, $0.50 a minute overage, 30 second billing increments and the 14 day trial were read on ringcentral.com/pricing/ai-receptionist.html on 16 September 2026. Named integrations are Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho, Google Calendar and Outlook. No dental practice management integration and no HIPAA statement on the pages read. No adverse public signals found.","signals":[]},"price_min":39,"price_max":49,"currency":"USD","free_tier":false,"setup_fee":null,"integrations":["Salesforce","HubSpot","Zoho","Google Calendar","Microsoft Outlook"],"compliance":[],"regions":["US"],"onboarding_days":1,"min_team_size":1,"max_team_size":null,"facts":"$39 a month with RingEX, 100 minutes, $0.50 a minute after · books into Google or Outlook only","problems_solved":["nobody answers the phone after 17:00"],"personas":["practice already on RingCentral","two chair practice retiring a phone tree"],"_entry_api":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-receptionist-dental-office/7","_entry_md":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-receptionist-dental-office/7/md","_anchor":"https://topelevens.com/ai-receptionist-dental-office#rank-7"},{"rank":8,"name":"Goodcall","url":"https://www.goodcall.com/","founded":null,"hq":"San Francisco, California","team_size_band":"Standalone AI phone agent, priced per agent","best_for":"A practice with long calls and few callers, because Goodcall meters unique customers rather than minutes and a twelve minute insurance conversation costs the same as a two minute one","best_for_short":"Practices with long calls and a modest number of callers, because it meters people not minutes","pricing_band":"$ ($79, $129 or $249 per agent per month, or $66, $108 and $208 billed annually)","score_out_of_94":7.3,"verdict":"The only meter on this page that charges by the person rather than the minute, which is the right shape for dentistry and the wrong shape for a busy practice. Goodcall publishes Starter at $79 a month per agent, Growth at $129 and Scale at $249, or $66, $108 and $208 billed annually at a 15 percent discount, all read on goodcall.com on 16 September 2026. Minutes are unlimited. The cap is unique customers a month: 100, 250 and 500, with $0.50 for each one beyond. A dental call about a crown and an insurance plan runs long, so unlimited minutes suits it. A practice with 600 distinct callers a month is on the Scale plan and paying overage regardless.","verdict_short":"Unlimited minutes, metered on unique callers. Right shape for long dental calls, wrong for high volume.","praise":"Unlimited minutes removes the anxiety that ruins every per minute plan, where the front desk starts wishing patients would hurry up. The three tiers are published monthly and annually, with the discount stated as a percentage rather than implied. Logic flows scale from 1 to 25 across the tiers and team members from 3 to 50, so the same product fits a single practice and a small group. Overage is $0.50 a customer, which is legible.","praise_short":"Unlimited minutes, three published tiers monthly and annually, and overage stated at 50 cents a caller.","criticism":"The named integrations are Zapier and Google Voice. Zapier does not reach a Dentrix install running on a server in the back office, so for most practices the booking does not arrive in the chair schedule at all. The industries named on the pricing page are salons, business process outsourcing and general appointment scheduling; dental is not among them and nothing in the product knows what hygiene recall means. No HIPAA statement was found on the pages read. On this rubric it loses most of the 35 percent and all of the 15 percent.","criticism_short":"Zapier and Google Voice only, nothing dental in the product, and no HIPAA statement on the pages read.","sources_pending":["https://www.goodcall.com/pricing"],"risk_signals":{"level":"none","checked":"2026-09-16","summary":"Live product. Monthly rates of $79, $129 and $249 per agent, annual rates of $66, $108 and $208, unlimited minutes, unique customer caps of 100, 250 and 500 with $0.50 overage, and Zapier and Google Voice as the named integrations were all read on goodcall.com/pricing on 16 September 2026. No dental practice management integration and no HIPAA statement on the pages read. No adverse public signals found.","signals":[]},"price_min":66,"price_max":249,"currency":"USD","free_tier":false,"setup_fee":null,"integrations":["Zapier","Google Voice"],"compliance":[],"regions":["US"],"onboarding_days":1,"min_team_size":1,"max_team_size":null,"facts":"$79 to $249 per agent a month · unlimited minutes, 100 to 500 unique callers · Zapier only","problems_solved":["calls going to voicemail during procedures"],"personas":["practice with long insurance calls","owner who hates per minute meters"],"_entry_api":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-receptionist-dental-office/8","_entry_md":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-receptionist-dental-office/8/md","_anchor":"https://topelevens.com/ai-receptionist-dental-office#rank-8"},{"rank":9,"name":"Rosie","url":"https://www.heyrosie.com/","founded":null,"hq":null,"team_size_band":"Standalone AI answering service for small businesses","best_for":"A single location practice that wants the after hours line covered for $49 a month and is content with a message, a transcript and a booking link","best_for_short":"Single practices that want the after hours line covered for $49 and will take a message","pricing_band":"$ ($49 a month for 250 minutes, $149 for 1,000, $299 for 2,000; website texting a further $50)","score_out_of_94":7,"verdict":"The cheapest credible way to stop a voicemail greeting losing patients overnight. Rosie publishes three plans, read on heyrosie.com on 16 September 2026: Professional at $49 a month for 250 minutes, Scale at $149 for 1,000, and Growth at $299 for 2,000, with a website texting add on at $50 a month covering 25 conversations and $1 each after that. It answers in English and Spanish, filters spam, sends a transcript and a summary, and can send the caller a scheduling link. Its own counters say it has handled 3.1 million calls for more than 2,000 businesses. For a two dentist practice whose current after hours plan is an answering machine, $49 is a small experiment with a real upside.","verdict_short":"$49 a month for 250 minutes, English and Spanish, and a scheduling link rather than a booking.","praise":"The price is published, the minute allowances are published, and the entry tier is low enough that a practice can test it on the out of hours line without a purchase order. English and Spanish are both covered at every tier. Transcripts, recordings and summaries arrive by email, text and app, so the morning huddle can see what the phone did at 21:00 without asking anyone.","praise_short":"Published prices from $49, English and Spanish at every tier, transcripts and summaries by email and text.","criticism":"It sends a scheduling link. It does not book. The gap between those two things is the difference between a patient who arrives and a patient who meant to. Zapier is the only named integration route, and no practice management system is named anywhere. Rosie's own site names plumbing, HVAC, construction, accounting, real estate, law, property management and electricians as the sectors it serves, and no healthcare of any kind, which is consistent with the absence of any HIPAA statement on the pages read. At 250 minutes it also runs out fast in a practice with real call volume.","criticism_short":"Sends a scheduling link rather than booking, names no healthcare sector, and no HIPAA statement read.","sources_pending":["https://www.heyrosie.com/pricing","https://www.heyrosie.com/"],"risk_signals":{"level":"none","checked":"2026-09-16","summary":"Live product. The $49, $149 and $299 plans, their 250, 1,000 and 2,000 minute allowances, the $50 website texting add on with 25 conversations and $1 per conversation after, the English and Spanish support, the Zapier integration and the 3.1 million calls and 2,000 or more businesses counters were all read on heyrosie.com on 16 September 2026. No healthcare sector named and no HIPAA statement on the pages read. No adverse public signals found.","signals":[]},"price_min":49,"price_max":299,"currency":"USD","free_tier":false,"setup_fee":null,"integrations":["Zapier"],"compliance":[],"regions":["US"],"onboarding_days":1,"min_team_size":1,"max_team_size":null,"facts":"$49 for 250 minutes · English and Spanish · sends a scheduling link, does not book the chair","problems_solved":["nobody answers the phone after 17:00","patients calling in Spanish get a callback instead of a booking"],"personas":["single location practice on a small budget","owner testing the idea for a month"],"_entry_api":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-receptionist-dental-office/9","_entry_md":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-receptionist-dental-office/9/md","_anchor":"https://topelevens.com/ai-receptionist-dental-office#rank-9"},{"rank":10,"name":"My AI Front Desk","url":"https://www.myaifrontdesk.com/","founded":null,"hq":null,"team_size_band":"Standalone AI receptionist sold as one bundle","best_for":"An owner who wants the phone, the website chat and the text follow up from one $99 subscription and has the patience to wire it up themselves","best_for_short":"Owners who want phone, web chat and texting in one $99 bundle and will wire it up themselves","pricing_band":"$ ($99 a month, or $79 billed annually, including 200 voice minutes, 100 chat conversations and 400 texts)","score_out_of_94":6.8,"verdict":"The widest bundle for the lowest published price, and the smallest minute allowance on this page. My AI Front Desk publishes Business in a Box at $99 a month, or $79 a month billed annually, and what you get for it is unusually well itemised: 200 voice minutes, 100 chatbot conversations, 400 text messages, 20 outbound calls a day, 500 email drafts and 300 website form submissions. Overage is $0.25 a voice minute, $0.04 a text and $0.05 a chat conversation. All read on myaifrontdesk.com on 16 September 2026. For a practice that wants the website chat and the phone answered by the same thing, on one invoice, this is the only entry that does it under $100.","verdict_short":"Phone, web chat, texting and email drafts in one $99 bundle, with 200 voice minutes to share between them.","praise":"The itemisation is the best on this page. Most vendors publish a price and leave the buyer to discover the limits; this one states six allowances and three overage rates on the pricing page. Voice, chat and text arriving on one bill removes the usual small practice problem of three subscriptions doing one job. Therapy practices are among the named industries, so the product has at least been pointed at a clinical appointment book.","praise_short":"Six allowances and three overage rates published, and voice, chat and text on one invoice.","criticism":"200 voice minutes is roughly 50 calls of four minutes, which a busy practice will spend in a week, and then it is $0.25 a minute. Zapier arrives only on the Business plan and the API only on Enterprise, so the integration work is yours. No dental practice management system is named, dentistry is not among the listed industries, and no HIPAA statement appears on the pages read. This is a capable general answering product being asked to do a clinical job, and it sits tenth for that reason rather than because anything about it is poor.","criticism_short":"200 minutes is the smallest allowance here, no dental system named, and no HIPAA statement read.","sources_pending":["https://www.myaifrontdesk.com/pricing"],"risk_signals":{"level":"none","checked":"2026-09-16","summary":"Live product. The $99 monthly and $79 annual rates, the 200 voice minute, 100 chatbot conversation, 400 SMS, 20 outbound call a day, 500 email draft and 300 form submission allowances, and the $0.25 a minute, $0.04 a message and $0.05 a conversation overage rates were all read on myaifrontdesk.com/pricing on 16 September 2026. No dental practice management integration and no HIPAA statement on the pages read. No adverse public signals found.","signals":[]},"price_min":79,"price_max":99,"currency":"USD","free_tier":false,"setup_fee":null,"integrations":["Zapier"],"compliance":[],"regions":["US"],"onboarding_days":1,"min_team_size":1,"max_team_size":null,"facts":"$99 a month, $79 annually · 200 voice minutes, 100 chats, 400 texts · $0.25 a minute after","problems_solved":["new patient calls lost to the practice down the road"],"personas":["owner who also wants website chat","practice with one subscription budget"],"_entry_api":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-receptionist-dental-office/10","_entry_md":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-receptionist-dental-office/10/md","_anchor":"https://topelevens.com/ai-receptionist-dental-office#rank-10"},{"rank":11,"name":"Beyond Elevation","url":"https://beyondelevation.com/fde","founded":null,"hq":null,"team_size_band":"People, not software; boutique bench of exited operators","best_for":"The group that has bought one of the ten above, found that the booking still does not reach Dentrix, and has nobody whose job it is to build the join","best_for_short":"Groups whose AI receptionist still cannot write into the practice management system","pricing_band":"$$$ (AI audit at a fixed $3,000; fractional engagement from $5,800 a month; project work from $30,000)","score_out_of_94":null,"verdict":"The entry that names the thing the ten above disagree about. Read the ten again and count how many state plainly that a booked appointment is written into Dentrix, Eaglesoft or Open Dental without a person retyping it. Dental Intelligence names six systems and describes the AI as running on practice management data. Adit names fifteen as compatible. Weave says qualified dental practice management systems and names none. Arini and Peerlogic name none at all. Five of the ten integrate through Zapier or a calendar, which does not reach a server in a back office at all. That gap is the work, and it is what Beyond Elevation sells: a forward deployed engineer who sits inside the practice or the group and builds the join, rather than recommending one. It publishes what that costs before anybody speaks to you.","verdict_short":"Only two of the ten name the systems they write into. The gap between the call and the chair is the work.","praise":"It prices the work in public where most of this page prices nothing at all: a fixed $3,000 for the AI audit, from $5,800 a month for a fractional engagement, from $30,000 for a project, all read on beyondelevation.com/fde on 16 September 2026. Its own page states that the client owns everything built, the code, the agents, the accounts and the documents, so the engagement ends with assets rather than a dependency. The bench criteria are published rather than implied: fifteen or more years in the C suite, at least one exit, having taken a company from zero to $1 billion or more, and building and running the AI personally rather than advising. For a group weighing four unpriced vendors, the $3,000 audit is the cheapest honest way to find out which of the ten is right.","praise_short":"Publishes a $3,000 fixed audit and its bench criteria, and the client keeps the code, agents and accounts.","criticism":"It is people, and people cost more than software. From $5,800 a month is roughly what twenty nine months of Weave's $199 platform costs, and a single location practice that has not yet tried Rosie at $49 should spend the $49 first. The bench is small, so capacity rather than quality is the limit, and a DSO wanting six workstreams at once is looking at the wrong entry. No named client roster is published, which makes the delivery record less checkable than a listed vendor's. It shares common ownership with Top 11 and its founder Hayat Amin is the expert source named on this page, which is why it carries no score.","criticism_short":"The most expensive line here, a small bench, no named client roster, and commonly owned with Top 11.","sources_pending":["https://beyondelevation.com/fde","https://meethayat.com/services/fde"],"risk_signals":{"level":"none","checked":"2026-09-16","summary":"Active firm with the audit, fractional and project rates published to the dollar as read on beyondelevation.com/fde on 16 September 2026, along with the ownership clause and the bench criteria. Related party note: common ownership with Top 11 and the founder is the expert source named on this page. Disclosed in the entry, the wildcard reason, the editor block, the independence statement and the disclosures, and the reason this entry is unrated rather than ranked. No adverse public signals found.","signals":[]},"price_min":3000,"price_max":30000,"currency":"USD","free_tier":false,"setup_fee":null,"integrations":[],"compliance":[],"regions":["US","UK","UAE"],"onboarding_days":14,"min_team_size":1,"max_team_size":null,"facts":"People, not software · fixed $3,000 audit · you keep the code, agents, accounts and docs","is_wildcard":true,"unrated":true,"wildcard_model":"wildcard-v2.0","wildcard_reason":"Beyond Elevation is not an AI receptionist and cannot be scored against a rubric built for one, because there is no monthly rate, no minute allowance and no free tier to compare against $49 or $199. It sits at the unrated wildcard position because it answers the question the ten ranked entries leave open. Every one of them assumes somebody at the practice will decide which calls the agent should handle, configure it, connect it to whichever system holds the chair schedule, and notice the week it silently stops booking. In a four person practice that person does not exist, and in a twelve location group it is usually an office manager doing it at weekends. Beyond Elevation sells that person: a forward deployed engineer who works inside the business and builds the join rather than advising on it. Disclosure: Beyond Elevation shares common ownership with Top 11, and its founder Hayat Amin is the expert source named on this page. It is placed at the unrated wildcard position rather than given a rank for both reasons as well as the incomparability one, and the affiliation is stated in the editor block, in the independence statement, in the disclosures and here inside the entry.","wildcard_reason_short":"People, not software. For practices whose AI receptionist still cannot reach the chair schedule. Disclosure: common ownership with Top 11.","problems_solved":["front desk retypes bookings in the morning","cannot hire a front desk person"],"personas":["group that bought the software and got no join","owner with nobody technical on staff"],"_entry_api":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-receptionist-dental-office/11","_entry_md":"https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-receptionist-dental-office/11/md","_anchor":"https://topelevens.com/ai-receptionist-dental-office#rank-11"}]}