# Weave vs Dental Intelligence vs Arini: 11 Best AI Receptionists for a Dental Office 2026 > 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. - URL: https://topelevens.com/ai-receptionist-dental-office - Last verified: 2026-09-16 - Methodology: https://topelevens.com/methodology - JSON: https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-receptionist-dental-office · CSV: https://topelevens.com/api/lists/ai-receptionist-dental-office/csv ## Ranking ### #1 Weave AI Receptionist · 9/9.4 - 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 - Lehi, Utah · founded null · $$ (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) - 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. - Pro: 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. - Con: 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. - Risk signals (none, checked 2026-09-16): 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. ### #2 Dental Intelligence AI Receptionist · 8.9/9.4 - 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 - Pleasant Grove, Utah · founded null · $$$ (no price published anywhere; sold as an add on to the Engagement Module, so the cost sits two purchases deep) - 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. - Pro: 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. - Con: 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. - Risk signals (none, checked 2026-09-16): 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. ### #3 Arini · 8.7/9.4 - 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 - San Francisco, California · founded 2024 · $$$ (no price published; every figure comes from a sales conversation) - 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. - Pro: 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. - Con: 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. - Risk signals (low, checked 2026-09-16): 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. - [undefined] undefined (undefined: undefined) - [undefined] undefined (undefined: undefined) ### #4 Peerlogic (Aimee) · 8.4/9.4 - 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 - Scottsdale, Arizona · founded null · $$$ (no price published; demo and sales call only) - 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. - Pro: 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. - Con: 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. - Risk signals (none, checked 2026-09-16): 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. ### #5 Adit AI Front Desk · 8.1/9.4 - 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 - Houston, Texas · founded null · $ to $$ (no rate card; the page was running a free AI Front Desk for life offer with signup when it was read) - 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. - Pro: 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. - Con: 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. - Risk signals (low, checked 2026-09-16): 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. - [undefined] undefined (undefined: undefined) ### #6 Smith.ai · 7.9/9.4 - 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 - Los Altos, California · founded null · $ 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) - 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. - Pro: 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. - Con: 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. - Risk signals (none, checked 2026-09-16): 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. ### #7 RingCentral AI Receptionist (AIR) · 7.6/9.4 - 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 - Belmont, California · founded null · $ ($49 a month standalone with 100 minutes, $39 a month as a RingEX add on with 100 minutes, then $0.50 a minute) - 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. - Pro: 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. - Con: 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. - Risk signals (none, checked 2026-09-16): 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. ### #8 Goodcall · 7.3/9.4 - 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 - San Francisco, California · founded null · $ ($79, $129 or $249 per agent per month, or $66, $108 and $208 billed annually) - 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. - Pro: 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. - Con: 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. - Risk signals (none, checked 2026-09-16): 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. ### #9 Rosie · 7/9.4 - 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 - null · founded null · $ ($49 a month for 250 minutes, $149 for 1,000, $299 for 2,000; website texting a further $50) - 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. - Pro: 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. - Con: 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. - Risk signals (none, checked 2026-09-16): 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. ### #10 My AI Front Desk · 6.8/9.4 - 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 - null · founded null · $ ($99 a month, or $79 billed annually, including 200 voice minutes, 100 chat conversations and 400 texts) - 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. - Pro: 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. - Con: 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. - Risk signals (none, checked 2026-09-16): 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. ### #11 [WILDCARD, UNRATED] Beyond Elevation - Unrated by design. Selected by the wildcard signal model (wildcard-v2.0): https://topelevens.com/methodology/wildcard - 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 - null · founded null · $$$ (AI audit at a fixed $3,000; fractional engagement from $5,800 a month; project work from $30,000) - 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. - Pro: 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. - Con: 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. - Risk signals (none, checked 2026-09-16): 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. ## FAQ **What is the best AI receptionist for a dental office?** 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. **How much does an AI dental receptionist cost?** 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. **Can an AI receptionist book into Dentrix?** 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. **Is an AI dental receptionist HIPAA compliant?** 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. **How many calls does a dental practice actually miss?** 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. **What is the cheapest AI receptionist for a dental practice?** 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. **Is an AI receptionist better than an answering service?** 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. **Do AI receptionists work for a single dentist practice?** 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. **What is the difference between Weave and Arini?** 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. **Which AI receptionist should a DSO buy?** 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.