AI Receptionist UK With Unlimited Minutes

Jodie costs £49, £99 or £199 a month ex VAT, with unlimited minutes (fair use up to 1,000 calls a month) and no per-call fees on every plan. Most other UK AI receptionists sell a monthly bundle and charge for what you use beyond it: IONOS starts at £39 for 30 calls, then £0.49 a call (checked October 2026). A bundle is cheaper if you get very few calls, and a flat plan is cheaper once you are busy.

An AI receptionist, sometimes sold as an AI answering service, answers your business phone in a natural voice, talks with the caller, takes their details or books an appointment, and sends you the message. Jodie does this 24/7 for UK small businesses, using what she learns from your website or Google Business Profile, and emails you a summary with the recording and transcript after every call.

Jodie has no free plan, but the first 7 days are free and you do not need a card to start. If you do not choose a plan when the trial ends, the service pauses and nothing is charged. After that every plan is month to month, with no setup fee.

If you miss calls because you are on a job, with a customer or closed for the evening, it usually is: one extra booked job a month will often cover £49. If every call is already answered within a few rings by someone who can book the work, you probably do not need one.

It can take over the phone side of the job: Jodie answers every call 24/7, takes messages and, on Professional, books appointments and puts urgent callers through. She cannot greet visitors or do work away from the phone. Our receptionist cost calculator sets the hourly wage of a receptionist against a Jodie plan.

A virtual receptionist is usually a person at an agency who answers your calls remotely and bills by the minute or the call. An AI receptionist, sometimes called an AI virtual receptionist, is software that does the same job at any hour, and Jodie does it for one flat monthly fee. The table above shows where each one wins.

That is up to you: her opening line can tell callers the call may be answered by an AI assistant and may be recorded, a notice some businesses are required to give. Either way, Jodie speaks naturally, greets callers with your business name and asks follow-up questions instead of reading out a menu.

She takes a message with the caller's details and their question and sends it to you straight away by email and in the Jodie app, so you can call back. On Professional and Premium you can also set rules that put certain callers straight through to you or a colleague.

Yes, on most networks: you divert calls to Jodie when you want her to answer, all the time, after hours or only when you do not pick up. Our guides cover 78 UK networks and phone providers, with the code or settings wherever the network publishes them, and switching off takes a minute. A few, such as Lebara, do not allow diverts to another number.

Jodie AI Limited is registered with the ICO (ZB977748) and handles your call data as a processor under UK GDPR and our data processing addendum. Recordings and transcripts are processed in Ireland and the United States with UK transfer safeguards in place, and you can switch recording or transcription off.

Most businesses are live in under 10 minutes. Jodie reads your website or Google Business Profile, you check what she has learned and add the questions you want asked, make a test call, then divert your calls to her number.

Yes, on the Professional and Premium plans. She offers your available times and books the appointment while the caller is on the line, and puts the callers you choose straight through to you or a colleague. The Basic plan answers and takes messages.