How much does an AI receptionist cost for a law firm?

An AI receptionist for a law firm costs from $19.96/mo billed annually for 30 calls at Aira to $199/mo for unlimited inbound calls at NextPhone, and Smith.ai has a free tier of 25 calls a month. Services that keep live receptionists behind the AI start at $65/mo pay-as-you-go at Posh and $164/mo for 50 minutes at Abby Connect. Every tool below has a law-firm or legal-intake page on its own site; prices were read there on October 31, 2026 and link to the listing in Client Intake, Lead Response & AI Receptionists.

Pure AI receptionists

• Aira: $19.96/mo billed annually for 30 calls and 1 user, $1.50 per extra call (monthly billing from $24.95). Asks the firm's intake questions, routes urgent calls, books through connected calendars and sends an intake summary.
• Sona by Quo: Tier 1 $0, with 10 calls a month included in every Quo phone plan (Quo Starter is $19/user/mo monthly or $15/user/mo billed yearly); Tier 2 is $25/mo for 40 calls. An AI agent inside a business phone system, billed per call.
• Goodcall: $79/mo for 100 unique callers with unlimited minutes; $129/mo for 250, $249/mo for 500. Case-specific intake questions per practice area, routing and scheduling, with a 14-day trial; Clio, MyCase and Zapier listed.
• My AI Front Desk: $99/mo billed monthly or $79/mo billed annually for 200 voice minutes. Phone receptionist plus web chatbot, texting agent and an AI website builder for law firms; Clio, MyCase, Lawmatics and Litify listed.
• Smith.ai: Free $0/mo for 25 calls, then $3.00/call; Pro $150/mo for 75 calls; Enterprise $500/mo. Screens callers, runs intake questions, books consultations and lets the firm run simulated test calls first; Clio, MyCase and PracticePanther listed.
• NextPhone: Pro $199/mo or $1,990/yr; Growth $299/mo, where the Clio, MyCase and Lawmatics integrations start; Scale $599/mo. Unlimited inbound calls, no per-minute or setup fees, 7-day trial.
• Hona: Voice AI $200/mo plus a $500 one-time setup fee for 100 minutes, month to month (discounted trial $99/mo plus $249 setup). Answers in 31 languages on a client-update platform built for personal-injury firms; Clio, MyCase, PracticePanther, Smokeball, Filevine and CASEpeer listed.

Human plus AI

• Posh: On Demand $65/mo pay-as-you-go (live $2.30/min, AI $1.15/min); Vogue AI $130/mo for 50 mixed minutes. Posh AI takes overflow, after-hours and routine calls and hands off to live receptionists; Clio listed.
• Abby Connect: Starter $164/mo for 50 Abby Minutes, an AI minute counting half; Essential $329/mo for 100. Human, AI or a blend the firm can change at any time, with bilingual intake on every plan; Clio, MyCase, PracticePanther, Smokeball and Lawmatics listed.
• Ruby: $250/mo for 50 receptionist minutes; $395/mo for 100. Live receptionists with Call Nav AI assisting them, plus AI transcripts and sentiment analysis in every plan; Clio, MyCase and Lawmatics listed.
• Alert Communications: Basic $240/mo for 100 minutes; Advanced $590/mo for 250. A legal-only intake center whose AI Voice Answering runs AI-only or hybrid, priced by minutes used, by quote; Clio, PracticePanther and Filevine listed.
• Answering Legal: quote-based. 24/7 U.S.-based answering for law firms only, with custom intake on every new-client call and a free AI intake chatbot for the website; Clio, MyCase, PracticePanther, Smokeball and Lawmatics listed.

Intake CRMs behind the phone

• Lawmatics: quote-based. Intake, follow-up and marketing automation with Merlin Qualify scoring every lead; syncs matters to Clio, MyCase, PracticePanther, Smokeball or Filevine.
• Law Ruler: quote-based. Logic-based intake forms, document assembly and Law Ruler AI in every paid tier; CosmoLex listed.
• Lead Docket: quote-based. Filevine's intake and lead-tracking system, with Leads AI scoring lead viability.
• Intaker: quote-based. AI agents on website chat, texting and Google Local Services Ads; MyCase, Lawmatics, Clio, Smokeball and Filevine listed.
• Tars: Freemium $0/mo for 50 website conversations; Premium $499/mo. A website intake agent that asks conflict-check questions and books in the chat; Clio, MyCase and PracticePanther listed.

What the price covers

The unit varies: Aira, Smith.ai and Sona bill by the call, Goodcall by the unique caller with unlimited minutes, NextPhone flat with unlimited inbound calls, and Hona, Abby Connect, Ruby, Posh and Alert Communications by the minute. Every tool above screens the caller, books the consultation and sends a summary; the differences are whether a live person can take the call, which practice-management system receives the intake, and the overage rate, which sits on each listing.

Quick answers

What is the lowest-priced AI receptionist for a law firm?

Smith.ai's free plan covers 25 calls a month, Sona by Quo includes 10 calls with any Quo plan from $15/user/mo billed yearly, and Aira posts $19.96/mo billed annually for 30 calls.

Which AI receptionists list Clio as an integration?

Goodcall, My AI Front Desk, Smith.ai, NextPhone (from its $299/mo Growth plan), Hona, Abby Connect, Posh and Ruby all list Clio.

Can a live receptionist take over when the AI can't handle the call?

Abby Connect ($164/mo), Posh ($65/mo pay-as-you-go) and Alert Communications ($240/mo) mix AI and live staff, Ruby ($250/mo for 50 minutes) is live receptionists with AI assisting them, and Smith.ai sells hybrid plans that route new-client calls to live agents.