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Retell AI alternative: InsertChat vs Retell AI
InsertChat is a Retell AI alternative for businesses that want an AI front desk ready to run without building agents. Retell lists $0.07–$0.31 per minute for voice agents: its $0.055 voice infrastructure fee plus the model, voice, and telephony you choose. InsertChat answers calls, website chat, email, SMS, and WhatsApp from $98 per month.
Our verdict on InsertChat vs Retell AI
Choose InsertChat if
- You want to set up an AI receptionist yourself from your website and documents, without writing prompts or choosing a speech stack.
- You want one assistant for calls, website chat, email, SMS, and WhatsApp, with every conversation in one inbox.
- You want a monthly price you can plan around: Pro is $98 per month with 5,000 credits, one phone number, 3 assistants, and 3 seats.
- You want appointment booking with optional team approval, ready to switch on.
Stay with Retell AI if
- Your developers want to choose the model, voice, and telephony for each agent and pay by the second.
- You run outbound campaigns and want batch calling or branded caller ID, which Retell lists as add-ons.
- You need callers transferred to a person during the call.
New customers can try Pro free for 7 days with 500 credits. A card is required at checkout, and the Pro plan starts when the trial ends unless you cancel first.
InsertChat vs Retell AI at a glance
Competitor details checked on from Retell AI’s public pricing page. Prices are in USD as listed; vendors change plans, so confirm current terms with each linked source.
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| Compared | InsertChat | Retell AI |
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| Pricing model | Pro, Growth, Scale, and Enterprise plans with monthly AI credits included. Annual billing costs ten monthly payments, paid upfront. Details | Pay as you go from $0 with $10 in free credits; Enterprise pricing is custom Source |
| What is metered | AI credits from one monthly allowance. Use depends on the model, conversation length, knowledge processing, and tools; calls round up to whole minutes. Details | Call minutes, tracked to the second: $0.055 voice infrastructure plus model, voice, and $0.015 telephony per minute; chat agents per AI message Source |
| Channels | Website chat, phone, email, SMS, and WhatsApp in one shared inbox Details | Voice agents and chat agents, with SMS at $0.01 per message Source |
| Human handoff | Your own team takes over in the shared inbox with the full conversation, on every plan Details | Call transfer to a person; after a transfer, only the telephony fee continues Source |
| Knowledge sources | Website URLs, documents, questions and answers, audio and video files, and product information (1,000 sources on Pro) Details | Knowledge bases at $0.005 per call minute; the first 10 are free, then $8 each per month Source |
| Booking | Books into the built-in calendar, Google Calendar, Outlook, Calendly, or Cal.com, automatically or after your team’s approval Details | Lists a Book Appointments feature that checks availability and books Source |
| Entry price | Pro at $98/month, or $81.67/month billed annually, with 5,000 credits, 3 assistants, and 3 seats Details | $0 to start with $10 in free credits; voice agents from $0.07 per minute Source |
| Notable limits | Additional phone numbers, SMS, WhatsApp, and other connected services can carry their own charges; analytics and reports start on Scale Details | 20 concurrent calls included, then $8 per call per month; billing covers silence and hold time; Retell numbers cost $2 per month Source |
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Switch from Retell AI in a day
Keep Retell AI answering while you build and test InsertChat. When the answers sound right, point your call forwarding at InsertChat; you can change it back at any time.
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Switch on calls, booking, and handoff
Pick one of 10 voices and a greeting, connect your calendar, set handoff rules, and choose when the AI answers: always, after hours, or when your team doesn’t pick up.
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Test, then forward your number
Place test calls. In the US and Canada, forward your existing number to InsertChat; elsewhere, use an InsertChat number. Porting is not offered.
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What you get when you switch from Retell AI
AI receptionist
InsertChat answers your business calls from your own services, hours, and prices. It books appointments on your calendar and brings in your team, full transcript attached, when a person should follow up.
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After-hours answering
Your team’s phones ring while you’re open. After hours, or whenever nobody picks up, the AI receptionist answers, books the visit, and flags emergencies to your team.
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Scheduling
Your front desk offers open times, books the one the customer picks, and moves or cancels it later, on calls, website chat, and texts. Every booking stays linked to the customer and the conversation.
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All industries ↗Retell lists $0.07–$0.31 per minute for voice agents, made up of its $0.055 voice infrastructure fee plus the model, voice, and telephony you choose; concurrency past 20 calls is $8 per call per month. InsertChat Pro is $98 per month with 5,000 credits; calls round up to whole minutes.
Retell gives you agent templates, an API, webhooks, and a choice of models and voices to build with. InsertChat starts from your business: add your website pages, documents, and FAQs, choose one of 10 voices and a greeting, set handoff rules, and connect a calendar. Place a test call before routing customers.
Yes. InsertChat answers calls, website chat, email, SMS, and WhatsApp with one assistant, and every conversation lands in one shared inbox where your team takes over. Retell bills chat agents per AI message and SMS at $0.01 per message; InsertChat draws written conversations from the same monthly credits, and SMS and WhatsApp can carry connected-service charges.
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