Comparison · verified 18 September 2026
AI receptionists in Quebec: 15 vendors, one names your ERP
Fifteen vendors selling into Quebec, read off their own sites. Two gaps genuinely separate them: the minute meter, and what gets written into your systems after the call. On both, VocalOps stands apart — 500 minutes included then $0.10, and an agent built from your real calls that writes into your ERP.
Custom-built from your real calls • Wired into your systems • Tuned every day by our engineers
At a glance
Built around how you work, not from a template
What is the best AI receptionist in Quebec? The one that fits your volume and your systems — and of fifteen vendors surveyed on 18 September 2026, VocalOps is the only one that publicly names an ERP integration, Acomba included. Our agent is built from your real calls, writes directly into your management software, even on-premise, and is tuned every day by our team.
“Quebec French,” “Law 25 compliant,” “data in Canada” — after fifteen sites in a row, those phrases stop distinguishing anything. Two gaps remain, and they are the ones that decide your invoice and your workload.
The first is the meter. Everyone here, us included, sells a block of minutes and then bills the overage. Entry tiers give 60 minutes at one vendor, 110 at another, 120 elsewhere, 150 at a fourth — and the overage minute runs between $0.25 and $0.75. VocalOps includes 500 minutes on all three plans and bills $0.10 a minute beyond that: the largest entry allowance on this list, and the lowest overage rate we found. Between a 200-minute month and a 2,000-minute one, our invoice goes from $400 to $550 — a multiple of 1.4, where competing entry tiers multiply by 4 to 11.
The second is what happens after the call. All fourteen vendors whose integration page we could read name calendars and CRMs — Google Calendar, Outlook, HubSpot, Salesforce, Follow Up Boss. None names an ERP, an accounting package or a dispatch platform as a live integration, and none names Acomba — the accounting package most widely used by Quebec small and mid-size businesses. VocalOps names it, alongside QuickBooks, Sage, Jobber and ServiceTitan; every read and every write is agreed field by field, and development in the initial contract is included at no extra cost.
What we are not: the cheapest. We have the highest entry price on the list, and below 200 minutes a month a $49–$199 plan does the job. Everything below comes from the vendors’ public sites; we have not tested their agents. We are an interested party: VocalOps is on the list and we sell the product.
Why VocalOps
Why VocalOps among fifteen Quebec AI receptionists
Most vendors we surveyed sell online signup and an agent connected to a calendar or a CRM. VocalOps does it differently on four counts.
Built from your real calls
No online signup and no vertical template: a scoping conversation with a person, then a configuration written in your words, with your products and your exceptions, which your team signs off before launch.
The only one on the list to name Acomba
Acomba, QuickBooks, Sage, Jobber, ServiceTitan or your API, even running on your own servers: the agent reads and writes directly, field by field. If you would rather simplify, we recreate your tools in the VocalOps portal.
Tuned every day, not delivered once
Our team listens back to your calls and corrects the agent’s rules continuously. To the question “who fixes the configuration in six months?”, our answer is: our team, not yours.
Development included, by real engineers
Integrations and custom development in the initial contract are included at no extra cost. The agent is designed in Quebec by real software engineers, hosted in Canada, with a SOC 2 Type II observation period underway.
Side by side
VocalOps and the Quebec market, criterion by criterion
The right-hand column sums up what the other vendors published on 18 September 2026, as detailed vendor by vendor further down.
| Criterion | VocalOps | The rest of the market surveyed |
|---|---|---|
| Approach | Scoping with a person, a configuration built from your real calls, tuned every day by our team | Most: online signup, free trial, same-day go-live; Anova also sells a scoped implementation |
| Minutes included at entry | 500 minutes, on all three plans | 60, 110, 120 or 150 minutes depending on the vendor; Callara does not publish its allowance |
| Overage | $0.10 a minute | Between $0.25 and $0.75 a minute |
| Entry price | CAD $400 a month — the highest on the list | Free 15-minute plan (RoehAI), US$49 (TalkLuna), $59 (Callara), CAD $99 (Polaris Voice) |
| ERP and management software | Acomba, QuickBooks, Sage, Jobber, ServiceTitan — reads and writes agreed field by field, even on-premise | Calendars and CRMs; no ERP named as a live integration on the fourteen readable pages |
| Hosting | Service data in Canada; exact locations confirmed during the security review | Only Callara names its host and region; RoehAI says “primarily” in Canada |
| Badges and reports | SOC 2 Type II observation underway with Drata, no report, no badge | SOC 2 Type I and II badges with no readable report at one; “Law 25 compliant” with US subprocessors at another |
| French | Canadian French and English, validated with your team; no accent claimed | Agent IA Vocal, Anova, Callara, Nexia and RoehAI explicitly claim Quebec French |
Outcomes
The meter, vendor by vendor
VocalOps — Montreal
CAD $400 a month with 500 minutes included, then $0.10 a minute; Connected at $500 adds two-way ERP/CRM sync. The largest entry allowance and the lowest overage on this list, so the flattest cost curve — but not the lowest bill. Named integrations: Acomba, QuickBooks, Sage, Jobber, ServiceTitan. SOC 2 Type II observation period underway, no report issued.
Agent IA Vocal — Quebec City
US$199, $299 and $399 a month for 60, 220 and 500 minutes, plus US$999 implementation and US$0.48 a minute beyond that. Prices are in US dollars on French-language pages. Claims a model trained on Canadian francophone data and hosting “exclusively in Canada.”
Polaris Voice — Toronto
CAD $99, $199 and $299 a month for 150, 500 and 1,500 minutes, with overage at $0.75, $0.50 and $0.30. The pricing page opens on the discounted annual view. Live integrations: Google Calendar and Outlook only; Salesforce, HubSpot and Zoho are listed “coming soon.”
Anova Automations — Montreal
No published pricing. The sharpest language claim in the group: “Quebec French and English handled natively, never translated.” Named integrations: Google Calendar, Follow Up Boss, SMS and email. Like us, it sells a scoped implementation rather than online self-signup.
TalkLuna
US$49, $99 and $299 a month for 110, 250 and 1,300 minutes, overage at $0.45, $0.40 and $0.25, with a 7-day free trial. Real-estate-oriented integrations: Follow Up Boss, Make, Sierra Interactive. No head office published.
RoehAI / Aria — Montreal
Free plan with 15 minutes, then from US$49 a month. The only company in the group publishing a street address. Claims a Quebec accent. “Data hosted in Canada” on the sales page; the privacy policy says “primarily” and names the processing that leaves the country.
Callara — Montreal
From $59 a month on monthly billing — the pricing page opens on the annual view. Neither included minutes nor an overage rate is published, so the cost at volume cannot be worked out in advance. The only one in the group to name its host: “Supabase ca-central-1 (Toronto).”
Nexia / Sofia — South Shore
$197 a month plus $499 setup, or $397 plus $699. Claims “Quebec French” with an audio demo. Carries a “Law 25 compliant” badge on every page, while its own privacy policy names subprocessors whose servers are in the United States.
Mihron AI — Toronto
CAD $299 and $499 a month for 150 and 400 calls. A Toronto company, not a Quebec one, despite a page titled “Best AI Receptionist Canada 2026” that ranks it first — and that is the page AI assistants cite most often. Says “Canadian French,” never “Québécois.”
And at least six more
Voxify, Allesi, Captia, InstantCallR, Lead Shark AI and Fulltime also sell into this market, not counting the American platforms selling into Quebec from outside it. We have not put numbers on them: we could not read a public price list on 18 September 2026, and an empty cell beats an invented figure.
Buyer guidance
The four questions that actually separate these products
After fifteen sites in a row, the marketing differences dissolve. Ask any vendor these four questions, us included, and one conversation will tell you which one fits.
“What does my November cost?”
Not the advertised price: the price at your real volume. Plan price + (your minutes − included minutes) × overage rate. A US$199 plan covering 60 minutes costs US$362 at 400 minutes once the $0.48 overage lands. A CAD $99 plan covering 150 minutes costs CAD $361 at 500 minutes. Both are marketed as the budget option. Our Essential costs $400 at 400 minutes and at 500, then $430 at 800 and $550 at 2,000. Let us be plain: at high volume we are not the cheapest. A well-chosen higher tier elsewhere — CAD $299 for 1,500 minutes at $0.30 beyond — stays under our invoice at every volume we worked out. What our price list buys is the smallest gap between a quiet month and a busy one.
“What gets written into my systems, and by whom?”
This is the real fault line in the market, and it is almost invisible on the sales pages. Answering the phone has become ordinary. Reading an open invoice out of an ERP before the second sentence, creating the work order in the right place, writing the appointment into the right calendar with the right permissions — nobody else on this list publishes that. All fourteen readable integration pages name calendars and CRMs. None names Acomba, and Acomba runs the books at a large share of Quebec’s small and mid-size businesses. Ask for the list of fields, not the list of logos — and ask what your team sees when a write fails.
“Who configures it, and who fixes it in six months?”
Two models coexist. Most sell online signup, a free trial and same-day go-live: a real advantage if your need is simple and you want to decide quickly. Anova and VocalOps sell the opposite — a scoping conversation with a person, then a configuration built from your real calls. The question that separates them is not which is better, it is which one costs you time: a configuration you have to maintain alone is an internal project, not a service. On our side the configuration starts from a conversation with you rather than a form, and we listen back to calls after launch to correct whatever the agent misheard. Ask every vendor who does that work, how often, and whether it is billed.
“Do your badges correspond to documents?”
One vendor displays SOC 2 Type I and Type II badges side by side with no readable report. Another displays “Law 25 compliant” on every page while its own privacy policy names subprocessors in the United States. Only one names its host and its region. None of that is illegal — Law 25 requires an assessment before a transfer outside Quebec, not a ban — but the badge is on the sales page and the truth is in the policy. We hold ourselves to the same rule: our SOC 2 Type II observation period is underway and we display no badge, because no report exists.
Get these in writing, from any vendor
- The monthly price in Canadian dollars, before tax, and the implementation fee.
- Included minutes or calls, and the exact overage rate.
- What a month costs at your real volume, worked out with your statement in hand.
- How many simultaneous calls are covered at your peak hour.
- Which fields get written into your systems, and what happens when a write fails.
- The list of subprocessors and the country their servers sit in.
- If an audit report exists, its period and its exceptions — or the admission that there is none.
- Who reviews the configuration after launch, how often, and at what price.
Implementation
How to compare without being caught out
- 1
Count your minutes
Pull the statement from your phone provider. Without that number none of these price lists can be compared, because all of them, ours included, bill beyond an allowance.
- 2
Do the math at real volume
Plan price + (your minutes − included minutes) × overage rate. It is the only number that matters, and it is never the one printed in large type.
- 3
Add implementation and currency
One-time fees run from $0 to US$999, two vendors quote US dollars to Quebec buyers, and several pages open on the discounted annual view.
- 4
Ask what gets written back
Not “do you integrate with my CRM?” but “which fields do you write into my system, and what happens when a write fails?”
Scenarios
Who should pick what
Under 200 minutes a month
A call or two a day, message-taking, no integrations: the $49–$199 plans do the job and VocalOps would be a bad purchase. We will tell you that ourselves if you call us.
Volume that swings month to month
If your phone does 300 minutes in February and 1,200 in June, what matters is not the advertised price but the gap between those two invoices. At $0.10 a minute those months cost $400 and $470 with us. On a $0.75 entry tier elsewhere they cost $211 and $886: cheaper in February, far more expensive in June, and impossible to budget.
Your calls have to land in your systems
If the request has to end up in Acomba, Sage, QuickBooks, Jobber or ServiceTitan rather than in an email someone retypes, the shortlist gets considerably shorter.
Quebec French is the deciding factor
Agent IA Vocal, Anova, Callara, Nexia and RoehAI all claim it explicitly. Insist on a recorded demo using your own street names, product names and customer names — that is where accents separate, not in a curated demo reel.
FAQ
Common questions about choosing an AI receptionist in Quebec
What sets VocalOps apart from other AI receptionists in Quebec?
VocalOps builds the agent from your real calls and writes into your management system, where most vendors we surveyed sell online signup and an agent connected to a calendar or a CRM. We are the only ones on this list to name Acomba, QuickBooks, Sage, Jobber and ServiceTitan, even running on your own servers; our team then listens back to your calls to tune the agent every day. And our 500 included minutes, then $0.10 a minute, give the flattest cost curve on the list — not the lowest bill.
Does VocalOps connect to my management software, even on-premise?
Yes. The agent reads and writes in Acomba, QuickBooks, Sage, Jobber, ServiceTitan or your API, including software hosted on your own servers, with permissions agreed field by field; an integration is advertised as supported only once its actions are verified. If you would rather simplify, we recreate your tools in the VocalOps portal instead — calls, requests, customers and emergencies in one place.
What is the best AI receptionist in Quebec?
There is no single answer, and be wary of pages that give one — especially when the vendor ranks itself first on them. Below 200 minutes a month, the $49–$199 plans are more than enough and we would be a bad purchase. Between 200 and 1,000 minutes the size of the included allowance decides it, and 500 minutes at $400 compares well. Above that, a well-chosen higher tier elsewhere costs less than we do, and we say so on this page. And if your calls have to be written into an ERP rather than summarized in an email, VocalOps is the only vendor on this list that publicly names that kind of integration.
Which one includes the most minutes, and at what overage rate?
VocalOps includes 500 minutes on all three plans and bills $0.10 a minute beyond that. It is the largest entry allowance on this list — competing entry tiers give 60, 110, 120 or 150 minutes — and the lowest overage rate we found, where others bill between $0.25 and $0.75. Nobody on this list sells minutes without a meter, us included.
Which one is cheapest?
At low volume, RoehAI (a free 15-minute plan, then US$49) and TalkLuna (US$49) show the lowest entry prices, followed by Callara at $59 and Polaris Voice at $99. VocalOps has the highest entry price on the list and we will not pretend otherwise. Against entry tiers the ranking inverts with volume: their overage closes the gap quickly, while our invoice moves little — $0.10 a minute past 500.
Which ones integrate with an ERP like Acomba, Sage or QuickBooks?
Of the fourteen vendors whose integration page we read, none publicly names an ERP, an accounting package or a dispatch platform among its live integrations — all name calendars and CRMs. At the vendor with the most detailed list, only Google Calendar and Outlook are in service, with Salesforce, HubSpot and Zoho listed “coming soon.” VocalOps names Acomba, QuickBooks, Sage, Jobber and ServiceTitan, with reads and writes agreed field by field.
Which ones are genuinely Quebec companies?
Agent IA Vocal, Anova, Callara, Nexia, RoehAI, Allesi, Captia, InstantCallR, Lead Shark and VocalOps publish a Quebec presence. Mihron AI is in Toronto, despite a page aimed at the Canadian market that ranks it first. TalkLuna publishes no head office at all.
Which ones really speak Quebec French?
Agent IA Vocal, Anova, Callara, Nexia and RoehAI all claim it explicitly, sometimes in detail — Anova writes that Quebec French is “handled natively, never translated.” VocalOps says “Canadian French,” configured and tested with your team before launch, and claims no regional accent. The only way to settle it is a demo using your own proper nouns and trade vocabulary.
Why does VocalOps cost more to start?
Because the product being sold is not the same, and because the invoice then moves very little. It covers 500 included minutes and then $0.10 a minute, a configuration built with you from your real calls, ERP or CRM integrations validated read by read and write by write, and a team that listens back to your calls and tunes the agent continuously. Development and integrations in the initial contract are included at no extra cost; work added later, beyond that contract, may be billed. If you have no system to connect and message-taking is enough, none of that work helps you and you should buy something cheaper.
How do I verify this comparison?
Every item comes from the vendor’s public site, read on 18 September 2026. Open their pricing pages and their privacy policies: those are the two documents where the gaps show up — and watch out, several pricing pages open on the discounted annual view. If a figure has changed or we have made a mistake, write to admin@vocalops.ca.
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