Comparison · verified 18 September 2026
AI receptionists in Quebec: what each one actually publishes
Fifteen vendors selling into Quebec, read off their own sites. The sales pages all say the same things; only two differences actually separate these products, and neither is written in large type on anyone’s homepage.
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At a glance
Defined by the workflow, not only the voice
“Quebec French,” “Law 25 compliant,” “data in Canada” — after fifteen sites in a row, those phrases stop distinguishing anything. Nearly everyone writes them, often in the same words. That is not where your decision gets made.
Two gaps remain, and they are the ones that decide your invoice and your workload.
The first is the meter. Every vendor on this list that publishes a price sells a block of minutes or calls and then bills the overage: 150, 500 or 1,500 minutes at $0.75, $0.50 and $0.30 a minute at one; 60, 220 or 500 minutes at US$0.48 at another; 110, 250 or 1,300 minutes at $0.45, $0.40 and $0.25 elsewhere. Your invoice moves with your call volume, so a good sales month costs more than a bad one. VocalOps is the only vendor here selling a flat monthly fee with no minute cap: CAD $400, whether the month runs 200 minutes or 2,000.
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. At the vendor publishing the most detailed list, the only integrations actually in service are Google Calendar and Outlook; Salesforce, HubSpot and Zoho are listed as “coming soon.” Anything that is not an appointment therefore leaves as an email or a text, and someone on your team retypes it.
No competitor on this list names Acomba — the accounting package most widely used by Quebec small and mid-size businesses. VocalOps names it, alongside QuickBooks, Sage, Jobber and ServiceTitan, and every read and every write is agreed field by field before launch.
Everything below comes from the vendors’ public sites. We have not tested their agents and we do not comment on the quality of their conversations. We are an interested party: VocalOps is on the list and we sell the product.
Outcomes
The meter, vendor by vendor
VocalOps — Montreal
CAD $400 a month, flat, with no minute cap; Connected at $500 adds two-way ERP/CRM sync. The only vendor here whose invoice does not move with call volume. 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. 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 at $0.75 a minute. Both are marketed as the budget option. Pull your phone statement, run the formula against every price list, and compare the totals rather than the storefronts. A flat uncapped fee does not win that math at low volume — it wins as soon as your calls climb, and above all it makes the invoice predictable twelve months out.
“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 but one bill by usage.
- 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.
High or unpredictable volume
Past a few hundred minutes, a plan with overage becomes an invoice you cannot budget — and the month the phone rings most is the month that costs most. That is exactly what a flat fee with no cap solves.
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 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. Above that, a plan with overage becomes unpredictable and a flat uncapped fee takes the advantage. 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 offers unlimited minutes?
VocalOps, and nobody else on this list. The Essential plan is CAD $400 a month with no minute cap, and Connected at CAD $500 adds synchronization with your ERP or CRM. Every other vendor here that publishes a price sells a block of minutes or calls and then bills overage at between $0.25 and $0.75 a minute.
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. The ranking inverts with volume: overage closes the gap quickly, and our invoice does not move.
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 price then stops moving. It covers uncapped minutes, a configuration built with you from your real calls, ERP or CRM integrations validated read by read and write by write, and continuous review from recorded calls. 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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