Canada · Last updated: 3 September 2026

Best AI Receptionist in Canada 2026

Short answer: if you run a Canadian clinic or a regulated business and need bilingual English/Canadian-French answering that books into your practice-management system, Mihron AI (from CAD 299/month, live in 24–48 hours) and KickCall are the two vendors that publish both a PHIPA position and named PMS integrations. If you mostly need cheap 24/7 call capture with calendar booking, Canadian AI Lab (CAD 99), Polaris Voice (CAD 99) and Metrili (CAD 149) are the lowest published Canadian prices. If price is the only axis, note that the cheapest "Canadian" plan on the market is sold by a company registered in London.

Every claim below was re-verified against the vendor's own live website on 3 September 2026. Where a vendor does not publish something — a price, a compliance position, an integration — this page says so rather than guessing. Nothing here is a review score; we do not collect ratings, and there are none on this page.

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Disclosure. Mihron AI publishes this page and sells one of the products on it. We have tried to make it useful anyway by restricting every competitor line to what that vendor states publicly today, linking the source, and naming the places where competitors match or beat us. If you represent a vendor here and something is wrong or out of date, email [email protected] and we will correct it.

How we ranked them

These are the six criteria a Canadian buyer can actually verify from a vendor's public site, and the weight we gave each. We weighted data residency and compliance highest because those are the two things a Canadian clinic or law firm cannot retrofit later, and integration depth second because it decides whether the AI books an appointment or just takes a message.

Criterion	Weight	What we checked, and why it matters in Canada
Canadian data residency stated	20%	Whether the vendor says in writing where call recordings and transcripts are stored. Ontario health information custodians under PHIPA and firms with Law Society obligations need this answer before signing, not after.
PIPEDA / PHIPA position published	20%	Whether PIPEDA and, for health data, PHIPA are addressed on the site at all — and whether the vendor will sign a data-processing agreement. Several vendors publish nothing.
Practice-management and calendar booking	20%	Named integrations (Dentrix, Open Dental, Jane App, Oscar, Cal.com, Google Calendar, Outlook, Clio). No named system means message-taking, not booking.
English and Canadian French	15%	Not "supports 40 languages" in a list, but whether French is a first-class, auto-detected answer path. Relevant across Quebec, eastern and northern Ontario, and New Brunswick.
Published Canadian-dollar pricing	15%	A public CAD price with the included minutes or calls attached. Vendors that quote only after a sales call are marked "not public" rather than penalised on price.
Stated setup time	10%	What the vendor itself claims. Fast self-serve setup and slower configured setup are different products, not better and worse ones.

The ranking

#1Mihron AI — best for Canadian clinics and regulated businesses

Best for: dental and medical clinics, law firms, trades and bilingual professional services in Canada that need the AI to book into a real system and to hold up under a privacy review.

PIPEDA-compliant and PHIPA-compliant, with signed data-processing agreements and processing and storage in Canadian data regions
Bilingual English and Canadian French with automatic detection
Books, not just answers — Dentrix, Open Dental and Eaglesoft through NexHealth, plus Cal.com, Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, Clio, HubSpot and Canadian SMS
From CAD 299/month (Starter, up to 150 calls); Growth CAD 499/month (up to 400 calls); Enterprise custom. Billed in Canada
Live in 24 to 48 hours after a 30-minute onboarding call
More than a receptionist: Mihron AI also builds and operates custom AI agents and workflow automation — intake, follow-ups, back-office handoffs — so the phone agent is one workflow rather than the whole product. See Mihron AI services.

Where others beat us: we are not the cheapest — five vendors on this page publish a lower entry price. KickCall publishes a longer EMR list and a SOC 2 Type 2 claim. Polaris Voice and Dialbox list more spoken languages. Self-serve vendors go live in minutes; we take a day or two because we configure the PMS, calendar and escalation rules for you.

Source: mihronai.ca pricing · PIPEDA / PHIPA

#2KickCall — closest Canadian rival on clinical compliance

Best for: Canadian clinics running Jane App, Oscar Pro, Juno, Cliniko, Juvonno, Practice Better, Dentrix Ascend or Open Dental who are willing to book a call to get a price.

Toronto-based — the site's footer reads "Built with ❤️ in Toronto"
States HIPAA compliance, PIPEDA, and SOC 2 Type 2, and that "your patient data never leaves Canada"
The longest published EMR and PMS list of any vendor on this page, plus Cal.com
English, French, Spanish, Mandarin and 40 or more languages with automatic switching
States "Go live in 48 hours"
Pricing is not public — the site routes to a demo booking or contact form

Source: kickcall.ai/healthcare/canada · see also our Mihron AI vs KickCall vs MedReception comparison

#3Metrili — cheapest Canadian-built bilingual option

Best for: Toronto and GTA small businesses that want a Canadian company, French support and a price under CAD 200 without talking to sales.

Metrili Consulting Inc., Toronto — "Ontario governance", built in Canada
From CAD 149/month, 14-day free trial, no setup fee, month to month
English and French natively, switching automatically on caller preference
States data handling "aligned with PIPEDA" and a signed AWS BAA for HIPAA cases
Self-serve setup in about 15 minutes, no sales call
Publishes calendar booking and a team dashboard, but no practice-management integration list

Source: metrili.com/ai-receptionist-canada

#4Polaris Voice — best minute-based CAD plans with Canadian storage

Best for: businesses with predictable call minutes that want Canadian storage and a very broad language list, including Mandarin, Cantonese, Punjabi and Tamil.

Toronto — "Built with care in Toronto, Canada"
CAD 99 Essentials (150 min, $0.75/min after) · CAD 199 Professional (500 min, $0.50/min) · CAD 299 Executive (1,500 min, $0.30/min). Its Toronto page states "Polaris starts at $199/month"
States "PIPEDA Compliant", 256-bit encryption and that recordings and transcripts are "stored in Canada on Google Cloud infrastructure"
30 or more languages with automatic detection, French included
Books into Google Calendar, Outlook, Jane App and Clio; SMS confirmations
Dedicated 416 and 647 numbers; states "live in 5 minutes"
Watch the per-minute overage — it is the main way a CAD 99 plan becomes a CAD 300 invoice

Source: polarisvoice.ca · polarisvoice.ca/cities/toronto

#5Dialbox — clearest published Canadian call bundles

Best for: businesses that budget by call volume rather than minutes and want the price on the page.

Canadian, with Canadian pricing and numbers
CAD 129 Core (100 calls/mo) · CAD 299 Pro (300) · CAD 699 Max (900) · CAD 999 Managed (custom); annual pricing published alongside
English (US and Canada), Quebec-accented French voices, Spanish and 23 or more further languages
Integrations: Google Calendar, Outlook, HubSpot, Odoo, Square, Calendly, Google Sheets, Airtable — no practice-management system
States setup "in about 20 minutes"
No compliance statement appears on its home or pricing pages, which is a gap if you handle health information

Source: dialbox.ca/pricing · see also Mihron AI vs Dialbox

#6MinuteLead — built for GTA trades and service businesses

Best for: multi-location home-service and trades operators in the GTA who want SMS and reputation follow-up bundled with the phone agent.

"Built in Mississauga, serving the GTA and all of Canada"
CAD 297 Solo · CAD 697 Core · CAD 1,297 Full Suite, with no long-term contracts and no per-call fees
States it is "CASL and PIPEDA compliant, A2P 10DLC registered" — the A2P registration matters if you want the agent to text Canadian customers
States "live in 48 hours"
Google Calendar is the only integration published; languages are not stated

Source: minutelead.ca/pricing · minutelead.ca/ai-receptionist-toronto

#7Canadian AI Lab — lowest published Canadian price

Best for: a sole operator or small shop that wants a Canadian vendor, all minutes included, and nothing complicated.

Halifax, Nova Scotia; serves clients coast to coast
CAD 99/month with all call minutes included, or CAD 999 paid annually
English and French
States that data collected through AI voice interactions "is handled in accordance with PIPEDA"
Books into Calendly, Google Calendar and Square Appointments; custom API work quoted separately
Also sells custom workflow automation, so it can grow past the phone

Source: canadianailab.ca

#8Hey Jodie — cheap unlimited minutes, but a UK company

Best for: an English-only micro-business that wants unlimited minutes at a low flat price and does not handle personal health information.

The site is not Canadian. Hey Jodie runs a Canadian storefront at /en-ca/ and prices in Canadian dollars, but its own footer names Jodie AI Limited, company number 16685106, ICO ZB977748, registered at 45 Albemarle Street, Mayfair, London W1S 4JL. We are reporting what the site says; if this is out of date, we will correct it.
C$99 Basic · C$199 Professional · C$399 Premium · C$1,000+ Enterprise, all with unlimited minutes; 7-day free trial, no credit card, keep your number
The Canadian site is English only — no French
States setup takes "about 2 minutes"
No PIPEDA, PHIPA or data-residency statement on the pages we checked, and no published integration list

Source: heyjodie.com/en-ca/pricing

#9MedReception AI — US healthcare specialist selling into Canada

Best for: clinics already running a US EMR such as SimplePractice, Tebra, athenahealth or eClinicalWorks.

Lists an address at 607 Manatee Ave E, Bradenton, Florida
Markets a "PIPEDA-compliant AI receptionist for Canadian medical clinics", "designed to meet" PHIPA (Ontario), HIA (Alberta) and PIPA (BC)
Its own page states Canadian data residency options are under development and that it currently runs on US HIPAA infrastructure — the single most important line on it for an Ontario custodian
English, French and "dozens more" languages; 16 or more EMR integrations, all US systems
Pricing described as "same as U.S. pricing" and billed in USD; no dollar figures published

Source: medreception.ai/canada

#10RingCentral AI Receptionist — best if you already run RingEX

Best for: an existing RingCentral customer who wants to replace an IVR without adding a vendor.

United States vendor; AI Receptionist is available standalone or as an add-on to new and existing customers in the US and Canada
USD 49/month standalone including 100 minutes, or USD 39/month as a RingEX add-on including 100 minutes; overage USD 0.50 per minute, billed in 30-second increments; 14-day free trial
English, Spanish, French, Italian, German and Portuguese, with mid-conversation switching
Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho, Google and Outlook calendars, SMS; works over call forwarding or SIP
No Canadian data-residency statement on the product or pricing pages, and no PIPEDA or PHIPA documentation there

Source: ringcentral.com/pricing/ai-receptionist

#11Smith.ai — best-known US human-plus-AI hybrid

Best for: English or Spanish-speaking businesses that want live North American agents behind the AI and do not handle Canadian health information.

United States company (California), with North America-based receptionists behind the AI tier
AI Receptionist: free for 25 calls/month, then USD 150/month (about USD 2.00/call) or USD 500/month (about USD 1.67/call). Its human virtual-receptionist plans run USD 300 to USD 2,100/month
English and Spanish only — no French
HubSpot, Salesforce, Clio, Zapier, Calendly, Acuity, Square and more
States encrypted storage of recordings and transcripts, but publishes no PIPEDA or PHIPA documentation

Source: smith.ai/ai-receptionist · see also Maya vs Smith.ai

At-a-glance comparison

All figures are the vendor's own published list prices and claims as of 3 September 2026. "Not public" means the vendor does not publish it, not that it does not exist.

Service	Headquarters	From (published)	EN + FR	Says data stored in Canada	PIPEDA / PHIPA stated	PMS / EMR booking	Stated setup
Mihron AI	Toronto, ON	CAD 299/mo	Yes (Canadian French)	Yes	Both, with DPA	Dentrix, Open Dental, Eaglesoft via NexHealth; Cal.com	24–48 h
KickCall	Toronto, ON	Not public	Yes (FR among 40+)	Yes	PIPEDA; HIPAA; SOC 2 Type 2	Jane, Oscar Pro, Juno, Cliniko, Juvonno, Practice Better, Dentrix Ascend, Open Dental, Cal.com	48 h
Metrili	Toronto, ON	CAD 149/mo	Yes	Not stated	PIPEDA-aligned; AWS BAA	Calendar only	~15 min
Polaris Voice	Toronto, ON	CAD 99/mo (150 min)	Yes (FR among 30+)	Yes (Google Cloud)	PIPEDA	Jane App, Clio, Google, Outlook	5 min
Dialbox	Canada	CAD 129/mo (100 calls)	Yes (Quebec FR voices)	Not stated	Not stated	Calendar and CRM only	~20 min
MinuteLead	Mississauga, ON	CAD 297/mo	Not stated	Not stated	PIPEDA + CASL; A2P 10DLC	Google Calendar	48 h
Canadian AI Lab	Halifax, NS	CAD 99/mo (all minutes)	Yes	Not stated	PIPEDA	Calendly, Google, Square	Not stated
Hey Jodie	London, UK (Jodie AI Limited)	C$99/mo (unlimited min)	No (EN only on en-CA)	Not stated	Not stated	Not published	~2 min
MedReception AI	Bradenton, FL, US	Not public (USD)	Yes	No — stated as under development	PIPEDA; "designed to meet" PHIPA	16+ US EMRs	Not stated
RingCentral AI Receptionist	United States	USD 49/mo (100 min)	Yes (FR among 6)	Not stated	Not stated on these pages	CRM and calendar only	Not stated
Smith.ai	United States	USD 0 / 150 / 500 per mo	No (EN + ES)	Not stated	Not stated	Clio, HubSpot, Salesforce, Calendly	Not stated

Which AI receptionist is cheapest in Canada?

On published list prices as of 3 September 2026, Canadian AI Lab is the cheapest Canadian option at CAD 99 per month with all call minutes included. Polaris Voice also starts at CAD 99 per month but for 150 included minutes, Hey Jodie starts at C$99 per month with unlimited minutes, Dialbox at CAD 129 per month for 100 calls, and Metrili at CAD 149 per month. RingCentral AI Receptionist is lower in nominal terms at USD 49 per month, but it bills in US dollars and includes only 100 minutes. Cheapest is not the same as best value: every entry tier here caps minutes or calls, and none of them publishes a practice-management integration list.

Two traps to check before you sign an entry plan. First, per-minute overage: Polaris Voice charges CAD 0.75 per minute past 150 minutes on Essentials, so a busy month costs far more than the headline. Second, per-call pricing: Smith.ai's free tier is 25 calls, after which calls run about USD 2.00 each. Flat plans with no per-call fee — Mihron AI, MinuteLead, Hey Jodie, Canadian AI Lab — are easier to forecast.

Which is best for a dental or medical clinic under PHIPA?

Mihron AI and KickCall are the two vendors in this comparison that publish both a PHIPA position and named practice-management or EMR integrations. Mihron AI is PIPEDA- and PHIPA-compliant, keeps processing and storage in Canadian data regions, signs data-processing agreements, and books into Dentrix, Open Dental and Eaglesoft through NexHealth. KickCall states PIPEDA and HIPAA compliance and SOC 2 Type 2, says patient data never leaves Canada, and lists Jane App, Oscar Pro, Juno EMR, Cliniko, Juvonno, Practice Better, Dentrix Ascend and Open Dental, but does not publish pricing. MedReception AI markets to Canadian clinics and states it is designed to meet PHIPA, but it lists a Florida address and its own page says Canadian data residency options are under development while it runs on US HIPAA infrastructure.

Everyone else on this page is a general-business answering service. Dialbox, Hey Jodie, RingCentral and Smith.ai publish no PHIPA position at all; Metrili, Polaris Voice, MinuteLead and Canadian AI Lab address PIPEDA but not health information specifically. That is fine for a plumber and not fine for a custodian of a patient record. More detail: AI receptionist for dental clinics, PIPEDA and PHIPA guide, EMR integrations for Ontario clinics.

Which are Canadian-built?

Canadian-headquartered in this comparison: Mihron AI (Toronto), KickCall (Toronto), Metrili, trading as Metrili Consulting Inc. (Toronto), Polaris Voice (Toronto), MinuteLead (Mississauga), Dialbox (Canada) and Canadian AI Lab (Halifax). Not Canadian: Hey Jodie prices in Canadian dollars and runs a Canadian storefront, but its own site names Jodie AI Limited, company number 16685106, registered at 45 Albemarle Street, Mayfair, London, United Kingdom. MedReception AI lists an address in Bradenton, Florida. RingCentral and Smith.ai are United States companies. Pricing in Canadian dollars is not the same as being a Canadian company, and neither is the same as storing Canadian call data in Canada.

Those are three separate questions, and a buyer under PIPEDA should ask all three: where is the company, where is the data, and who signs the agreement. Only Mihron AI, KickCall and Polaris Voice answer the middle one in writing on their public sites.

What does an AI receptionist cost in Canada in 2026?

Published Canadian-dollar list prices in September 2026 run from about CAD 99 per month at the entry level to CAD 1,297 per month at the top of the small-business tiers. Entry plans between CAD 99 and CAD 149 cap included minutes or calls. Mid tiers with real call volume and calendar booking sit between CAD 199 and CAD 499. Clinic-grade plans that add practice-management booking and a signed data-processing agreement start at CAD 299 with Mihron AI. Some vendors, including KickCall and TRIVOX AI, publish no pricing at all and quote after a call. US vendors quote in US dollars, so add currency conversion and a cross-border data review to the sticker price.

Our full pricing breakdown, including per-minute versus per-call versus flat models: AI receptionist cost in Canada.

Can it book into Dentrix, Jane App or Cal.com?

Yes, but only from vendors that publish the integration. Mihron AI books into Dentrix, Open Dental and Eaglesoft through NexHealth, and into Cal.com, Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook directly. KickCall lists Jane App, Dentrix Ascend, Open Dental, Oscar Pro, Juno EMR, Cliniko, Juvonno, Practice Better and Cal.com. Polaris Voice lists Jane App, Clio, Google Calendar and Outlook. Dialbox lists Google Calendar, Outlook, HubSpot, Odoo, Square and Calendly but no practice-management system. Metrili, MinuteLead, Hey Jodie and Canadian AI Lab publish calendar booking only. If a vendor cannot name your system, assume the AI takes a message rather than books the appointment.

Vendors we looked at and did not rank

TRIVOX AI (Toronto) sells custom AI systems including an "AI front desk", but it is an automation agency rather than a subscription receptionist: no public pricing, a one-time setup fee plus optional monthly management, and roughly one to four weeks to deploy. Source: trivox.ca
Voksha appears widely in AI-receptionist listicles, but its site returned an HTTP 403 to our checks on 3 September 2026, so we could not verify a single claim about it today and have left it out rather than repeat second-hand figures.
AnswerConnect, Ringly.io, Posh and Abby Connect appeared in the previous version of this page. They were removed in this refresh because we could not re-verify their Canadian positioning against their live sites, and we would rather list nine solid entries than eleven stale ones.

What to ask before you sign

Will you sign a data-processing agreement that names PIPEDA, and PHIPA if we handle health information?
In which country are call recordings and transcripts stored, and will you put that in the contract?
Do you handle Canadian French as a first-class answer path with automatic detection, or only as an item in a language list?
Can you name my practice-management or booking system and show it writing a real appointment?
What is the all-in monthly cost at my real call volume, including per-minute or per-call overage?
Who is the legal entity on the invoice, and where is it registered?

Frequently asked questions

Which AI receptionist is cheapest in Canada?

Which AI receptionist is best for a dental or medical clinic under PHIPA?

Which AI receptionists are Canadian-built?

What does an AI receptionist cost in Canada in 2026?

Can an AI receptionist book into Dentrix, Jane App or Cal.com?

How fast can a Canadian business go live with an AI receptionist?

Published setup times range from minutes to days, and the difference tells you what the setup actually includes. Polaris Voice states live in 5 minutes, Hey Jodie about 2 minutes, Metrili about 15 minutes fully self-serve, and Dialbox about 20 minutes. Mihron AI, KickCall and MinuteLead each state 48 hours, because those setups are configured against a practice-management system, a calendar and escalation rules rather than a self-serve form. Custom AI agent builds, such as TRIVOX AI in Toronto, quote roughly one to four weeks.

Which AI receptionist supports Canadian French?

Mihron AI answers in English and Canadian French with automatic detection. Metrili states English and French with automatic switching on caller preference. Polaris Voice lists French among 30 or more languages with automatic detection. Dialbox lists Quebec-accented French voices alongside English and Spanish. KickCall lists French among 40 or more languages. Canadian AI Lab states English and French. RingCentral lists French among six languages. Hey Jodie's Canadian site is English only, and Smith.ai offers English and Spanish but not French.

Where to go next

Best AI receptionist for Toronto businesses (2026) — the same evidence, narrowed to vendors with a real Toronto and GTA presence, 416/647/905 numbers and local integrations.
AI phone answering in Toronto — how Maya is deployed for a Toronto business.
Mihron AI services — custom AI agents and workflow automation beyond the front desk.
AI receptionist cost in Canada · Mihron AI pricing

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