AnswR vs Automate AI

New Zealand AI voice agents with a low monthly rate and a one-off setup fee. We make one of these two products, so here is the deal: every figure below comes from Automate AI's own website with a link and a date, and there is a section further down on when they are the better pick.

Details checked: 25 July 2026

Side by side

	AnswR	Automate AI
Entry price	Pay As You Go from $19 setup + $0.75/min ($25 initial balance included); Starter $99/mo; Professional $199/mo; Business $399/mo; Enterprise custom source, 25 Jul 2026	Starter NZ$70 + GST/month; custom plans by quote source, 25 Jul 2026
Setup fee	Included — setup, AI configuration and a dedicated phone number source, 25 Jul 2026	NZ$450 + GST one-off, covering agent configuration, call flow design, knowledge base setup, integration wiring and go-live testing source, 25 Jul 2026
Free trial	7-day free trial source, 25 Jul 2026	None stated; no contracts, cancel anytime source, 25 Jul 2026
Minutes	Starter 200 min ($0.60/min over); Professional 500 min ($0.50/min over); Business 1,500 min ($0.40/min over); Enterprise unlimited source, 25 Jul 2026	100 inbound minutes included, then NZ$0.49 + GST per minute. Outbound is charged separately at NZ$0.49 + GST per minute plus a NZ$0.15 + GST termination fee. source, 25 Jul 2026
Integrations	Jobber, ServiceM8, Klippa, Simpro (Professional); Xero, Cliniko, HubSpot CRM (Business); custom integrations on Enterprise source, 25 Jul 2026	Google Calendar, Microsoft 365, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Salesforce, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Xero, webhooks and API source, 25 Jul 2026

Currency note: AnswR prices are published in AUD on both our AU and NZ sites. Automate AI publishes in New Zealand dollars, so compare the figures with the exchange rate in mind.

When Automate AI is the better choice

We would rather you pick the right tool than churn off ours in a month.

Your call volume is genuinely low and steady. At NZ$70 + GST for 100 minutes their monthly rate is the lowest here once the setup fee is behind you.
You need Salesforce, Pipedrive or Microsoft Teams, none of which AnswR integrates with natively.
You want to be billed in New Zealand dollars.

Where AnswR differs

AnswR includes setup. Automate AI charges NZ$450 + GST before the first call is answered, which takes roughly six months of their monthly fee to recover.
AnswR has a 7-day free trial and a pay-as-you-go tier, so you can test with real calls before committing to any setup cost.
AnswR integrates natively with the trade job-management tools — Jobber, ServiceM8, Simpro — that a New Zealand trades business is most likely to already run.

Integrations, side by side

AnswR: Jobber, ServiceM8, Klippa, Simpro (Professional); Xero, Cliniko, HubSpot CRM (Business); custom integrations on Enterprise source, 25 Jul 2026
Automate AI: Google Calendar, Microsoft 365, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Salesforce, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Xero, webhooks and API source, 25 Jul 2026

How we put this together. Everything above about other providers was read from their own public websites on 25 Jul 2026, and each fact links to the page it came from. We only list things they publish themselves — price, setup fee, stated trial, named integrations — and we do not make claims about how well anyone else's product works. Providers change their pricing without telling us. If something here is out of date or wrong, email [email protected] and we will fix it.

Hear AnswR answer your own phone

7-day free trial, setup and onboarding included, cancel anytime. Then judge it against Automate AI on your real calls.