What is the best AI voice agent for realtors in 2026?

It depends on the job. For answering inbound calls as a solo agent or small team, DonutBerry — built only for real estate, flat $299–$499/mo with a free trial. On a tight budget, Rosie starts at $49/mo. If you want humans available behind the AI, Smith.ai. For outbound lead follow-up, Ylopo AI Voice (if you use Ylopo) or Structurely (for teams).

How much does an AI receptionist for real estate cost?

Verified against live pricing pages in July 2026: budget AI answering runs $49–$149/mo (Rosie, Marlie) with small minute buckets; purpose-built real-estate AI runs $299–$499/mo flat with 1,000–2,000 minutes (DonutBerry); hybrid AI-plus-human runs $150–$2,100/mo billed per call (Smith.ai); human-only services run $250–$1,725/mo for 50–500 minutes (Ruby); and outbound platforms run $499+/mo with onboarding fees (Structurely).

What is the difference between an AI receptionist and AI lead follow-up?

An AI receptionist answers inbound calls — the buyer calling your listing while you are mid-showing — then qualifies, books, and sends you a summary. AI lead follow-up works outbound: it calls and texts leads you already captured from Zillow, your IDX site, or open houses, and nurtures them for weeks or months. DonutBerry, Rosie, Marlie, Smith.ai, AgentZap, Frontdesk, Goodcall, and Ruby are inbound; Ylopo AI Voice and Structurely are outbound. Busy teams often run one of each.

Do AI voice agents work with Follow Up Boss?

Some integrate directly: DonutBerry, Marlie, and Structurely all name Follow Up Boss. Most others (Rosie, Goodcall, Frontdesk) connect through Zapier, which works but adds setup. If your CRM is the hub of your business, confirm a named integration before you buy.

Do AI receptionists actually book showings on my calendar?

The good ones do, but check the fine print. DonutBerry and AgentZap book directly during the call; Smith.ai books on AI plans (and charges +$1.50/call on human plans); Marlie books from its $99 tier up; Rosie — by its own real-estate page — cannot schedule showings directly and texts callers a booking link instead.

Should I choose an AI or a human answering service?

Humans (Ruby, Smith.ai’s human plans) still win on warmth for professional-services callers, but you pay per minute or per call: Ruby’s $250/mo buys 50 minutes, while flat-price AI buys 1,000–2,000 minutes for a similar spend. AI answers instantly even when several calls ring at once, works 24/7 at no premium, and — in DonutBerry’s case — is trained on your actual listings. Most solo agents get more coverage per dollar from AI with a human-transfer fallback.

Buyer’s guide

The 10 Best AI Voice Agents for Realtors (2026)

Updated July 2026 — every price verified against each vendor’s live pricing page.

The short answer

For most solo agents and small teams, DonutBerry is the best AI voice agent for real estate in 2026 — built only for realtors, it answers, qualifies, and books showings at a flat $299–$499/month with a real free trial. Budget pick: Rosie ($49/mo). AI-plus-human hybrid: Smith.ai. Outbound lead follow-up: Ylopo AI Voice or Structurely.

Full disclosure: DonutBerry is our product. We rank it #1 for the buyer we know best — solo agents and small teams who want inbound calls answered. Every competitor price below was verified against their live pricing page in July 2026, and where another tool is the better fit, we say so.

There are really two products hiding inside “AI voice agent for realtors.” Inbound receptionists answer the calls you miss — a buyer calling about your listing while you’re mid-showing. Outbound assistants chase the leads you already have — calling a Zillow lead back within a minute and nurturing it for months. Some agents need one, busy teams often want both. This guide covers the ten worth considering, split by which job they actually do.

AI voice agents for real estate at a glance (verified July 2026)
Tool	Type	Published price	Free trial	Real-estate specific?
DonutBerry	Inbound AI	$299–$499/mo flat, 1,000–2,000 min	7 days + 150 min, no charge today	Yes — RE only, trained on your listings
Rosie	Inbound AI	$49–$299/mo, 250–2,000 min	7 days	No — RE landing page only
Marlie	Inbound AI	$49–$399/mo, 250–2,000 min	14 days, no card	No — RE page, names RE CRMs
Smith.ai	Inbound AI + human	AI: $0–$800/mo · Human: $300–$2,100/mo	Free AI tier (25 calls); none on human plans	No — multi-industry, RE intake available
AgentZap	Inbound AI	$109–$899/mo + $399 setup	None — 30-day money-back	Partial — RE page, claims MLS listing answers
Frontdesk (My AI Front Desk)	Inbound AI + chat/SMS	$99/mo for voice (200 min)	7 days, no card	No — leans property management
Goodcall	Inbound AI	$79–$249/mo, unlimited minutes	14 days	No
Ruby	Inbound human	$250–$1,725/mo, 50–500 min	None — 21-day money-back	No — RE page, script-based
Ylopo AI Voice	Outbound AI	Not published (custom, add-on to Ylopo)	Demo-gated 60-day promo	Yes — RE only, listing-alert triggers
Structurely	Outbound AI	$499–$999/mo + usage + $2,000+ onboarding	None — pilot period	Partial — RE is a core vertical

Inbound: AI receptionists that answer your phone

1. DonutBerry — best for solo agents and small teams

$299/mo (After Hours, 1,000 minutes) or $499/mo (All Day, 2,000 minutes), flat · overage $0.25–$0.30/min · free trial: 7 days + 150 minutes, no charge today

DonutBerry is the only tool on this list built exclusively for real estate inbound calls. Berry — the AI agent — answers every call, discloses it’s an AI, qualifies the caller (buyer or seller, timeline, pre-approval), books the showing on your calendar, and texts you a three-line summary when the call ends. It’s trained on your own listings and showing rules, not a generic script.

Setup is white-glove and live in 48 hours; you keep your number and choose when Berry picks up (after 3 rings, after-hours only, or every call). Integrations include Follow Up Boss, BoldTrail, Lofty, Sierra Interactive, Google Calendar, Calendly, Cal.com, and Zapier. Pricing is one flat number with booking, summaries, and 24/7 coverage included — no per-call add-ons.

Strengths

Real-estate-only: trained on your listings, qualifies like an agent would
Flat pricing with 1,000–2,000 minutes included — most included minutes per dollar on this list
Real free trial: 7 days + 150 minutes with no charge today and no auto-billing after

Limitations

Inbound only — it won’t cold-call your Zillow leads (pair with an outbound tool if you need that)
Newer company than Smith.ai or Ruby; dashboard still maturing (transcripts on request)

2. Rosie — best budget pick

$49/mo (250 min) · $149/mo (1,000 min, adds booking) · $299/mo (2,000 min) · 7-day free trial

Rosie (heyrosie.com) is the price anchor of the category: $49/month gets a competent 24/7 AI answering service that trains itself on your website and Google Business Profile. Calendar booking and live transfers arrive at the $149 tier. It has a real-estate landing page, but by its own admission Rosie can’t schedule property showings directly — it texts callers a booking link instead — and CRM connections run through Zapier only.

Strengths

Cheapest published entry point in the category with transparent self-serve pricing
Handles simultaneous calls; English and Spanish included

Limitations

Doesn’t book showings on the call — sends self-serve scheduling links (per Rosie’s own real-estate page)
Zapier-only CRM integration; no real-estate qualification flow built in

3. Marlie — best cheap trial to test AI answering

$49/mo (250 min, answering only) · $99/mo (500 min, adds booking + transfers) · $199/mo (1,000 min) · $399/mo (2,000 min) · 14-day free trial, no card

Marlie (marlie.ai) undercuts most of the market and is one of the few generalist receptionists that names real-estate CRMs — Follow Up Boss, LionDesk, Top Producer — and pitches qualifying on budget, location, and buy/sell timeline. The catch is tier-gating: the advertised $49 plan only takes messages; appointment booking and call transfers start at $99. No listing or MLS knowledge is claimed anywhere.

Strengths

14-day trial with no credit card — lowest-risk way to hear AI answering on your line
Names real-estate CRMs and per-minute overage rates plainly ($0.25–$0.35/min)

Limitations

Booking and transfers are locked out of the $49 tier — realistic entry is $99/mo
Generic receptionist: follows your instructions but isn’t trained on listings

4. Smith.ai — best AI + human hybrid

AI Receptionist: free tier (25 calls) · $150/mo (75 calls) · $500–$800+/mo Enterprise · AI overage $1.50–$3.00/call. Human receptionists: $300–$2,100/mo (30–300 calls) + per-call add-ons

Smith.ai is the established multi-industry player, strongest in law firms, and the one to pick if you want North-America-based humans available behind the AI. Its real-estate intake collects budget, pre-approval, timeline, and buyer-vs-seller, and can schedule showings. Know the pricing model before you commit: the AI product bills per call (now with a genuine free 25-call tier), while the human plans bill per call plus add-ons — booking +$1.50, SMS summary +$0.50, recording +$0.25 per call — with no free trial (30-day money-back capped at $1,000).

Strengths

Hybrid model: AI answers, real humans available — 24/7 on every plan
Deep integration catalog and a decade of receptionist operations behind it

Limitations

Per-call economics: a busy month grows the bill, and human-plan add-ons stack per call
General-purpose — real-estate depth beyond standard intake is a paid add-on on human plans

5. AgentZap — deepest listing-data claims, priciest entry

$109/mo (150 min, $0.85/min over) · $295/mo (450 min) · $899/mo (1,500 min) · $399 one-time setup (waived on annual) · no free trial (30-day money-back)

AgentZap (agentzap.ai) markets hard to real estate and makes the boldest data claim of the generalists: its AI “provides listing details from your MLS data — price, beds, baths, square footage.” It qualifies on buy/sell/rent, budget, timeline, and pre-approval, and books showings into 200+ scheduling tools. The friction is cost structure: a $399 setup fee on every tier, thin minutes at the entry price ($109 buys just 150 minutes with $0.85/min overage), and no free trial.

Strengths

Explicit MLS/listing-data answering claim with real-estate qualification flow
Big integration surface (238+ native, 7,000+ via Zapier) and English + Spanish

Limitations

$399 setup fee plus no free trial — highest commitment before you hear a single call
Included minutes are thin for the price: $299-class competitors include 4–13× more

6. Frontdesk (My AI Front Desk) — best multichannel bundle

$99/mo (200 voice min + chatbot + SMS + email + built-in CRM) · overage ≈ $0.25/min via credits · $20 tier has zero voice minutes · 7-day free trial, no card

Frontdesk (myaifrontdesk.com, recently rebranded from “My AI Front Desk”) bundles the most channels per dollar: AI voice, website chatbot, SMS agent, AI email drafting, and a built-in CRM at $99/month. Read the tiers carefully — the advertised $20 plan includes no voice minutes at all, so the receptionist effectively starts at $99. Its real-estate presence leans property management (case studies are brokerages and home builders); there’s no MLS or listing training and no real-estate CRM named.

Strengths

Voice + chat + SMS + email + CRM in one $99 subscription — broadest coverage per dollar
Self-serve setup in minutes with a no-card 7-day trial

Limitations

The $20 headline tier has zero voice minutes; credit-based metering makes cost comparison opaque
Generic for realtors: no listing knowledge, no showing-specific workflow, no RE CRM integration named

7. Goodcall — best if call length is your problem

$79–$249/mo per agent · unlimited minutes on every tier · billed per unique customer ($0.50 past your tier’s cap) · 14-day free trial

Goodcall’s pricing model is unique in the category: unlimited minutes, billed by how many unique callers actually interact each month. If your calls run long — chatty sellers, detailed listing questions — that’s a real economic advantage. It’s a solid generalist SMB tool with logic flows, forms, and calendar booking, but there’s nothing real-estate-specific: no listing training, no RE qualification flow, and CRM connectivity runs through Zapier.

Strengths

Unlimited minutes on every tier — long calls can’t blow up the bill
Claims 42,000+ businesses; transparent self-serve tiers

Limitations

No real-estate features at all — you build the qualification flow yourself
Assigns a new number (existing lines route via conditional forwarding); per-agent pricing

8. Ruby — best if you want humans only

$250/mo (50 receptionist min) · $395/mo (100 min) · $720/mo (200 min) · $1,725/mo (500 min) · overage rate not published · no free trial (21-day money-back)

Ruby is the polished pure-human option: US-based receptionists, true 24/7/365, with scheduling and call summaries included. For a solo agent the math is the challenge — $250/month buys 50 receptionist minutes (billed in 60-second increments, rounded up), and the per-minute overage rate isn’t published. Ruby has a real-estate page, but receptionists follow the script you provide; there’s no listing knowledge. We wrote a full comparison at donutberry.com/vs/ruby.

Strengths

Genuinely warm human voice on every call — strongest for professional-services callers
Month-to-month, no setup fee, scheduling and summaries included

Limitations

Minute buckets are small and metered: $1,725/mo for 500 minutes vs. flat-price AI at ~$299–$499 for 1,000–2,000
Unpublished overage rate makes a busy month hard to predict

Outbound: AI assistants that chase your leads

9. Ylopo AI Voice — best outbound if you’re on Ylopo

Pricing not published — custom quote, sold as an add-on to Ylopo packages · demo-gated “60 days free” promo

Ylopo AI Voice (formerly rAIya) is the deepest real-estate outbound assistant: it calls new leads back instantly, keeps calling for 90 days, live-transfers connected calls to you, and triggers off behavior on your Ylopo IDX site — a lead favorites a listing, the AI texts then calls. The trade-offs are structural: it doesn’t answer your inbound line, there’s no published pricing (Ylopo’s own FAQ says a quote requires a demo), and it’s positioned as an add-on to the broader Ylopo marketing platform rather than a standalone product.

Strengths

Real-estate-native outbound with listing-alert behavioral triggers and 90-day persistence
Live transfer of connected calls with CRM write-back

Limitations

Not a receptionist — your missed inbound calls still go unanswered
No public pricing, and effectively requires the Ylopo platform

10. Structurely — best long-horizon follow-up for teams

$499/mo + $0.08/action credit + $2,000 onboarding (Team) · $999/mo + $0.06/credit + $2,500 onboarding (Company) · annual contract (month-to-month +20%) · no free trial

Structurely runs multi-channel outbound — AI calling, texting, and email — that qualifies and nurtures leads for 12+ months, with live transfers and an AI power dialer, integrated with Follow Up Boss and Sierra Interactive. It publishes its numbers, and they describe a team product: $499/month minimum plus usage credits (one credit ≈ one SMS or 10 seconds of talk time), a $2,000+ mandatory onboarding fee, and annual contracts. For a team of 2–10 agents drowning in unworked leads, that math can work; for a solo agent it rarely does.

Strengths

Longest published nurture horizon (12+ months) across voice, SMS, and email with live transfer
Integrates with the real-estate CRMs teams actually run (Follow Up Boss, Sierra Interactive)

Limitations

Cost of entry: $499/mo + usage + $2,000 onboarding on an annual contract
Outbound only — pair it with a receptionist for inbound coverage

Frequently asked questions

What is the best AI voice agent for realtors in 2026?: It depends on the job. For answering inbound calls as a solo agent or small team, DonutBerry — built only for real estate, flat $299–$499/mo with a free trial. On a tight budget, Rosie starts at $49/mo. If you want humans available behind the AI, Smith.ai. For outbound lead follow-up, Ylopo AI Voice (if you use Ylopo) or Structurely (for teams).
How much does an AI receptionist for real estate cost?: Verified against live pricing pages in July 2026: budget AI answering runs $49–$149/mo (Rosie, Marlie) with small minute buckets; purpose-built real-estate AI runs $299–$499/mo flat with 1,000–2,000 minutes (DonutBerry); hybrid AI-plus-human runs $150–$2,100/mo billed per call (Smith.ai); human-only services run $250–$1,725/mo for 50–500 minutes (Ruby); and outbound platforms run $499+/mo with onboarding fees (Structurely).
What is the difference between an AI receptionist and AI lead follow-up?: An AI receptionist answers inbound calls — the buyer calling your listing while you are mid-showing — then qualifies, books, and sends you a summary. AI lead follow-up works outbound: it calls and texts leads you already captured from Zillow, your IDX site, or open houses, and nurtures them for weeks or months. DonutBerry, Rosie, Marlie, Smith.ai, AgentZap, Frontdesk, Goodcall, and Ruby are inbound; Ylopo AI Voice and Structurely are outbound. Busy teams often run one of each.
Do AI voice agents work with Follow Up Boss?: Some integrate directly: DonutBerry, Marlie, and Structurely all name Follow Up Boss. Most others (Rosie, Goodcall, Frontdesk) connect through Zapier, which works but adds setup. If your CRM is the hub of your business, confirm a named integration before you buy.
Do AI receptionists actually book showings on my calendar?: The good ones do, but check the fine print. DonutBerry and AgentZap book directly during the call; Smith.ai books on AI plans (and charges +$1.50/call on human plans); Marlie books from its $99 tier up; Rosie — by its own real-estate page — cannot schedule showings directly and texts callers a booking link instead.
Should I choose an AI or a human answering service?: Humans (Ruby, Smith.ai’s human plans) still win on warmth for professional-services callers, but you pay per minute or per call: Ruby’s $250/mo buys 50 minutes, while flat-price AI buys 1,000–2,000 minutes for a similar spend. AI answers instantly even when several calls ring at once, works 24/7 at no premium, and — in DonutBerry’s case — is trained on your actual listings. Most solo agents get more coverage per dollar from AI with a human-transfer fallback.

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DonutBerry is an AI voice agent for real estate agents, built by Barakah Digital. Berry answers your calls, qualifies the lead, books the showing, and texts you a summary. Related: DonutBerry vs Smith.ai (/vs/smith-ai) · DonutBerry vs Ruby (/vs/ruby) · Missed-call ROI calculator (/calculator).