Looking for a Retell AI alternative?

The demo is the easy part. This is the rest of it.

Retell AI sits in the voice-agent platform category: you configure an agent, wire it to telephony and to whatever systems it needs, and run it. The building is genuinely fast on platforms like this - that is their strength. FrontivaAI is not a platform. It is one product, an AI receptionist for an Indian SMB, and what you are buying is the part that comes after the demo: the knowledge base loaded with your prices, the calendar that cannot double-book, the languages tested on real calls, and somebody else on the hook when it gets something wrong.

At a glance

	FrontivaAI	Voice-agent platforms
What you are buying	A working AI receptionist	Building blocks to make one with
Who builds the agent	We do, before handover	You do
Needs a developer	No	Yes, and one who stays
Time to a line you would put your name on	About three days	However long your team needs
Your prices, staff and hours	Loaded during onboarding	Yours to model and maintain
Pricing shape	Flat Rs 7,000/month including 1,000 minutes	Usage-based - check their site
Who owns the edge cases	Us	You, permanently
Best fit	A business losing calls it never sees	A team building a voice product

What actually takes the time

Standing an agent up takes an afternoon on any decent platform. What takes the weeks is everything that is specific to a real business, and it does not get shorter because the platform is good.

Loading services, prices you are willing to quote, durations, staff and their availability
Working hours, lunch, weekly off, festivals and one-off closures
Making booking check live availability instead of inventing a slot
Deciding what the agent must refuse to answer, and testing that it does
Handling the caller who switches language mid-sentence, and the name that comes back in another script
Reading the first two weeks of transcripts and closing the gaps they expose

When the platform is the better choice

We would rather you bought the right thing.

You have engineering time and the agent is yours to own
You need a flow no front-desk product will have - screening, surveys, collections at scale
You want to swap models or voices and tune latency yourself
You are building this into a product you sell
You need markets or languages outside India

When this is the better choice

Narrower problem, much more common.

Nobody in your business is going to maintain an agent, ever
You want it live in about three days with your prices already in it
You want a written transcript and a summary of every call without building that
Your callers are Indian and they will not stay in one language
You want somebody to blame, politely, when a booking goes wrong

What FrontivaAI does not do

So the comparison is fair in both directions.

No agent builder, no prompt editor and no API for constructing your own agents
You cannot bring your own model, your own voice provider or your own telephony
No SIP trunking or number pools - you forward a number you already have
One business line per tenant, not a multi-tenant platform you resell
English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi and Bengali. It does not speak Gujarati or Punjabi
Calls are transcribed, not recorded
No integration into practice-management, LMS or CRM systems

Why there is no feature-by-feature table here

Their products, plans and prices change, and we are not going to quote numbers for a company we cannot verify on the day you read this. Check their own site for current details, then judge this page on what it claims about us: Rs 7,000 a month, 1,000 voice minutes, eight languages, live in about three days, no lock-in.

The short answer

If you want to build a voice agent, buy a platform - they are good at that and we are not one. If you want your phone answered and the appointment booked, that is the whole of what this is.

Frequently asked questions

Is FrontivaAI a replacement for Retell AI?

Only if what you wanted was a finished receptionist rather than a toolkit. It is not a platform and does not try to be one.

Can I build my own agent on FrontivaAI?

No. You can change the knowledge base, services, prices, hours, staff and which languages your line uses, from the dashboard. You cannot edit the underlying agent or bring your own model.

Do I have to change my number?

No. You keep it and forward it, and you choose which calls go - busy, no answer, after hours, or everything.

What does it cost?

Rs 7,000 a month including 1,000 voice minutes, then Rs 7 a minute. No setup fee and no lock-in.

Which languages does it handle?

English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi and Bengali, including switching between them mid-call. It does not speak Gujarati or Punjabi.

Can I try it before deciding?

Call the number on this site and talk to our own agent. It is the same product, answering for us.

Call the AI on +91 79 7144 1998, or book a demo.

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