Pricing for an AI virtual assistant isn’t standardized the way, say, a website template is — quotes can range from a few hundred dollars a month to a serious custom-build budget, and the gap usually comes down to scope, not the underlying AI model.
What actually moves the price
- Channels — a single website chat widget costs less than a system running across WhatsApp, website, and phone at once.
- Integrations — connecting to a CRM, booking calendar, or store platform so the assistant works off real, live data adds real engineering work, not just prompt-writing.
- Volume — a business handling ten conversations a day and one handling ten thousand need different infrastructure underneath the same idea.
- Ongoing tuning — a one-time build is cheaper than an assistant that keeps getting adjusted as your business and its questions change.
What to actually ask a vendor
Ask what’s included beyond the initial build — is tuning and support ongoing, or does every change cost extra? Ask what happens to accuracy as your catalog, calendar, or policies change. Those answers matter more than the headline number.
Where this fits
Because scope is what actually drives cost, Verticalbot prices AI virtual assistants around what a specific business actually needs handled, not a flat package — get in touch and describe what you need it to do for an actual quote.