In-Depth Comparison

Smith.ai vs. Simply Contact

Compare features and see how we create more sales opportunities for your business through our outbound calls.

Smith.ai Virtual Receptionists:
The best alternative to Simply Contact

COSTS & SETUP

Pricing
Per contact
Per month
Starting cost
$12/contact
$225/month
Set-up fee
$750
Monthly minimum
50 warm contacts or 1,000 cold contacts
150 contacts
Setup & onboarding period
1-2 days
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Minimum commitment
6 months
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Long-term contract
No
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Cancellation fee
No
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OUR AGENTS

North America-based professionals
24/7/365 live sales calls
Spanish-speaking agents
Agents work from quiet home offices
✘ Some

capabilities

Appointment setting
Cold calling
✔ Warm & cold outreach available
Inbound call handling
✔ From $285/mo, optional
Warm transfers
Call transfer notifications via SMS, Slack & Teams
Complex call routing
Prospecting & lead engagement
Lead screening & qualification
Complete intake & order forms
Payment collection
Answer basic FAQs
Email & SMS follow up
✘ Email only
Event sign-ups & registrations

CAMPAIGN STRATEGY

Copywriting & script review
Custom instructions, goals, and workflows backed by AI
Sales playbooks
List upload
✔ API and CSV Upload
Lead lists provided

TECHNOLOGY & INTEGRATIONS

Client dashboard with real-time campaign tracking
CRM, intake & marketing software integration
Zapier integration
Calendaring software integration
Online invoice & payment integration
SMS, Slack & Teams integration
Goal-oriented workflows
Call recording & transcription
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Local caller ID matching
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Open APIs
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CLIENT SUCCESS

Dedicated account manager
Client support channels
Phone, email, and SMS
Phone and email
Quality assurance team
Strategic staff per campaign
5+
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Affordable plans for every budget.
Simply Contact is an outsourced call center while Smith.ai focuses on targeted sales outreach.

Simply Contact offers call center support services but doesn’t specialize in any particular area of sales. Plus, their agent offices are located in Ukraine and Poland, so you wouldn’t interact with any sort of local team. Smith.ai has hundreds of sales-trained, North America-based SDRs, all focused on your specific campaign objective, whether that’s sales follow-ups, lead screening, event invitations, or appointment setting. We include white-glove setup, client onboarding, and a dedicated account manager. We’re a true business partner aimed at providing the best sales development and support.  

Simply Contact only works with a handful of industries — specifically honed in on healthcare, travel, and e-commerce. Smith.ai works with all types of industries. We learn about your business during client onboarding and build custom call messaging specific to your target audience and goals. Our team leans on powerful AI to guide our conversations and work past stalls or objections to achieve higher conversion rates. Not only that, but we offer complex call routing, call recording & transcriptions, and the ability to accept payments. With our client dashboard, we give you full visibility into your campaign’s success, allowing you to quickly and easily track results. You can monitor real-time statuses, attempts we’ve made, and call outcomes per contact so you know every detail related to your campaigns and touchpoints.

We’re transparent with our pricing, too. Plans start at just $600 — which includes 50 leads, up to five outbound calls per contact, follow-up emails and texts, appointment setting, new-client intake form completion, and outbound business caller ID. Plus, our per-contact pricing model means your monthly costs are based on how many leads you’d like us to reach on your behalf — making it both predictable and affordable. Need more leads? We can supply targeted leads for cold calling for a low cost of $1 per lead which includes targeting strategy and research, along with sample list data so you have confidence the leads meet your ideal customer profile.

Our technology separates us from the rest. Smith.ai integrates with over 5,000 CRMs, marketing platforms, calendars, and billing systems. Through these integrations, we can automatically import leads into our system from yours. By piping those leads directly to Smith.ai for immediate outbound engagement, we can respond faster and improve your speed to lead. We also offer inbound coverage. Our virtual receptionists and 24/7 live chat agents are available to add to any Outreach Campaign plan for just $285/mo and $140/mo, respectively. We can handle the entire “frontline” of your lead flow so you never need to worry about sales coverage. 

For industry-agnostic, North America-based agents, custom strategy and messaging, and AI technology with rich CRM integrations, Smith.ai is the superior choice over Simply Contact.

Strategic ways to enhance your sales team

Warm engagement for inbound leads and clients, and cold prospecting to accelerate sales growth from the ground up.

Warm engagement

Plans starting at

$600
Per
month

Cold prospecting

Plans starting at

$10,000
Per
month
Per-contact pricing, not per-minute or per-agent
Ongoing support to meet your business objectives
North America-based agents who work 24/7
Custom campaigns with no annual contracts
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Trusted by 3,000+ businesses

5.0 stars
4.9 stars
5.0 stars
4.6 stars
Crushing sales quotas
Before Smith.ai, I’d have to monitor the lead inbox. Now, Smith.ai is making the outbound call as soon as the lead comes in. They vet it for me and I get to talk to only qualified leads. We essentially have a team of intake people who know our product and work directly for us.
Adam Cohen
Managing Partner, Ticket Crushers

END-TO-END INTEGRATIONS

We play well with your software

Calls, chats & appointments are automatically logged in your systems. Real-time syncing with over 5,000 integrations.
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Take the faster path to growth.
Get Smith.ai today.

Affordable plans for every budget.