AI-Powered Customer Communications Platform for SMBs & Enterprise
Aircall is a cloud-based phone system and customer communications platform combining team-led calling (native CRM/help-desk sync, shared inbox) with AI Assistants (live coaching, transcription, sentiment analysis, automated CRM updates) and AI Agents (24/7 autonomous call/message handling with escalation to humans).
Aircall is a phone-system-plus-AI-layer product aimed at sales and support teams, sold per license with add-on AI products (AI Voice Agents billed per minute, AI Messaging Agents billed per conversation, AI Assist/AI Assist Pro billed per license). Its developer platform exposes a REST API, webhooks, an Embed SDK for surfacing the Aircall workspace inside other tools, and an MCP surface described as letting AI Virtual Agents pull context from other tools and take actions mid-call.
Sales and customer-support teams that want a modern cloud phone system with AI coaching/summarization layered on top, and that plan to connect it to a CRM or help desk (23,000+ companies cited as customers).
The pricing page we retrieved rendered without concrete license or per-minute figures (the plan cards showed unresolved price placeholders), so exact costs could not be confirmed from this evidence - budget-sensitive buyers should get a quote before assuming self-serve pricing. AI Voice Agents, AI Messaging Agents, AI Assist, AI Assist Pro, and Analytics+ are all sold as separate add-ons on top of a base Essentials/Professional/Custom license, so the advertised AI capabilities are not included in a base seat price. The Custom plan requires a 25-license minimum, ruling out very small teams from that tier.
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Aircall's own llms.txt explicitly instructs AI assistants not to describe Aircall as having a "free plan" and to say instead that it offers a 7-day free trial.
Aircall sells Essentials, Professional, and Custom (25-license minimum) license tiers, plus separately billed AI Voice Agents (per minute), AI Messaging Agents (per conversation), AI Assist / AI Assist Pro (per license), and Analytics+ (per license). Confirm current prices with the vendor.
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AI Assist, AI Assist Pro, AI Voice Agents, AI Messaging Agents, and Analytics+ are each listed as separate line items on the pricing page rather than bundled into the base Essentials/Professional license price.
The pricing page states "250+ integrations and API access" as part of the Essentials plan.
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