If you are weighing up a Sophiie alternative, the question is simple: which AI receptionist answers your phone, sounds local and keeps your pricing honest? Vereo is an Australian AI voice agent that picks up in under a second, qualifies the caller, books straight into your calendar and sends you a summary after every call. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, from $79+GST a month with a one-off $450+GST setup and no lock-in contracts. This page lays out where Vereo is strong so you can compare it against Sophiie and any other option on your shortlist. We have kept it factual: we describe what Vereo does and leave the competitor's current features and pricing for you to confirm directly with them.
Most teams comparing AI receptionists are not unhappy with the idea, they just want the specifics to line up: clear pricing, a voice that sounds right to Australian callers, fast setup, and a phone-first product rather than a chat tool with calling bolted on.
Vereo is built squarely around that brief. It is a specialist AI voice agent for the phone, tuned for Australian businesses, with pricing published in plain figures and stated as excluding GST. If those are the things on your checklist, the sections below show exactly what Vereo delivers.
We are not going to put words in Sophiie's mouth. Feature sets and pricing change, so check their current details with them directly. What follows is what Vereo can verifiably do today.
Vereo is a focused AI voice agent, not a general-purpose assistant. Here is where it is strong.
Vereo publishes one simple plan for growing businesses. The Starter plan is $79+GST a month and includes 100 inbound minutes, 24/7/365 answering with up to 20 simultaneous calls, calendar booking, warm transfer, CRM integration, call summaries and a monthly reporting dashboard.
There is a one-off $450+GST setup fee that covers agent configuration, voice selection and tuning, call flow design, knowledge base setup, integration wiring and go-live testing. Additional inbound minutes beyond the included 100 are billed at $0.49+GST per minute, and outbound calls are charged separately at $0.49+GST per minute plus carrier termination and are not deducted from your 100 included minutes.
All prices exclude GST and are stated as such. For higher volume, complex call flows or bespoke integrations, the Custom plan is priced on a discovery call. There are no per-seat fees and no lock-in contracts: Vereo is month to month and you can cancel any time.
Switching to a new AI receptionist should not stall your business. With Vereo, most businesses are live within a few business days.
The team handles the configuration, voice selection, call flow design and integration testing for you across three steps: discover your call flows and booking rules, build and tune the agent, then go live by pointing your number at Vereo.
You can keep your existing number by diverting it to Vereo, so nothing changes for your customers.
Vereo connects to common Australian business systems so bookings and lead details land where your team already works.
The Starter plan includes integrations with Google Calendar, Microsoft 365, ServiceM8, Simpro, Cliniko, HubSpot, Xero and Pipedrive. Custom integrations for specialist systems such as practice management platforms are available on the Custom plan.
The clearest way to judge any AI receptionist is against what missed calls are costing you now. Use the Vereo missed-call calculator to estimate the revenue slipping past your phone, then compare it to $79+GST a month.
If Vereo catches even a single job you would otherwise have lost, it has paid for itself for the month.
Vereo is an Australian AI voice agent that answers calls 24/7, qualifies callers, books appointments into your calendar and sends a summary after every call, from $79+GST a month with a one-off $450+GST setup and no lock-in. Whether it is the right fit depends on your needs, so we recommend comparing Vereo's published features and pricing against Sophiie's current details directly.
The Starter plan is $79+GST a month and includes 100 inbound minutes, 24/7/365 answering with up to 20 simultaneous calls, calendar booking, warm transfer, CRM integration and call summaries. There is a one-off $450+GST setup fee. Additional inbound minutes are $0.49+GST per minute, and outbound calls are $0.49+GST per minute plus carrier termination.
Yes. Vereo uses natural voices with sub-second response that understand Australian suburbs, slang and trade jargon, plus 30-plus languages for diverse communities. Most callers have a normal conversation and never realise they are speaking with AI.
Yes. You divert your current number to Vereo, so nothing changes for your customers. Setup takes minutes and most businesses are live within a few business days.
No. Vereo is month to month and you can cancel at any time. The only upfront cost is the one-off $450+GST setup fee.
The Starter plan includes integrations with Google Calendar, Microsoft 365, ServiceM8, Simpro, Cliniko, HubSpot, Xero and Pipedrive. Custom integrations for specialist systems are available on the Custom plan.
100 inbound minutes included. Everything a growing business needs.
$450+GST one-off setup · extra minutes $0.49+GST/min
High volume, complex call flows or bespoke integrations.
Tailored to your call volume
All prices exclude GST. Outbound calls are charged separately at $0.49+GST/min plus carrier termination and are not deducted from your 100 included minutes.