Vertical AI vs Hey Jodie: AI receptionist pricing, trials and data residency compared

Hey Jodie and Vertical AI side by side

The table sets each vendor's published facts next to each other. Where a vendor publishes nothing, the cell says so.

Hey Jodie pricing and Vertical AI pricing

Hey Jodie's pricing page lists Basic at A$99 a month, Professional at A$199 and Premium at A$399, with unlimited minutes on all three. The page says prices exclude tax and adds it at checkout. Enterprise starts at A$1,000 a month.

Hey Jodie's comparison table gives the three plans different features. Basic takes messages and does not book appointments or transfer calls. Professional adds bookings, transfers and team members, and Premium adds Zapier integrations and priority support.

The plan cards on the same page list bookings and transfers under all three plans, so the cards and the table disagree on Basic. Ask Hey Jodie which one applies before you buy Basic for bookings.

Hey Jodie's home page FAQ quotes A$99 a month after the trial, read 29 October 2026. On 27 September 2026 the same FAQ quoted A$49. The pricing page also offers a Pay Annually toggle labelled 2 months free, and shows no annual price.

Our plans are A$49 a month for 100 minutes, A$199 for 400 and A$499 for 1,000. Extra minutes cost A$0.40. Every plan books into a calendar and transfers calls to a person.

Both vendors give 2 months free on a yearly plan. Our annual plans charge 10 months and give 12.

Where Hey Jodie is the better choice

Buy Hey Jodie if your line runs past about 250 minutes a month. Basic costs A$108.90 with tax for unlimited minutes, and our Starter plan with extra minutes costs more from 250. Professional, which books and transfers calls, costs A$218.90, which our Starter passes at about 525 minutes.

Both vendors give 7 days free with no card. Hey Jodie pauses the service if you do not choose a plan, and runs month to month with no setup fee.

Hey Jodie ships iOS and Android apps on every plan, with push notifications, recordings and transcripts. It names Rex, a real estate CRM, and GoHighLevel as direct integrations, and neither is on our list.

Where Vertical AI is the better choice

Buy Vertical AI if your callers' recordings and transcripts have to rest in Australia. We store them in Sydney, and the AI model runs in Sydney by default. Hey Jodie names Ireland and the United States for call audio, transcripts and summaries.

Buy Vertical AI if you want to hear the agent before you sign up. Our demo agent answers 1800 570 693 live. Hey Jodie's home page makes the test call a setup step, after you add your business details.

Buy Vertical AI if the entry plan has to book appointments and transfer calls. Hey Jodie's Basic plan does neither, and our Starter plan does both, at A$49 against A$218.90 with tax for Hey Jodie Professional. Growth adds CRM connectors, including Salesforce, HubSpot and Pipedrive.

Where each vendor processes Australian call data

Hey Jodie is Jodie AI Limited, registered in London under company number 16685106. Its privacy policy says it processes personal data in Ireland and the United States by default, for telephony, AI processing and storage. Its data processing addendum is governed by the laws of England and Wales.

Hey Jodie shares its sub-processor list on request, under a non-disclosure agreement. A buyer who needs a named processing country has to agree it with Hey Jodie in writing before subscribing, according to the same policy.

The policy was last updated on 21 October 2026, and we re-read it on 29 October 2026. It still names Ireland and the United States, and says Hey Jodie does not guarantee single-region hosting unless it agrees in writing.

Our call records, call servers and default AI model sit in Sydney. Speech recognition and the voice run in Australia by default, and call audio stays in Australia. Nothing leaves the country unless you switch an agent to an overseas model or voice.

Fit by type of business

Match the plan to what the call has to do. Each line below rests on the published facts above.

• A line of more than about 250 minutes a month that only needs messages taken pays less on Hey Jodie Basic, A$99 a month before tax.
• A real estate agency on Rex gets a direct integration from Hey Jodie and none from us.
• A clinic, legal practice or finance business whose recordings have to rest in Australia gets Sydney storage from us, and Hey Jodie names Ireland and the United States.
• A business on Salesforce or Pipedrive gets a CRM connector from us on Growth, A$199 a month.