Talkify / Alternatives / FirstVoice AI / Head to head
AI receptionist, agency model · Read off their own pages · Checked August 2026

Why Talkify over FirstVoice AI.

Hand the whole thing over, or keep the keys yourself.

Managed service is a legitimate way to buy, and at the top of our range we will do the setup for you too. The question worth asking is what the premium buys once the first month is over.

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What each of us publishes.

Not what we think they do, and not what a salesperson said on a call. Their column is what FirstVoice AI states on their own website, read in August 2026. Where they do not publish something, the row says so instead of guessing, because "not published" is a fact about the website and everything else would be a guess about the company.

What to look atFirstVoice AITalkify
Where your call recordings and transcripts are held Not stated as New Zealand anywhere we could find on their own pages. New Zealand data centres, stated in writing.
How long they have been going See their site, and ask directly if there is no founding year on it. Talkify has answered New Zealand business calls since 2024, built by a Christchurch studio over twelve years old.
Where support answers from See their site for a phone number and the hours somebody answers it. A New Zealand phone number, in your timezone, answered by the people who built it.
Who sells the phone line Ask whether you are buying a line or forwarding the number you already have, and what happens to that number if you leave. We do. A real New Zealand number on our own carrier account, with the agent already on it.
Integrations See their published list, and ask which of them are live and self-serve today. Every name we publish has a connector we wrote and can show you, plus a documented REST API, webhooks and Zapier for the rest.
What else runs on the same account AI receptionist, agency model. Ask what else the same account does. Reception, plus outgoing campaigns, phone surveys, invoice chasing from your own Xero, wellness checks, an on-call roster, a front counter agent and a website chat widget.
Mobile apps Not published by any other provider in our sweep of this market. iOS and Android apps on every plan, with transcripts, summaries and alerts.
Your invoice Ask for a New Zealand dollar invoice with GST on it, and check what you get. New Zealand dollars with GST, from a New Zealand company.

Taken from FirstVoice AI's own public pages in August 2026, and from ours. Something changed, or we have described your product wrongly? Tell us and we will correct it. Costs are deliberately not in this table: they live on the comparison table, in one place, with a checked date against them.

The fair bit

Where FirstVoice AI is the better pick.

A business that would rather hand the whole thing over with white-glove onboarding and has the budget for it. Some owners genuinely do not want a dashboard, and there is nothing wrong with paying someone to make it somebody else's job.

We would rather you bought the right thing than bought from us. If the paragraph above describes your situation, go and talk to them, and tell them we sent you.

Ask both of us the same things.

Three questions worth putting to FirstVoice AI before you sign anything. They are not gotchas and they are not accusations: they are the things about this kind of product that cost people money when they find out late.

Question 1.

What is included, since the only figure published is a from-price and it appears inside a comparison against the cost of a human receptionist rather than on a pricing page. Ask for minutes, integrations and contract terms in writing.

Question 2.

What ongoing changes cost once you are live, which is the number that matters most on a managed service.

Question 3.

Whether you can see and export your own call data, or whether it stays inside the service you are paying for.

Now turn them on us. Here are the answers.

A page telling you to interrogate everyone else and then going quiet about itself is worth nothing. So these are ours, written down, and we will put any of them in an email if you want them in writing.

How long have you been going? Talkify has answered New Zealand business calls since 2024. The studio behind it, D3V Services Limited in Christchurch, has been building software for over twelve years and was doing voice and telephony work before Talkify had a name.
Who answers when something is wrong? A New Zealand phone number, in your timezone, answered by the people who wrote the thing. Not a chat widget, and not a reply from another hemisphere in the morning.
Where are my call recordings held? New Zealand data centres. Audio, transcripts and call metadata, stated in writing on the privacy policy rather than implied by a claim about ownership or encryption.
Who sells the phone line? We do. We hold a direct commercial relationship with the New Zealand carrier our numbers ride on, so numbers are provisioned on our own account, the routing is ours to change, and the number stays yours if you leave.
Which integrations are real? All of the ones we name. We keep a hard internal rule that nothing is named on this website until the connector behind it exists and we can point you at it in code, which is why the list is shorter than some.
Is there an API? Yes, a documented REST API with webhooks and Zapier, so whatever we have not built a connector for, you or your developer can.
Is there an app? Yes, iOS and Android, on every plan. Transcripts, summaries and alerts in your pocket rather than in an email you re-read later.

Six things that are hard to see on a demo call.

None of them are features, and every one is something you can check rather than something we can claim. They are the reasons this comparison usually turns on something other than the voice.

Each of those is argued out, with what backs it, on the alternatives page, beside every other provider selling into New Zealand. The rest of the platform the fifth of those names, outgoing campaigns, phone surveys, invoice chasing from your own Xero, wellness checks, the on-call roster, the front counter agent and website chat, runs on the same account and the same bill.

And what ours costs.

One price, published, with the allowance and the rate past it published beside it. FirstVoice AI's pricing is not on this page on purpose: competitor prices live in one place on this website, under the date they were last checked, because a figure kept in two places drifts and one of the two starts lying.

Talkify, NZD, plus GST

$129 a month, founding rate.

200 minutes included, then 10c a minute, both published. No setup fee, no lock-in, and no platform fee bolted on top of the minutes. The founding rate holds for your first 3 months and the standard rate after it is $199, printed here rather than discovered on invoice four.

See the cost table → Our pricing →

The comparison table works out what 200 minutes of answered calls actually costs on every provider's published pricing, setup fees, monthly platform fees, GST treatment and per-minute overage included. For what FirstVoice AI sells, who it suits and the whole New Zealand market grouped by what each provider actually is, see the FirstVoice AI page and the alternatives.

Frequently asked.

The questions we hear most. If yours isn't here, ring our live demo agent on 03 242 1262, it'll either answer or queue a callback from a human.

What is the difference between Talkify and FirstVoice AI?
Managed service is a legitimate way to buy, and at the top of our range we will do the setup for you too. The question worth asking is what the premium buys once the first month is over.
When is FirstVoice AI the better choice?
A business that would rather hand the whole thing over with white-glove onboarding and has the budget for it. Some owners genuinely do not want a dashboard, and there is nothing wrong with paying someone to make it somebody else's job.
What should I ask both of you?
What is included, since the only figure published is a from-price and it appears inside a comparison against the cost of a human receptionist rather than on a pricing page. Ask for minutes, integrations and contract terms in writing. What ongoing changes cost once you are live, which is the number that matters most on a managed service. Whether you can see and export your own call data, or whether it stays inside the service you are paying for. Ask us the same ones. Our answers are on this page and we will put any of them in writing.
Which is cheaper, Talkify or FirstVoice AI?
Competitor prices are not on this page, deliberately. They live on our comparison table with the date they were last checked against them, because a price kept in two places drifts and one of the two starts lying. That page works out what 200 minutes of answered calls costs on every provider's published pricing, with setup fees, monthly platform fees, GST treatment and per-minute overage included.
Where does this information about FirstVoice AI come from?
Their own public pages, read in August 2026. Where they do not publish something we say that rather than guessing, and nothing in the table is a claim about how they run their business. If we have got something wrong about your product, email [email protected] and we will fix it.
Can I hear Talkify before I decide?
Yes, and without handing over your details. Ring 03 242 1262 any time, day or night, and talk to a live Talkify agent in a real New Zealand voice. No form, no card, no follow-up call unless you ask for one. Try to do the same with everyone on your shortlist.
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