Comparison
Grepiv vs Rosie
Rosie is a low-cost, self-serve AI answering service for small businesses, priced by minutes. Grepiv is a fuller AI desk: inbound and outbound calls, SMS and WhatsApp threads, pipelines and webhooks into your own systems.
Facts checked October 28, 2026. We make Grepiv; every claim about another product links to that vendor’s own site.
The short answer
Choose Rosie if you want the cheapest published way to get an AI answering your phone this week. Choose Grepiv if the calls are leads that need working: called back, texted, captured into fields you define and pushed to your CRM.
What Rosie is
An AI answering service for small businesses, naming home services, law firms, property management and salons. Self-serve, with no developer needed.
What Grepiv is
An AI communications platform: a voice agent on each of your lines, outbound AI calling, and two-way SMS and WhatsApp on the same numbers, with leads, pipelines and bookings in one dashboard.
Side by side
Grepiv vs Rosie
| Grepiv | Rosie | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Quoted per account after a demo, based on call volume, numbers and integrations. No public price list. | Professional $49/month for 250 minutes; Scale $149 for 1,000; Growth $299 for 2,000. Overage not stated. |
| Trial | No self-serve trial. The demo runs on a real line. | 7-day free trial. |
| Human receptionists | No. AI only, with live transfer to your own team. | No. Transfers to your own staff. |
| AI answers inbound calls | Yes. One agent per number, each with its own script, voice and language. | Yes. |
| AI outbound calls | Yes, including an automatic call to a new lead the moment it arrives, with lead sources you exclude never dialled. | Not stated. |
| SMS | Yes. Two-way AI SMS on the same numbers that take the calls. | Texts during calls on the Scale plan; website texting add-on at $50/month for 25 conversations. |
| Yes, plain-text WhatsApp on your numbers. | Not stated. | |
| Appointment booking | Yes, inside your working hours, with round-robin assignment. The voice agent can also reschedule or cancel. | Booking links by text on Professional; direct calendar booking on Scale. |
| Transfer to a person | Yes, on trigger phrases you set, with an announcement and retries. | Live transfers on Scale and Growth. |
| CRM integration | Any CRM over HTTP webhooks: a lookup before the call, tools during it, workflows after it. No packaged connectors such as Clio or HubSpot. | Zapier. |
| Your phone number | Runs on Twilio. Keep the number you advertise by porting it to your own Twilio account; the numbers stay yours. | Keep your number with call forwarding. |
| Setup | No code. Script, fields to capture and rules are set in the dashboard; the CRM handoff needs an endpoint on your side. | Self-serve, no code. |
Choose Rosie if
- Price is the deciding factor and your volume fits a minutes bundle
- You want a free trial and to set it up yourself
- You mainly need calls answered and messages taken
Choose Grepiv if
- You want outbound calls and two-way SMS and WhatsApp in the same place
- You need custom intake fields extracted from every call
- You want CRM integration over webhooks rather than through Zapier
- You run several lines, each with its own agent and script
Questions
Grepiv vs Rosie, asked.
01
How much does Rosie cost?
Rosie's plans are $49 a month for 250 minutes, $149 for 1,000 and $299 for 2,000, with a 7-day free trial. Its pricing page does not state an overage rate.
02
Does Grepiv have a free trial?
No self-serve trial. Grepiv starts with a demo on a real line, and pricing is quoted per account.
03
Can Grepiv run a different script on each phone number?
Yes. Each number gets its own agent with its own script, greeting, voice, language and transfer rules, and can be switched on or off independently.
Sources
Where these facts come from.
Vendors change plans often. Each was read on October 28, 2026; if something here is out of date, tell us at [email protected] and we will correct it.
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