Written and maintained by the Futuro Editorial Team · Approved by Brandon Gillespie, Founder & CEO · Last updated September 25, 2026
Vendor Pricing Index · Editorial Standards · Publishing Principles · Corrections Policy
This policy explains how the Futuro Editorial Team builds, sources, dates, and maintains the Vendor Pricing Index published at futurocorp.com/vendor-pricing. It applies to every vendor listing in that index, now and as the index grows. It works together with our Editorial Standards, Publishing Principles, Ethics Policy, and Corrections Policy, and it is reviewed and re-approved by our Founder & CEO whenever the process described here changes.
The Vendor Pricing Index is a directory of vendor pricing in the AI receptionist and voice-AI market. Every listing in the index contains a screenshot of that vendor's pricing. The index is updated every Friday at 9:00 AM EST — without exception and regardless of the vendor: its size, its popularity, its funding, or its relationship (or lack of one) with Futuro.
The index currently covers 64 vendors, and we intend to keep growing it to well over 100. Any time we publish an article that includes a vendor, or our team encounters a vendor we have not previously tracked, that vendor is added to the index. Each listing shows the vendor's pricing as described by the vendor on its own website — nothing more, nothing less.
We maintain the index for one reason: transparency. In this industry, straightforward pricing is genuinely difficult to obtain. A large share of AI receptionist and voice-AI vendors will not tell you what anything costs until you book a demo, sit through a sales call, or complete an information form with your contact details. That is a real obstacle for a small-business owner trying to compare options on a budget.
The problem is compounded by how quickly this market moves. Pricing in the AI industry changes more often than pricing in most other industries — plans get renamed, tiers get restructured, and per-minute and per-call rates get adjusted, sometimes with little or no notice. A number that was accurate two months ago may already be stale.
A dated, screenshot-backed record of what each vendor actually publishes is the only honest way to track that. The index exists to give consumers a complete record of every vendor we encounter — including Futuro's own product, which is listed under exactly the same rules as everyone else.
Each listing shows the vendor's pricing as described on the vendor's website, captured and dated on the most recent Friday update. The screenshot is the record; the date on it tells you when we last confirmed it.
The index carries no editorial information. No rankings, no recommendations, no scores, no interpretation, and no commentary appear on the index itself. Editorial analysis — where we evaluate, compare, and recommend — lives in our guides and comparisons, which publish their methodology and evidence levels openly. The index is deliberately different: it is strictly a record of what each vendor publishes about its own pricing.
Every listing in the index is built from sources in this exact order:
When a listing relies on G2 or Capterra rather than the vendor's own site, the listing says so explicitly.
Today, each listing in the index shows the most recent Friday's screenshot for that vendor.
By the end of October 2026, we will complete an archive system that documents each vendor's pricing structure across the entire history Futuro has tracked it. Once live, visitors will be able to see how a vendor's published pricing has changed over time — every dated capture we hold — so the index becomes a complete historical record rather than a single snapshot.
Archived captures will carry the same standards as current ones: the same sourcing order, the same no-guessing rule, and the same dating. A capture that was sourced from G2 in the archive will be labeled as such in the archive.
Because AI-industry pricing changes more often than pricing in most other industries, we believe the only useful record is a complete one. The archive is our commitment to keeping that record for every vendor in the index, for as long as we track them.
We actively want to be told when a listing is wrong or out of date:
Because the entire index is re-checked every Friday at 9:00 AM EST, most corrections are confirmed independently by the weekly cycle even without a report. Feedback is reviewed by the editorial team, not by sales or marketing, and submitting feedback never affects how any vendor is covered.
This policy is one part of a larger editorial system. Our Editorial Standards govern how guides and comparisons are researched and written; our Publishing Principles govern sourcing, evidence levels, and rankings; our Ethics Policy governs how we handle the fact that Futuro's own product appears in our content and in the index; and our Corrections Policy governs how errors are fixed and disclosed.
The Vendor Pricing Index itself is deliberately not self-promotional. It is a consumer-helpful record: every vendor we encounter, captured on a fixed weekly schedule, from a fixed set of sources, under a fixed set of rules — pricing as described on the website, nothing more and nothing less. Futuro's own product receives no special treatment in the index, and no vendor can pay for placement, priority, or a more favorable capture. If that ever changes, it will be disclosed prominently here and on the index itself.