Hostly vs smao

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Hostly compared with smao
Detail	Hostly	smao
What it does	AI web receptionist that answers customer questions and enables reservations on your website	AI phone assistant that answers calls, clarifies inquiries, and hands over to your team
Stage	Not given	Startup
Founded	Not given	2025
Based in	ES	DE
Pricing model	Paid	Freemium
Pricing	Mostrador: 29,90 €/month (600 conversations, 1,800 AI responses, 1 user); Recepción: 49,90 €/month (1,200 conversations, 3,600 AI responses, 2 users); Sala: 99,90 €/month (3,000 conversations, 9,000 AI responses, 5 users); Sede: 200 €/month (7,000 conversations, 21,000 AI responses, unlimited users)	Pay as you Go: 0.35 € per minute without base fee; Advanced: 249 € per month (annual contract) or 299 € monthly, 1,250 minutes included; Scale: 449 € per month (annual contract) or 499 € monthly, 3,000 minutes included; Enterprise: from 0.15 € per minute; additional chat messages at 0.006 € each, SM
Key features	Answers customer questions from business information Handles reservations and schedules Accepts payments via Stripe for deposits or full service cost Team member access to internal information and procedures Human review of conversations and manual control Multilingual responses that translate business information Integration with Beauty Calendar for scheduling Complaint flagging and notification to business email Does not invent prices, hours, or availability	Call analysis: automatically evaluates conversations and transfers inquiries, contact details and urgency to CRM, ticketing or workflows Internal dashboard chat for simulating calls and testing knowledge database Outbound calling: scheduled or event-based calls with clean tracking Personal call transfer to the right contact person Call transcripts: all conversations documented, traceable and exportable Widgets for simple interfaces leading callers to the AI assistant Knowledge database: answers from your own know-how, versioned and controllable Support for 10+ languages including German and Swiss German On-Premises deployment option on customer's Linux and Docker infrastructure
What makes it different	Only responds with information you provide and approve; never invents data Works across multiple industries with tailored configurations Includes internal team assistant for company knowledge access	No OpenAI or US AI subprocessors in conversation processing Cloud hosting in Germany with GDPR and EU AI Act compliance No AI training with customer data Setup in minutes without technical knowledge required 50 free minutes for testing without credit card
Free plan	Not given	Not given
Open source	Not given	Not given
Platforms	Not given	Not given
Public API	Not given	Not given
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	26 +1 (up) since last check	35 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	0	12
Citation Flow (Majestic)	19	26
Referring domains (Majestic)	6	44
Domain Authority (Moz)	1	Not checked yet
Page Authority (Moz)	5	Not checked yet
Spam Score (Moz)	-	Not checked yet

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