Kea AI vs smao

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Kea AI compared with smao
Detail	Kea AI	smao
What it does	AI chat for small business websites that answers customer enquiries day and night	AI phone assistant that answers calls, clarifies inquiries, and hands over to your team
Stage	Not given	Startup
Founded	Not given	2025
Based in	Not given	DE
Pricing model	Freemium	Freemium
Pricing	Free plan at $0/month with 100 answers a month. Answer plan at €19.90/month (€), US$22.90/month (USD), £17.90/month (GBP), or A$32.90/month (AUD), with 2,000 answers a month. Add-ons available for photo estimates, extra answers, extra team members, Instagram auto-sync, and coming soon: Google Calend	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 enquiries instantly using your pricing, policies and service area Collects job details and emails enquiries for your confirmation Photo estimates feature for job assessment Customizable brand colours, logo and tone of voice Weekly summary email of all chats Optional voice responses in Chrome and Safari Customers can flag incorrect answers for improvement No minimum term, cancel anytime Chat records deleted after 30 days	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	Built specifically for trade businesses, not generic small business Answers in seconds before customers ring a competitor Nothing is auto-booked without your confirmation Uses your real prices and policies, never generic responses No technical knowledge needed for setup	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)	Not checked yet no change since last check	35 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	4	12
Citation Flow (Majestic)	9	26
Referring domains (Majestic)	4	44

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