Why ownership matters for a receptionist
A receptionist touches every inbound call, which makes it the most metered surface in your business. On a typical turnkey product, a per-minute meter runs on every answered call, and the flow, the prompts, and the economics belong to the vendor. Volume growth becomes a bigger bill on someone else's terms.
On PeachDesk the alternatives are structural. Bring your own provider keys (BYOK) and inference cost is your own agreement with your providers. Self-host and route stages to Local mode on your GPUs and there is no per-minute provider charge on those stages; you pay for GPU capacity. Either way, the flow itself is an asset your team designed and can keep improving, not a configuration trapped in a rental.
For the numbers behind that trade, see PeachDesk pricing. Agencies building receptionists for clients should read voice AI for agencies.