Kuyil greets visitors. SmartKiosk shows the answer.
| Feature | SmartKiosk | KuyilDirect |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A visitor app. Someone speaks, and the tablet shows a live widget. | A presence-aware voice assistant for lobbies. It greets, wayfinds, checks visitors in, and answers from your knowledge base. |
| How a visit starts | The visitor speaks. There is no language picker. | Sensors notice someone approaching and the kiosk greets them. No wake word and no tap. A touch fallback is on the screen for people who will not speak. |
| Languages | 50+ languages. The visit does not start on a language menu. | 50+ languages, detected automatically, including a switch mid-conversation. Named examples on their kiosk page include Spanish, and the page also names Mandarin and Tagalog. |
| What the screen shows | A live widget: a flight, an indoor map or an uploaded floor plan, a directory entry, or a wait time. | Spoken directions with maps on screen, plus answers from the customer's knowledge base. Live flight data is not mentioned on their kiosk or pricing pages. |
| Hardware | iPads, Android tablets, and smart screens the venue already owns. Hardware is not in the software price. | Pillars, wall displays, and countertop tablets through their partners, or Android and Windows kiosk hardware you own, with a directional mic. Hardware is quoted separately. iPad is not named on the kiosk page. |
| A person, when the answer is not enough | Talk to a Human is an add-on. On sites that turn it on, an operator joins the same screen. Operators see only their own organization's kiosks. | Visitor check-in notifies the host. Optional badge printers are named (Brother, Dymo, Zebra). A live operator joining the kiosk screen is not mentioned on their site. |
| Fleet and admin | A console for short-code pairing, content, floor plans, FAQ, Wi-Fi QR, notices, idle creatives, and fleet heartbeat. | An admin dashboard and analytics on the kiosk plan. Content management is listed on every plan. Enterprise adds SSO and role-based access. |
| Idle-screen ads | Video ads, promo cards, and branded backdrops while nobody is asking a question. | Not mentioned on their pricing, kiosk, or security pages. |
| Price | Managed is $59 per kiosk per month, billed annually. Included voice minutes are pooled across the account. Talk to a Human is $10 per kiosk per month. Live flight data sync is $39 per airport per month. | $500 per kiosk per month for Kiosk AI, with unlimited interactions. Website AI is $299 per month for one site. Enterprise is custom. A standard deployment has no setup fee. |
| Uptime commitment | An uptime SLA is not printed on the public plans. | Every plan includes a 99.9% uptime SLA. Their pricing page says enterprise plans can include tighter targets. |
| Security they publish | Keys stay off the device. Tenants are isolated. SOC 2, ISO 27001, and a HIPAA agreement are absent from the public plans. | Their security page describes a SOC 2 and ISO 27001 program, encryption in transit and at rest, tenant isolation, configurable retention, audit trails, HIPAA business associate agreements, and on-premise deployment. |
| A strong fit | Tablets you already own, a spoken question, and a live flight, map, or directory widget. The lock is a separate shell. | A lobby that wants a greeting as people approach, visitor check-in, unlimited interactions, and a published uptime SLA. |
Choose Kuyil if
- You want the kiosk to notice someone approaching, greet them, and check the visitor in.
- You want unlimited interactions and a published 99.9 percent uptime commitment on the standard kiosk plan.
- You need the security program on their security page, including SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA business associate agreements.
- You want website voice and the lobby kiosk sold as one family of plans.
Choose SmartKiosk if
- You want live flight answers and indoor maps on tablets the terminal already owns.
- You want per-kiosk plans, including a plan where you bring your own key.
- You want an operator to join the same screen. That is the Talk to a Human add-on.
- You already own iPads or Android tablets and only need the visitor app, plus a lock you choose.
Two products, two jobs
Kuyil is a voice assistant for lobbies and for websites. People walk up. Sensors notice them. The kiosk greets first, gives directions, checks a visitor in, and answers from that site's knowledge. SmartKiosk is voice kiosk software for a tablet you already own. A visitor asks. The screen shows a flight, a map, a directory entry, or a wait time.
If the job is "hello, who are you here to see," start with Kuyil. If the job is "which gate, which room, which way," start with SmartKiosk.
What Kuyil is built to do
Kuyil describes the kiosk as presence-aware. There is no wake word and no tap to begin. Their FAQ says the sensor notices that a person is there, not who the person is. Wayfinding is spoken, step by step, with maps on the screen. Check-in asks who the guest came to see and notifies the host. A badge can come from a Brother, Dymo, or Zebra printer when that integration is on. Languages are detected, including a switch mid-sentence. They name Spanish, Mandarin, and Tagalog, and they state 50+ languages. A touch fallback is on the screen for someone who will not speak, or for a room that is too loud.
Hospitals, retail, government, corporate offices, campuses, events, hotels, and transport hubs are the verticals they list. Live flight data is not mentioned on the kiosk page or the pricing page.
The kiosk plan is the line in the table. Website voice is a separate plan, a concierge on a site. Enterprise is a quote, for multi-site work and stricter compliance.
What SmartKiosk is built to do
A visitor speaks, and a live answer stays on the tablet. Flights are on the airport page. Rooms are on the campus page. You can try that today on 23 prebuilt airport demos with live flight data and indoor maps, and at the showcase from PTE Asia Expo in Singapore. Yohita Technologies, in Pune, builds the app.
Kuyil's touch fallback is a real advantage for a visitor who cannot speak or will not speak in public. Their kiosk page says voice-first does not mean voice-only, and that hardware partners offer accessible heights. Someone who cannot speak still needs another way to ask, and the answer has to be readable.
What you pay
Kuyil prices Kiosk AI at $500 per kiosk per month and says interactions are unlimited, so a busy door does not cost more than a quiet one. A standard deployment has no setup fee. A first kiosk, they say, is about four to six weeks, including discovery, tuning, and a pilot. Further kiosks are faster. Hardware is extra. Website voice is $299 per month for one site. Enterprise is where they put volume pricing, SSO, on-premise options, and a HIPAA business associate agreement.
One kiosk on Managed, billed at the annual rate, plus Talk to a Human is $59 plus $10, or $69 per month. Ten kiosks on that same pair of charges are $690 per month. Managed pools its included voice minutes across the account. Kuyil's kiosk plan advertises unlimited interactions, so a quiet pilot and a door that talks all day are different bills.
On SmartKiosk, Enterprise includes live flight data and white-label. Talk to a Human is an add-on on every plan.
Hardware & peripheral integration
Kuyil lists standing pillars, wall-mounted displays, and countertop tablets through partners, with a directional microphone. The hardware quote is separate from the subscription.
SmartKiosk deploys on iPads, Android tablets, or custom-configured enclosures the team specifies. Peripheral devices — thermal and badge printers, cameras, biometric ID readers, and EMV/NFC payment terminals — are connected and configured per deployment. The enclosure, microphone, and peripherals are scoped at the deployment stage. Android is on Google Play. iOS is enterprise-provisionable. The device lock is separate, in the iPad and Android guide.
Security
Kuyil publishes a detailed security page covering SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA-ready deployments with BAAs, encryption in transit and at rest, configurable retention, tenant isolation, audit trails, SSO, and on-premise deployment options.
SmartKiosk is built on a security-first architecture: session tokens are minted server-side and expire per session, provider keys never live on the device, operators see only their own organisation's kiosks, and tenant isolation is enforced across the platform. A formal compliance programme (SOC 2, ISO 27001) is in progress. For security requirements in regulated verticals — healthcare, government, finance — contact the team to discuss a scoped security review.
Sources
Checked 18 October 2026.
- Kuyil, pricing. https://www.kuyil.ai/pricing
- Kuyil, kiosk AI. https://www.kuyil.ai/kiosk-ai
- Kuyil, security. https://www.kuyil.ai/security
- SmartKiosk plans, on the pricing page.
Questions & answers.
They overlap where a person walks up and speaks, and both answer in many languages. Kuyil leads with a greeting, wayfinding, and visitor check-in. SmartKiosk keeps a flight, a map, a directory entry, or a wait time on the tablet after the question. The screen is part of the answer, not a side display.
Their pricing page says hardware is not included. It is quoted separately, through their partner network or as compatible hardware you already own. SmartKiosk is software too. The tablet, the enclosure, and the microphone sit outside the software price. Both rate cards are in the table and on the pricing page.
SmartKiosk does not lock the tablet. Pinning one app to the glass is a separate shell. The iPad and Android guide walks through Guided Access, Single App Mode, and lock task mode. Kuyil's kiosk page talks about pillars, wall displays, and tablets. It does not describe those operating-system locks.
SmartKiosk connects to peripheral devices including badge and thermal printers (Zebra, Epson, and ESC/POS-compatible) when configured for a deployment. The core product is an AI voice + visual information kiosk; check-in and badge printing flows are configured per deployment. Contact us to discuss a custom integration for your use case.
Kuyil's kiosk page says the audio is tuned per deployment for atriums, food courts, and entryways, using multi-mic beamforming. SmartKiosk has no score from a public hall to hand you. Read the same answer on the screen when the room is loud, and try the tablet where it will stand.
The SmartKiosk price row is the rate card: Managed on annual billing, plus Talk to a Human. A worked example for one kiosk and for ten kiosks sits under the comparison. Kuyil's kiosk plan is $500 per kiosk per month with unlimited interactions. Both figures are in the table and on the pricing page.