Updated October 3, 2026
Answering Service Pricing Index
What answering services and AI receptionists publish on their own pricing pages, collected in one table. A number only enters this index if it was read off the vendor's live page on the date shown, and we keep a copy of that page. When a vendor publishes no price, that is recorded too, because "you have to ask" is itself something a buyer should know before booking a sales call.
Maintained by OnCrew. We sell one of the products in this category; our own row is below and held to the same standard as every other row. Corrections: email hello@oncrew.ai with a link to the vendor's page.
Vendors that publish prices
Entry plan shown per vendor; billing units differ (per minute, per call, per unique customer) and are never silently converted.
OnCrew (this site)
$49/mo
- Entry plan
- Starter
- Includes
- 100 calls
- Overage
- $0.99 per call over the plan limit; alert texts past the plan allowance are $0.05 each
- Billing unit
- per call
- Checked
- Live
VoiceNation
$165/mo
- Entry plan
- People Answering, 50 minutes
- Includes
- 50 minutes
- Overage
- $2.28 per extra minute
- Billing unit
- per minute (People Answering) or per call (AI Answering)
- Checked
- October 2, 2026
Posh
$65.00/mo
- Entry plan
- Chic
- Includes
- 0 minutes
- Overage
- $2.30 per minute
- Billing unit
- per receptionist minute
- Checked
- October 2, 2026
PATLive
$49/mo
- Entry plan
- Pay as you go
- Includes
- 0 minutes
- Overage
- $2.99 per minute
- Billing unit
- per receptionist minute
- Checked
- September 22, 2026
Ruby Receptionists
$250/mo
- Entry plan
- 50 minutes
- Includes
- 50 minutes
- Overage
- Not shown
- Billing unit
- per receptionist minute
- Checked
- October 2, 2026
Smith.ai
$300/mo
- Entry plan
- Starter
- Includes
- 30 calls
- Overage
- $11.50 per call over 30
- Billing unit
- per call
- Checked
- September 22, 2026
Rosie
$49/mo
- Entry plan
- Professional
- Includes
- 250 minutes
- Overage
- Past 250 minutes you move up to Scale ($149/mo)
- Billing unit
- per month, by included minutes
- Checked
- September 23, 2026
Whippy
$200/mo
- Entry plan
- Lite
- Includes
- 2,000 credits/mo
- Overage
- Not shown
- Billing unit
- per month, metered in credits
- Checked
- October 2, 2026
Sameday
From $449/mo
- Entry plan
- Launch
- Includes
- Starts with 500 minutes
- Overage
- Not shown
- Billing unit
- per month, by included minutes
- Checked
- October 2, 2026
ServiceAgent
$0/mo
- Entry plan
- Launch
- Includes
- 1 user, unified CRM
- Overage
- Not shown
- Billing unit
- per month, metered in credits
- Checked
- October 2, 2026
Jobber Receptionist
$29/mo
- Entry plan
- Receptionist add-on
- Includes
- 30 conversations, on top of a Jobber plan
- Overage
- $0.79 per additional conversation
- Billing unit
- per month, by included conversations, as an add-on to a Jobber plan
- Checked
- October 3, 2026
Higher tiers exist at most vendors; the index prints the entry plan so the floor of each price list is comparable. Full tier tables live on each vendor's linked page.
Checked, linked instead of printed
These vendors publish prices and we checked them on the dates shown. We link to their pricing pages instead of reprinting those figures here.
- Goodcall: published on goodcall.com/pricing (checked October 2, 2026, per agent per month, metered on unique customers).
- Dialzara: published on dialzara.com/pricing (checked October 2, 2026, per minute of talk time).
- Abby Connect: published on abby.com/pricing (checked October 2, 2026, per Abby Minute).
- Grasshopper: published on grasshopper.com/pricing (checked October 2, 2026, per month, per phone system).
- MAP Communications: published on mapcommunications.com/pricing (checked October 2, 2026, per minute).
Vendors that make you ask
On the dates shown, these vendors published no price at the URL listed. That is not a criticism, but it is a fact a buyer should have before committing to a sales call.
- Nexa: no published pricing at nexa.com/plans (checked October 2, 2026).
- LeadTruffle: no published pricing at leadtruffle.co/pricing (checked October 2, 2026).
- Answering365: no published pricing at answering365.com/pricing (checked October 2, 2026).
- Numa: no published pricing at numa.com/pricing (checked October 2, 2026).
- AnswerConnect: no published pricing at answerconnect.com/pricing (checked October 2, 2026).
- AnswerNet: no published pricing at answernet.com/pricing (checked October 2, 2026).
- Answer1: no published pricing at answer1.com/pricing (checked July 29, 2026).
- AnswerForce: no published pricing at answerforce.com (checked October 2, 2026).
- Housecall Pro CSR AI: no published pricing at housecallpro.com/features/csr-ai (checked October 3, 2026).
- ServiceTitan AI Virtual Agents: no published pricing at servicetitan.com/features/pro/virtual-agent (checked October 3, 2026).
Reading the units
Live receptionist services usually bill by the minute, so a chatty caller costs more than a quick one. Some AI receptionists bill per minute too, some per call, and one meters unique customers. A per-minute plan rewards short calls; a per-call plan makes cost predictable per lead. When you compare two vendors, first put them in the same unit for your own call volume, and never trust an average you did not compute.