Numa Pricing 2026: No Published Rates, Built for Dealers
No prices anywhere on numa.com and no pricing page: numa.com/pricing forwards to the homepage. Numa is car dealership software, not a contractor answering service. Checked October 5, 2026.
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Quick answer
Where should a contractor start when choosing an answering service?
- Read the cross-trade buyer's guide first: AI, live receptionists, call centers, and voicemail side by side.
- Then open the guide for your trade: HVAC, plumbing, electrical, or roofing.
- Price your real call volume, per call against per minute, before any demo.
- Test each shortlisted service with the same urgent after-hours call.
Buyer guides
Pick the answering service built for your trade
We refresh these guides for the calls that actually decide a contractor's week: the 2 a.m. burst pipe, the no-heat overnight, the storm-week roofing surge. Start with the cross-trade overview, then jump straight to your trade.
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Best Answering Service for Contractors (2026 Prices)
Cross-trade comparison of AI agents, live virtual receptionists, traditional call centers, and voicemail. Five-question buyer's framework, worked pricing math, and category fit by truck count.
Updated Sep 26, 202621 min readRead guide
Pricing analysisAll trades
Ruby Receptionist Pricing 2026: $250 for 50 Minutes
Ruby Receptionist pricing in 2026 explained: $250/month for 50 receptionist minutes up to $1,725 for 500 per ruby.com/plans-and-pricing (rechecked July 2026), the line items that can be billed extra (per-minute overage, add-ons), and the contractor-AI alternatives at $49 to $349 per month flat.
Updated Jul 29, 20269 min readRead guide
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HVAC
Best HVAC Answering Services 2026: 8 Compared on Price
How HVAC contractors should evaluate intake for no-heat overnight, CO and gas-smell handoff, and the heat wave or freeze week surge. Shortlist, cost notes, and red flags.
Updated Sep 26, 2026Read
Plumbing
Best Answering Service for Plumbers 2026: 10 Compared
Burst pipes, sewer backups, gas-smell handoff, and after-hours on-call routing for plumbing shops. The buyer's checklist to use before you forward your number to anyone.
Updated Sep 26, 2026Read
Electrical
Electrician Answering Service: 2026 Prices, AI vs Live
Sparking outlets, panel-burn intake, medical-equipment outage routing, and storm-week surge for electrical contractors. Honest shortlist, cost, and red flags.
Updated Sep 23, 2026Read
Roofing
Roofing Answering Service: 2026 Prices, Live vs AI
Active leaks during live rain, hail-spike capacity, tarp queues, and insurance follow-up for roofing crews. The buyer's checklist a GM uses before forwarding the storm line.
Updated Sep 26, 2026Read
Plumbing
Plumbing Virtual Receptionist: How AI Handles Burst-Pipe Calls in 2026
What a plumbing virtual receptionist handles (burst pipes, sewage backup, slab leak), the shutoff-guidance scripts, the 5-call buyer's test, and real pricing for 1-10 truck plumbing shops.
Updated Aug 15, 2026Read
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118 articles across 10 pages, 12 to a page, refreshed as the contractor answering service market changes.
ROI of Automating Missed-Call Follow-Up for Contractors
The real ROI math on automating missed-call follow-up for contractors. Lead capture rates, average ticket conversion, and the dollar math for a 1-truck and 10-truck shop comparing voicemail vs AI follow-up.
HVAC Answering Service Cost in 2026: What You Should Actually Pay
A breakdown of what HVAC contractors pay for answering services in 2026, from live call centers to AI phone agents, with each vendor's published prices and the fees to ask about.
Jobber Receptionist Pricing 2026: $29 for 30 Conversations
Jobber's own help center: Receptionist is a $29/mo add-on with 30 conversations, then $0.79 each, unlimited on the Plus plan. What counts, what it needs, and the contractor math. Read October 3, 2026.
VoiceNation Pricing 2026: Now Moneypenny, $69 to $985/Mo
VoiceNation is now Moneypenny USA, and its live receptionist plans print prices again: $165 to $985/mo for 50 to 500 minutes. AI answering runs $69 to $435/mo for 25 to 250 calls. The verified tables plus per-call AI alternatives from $49/mo.
HVAC Answering Service Guide: After-Hours Calls, Prices
What an HVAC answering service does on a 2 AM no-heat call, what live and AI options cost (prices checked September 2026), and how to set one up.
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Best HVAC Answering Services 2026: 8 Compared on Price
Published prices: PATLive, Ruby, Smith.ai, Specialty Answering Service and OnCrew, checked September 2026, plus what AnswerForce, Nexa and AnswerPro disclose.
Best Answering Service for Plumbers 2026: 10 Compared
Plumbing answering services compared on published prices (Sept 2026): OnCrew $49 for 100 calls. Ruby $250 for 50 minutes, Smith.ai $300 for 30 calls.
Roofing Answering Service: 2026 Prices, Live vs AI
Roofing answering service prices from each vendor's site (Sept 2026): Posh, Ruby, Smith.ai, AnswerHero, Sameday and OnCrew, plus the storm-month bill per plan.
Best Answering Service for Contractors (2026 Prices)
Best answering service for contractors in 2026: published prices for 13 live and AI services, how each one bills, and the test calls to run before you switch.
Rosie AI Alternatives 2026: Same $49, Minutes vs Calls
Rosie is $49 for 250 minutes, and going over moves you up to its next plan, not a per-minute rate. Six alternatives priced off each vendor's own page.
Rosie AI Pricing 2026: $49 for 250 Minutes, Then $149
Rosie's own page: $49 for 250 minutes, $149 for 1,000, $299 for 2,000. Going over moves you up a plan, not a per-minute rate. Rechecked September 23, 2026.
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