Compare answering service prices at your call volume.

Guides

• Answering service pricing: monthly and per-minute plans

  Every plan priced at 50, 100 and 200 calls, with the rounding and fees that raise the bill.

• Answering service statistics

  Medians, billing increments, spam rules and contract terms, counted vendor by vendor.

• Per-minute vs flat-rate pricing

  Where each billing model costs less, with a calculator.

• Hidden fees

  Every fee each vendor's terms allow, quoted against its marketing.

• Which services charge for spam calls

  Each vendor's spam, robocall and wrong-number rule.

• Month-to-month answering services

  Minimum terms, notice periods and who keeps your number.

• Who owns which answering service

  The brands that share one company and one contract.

Price log

• October 12, 2026Added NextPhone Pro, Growth and Scale from its public pricing page. All three plans include unlimited calls with no per-minute charge or overage fee.
• October 12, 2026Rechecked the indexed plan prices on vendor pages; no priced row changed. Corrected the Nextiva exclusion note: XBert AI Receptionist is presented as an add-on to per-user business phone plans, with no published add-on price or AI allowance. Nextiva remains outside the comparable price table.
• October 9, 2026Clarified Alert Communications and Nexa trial summaries from "None" to "None found": the reviewed public pages do not offer trial terms, but do not establish that no private offer exists.
• October 9, 2026Clarified LEX Reception trial wording from "None" to "None found": the reviewed vendor pages publish no trial offer, but do not establish that the company never offers one.

The full log