9 provider pricing pages checked 2026-09-10
An answering service pricing comparison, quoted from each provider's own page
Almost every answering service sells minutes, and almost none of them will tell you what a minute costs until you have sat through a call. This site records what each provider actually prints on its own pricing page. Every figure below was fetched from that page and matched word for word before it was published, with the date we checked. Where a provider publishes nothing, that is what it says.
- median advertised entry price, per month
- $65
- advertised entry price range across providers
- $25 to $399
- providers with a price they will print
- 9
- industries with evidenced cover
- 2
- 9 provider pages checkedevery figure matched verbatim to the provider's own page
- Quoted and dated, never estimatedlast verification pass 2026-09-10
- 2 industries with evidenced coverevidenced by the provider's own live industry page
Advertised entry prices, checked against each provider's own page
| Provider | Entry price | Per minute or call | What it covers | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abby Connect | |||||
| AnswerFirst | |||||
| AnsweringService.com | |||||
| Gabbyville | |||||
| PATLive | |||||
| Posh | |||||
| Ruby | |||||
| Smith.ai | |||||
| Specialty Answering Service |
Ordered by advertised entry price. Providers that publish no rate are listed after them with the date we checked, never with an estimate, and providers whose pages we could not read are marked separately again.
- Answering services "Answering services" covers three businesses that charge in completely different ways.
- Phone answering service Choosing a phone answering service on price alone goes wrong because the price buys minutes, not outcomes.
- Call answering service The choice between a call answering service billed by the call and one billed by the minute is not a detail, it is the whole cost model.
- Cheap answering service The bottom of this market is not a cut-down version of the top of it.
- Small business phone answering Most feature lists in this market are written for businesses much larger than the ones reading them.
- For small businesses A dental practice, a plumbing firm and a two-person consultancy are all small businesses and none of them wants the same answering service.
- For attorneys A law firm buying an answering service is almost never buying message taking.
- Mobile answering service For a business run from a van rather than an office, the phone is not sitting on a desk being ignored, it is in a pocket under a sink.
- Virtual receptionists The phrase virtual receptionist is used loosely enough to be unhelpful, but there is a real distinction underneath it.
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The advertised entry monthly price for a US live answering service in the US answering service market was $65 in September 2026, across 9 checked provider pricing pages recorded in Answering Service Quotes Price Record.
Cite as: "Answering Service Quotes Price Record", updated 2026-09-10, https://answeringservicequotes.com/.