// pricing · no surprises
Three tiers. Public.
An AI receptionist that answers your business line live costs $249 to $1,200 a month with Handled — versus $2,900 to $4,100 a month for a human receptionist. Every price on this page is the real price. No custom quotes, no call-to-find-out.
Starter
$249/mo
500 minutes · $0.20/min over
- AI answers your line live, 24/7
- Your cloned voice or a preset
- Bilingual EN / ES by default
- Books to your calendar mid-call
- SMS recap after every call
- 30-day money-back
Pro
$549/mo
1,500 minutes · CRM-native
- Everything in Starter
- CRM-native — GHL, HubSpot, ServiceTitan, Jobber
- Monthly tuning on your real calls
- Priority support
- 30-day money-back
Vertical
$1,200/mo
Industry-tuned · bi-weekly tuning
- Everything in Pro
- Tuned to your industry's vocabulary + compliance
- Barbershops, insurance, dental, legal, real estate, medspas
- Bi-weekly tuning cycles
- Dedicated Slack channel
// the fine print, not fine at all
- Setup
- $500 one-time — knowledge base, voice clone, greeting tune, go-live
- Contract
- Month-to-month. Cancel anytime, forwarding reverses in minutes
- Money-back
- 30 days on Starter and Pro — full refund, no forms
- Overage
- Starter $0.20/min past 500 minutes; Pro pool is 1,500 minutes
- Deploy time
- Live in 48 hours from signup
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Voicemail. Answering service. Handled.
How the three options compare on the dimensions that actually matter.
Option 01
Voicemail
Option 02
Answering service
Option 03
Handled.
Picks up live (no voicemail)
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Sounds like your business
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Bilingual EN / ES out of the box
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Books to your calendar + writes back to your CRM
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Works 24/7, holidays included
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FCC / TCPA / state-disclosure compliant
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Setup time
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1–2 weeks
48 hours
Monthly cost
$0
$300–$1,500
$249–$1,200
Honest about being AI
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// answering-service estimates: industry pricing 2024–25