RingCentral AIR vs Handled.
RingCentral AIR is what happens when a big phone company enters this business: $49/mo, 100 minutes included, and millions of existing phone customers it can sell to on day one.
Their prices change. Verify on their site. Ours are public on /pricing.
RingCentral AIR · checked August 2026
- AIR standalone
- 100 minutes included
- $49/mo
- AIR for RingEX customers
- discounted inside the RingCentral stack
- $39/mo
Handled · public pricing
- Line
- 200 min · $500 one-time setup · 30-day money-back
- $149/mo
- Starter
- 500 min · $500 one-time setup · 30-day money-back
- $249/mo
- Pro
- 1,500 min · tuned monthly · every call written up · 30-day money-back
- $549/mo
- Industry
- 5,000 min/mo · built for your industry · tuned every two weeks
- $1,200/mo
It answers in English or Spanish from the first ring and quotes from your own price list, not a generic script. Setup is four screens and a button, and a person keeps tuning it on your real calls after, plus websites, apps and AI staff from the same shop.
Where each one actually wins.
// where RingCentral AIR wins
A name your accountant knows
A public company, sold alongside a full business phone system.
Entry price
$49/mo is cheap enough to just try, especially if you're already a RingCentral customer.
They ship fast
Texting, call queues, Shopify, Calendly and WhatsApp all showed up within months of launch.
// where Handled wins
100 minutes is one busy Tuesday
A trades business talks through AIR's included minutes in days. Handled Starter includes 500 minutes, and Industry includes 5,000.
Built from your prices, by a person
You set AIR up yourself. Handled starts with a call where someone loads your real prices and your real rules.
Both languages, and the rest of it
English and Spanish on every call, plus the website, the app and the AI staff from the same shop.
Pick RingCentral AIR
Pick RingCentral AIR if you already use RingCentral and want a cheap add-on for a phone that doesn't ring much.
Pick Handled
Pick Handled if the phone is how you get paid: a line that rings all day, Spanish-speaking callers, and rules a signup form can't capture.
// straight answers
- Is RingCentral AIR cheaper than Handled?
- Yes. $49/mo, or $39 if you're a RingEX customer, against Handled's $149/mo start, as of August 2026. AIR includes 100 minutes. Handled Line includes 200, plus a person to set it up, answering in English and Spanish, and 30 days to get your money back.
- Do I need RingCentral's phone system to use AIR?
- No. AIR launched on its own, with a discount if you're on RingEX. Handled doesn't care what phone system you have either. You forward your existing line, from any carrier.
// don't trust our comparison? ask an AI
Sources, checked August 2026: RingCentral AIR pricing announcement (official). Competitor prices are theirs to change; if something above is out of date, tell us and we'll fix it.
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