Rosie vs Handled.
Rosie sells to a lot of people: a polished AI answering service you set up yourself, starting at $49, with a free trial and, by its own count, millions of calls answered. It's what plenty of small businesses try first.
Their prices change. Verify on their site. Ours are public on /pricing.
Rosie · checked August 2026
- Professional
- 250 minutes · doesn't book appointments during the call
- $49/mo
- Scale
- 1,000 minutes · booking included
- $149/mo
- Growth
- 2,000 minutes
- $299/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 Rosie wins
Cheapest real way in
$49/mo with a 7-day free trial and no setup fee. There isn't a lower-risk way to find out whether this works for you.
Millions of calls
Their site says they've handled millions of calls, so the product has been through plenty of traffic.
Simple to start
Sign up yourself, go live fast, no sales call.
// where Handled wins
We tell you what isn't built
Rosie writes the appointment into a calendar from its $149 plan up (checked August 2026). Handled does not do that yet. On every plan the line takes the booking on the call — name, number, the job, the day and time they want — and it lands in the call write-up. The calendar write is being built and it is not live. You should read that here rather than find it out in week two.
A person sets it up from your real prices
Rosie builds itself from your website. Handled gets built in a call with you: your prices, your hours, your emergency rules, what happens on a Saturday.
English and Spanish
Every call can be taken in either language, and the person tuning it speaks both.
Pick Rosie
Pick Rosie if you want the cheapest way in, or if the appointment being written into your calendar during the call is the part you can't do without.
Pick Handled
Pick Handled if you want the line built and tuned by a person on your real calls, quoting from your own prices, in English or Spanish.
// straight answers
- Is Rosie cheaper than Handled?
- Yes. Rosie starts at $49/mo for 250 minutes (checked August 2026); Handled starts at $149/mo. Rosie also writes appointments into a calendar from its $149 plan up, which Handled does not do yet. What Rosie doesn't include at any price is a person building the line from your real prices and tuning it on your actual calls afterwards, which every Handled plan does.
- Do both book appointments?
- Not the same way. Rosie writes the appointment into a calendar from its $149/mo plan up, going by its published prices as of August 2026. Handled doesn't write to a calendar yet. On every Handled plan the line takes the booking on the call — name, number, what they need, and the day and time they want — and it lands in the written call summary. The calendar write is being built; it is not live.
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Sources, checked August 2026: Rosie pricing · Rosie pricing 2026 (OnCrew). Competitor prices are theirs to change; if something above is out of date, tell us and we'll fix it.
Hear the difference on a real call.
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