# Answering Service Quotes

> A record of what 9 US answering services and virtual receptionist providers publish about their own prices: advertised entry plans quoted verbatim from each provider's own pricing page with retrieval dates, honest records where a provider publishes no rate, and evidenced industry cover for 2 industries.

## Key facts

- Of 9 US answering services checked, the median advertised entry price is $65 a month (as of 2026-09-10).
- Advertised entry prices range from $25 to $399 a month, and the plans they buy differ in included minutes rather than in what the receptionist does.
- Entry plans are priced by included minutes, so the advertised figure is a floor: what a minute over the plan costs is what decides the real bill, and several providers publish no overage rate at all.
- Every figure is quoted verbatim from the provider's own page and carries the date it was read; a provider that publishes nothing is recorded as such, and one whose page could not be read is recorded separately again.

## Key pages

- [US answering service price record](https://answeringservicequotes.com/answering-services/): Advertised entry prices and evidenced industry cover, quoted from providers' own pages and dated.
- [Answering services](https://answeringservicequotes.com/answering-services-compared/): What this kind of answering arrangement is, what it includes, and what moves the price.
- [Phone answering service](https://answeringservicequotes.com/phone-answering-service/): What this kind of answering arrangement is, what it includes, and what moves the price.
- [Call answering service](https://answeringservicequotes.com/call-answering-service/): What this kind of answering arrangement is, what it includes, and what moves the price.
- [Cheap answering service](https://answeringservicequotes.com/cheap-answering-service/): What this kind of answering arrangement is, what it includes, and what moves the price.
- [Small business phone answering](https://answeringservicequotes.com/small-business-phone-answering-service/): What this kind of answering arrangement is, what it includes, and what moves the price.
- [For small businesses](https://answeringservicequotes.com/answering-services-for-small-businesses/): What this kind of answering arrangement is, what it includes, and what moves the price.
- [For attorneys](https://answeringservicequotes.com/answering-services-for-attorneys/): What this kind of answering arrangement is, what it includes, and what moves the price.
- [Mobile answering service](https://answeringservicequotes.com/mobile-answering-service/): What this kind of answering arrangement is, what it includes, and what moves the price.
- [Virtual receptionists](https://answeringservicequotes.com/virtual-receptionists/): What this kind of answering arrangement is, what it includes, and what moves the price.
- [legal answering service](https://answeringservicequotes.com/answering-services/legal-answering-service/): Providers with evidenced cover of this industry, and what each publishes about its price.
- [answering services for small business](https://answeringservicequotes.com/answering-services/answering-services-for-small-business/): Providers with evidenced cover of this industry, and what each publishes about its price.
- [Provider profiles](https://answeringservicequotes.com/vendors/): One profile per provider: its published facts, or the dated record that it publishes none.
- [Quote request](https://answeringservicequotes.com/quote/): Describe the calls you need answered and ask several providers for a price at once.

## Data

- Download (CSV, vendor pricing index): https://answeringservicequotes.com/answering-services/us-answering-service-price-record.csv
- Download (CSV, legal answering service coverage): https://answeringservicequotes.com/answering-services/legal-answering-service.csv
- Download (CSV, answering services for small business coverage): https://answeringservicequotes.com/answering-services/answering-services-for-small-business.csv
- Methodology: Every figure is the lowest monthly price the provider prints for live answering on its own pricing page, quoted exactly as printed with the URL and the date the page was read, beside the per-minute or per-call rate that page states and what the entry plan includes. Each quote is proven mechanically: the page is re-fetched at ingest, reduced to text, and the quote must be a byte-exact substring of it, so a provider that reprices fails the run rather than going stale on the page. Where a provider prints a monthly figure and no rate for going over it, that is recorded as an absence naming the page, never filled in. No figure here comes from a sales call, a review site or another comparison.
- Source: Ruby pricing page: https://www.ruby.com/plans-and-pricing/
- Source: Smith.ai pricing page: https://smith.ai/pricing/receptionists
- Source: PATLive pricing page: https://www.patlive.com/pricing/
- Source: Abby Connect pricing page: https://www.abby.com/pricing/
- Source: Posh pricing page: https://posh.com/pricing/
- Source: AnsweringService.com pricing page: https://www.answeringservice.com/pricing/
- Source: Specialty Answering Service pricing page: https://www.specialtyansweringservice.net/pricing/
- Source: Gabbyville pricing page: https://gabbyville.com/pricing/
- Source: AnswerFirst pricing page: https://answerfirst.com/pricing/

## Citation

Cite as: "Answering Service Quotes Price Record", https://answeringservicequotes.com/answering-services/ (updated 2026-09-10).

## About

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