About Compare Answering
US answering services compared on how they actually charge, from their own published pages
What is on this site
One question, "pay per call answering service", answered with a comparison that works on the page with no account, 3 guides on the questions around it, a data table you can cite (the figures and their method), and the sources every figure rests on.
- Pay per call vs per minute: which is cheaper for you: The two charging models cross over at a call length you can work out. Worked from published US answering service rates, with the crossover point for each provider.
- Billing increments: the rule that changes your bill by a third: US answering services meter in one second or round up to 30 seconds. On short calls that difference is worth about a third of the bill, and most pricing pages bury it.
- The charges that sit outside an answering service rate: Setup fees, patching, IVR, bilingual support and extra numbers are billed separately by US answering services. What each provider publishes, and what none do.
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Compare Answering is an independent site operated by Ellul Solutions Ltd. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to any answering service named here, and nothing on it is legal or contractual advice. We take no commission from any provider in this comparison and carry no paid placements. Prices, rates and terms change without notice: every figure carries the date we read it on the provider's own page, and the details that decide your bill, notably what counts as a chargeable call and what the billing increment is, are set by the contract rather than the website.