Ansaaro builds AI front desks for service businesses — a human-sounding voice, trained on your business, answering every call.
Most pricing pages in this category show a low number with "from" in front of it. The number is real; it's just rarely what anyone pays. Here's how the pricing actually works, so you can read any vendor's page properly — including ours.
Three pricing models
Per minute. You pay for connected talk time, usually with a bundle included and a rate above it. Cheap if your calls are short, expensive if callers like to chat. The variable to watch isn't call count, it's average call length — a two-minute average and a five-minute average produce very different bills at the same volume.
Per call. A flat rate every time the phone is answered, regardless of length. Simple to forecast, but you pay the same for a wrong number as for a booked job. Ask whether there's a minimum duration before a call counts.
Flat monthly bundle. A fixed fee covering a set allowance, with a stated overage rate. Predictable, and the model most small businesses find easiest to budget for — provided the overage rate is published.
What the market charges
Published entry prices for AI phone answering run roughly $50–$300 a month, with flat-rate plans commonly landing between $49 and $300 and per-minute rates around $0.05–$0.30 (NextPhone, 2026). Live human services sit well above that — $200–$2,000 a month depending on volume, with operator time billed at $0.75–$1.50 a minute.
The spread is wide because the products aren't the same thing: some answer and take a message, others qualify, book and integrate with your systems.
What pushes a bill above the headline
- Overage. The rate you pay after the bundle. This is the single biggest driver of a surprise invoice. - Transfers. Some vendors charge separately when a call is passed to a human. - Integrations. Calendar or job-software connections are sometimes a paid add-on rather than standard. - Setup fees. One-off onboarding or configuration charges, not always shown on the pricing page. - Numbers. If you need a new line rather than using your existing one, that's usually billed monthly.
Ansaaro's AI Front Desk publishes its pricing for the same reason this page does: you should know the bill before you commit. Hear it answer your phone.
A worked example
Take a business handling 120 calls a month at an average of three minutes — 360 minutes.
On a per-minute plan with 500 minutes included and an overage rate, 360 minutes fits inside the allowance — but only just: about another 46 calls at three minutes and the overage starts. On a per-call plan you pay 120 × the per-call rate, whatever the length. On a flat bundle covering 1,500 minutes, you pay the flat fee and nothing else — you're well inside the allowance.
The lesson isn't that one model is better. It's that the cheapest headline is often the most expensive plan at your actual volume, so work out your minutes before you compare prices.
Five questions to ask any vendor
- What's the overage rate, and where is it published? - Are transfers to a human billed separately? - Is 24/7 included, or is it a higher tier? - What's the contract length and the notice period? - What happens to my configuration if I cancel?
What we charge
A page arguing for honest pricing that hides its own would be worthless, so here is Ansaaro's: Starter is $399 a month for 500 voice minutes, Growth is $749 for 1,500, Pro is $1,299 for 3,000, and Scale starts at $1,999 for 5,000 (custom above that). Month to month, no contract, cancel any time. Every plan includes the full product — written call summaries, call recordings and transcripts, and the monthly performance report are included on all four; the plans differ only by included voice minutes. Once you use your included minutes, your AI Front Desk keeps answering and we notify you rather than auto-charging. Overage is billed at your plan's rate — $0.60/min on Starter, $0.50/min on Growth, $0.40/min on Pro, and custom on Scale (typically $0.30–$0.35/min) — and we notify you as you approach your monthly allowance and again when you reach it. Every plan also starts with a free trial — 14 days or your plan's trial minutes (250 on Starter, 750 on Growth, 1,500 on Pro, 2,500 on Scale), whichever comes first: a card is required to start it and nothing is charged until the trial ends. We never auto-charge and never auto-upgrade.
Most businesses start on Growth. If you're not sure which fits, the deciding number is your average call length × your monthly call volume — not the number of calls on its own.
Hear it answer your phone before you look at any plan.