Jobber's Receptionist is cheap to start, but it bills per conversation, so the busiest months cost the most. These Jobber AI receptionist alternatives answer every call, and some book the job too.
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Per Jobber's Receptionist help article, Receptionist is included with unlimited use on the Plus plan. On other eligible plans it is an add-on at $29 a month with 30 conversations included. Past 30, each conversation is $0.79, billed on your next renewal. You can choose to pause it at the limit instead of paying overage, which means calls go back to voicemail in your busiest weeks.
Spam and calls marked "no conversation" do not count. At 100 conversations a month the add-on comes to about $84; at 150, about $124; at 300, about $242. That is still far below a live answering service. The reason shops look elsewhere is rarely the price alone: it is the meter rising in storm season, or wanting the phone, the board and the invoice in one place without moving up to Plus.
| Option | How it bills | Entry price | 150 calls / month | Books the job? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jobber Receptionist (add-on) | Per conversation | $29 / 30 conversations | About $124 | Yes, into Jobber |
| Linq AI receptionist | Included in the plan, unmetered | $179 (Growth, whole platform) | $179 | Yes, onto the Linq board |
| Quo Sona | Per call, plus a Quo seat | $25 / 40 calls | About $82 plus seats | Takes details and routes; not a field service schedule |
| Goodcall | Per unique caller | $79 / 100 callers | About $119 | Answers and takes details; not a job schedule |
| Rosie | Per minute | $49 / 250 minutes | $149 (Scale, about 1,000 minutes) | Calendar booking on Scale and up |
| Smith.ai AI Receptionist | Per call | $0 / 25 calls, then $150 | $270 (150-call tier) | Intake and scheduling |
| Housecall Pro CSR AI | Add-on | Not published | Not published | Yes, into Housecall Pro |
| Avoca | Quote only | Not published | Not published | Yes, built around ServiceTitan-sized teams |
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The call becomes a job, not a message.
The AI receptionist answers on the first ring, books the job into your schedule and texts back every call that slips through. The customer gets a live booking page.
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One call is counted as one conversation, one unique caller and about 2.5 minutes. Each figure is the cheapest published way to cover 150 calls: Jobber's $29 plus 120 conversations at $0.79; Goodcall Starter at $79 plus 50 callers at 79 cents; Quo Sona's 100-call tier at $49 plus 50 calls at $0.65, before the Quo phone seat it needs; Smith.ai's 150-call tier at $1.80 a call. Prices before tax, in USD, from each vendor's own page in November 2026.
Every option here answers instantly, at 2am, without a hold queue. The difference is what you find in the morning. A receptionist built into your field service software can see the real schedule, so the call ends as a booked job with an address and a time window. A standalone one ends as a summary in your inbox, and somebody still has to call back and book it. Read more in our best AI receptionist guide.
The 24/7 AI receptionist answers, books onto the dispatch board and texts back missed calls, with no per-call meter. It was built with Safe & Secure Locksmith, a Metro Vancouver locksmith network that answers around the clock. It comes with the platform, so it is the wrong pick if you want to stay on Jobber. See Linq vs Jobber.
If you are already on Jobber Plus, Receptionist is unlimited and native. Switching to save on the receptionist alone makes no sense there.
The cheapest per-call option if your team already uses Quo (formerly OpenPhone). Tiers run $25 for 40 calls to $199 for 600, with overage of $0.75 down to $0.45 a call. Seats start at $19 a user. It sits in the phone system, not the job schedule.
Bills per unique caller per month, not per call, so a customer who calls three times counts once. $79 for 100 callers, $129 for 500, $299 for 2,000.
Minute-based: $49 for 250 minutes, $149 for 1,000, $299 for 2,000. Booking directly on a calendar starts at the $149 Scale plan; the $49 plan takes messages.
A real free tier (25 calls a month), then $150 a month from 75 calls. Per-call rates fall from $2.00 to $1.67 as the tier grows. Month to month, with 30 days notice to cancel.
Built for high-volume shops with call-centre teams, sold by demo with no published price. Usually the right conversation at twenty-plus trucks, rarely at three.
Jobber Receptionist is a low-cost add-on for small crews already on Jobber: $29 a month, self-serve, live the same day. Avoca is an enterprise product for large home service operations, sold through a demo with no public pricing (Avoca lists none). If you have a dispatch office and dozens of technicians, compare Avoca against your CSR payroll. If you have one office phone and a few vans, Avoca is not built for you, and the choice is between Jobber Receptionist and the options above.
Housecall Pro lists CSR AI as an add-on on its pricing page without a price, and Workiz lists Genius Answering the same way. Both are native to their platforms and both need a sales call to price. If you are comparing whole platforms rather than receptionists, start with Jobber vs Housecall Pro or Linq vs Workiz.
Not a sandbox with fake customers in it. Put a real week through the board, answer real calls with it, and see what the Friday number looks like. Fourteen days, no card, cancel any day.
$29 a month as an add-on, with 30 conversations included, then $0.79 per additional conversation. It is included with unlimited use on the Jobber Plus plan.
It depends on what you want to keep. To stay on Jobber, Plus makes Receptionist unlimited. To keep your phone system, Quo Sona or Goodcall are the cheapest per call. To have calls book straight into the schedule without a meter, a platform with the receptionist built in, such as Linq, replaces both.
For a small crew on Jobber, Jobber Receptionist: it is $29 a month and self-serve. Avoca is quote-only and built for large operations with call-centre teams, usually on ServiceTitan.
Goodcall (per unique caller, from $79), Rosie (per minute, from $49), Smith.ai AI Receptionist (per call, free for 25 calls then from $150), and platform-native receptionists in Jobber, Housecall Pro, Workiz and Linq.
For most trade calls, yes, at a fraction of the cost: a live service runs about $300 to $950 a month at 100 calls. See answering service cost for the full comparison.
Prices from each vendor's own page as of November 2026, in USD: Jobber's Receptionist help article, Quo, Quo's Sona pricing article, Goodcall, Rosie, Smith.ai AI Receptionist, Housecall Pro, Workiz, Avoca. Rechecked monthly; corrections welcome.
The 24/7 AI receptionist is included on Growth and up, inside the platform that schedules, dispatches and invoices the job. Start free and put a real week of calls through it.
