Every missed call books with whoever answers first.
Paste your website and answara builds a receptionist that knows your services, your prices, and your hours in about 60 seconds. Starting at $99/month.
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150,000+ calls answered for local service businesses
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“When we first got Answara, we asked customers how the AI agent was. Some of them didn't realize it was AI at all.” Lacy, Flower Luxury
Hear it first
What an AI receptionist sounds like on a real call
Press play. No signup, no sales rep, no dialing anything.
Rosewood Home Services, this is Sam. How can I help?
Do you have anyone available this week?
We do. I have Thursday morning or Friday afternoon open. Which works better for you?
Thursday morning.
Booked for Thursday at nine. What is the address, and what is the best number to reach you on?
Set it up once and stop losing the calls you cannot get to.
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The problem
Three bad ways small businesses handle missed calls
Incoming call
(305) 555-0188
mobile · 9:41 AM
Both hands are busy. It rings out.
Answer every call yourself
You are on a job with both hands busy, and the phone rings anyway. Stopping costs you the work in front of you. Not stopping costs you the work on the phone.
6:12
Thursday, March 6
Let it go to voicemail
Most callers who reach voicemail never leave one. They go back to the search results and dial the next name. Compare your own missed-call list against the jobs you booked that week.
Answering service
IllustrativeMonthly invoice
- Calls handled
- 42
- Minutes billed
- 96
- Rate per minute
- $1.95
- After-hours surcharge
- $24.00
42 messages taken. Zero jobs on the calendar.
Pay a per-minute answering service
A stranger reads the script you wrote, takes a message, and bills you by the minute. You still call every one of those people back yourself.
On the call
(305) 555-0188
answara · 00:38
The fourth option
answara answers
Every call you cannot reach, answara answers. Every caller voicemail would lose, answara keeps on the line. Every job you would have chased down later, answara books while you work. One number, one flat price, around the clock.
Ask it your hardest question and judge the answer yourself.
Hear a demo call: (857) ANSWARAHow it works
How an AI receptionist answers and books your calls
- 1
Step 1
Connect your number and calendar
Port your existing line or grab a new one, then link Google Calendar so answara books straight into your day.
- 2
Step 2
answara answers 24/7 and qualifies
Every call is picked up on the first ring, greeted in your brand voice, and screened with your qualification questions.
- 3
Step 3
Booked jobs land on your board
Qualified appointments, call summaries, and follow-ups arrive on your board and by SMS. Nothing slips.
Every plan answers around the clock and books straight into your calendar.
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Pricing
Answering service pricing, starting at $99 a month
Every plan answers 24/7, syncs your calendar, and books qualified jobs. Pick the volume that fits.
Included minutes reset monthly. Extra minutes are $0.25/min, billed in 4-minute blocks at $1 per block. No hidden fees, cancel anytime.
By trade
AI receptionists built for your trade
Pick your trade for the pricing, the integrations, and a recorded call from your own line of work.
The comparison
Answering service vs AI receptionist vs hiring a receptionist
Three ways to stop missing calls, and what each one actually costs you. The middle column is the only one with a published price.
| What you are comparing | Answering service | answara AI receptionist | Hiring a receptionist |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost per month | Roughly $200 to $600 for a few hundred minutes, then per-minute overage on top. | $99 flat, with 250 minutes included and the overage rate published. | Roughly $3,000 to $4,900 in salary, before payroll tax, benefits, and cover for time off. |
| Availability, nights and weekends | Around the clock, if you pay for the after-hours tier. | Around the clock on every plan. Nights, weekends, and holidays included. | One person, business hours, minus sick days, lunch, and vacation. |
| Knows your services and your prices | Reads the script you wrote. Anything outside it comes back as a message. | Trained on your own website, so it answers what you do, what you charge, and where you go. | Yes, once they have been on the desk long enough to learn it. |
| Books the job into your calendar | Takes a message. You still call every caller back yourself. | Books the appointment and texts you the job, the address, and the caller's number. | Yes, while they are at the desk and not already on another call. |
Answering-service and salary figures are illustrative market ranges, not measured answara data. The answara column is our published pricing.
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Questions about AI answering services
The live line
Call the answara receptionist and try to break it
This is a real answara receptionist answering our own line. Ask it about pricing, hours, or an emergency and see how it handles you.
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