Pricing
Predictable pricing. Same price at 2 a.m.
Three plans, priced on the minutes of the calls OnCrew answers for you, with no night, weekend or holiday surcharge. For many businesses, one booked job can cover months of service.
Starter
$49/mo
150 minutes included
$0.49 per extra minute
The live answering services compared below start at $99 to $300 a month for a small bundle of minutes or calls. OnCrew is built for contractors with simple, predictable pricing, and it works for any business that takes calls.
Free 14-day trial. No credit card required to start. Cancel anytime.
Want to hear the receptionist first? Call the demo line: (213) 319-5075
OnCrew works for any business that takes calls, from HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and roofing shops to law offices, clinics, property managers, and salons.
Pick by call volume
Every plan answers the same way. Plans differ in included minutes, overage rate, phone numbers, and how many people each one can alert or connect callers to.
Type your call volume, see your exact billStarter
For a solo owner who misses calls while working.
$49/mo
150 minutes/moabout 130 typical calls a month
$0.49/min after included minutes
150 alert texts/mo, then $0.05/text
Free 14-day trial. No credit card required to start. If you never add a card, the trial simply ends.
Want guided setup instead?What you get
- 1 AI phone number
- Call alerts to you and 3 people
- 4 live transfer destinations
- 8 on-call slots
- Emergency triage & alerts
- Call transcripts & recordings
- Job booking on your Google Calendar and email job summaries
- Basic analytics
- Live transfers that announce the caller before connecting
Pro
For a growing team that needs a second line.
$149/mo
500 minutes/moabout 420 typical calls a month
$0.39/min after included minutes
500 alert texts/mo, then $0.05/text
Free 14-day trial. No credit card required to start. If you never add a card, the trial simply ends.
Want guided setup instead?Everything in Starter, plus
- 2 AI phone numbers
- Call alerts to you and 5 people
- 6 live transfer destinations
- 20 on-call slots
- Workflow handoff setup for your current tools
- Job booking on your Google Calendar and team handoff
- Priority support
Multi-Truck
For a business with several locations or crews that needs more than one line.
$349/mo
1,500 minutes/moabout 1,250 typical calls a month
$0.29/min after included minutes
1,500 alert texts/mo, then $0.05/text
Free 14-day trial. No credit card required to start. If you never add a card, the trial simply ends.
Want guided setup instead?Everything in Pro, plus
- 5 AI phone numbers
- Call alerts to you and 15 people
- 16 live transfer destinations
- 50 on-call slots
- Each number answers in its own business name with its own notes
- Multi-location support
- Same-day account support
- Custom workflow planning
Count only the calls OnCrew answers for you; our answered calls average about 1.2 minutes. Nights and weekends is a much smaller number than forwarding your main line all day, and you can move plans from your dashboard whenever that number changes.
Estimate your bill
What would your month cost?
Type your exact number, or slide to the number of minutes of calls OnCrew would answer for you in a month. Same published prices as the cards above: plan price, plus $0.49/min on Starter, $0.39/min on Pro, $0.29/min on Multi-Truck after the included minutes.
Best price at 150 minutes
Starter$49/mo
$49/mo flat. 150 minutes included, no overage at this volume.
150 minutes lands exactly on the 150 minutes Starter includes.
Start Starter trialBreak-even from these same prices: past 354 minutes of answered calls a month, Pro costs less than Starter plus overage. Past 1,012, Multi-Truck costs less than Pro.
What happens when you click
Create account
No charge today.
Guided setup
Hours, voice, forwarding.
Your 14-day trial starts
Checkout runs on Stripe and no card is required for the trial.
No setup fee. Cancel from your dashboard anytime. Annual billing is available on request and takes two months off any plan.
4,647 calls answered on OnCrew lines since May 2026, including 1,272 outside 8 AM to 6 PM. Live count from our call logs, demo and customer lines included.
Price it against one job
One booked job can cover the month
Starter is $49 a month. If one caller who would have reached your voicemail books a job worth more than $49, that one job covers the month. Pro ($149) and Multi-Truck ($349) work the same way with a bigger job.
We can't promise the job: that depends on who calls and how fast you call back. The 14-day trial runs on your own calls with no card to start, so you can count the jobs before you pay anything.
- $49/moStarter: 150 minutes of answered calls, about 130 typical calls
- 59 centsOne more typical call on Starter past those minutes. Our answered calls averaged 1.2 minutes in October 2026.
- 30%of the conversations we answered for nine businesses that have paid for OnCrew, June 19 to October 16, 2026, came outside 8 AM to 6 PM, Monday to Friday. Lines differ: on 5 of the 7 busiest it was under 20%. How we counted
Proof you can hear
Hear a call before you pay
Here is a recorded call to our own demo receptionist, with every word written out, and a demo line you can call yourself.
A burst pipe, after hours
The receptionist answers for a sample plumbing company, asks what happened, takes the address and the callback number, reads them back, and tells the caller the on-call team gets the details right away.
Recorded October 3, 2026, in a test call to our demo receptionist, before today's name and voice. The caller is simulated and the call is edited for length; no customer's call is in it. Call the demo line to hear her today.
Read the recording, word for word
- ReceptionistThank you for calling Redwood Plumbing. This is [the receptionist]. This call is recorded. How can I help you today?
- CallerHi, yeah. I've got water coming through my kitchen ceiling. I think a pipe burst upstairs. Can you get somebody out here tonight?
- ReceptionistI'm sorry, that sounds stressful. I can get the on-call team moving. What is the service address?
- CallerYeah, it's 41 Cedar Lane. Name's Mike Rivera.
- ReceptionistThanks, Mike. I have 41 Cedar Lane for the burst pipe and water through the kitchen ceiling. What is the best callback number?
- CallerIt's 310-555-0142. That's my cell.
- ReceptionistThank you. I have 310-555-0142. The details will go to the on-call team right away, and the owner or one of the crew will call you back shortly.
- CallerOkay, great. Thank you so much.
Call the demo line yourself
Emily asks what kind of business you run and answers as its front desk. You can ask her anything about OnCrew, too.
(213) 319-5075Day or night, no signup.
In the last 30 days OnCrew answered 1,022 calls on customer lines. In the same 30 days it booked 12 jobs onto customers' calendars while the caller was on the line, the latest on November 11, 2026. Counted the way we bill: robocalls, calls where nobody spoke, our demo and test lines and each shop's own test calls are left out.
Contracts and cancelling
No contract. Leave from your dashboard.
Month to month, no contract
No cancellation fee and no setup fee: your plan price, plus any extra minutes or texts past your plan, is all OnCrew bills. Annual billing, on request only, is paid a year ahead and does not renew once you cancel.
Cancel yourself, in three screens
The account owner cancels on the Billing page: a reason, an offer to pause instead that you can skip, and a confirm. No phone call and no email.
You keep the month you paid for
Cancelling stops the next charge. Your line keeps answering until the end of the month you already paid for, and you can undo the cancel until that day.
Your number
A business number you forward to OnCrew never leaves your carrier: when your plan ends, turn forwarding off, and if your calls still forward to us, we text and email you the code that turns forwarding off. A number OnCrew provides for you, or one you moved to OnCrew, can be moved to another carrier at your request, at no charge from OnCrew: email hello@oncrew.ai. If you cancel, we hold that number for 90 days, so a restart in that time keeps it.
Trial and money back
The 14-day trial needs no card, and if you never add one it ends on its own with nothing charged. If OnCrew does not earn its keep in your first 30 days as a paying customer, email hello@oncrew.ai and we refund your subscription fee for that period. A person replies within one business day, once per company.
Your calls and setup
We keep your setup and call history so a restart picks up where you left off. Before your end date you can download your call list as a CSV (up to 500 calls at a time, with summaries; recordings are not included). Email hello@oncrew.ai to have it all deleted within 30 days, apart from records we must keep for billing, tax or legal reasons.
The legal terms are in our terms of service.
Compared with live answering
How much does an AI receptionist cost?
OnCrew costs $49 to $349 a month for 150 to 1,500 minutes of answered calls, then $0.49 for each minute past your plan on Starter, $0.39 on Pro, $0.29 on Multi-Truck. Live answering costs more for less: Smith.ai receptionist plans start at $300/mo for 30 calls, and Ruby Receptionists starts at $250/mo for 50 minutes.
The shape of the bill matters more than the entry price. OnCrew includes a minute quota and charges $0.49 per minute past it on Starter, $0.39 on Pro, $0.29 on Multi-Truck. Live services sell a smaller bundle of calls or minutes with a much bigger overage, and a storm or a freeze is exactly when a busy shop runs past a small bundle.
Prices read October 2, 2026 and October 16, 2026
- OnCrew Starter$49/mo150 minutes included · $0.49 per minute after
- Smith.ai Starter$300/mo30 calls included · $11.50 per call over 30
- Ruby Receptionists$250/mo50 minutes included · rate past the bundle not published
- PATLive$99/mo50 minutes included · $2.29 per additional minute
Smallest live answering bundle each service publishes, read off its own pricing page on October 2, 2026 and October 16, 2026: smith.ai/pricing/receptionists, ruby.com/plans-and-pricing, patlive.com/pricing. PATLive also sells a pay-as-you-go plan: $49/mo plus $2.99 per minute.
Comparing against another service, or the AI built into Jobber or Housecall Pro? The full price board covers every service we have priced, each read off its own page and dated, plus the ones that publish no price. The answering service pricing index puts the published prices in one table, with a source link for each.
Pricing questions
Want to hear the receptionist first? Call the demo line: (213) 319-5075
Want the workflow and trust basics first? See how OnCrew handles your calls
What happens during the 14-day free trial?
Setup takes about 10 minutes, and your AI receptionist answers in your business name with your hours, services and service area. Forward the calls you miss and see real results before paying anything: captured emergencies, appointment requests and full transcripts. No credit card is needed to start, and if you never add one the trial simply ends. An account that already had a plan restarts on a card, with no second trial. If you have set up your line but Emily has had fewer than three real conversations by the last days of the trial, we extend it once by 14 days, still with no card.
Can I hear it before I sign up?
Call the demo line at (213) 319-5075. The receptionist asks what kind of business you run and answers as its front desk, and you can ask her anything about OnCrew.
What if I go over my included minutes?
Each extra minute is $0.49 on Starter, $0.39 on Pro, $0.29 on Multi-Truck, billed on your next invoice, and your line keeps answering. Alert texts have a monthly allowance too: 150 on Starter, 500 on Pro and 1,500 on Multi-Truck, then $0.05 per text. Your billing page shows how many minutes you have used and how many are left. If you go over every month, check the plan above yours: past 354 minutes of answered calls a month, Pro at $149 costs less than Starter plus overage.
Does a hang-up count as a call?
No. A call where the caller never says a word is not counted against your plan, however long it lasts: an auto-dialer holding the line or a caller hanging up on the greeting. Robocalls and sales calls our filter recognizes, calls from your own team's listed numbers and your own test calls are not counted either. Only calls where a caller actually speaks with Emily count toward your plan.
What does a storm month cost?
A 1,500-minute month (about 1,250 typical calls) is $349 on Multi-Truck. Staying on Pro would be $149 plus 1,000 extra minutes at $0.39/min, $539 in plan and overage charges, so move up from your billing page before the storm. Plan changes take effect right away.
Is OnCrew worth it for a one-person shop?
Yes, that is what Starter is for. When you are under a sink or on a roof, the calls you cannot pick up go to Emily instead of voicemail, and each one comes back to you as a name, a number, an address and what they need. Your phone still rings first; she only takes what gets away. The more calls you miss, the faster she pays for herself. If you pick up nearly everything during the day, forward nights and weekends, or put your OnCrew number on your website as a second line, and she covers the hours you are off.
Can I switch plans later?
Yes. Move up or down from the billing page in your dashboard whenever your call volume changes. It shows the exact price change before you confirm.
Is there a setup fee?
No. Setup is included on every plan: a few questions about your business, and your AI receptionist and number are created when your trial starts. If you want a hand, reply to your welcome email and we help you finish by email.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. Plans are month to month, with no contract and no cancellation fee. The account owner cancels on the Billing page in the dashboard (a reason, an offer to pause instead that you can skip, then a confirm), with no phone call and no email. Your line keeps answering until the end of the month you already paid for, nothing more is charged, and you can undo the cancel until then. Annual billing, on request only, is paid a year ahead and does not renew once cancelled.
What happens to my phone number if I cancel?
A business number you forward to OnCrew never leaves your carrier: when your plan ends, turn forwarding off, and if your calls still forward to us, we text and email you the code that turns forwarding off. A number OnCrew provides for you, or one you moved to OnCrew, can be moved to another carrier at your request, at no charge from OnCrew: email hello@oncrew.ai. If you cancel, we hold that number for 90 days, so a restart in that time keeps it.
Is there a money-back guarantee?
Yes. If OnCrew does not earn its keep in your first 30 days as a paying customer, email hello@oncrew.ai and we refund your subscription fee for that period. One person reads every refund request and replies within one business day.
Does it work with my office phone system?
Yes. OnCrew answers the calls your existing line does not pick up, so your number and your phones stay as they are. It takes forwarded calls from a cell (Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile), a landline (Verizon, AT&T, Spectrum, CenturyLink) and office systems and VoIP services such as Verizon One Talk, Nextiva, 8x8, Dialpad, Ooma Office, GoTo Connect, Grasshopper, Zoom Phone, Comcast Business Voice, RingCentral, Google Voice and Vonage. Your setup page shows the exact step for your system; on an office system it is a forwarding setting, not a keypad code.
Is Spanish extra?
No. Spanish (Latin American) is a setting you switch on in your dashboard, and a call answered in Spanish counts the same as any other call: no surcharge and no separate plan. English and Spanish are the languages Emily speaks today.
Do you offer annual billing?
Yes. Annual billing is available on request and takes two months off any plan: $490, $1,490 or $3,490 a year. Checkout is monthly, so email hello@oncrew.ai and we reply with an annual payment link.
Ready to capture more emergency calls?
Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial, and you can switch plans from your dashboard whenever your call volume changes.
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- No charge today
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