Human receptionists

SaveTheJobvs PATLive.

What they charge, what we charge, where we are better, and the one thing they do better than we do. Every figure below is theirs, read on 25 August 2026, or an explicit note that they do not publish one.

PATLive

$49 pay-as-you-go at $2.99 a minute, then minute plans from $99 for 50 up to $6,899 for 5,000. The rate falls with volume, from $2.29 a minute to $1.49.

About $1,584 a month at 300 calls, on their 1,000-minute plan plus overage

patlive.com/pricing · checked 25 August 2026

SaveTheJob

$249/mo

Published, capped, and the same in your busiest month. From $39 to start.

Our pricing in full

Start on One Truck, $39 a month

Where we are better, and it is checkable

What you get from us that PATLive does not give you.

✓About six times cheaper at real contractor volume.
✓Their rate improves with volume but every tier is still an allowance you can overrun at a per-minute price. Ours caps at the plan price.
✓Emergency triage written per trade instead of a generic script.

The honest part

What PATLive does better than we do.

Human agents, a 4.9 on Trustpilot, and an onboarding team people actually like. Almost no public complaints about them exist, which is rarer than it sounds.

If that is the thing that decides it for you, buy theirs. We would rather you did than have you leave us in two months.

The only comparison that counts is yours.

We read your website and build the agent from it, and you hear it answer before anything is forwarded. That takes about a minute and it settles this page faster than the page does.

Your website or business name

No email. No card. Nobody calls you.