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Beta. Prices come only from each vendor's official pricing page, in USD, before tax and phone-number or add-on fees. Anything the page doesn't state is marked pending.
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Each plan's price, included minutes or calls and overage rate is read from the vendor's own pricing page, with a verbatim quote stored next to it. A daily script re-reads every page and checks the quotes are still there. Any difference goes to the change log for a human to review. Numbers are never silently replaced, and nothing is guessed: if a page doesn't state an overage rate, volumes above the included amount are marked pending.

Cost rule: for each vendor we take the cheapest plan for your volume, price plus (usage above included × stated overage). Minute-billed plans use your calls × average minutes per call (3 by default). Goodcall bills per unique customer; we convert with Goodcall's own statement that 100 customers is about 150 calls. Abby Connect plans are shown in AI minutes (Abby states one Abby Minute equals two AI minutes).

Ranking is purely by estimated monthly cost. Affiliate relationships never change the order or the numbers; a test enforces this.

Not included: tax, phone-number and SMS fees, add-ons, setup fees (shown separately where stated), annual-billing discounts unless a plan is only sold annually.

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