Goodcall sells AI phone agents for small businesses, and its examples include a plumbing company2. Its pricing is unusual: you pay for unique customers helped each month, where one phone number counts once no matter how many times or how long it calls1. Connie charges for the minutes it spends on the phone. Which is cheaper depends on how many different people call you.
Side by side
| Connie | Goodcall | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | $79/mo Starter (150 min). Founding members: $49/mo ($490/yr), every missed call answered (fair use 300 min), locked for life, 20 spots total. Pro $149 (400 min), Scale $249 (1,000 min). Yearly = 2 months free (founding: $490/yr). | Starter $79/mo, Growth $129/mo, Scale $299/mo; Enterprise by quote1. |
| Included usage | 150 / 400 / 1,000 AI minutes a month (founding: every missed call, fair use 300). Calls you pick up yourself never use minutes. | 100 / 500 / 2,000 unique customers a month (Goodcall estimates about 150 / 750 / 3,000 calls). Minutes are not metered1. |
| Overage | $0.35 per minute on Founding and Starter, $0.25 on Pro, $0.20 on Scale | 79¢ / 26¢ / 15¢ per extra unique customer1. |
| Setup fee | None on any plan. You set it up yourself online in a few minutes. | Not stated on pricing page. |
| Contract | None. Month to month, cancel anytime. | Not stated on pricing page. |
| Free trial / guarantee | First-job guarantee: book a job through Connie in your first 30 days or your first month is refunded. | Free demo agent; you pay when you connect a number1. |
| Call booking | Books visits into Google Calendar, using the hours, service area and job types you set. | Books into Google Calendar and texts the booking to the caller and your team2. |
| Texting | Email summary after every call today. Text summaries and missed call text back Coming at launch. Carrier texting registration passed through at cost. | Texts leads and booking details to you and booked appointments to the caller2. |
| Integrations | Google Calendar today. Jobber integration coming on Pro and Scale (not built yet). No Housecall Pro or ServiceTitan. | HighLevel, Zapier, Google Calendar and your own systems; 1 to 15 connected tools by plan12. |
| Human handoff / live agents | No live agents. Hands calls to you or your on-call number when you set a rule for it. | Transfers to a person or department you choose, with a backup if nobody answers2. |
| Built for | Home service contractors (HVAC, plumbing, electrical, garage door, roofing) who miss calls on the job. Overflow only: your phone rings first. | Small and growing businesses across industries (plumbing, real estate, dental, retail, tax examples)2. |
What it costs at three call volumes
Connie bills by the minute. At the pilot shop, a real (non-spam) call averaged about 70 seconds, so the examples below count each call as about 1.2 minutes and pick the cheapest Connie plan for that volume, overage included. There is no setup fee on any Connie plan, so nothing is left out of the monthly figures below.
For Goodcall we assume every call is a different caller, which is the most expensive case for them. Repeat callers in the same month would lower their number.
| Missed calls a month | Connie | Goodcall |
|---|---|---|
| 40 calls (about 47 min) | $79 Starter, or $49 founding | $79 Starter (100 customers)1 |
| 150 calls (about 175 min) | $87.75 (Starter $79 + 25 extra min × $0.35) | $118.50 (Starter $79 + 50 × $0.79)1 |
| 400 calls (about 467 min) | $165.75 (Pro $149 + 67 extra min × $0.25) | $129 Growth (500 customers)1 |
At low volume the two cost the same ($79), or Connie is $30 less with a founding spot. Around 150 callers Connie is about $30 cheaper. By 400 callers Goodcall's Growth plan is cheaper, and past that its larger plans pull further ahead, because long calls cost them nothing extra. If your calls run long, that matters more. Try your numbers in the missed call calculator.
Where Connie wins
- Mid-volume price. At around 150 missed calls a month Connie is about $88 against Goodcall's $118.50. At the low end the Starter prices match ($79), and founding members pay $49.
- Done for you. She builds herself from your Google listing and website in a few minutes. Goodcall's model is building your own agents and workers.
- Overflow by design, with trade safety questions, a first-job guarantee and no contract.
Where Connie doesn’t (yet)
- Texting. Goodcall texts callers and your team today. Connie's texting is coming at launch.
- High volume. From roughly 250 callers a month, Goodcall's flat per-customer pricing is cheaper.
- Integrations. Goodcall connects to HighLevel, Zapier and more. Connie has Google Calendar only today; Jobber integration is coming on Pro and Scale (not built yet).
- Flexibility. Goodcall lets you build several agents for different jobs. Connie is one receptionist with your rules.
- Maturity. Connie is pre-launch with one live site, a South Bend repair shop.
Which should you pick?
Pick Goodcall if you have a lot of callers, you already run HighLevel or Zapier workflows, or you need texting today and like building and tuning agents yourself.
Pick Connie if you are a smaller plumbing or HVAC shop that wants missed calls answered and booked without becoming the person who configures an AI platform.