Human receptionists

SaveTheJobvs PATLive.

What they charge, what we charge, and why our call ends with a price out of your own price book and a slot on your calendar. Every figure below is theirs, read on 25 August 2026, or an explicit note that they do not publish one.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

$299/mo

Published, capped, and the same in your busiest month. From $99 to start.

Our pricing in full

Start on One Truck, $99 a month

Where we are better, and it is checkable

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

✓It writes the job into your Google Calendar during the call, into a time it read off that calendar first.
✓It cannot book a time it did not offer you on that call. That is enforced in the code, not asked for in a prompt.
✓What it could not answer comes back to you as a note on the call in the caller's own words, with a callback promise set by your own hours.
✓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 has no meter past the plan below Fleet: at 100% you move up or we stop, your choice, and you are told at 80% before you get there.
✓Emergency triage written per trade instead of a generic script.

Why we win this one

Why SaveTheJob beats PATLive for a trade business.

The rate falls, the meter does not stop. Every tier is an allowance you can overrun at a per-minute price, and on their own published tiers 300 calls lands near $1,584 a month. Ours is a plan price and nothing past it: at 100% you move up a plan or we stop, and you are told at 80% either way.

✓It writes the job into your Google Calendar during the call, into a time it read off that calendar first.
✓It cannot book a time it did not offer you on that call. That is enforced in the code, not asked for in a prompt.
✓What it could not answer comes back to you as a note on the call in the caller's own words, with a callback promise set by your own hours.
✓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 has no meter past the plan below Fleet: at 100% you move up or we stop, your choice, and you are told at 80% before you get there.
✓Emergency triage written per trade instead of a generic script.

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