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Rosie · AI phone answering for small businesses, billed by minutes
Rosie (heyrosie.com) is good value and easy to start: it learns your business from your Google profile and website in minutes, answers 24/7, books into your calendar and texts you every call. Its published plans are Professional at $49 a month for 250 minutes, Scale at $149 for 1,000 minutes with warm and live transfers, and Growth at $299 for 2,000 minutes with waterfall transfers that try several numbers until someone answers. At those prices Rosie costs less per minute than Lydoh. It is built for home services, law firms, property management, real estate and salons, and its site doesn't describe medical use. Lydoh is built for practices: Lydoh After Hours is $99/mo with 300 minutes included, with 911 deflection on clinical lines (an emergency animal hospital for vets), urgency decided by the caller, and an on-call cascade that dials your providers until one accepts.
Side by side
| Rosie | Lydoh | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Home services, law firms, property management, construction, real estate, automotive, salons | Medical, dental and veterinary practices |
| Pricing | Professional $49/mo for 250 min, Scale $149 for 1,000 min, Growth $299 for 2,000 min; annual billing "2 months free" | Lydoh After Hours $99/mo with 300 minutes included; Lydoh Frontdesk $249/mo with 1,200 minutes included; $0.25/min after |
| Minutes past the plan | Not shown on the pricing page | $0.25/min, published |
| Transfers | Warm and live transfers on Scale; waterfall transfers across several numbers on Growth | Live transfer to the front desk on Lydoh Frontdesk; on-call cascade on every voice plan |
| Urgent calls after hours | Transfers as configured | Caller decides urgency; the on-call provider is dialed and must accept, then the backup |
| Emergencies | Not described on its site | 911 deflection on clinical lines; emergency animal hospital for vets |
| BAA | Not described on its site; ask Rosie | BAA available for healthcare practices |
| Trial | 7-day free trial | 14-day free trial |
Disclosure: Lydoh wrote this page. Competitor facts are from their published materials (sources below), compiled October 22, 2026; verify current pricing directly. We've tried to be fair; tell us if we got something wrong: hello@lydoh.com.
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FAQ
Rosie is an AI phone answering service for small businesses at heyrosie.com. It answers calls 24/7, answers questions, books appointments into your calendar or texts a scheduling link, and texts you the details of every call. Its site lists home services, law firms, property management, construction, real estate, plumbing, automotive and salons as the businesses it is built for.
Rosie's pricing page lists Professional at $49 a month for 250 minutes, Scale at $149 for 1,000 minutes and Growth at $299 for 2,000 minutes, with a 7-day free trial and two months free on annual billing. The page doesn't show what minutes past the plan cost. For comparison, Lydoh After Hours is $99/mo with 300 minutes included and Lydoh Frontdesk is $249/mo with 1,200 minutes included, both $0.25 a minute after that.
For the after-hours part, yes, because that is what Lydoh is built for: 911 deflection on clinical lines (an emergency animal hospital for vets), urgency decided by the caller, and an on-call cascade that dials your providers until one accepts, and a timestamped record of every attempt. For general answering and booking, Rosie does the job for less. Lydoh also signs a BAA with healthcare practices.
Rosie's Growth plan tries several numbers until someone answers. Lydoh's cascade asks the provider who picks up to accept the call before the patient is connected, moves to the backup if they don't, and texts the team if nobody accepts. On practices that turn on live connect, an urgent caller holds while the accepting provider is brought onto the line.
Related: what answering services really cost, how our after-hours triage works, AI receptionist vs. answering service, and all comparisons.
Sources: Rosie: Pricing (plans, minutes, transfers, trial; checked October 22, 2026) · Rosie: Home page (industries, 24/7 answering, setup from your Google profile; checked October 22, 2026)
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