AI receptionist costs for lawn care and landscaping businesses
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Your estimated monthly bill
your estimated billthe vendor's lowest starting price, required plans included
Estimates use each vendor's published plans as of 2026-10-30. Each bill is the full monthly cost to get call answering running, including any plan, seat or phone number the vendor requires first (for example, Jobber's Core plan). Taxes, one-time fees and optional extras aren't included; each vendor page lists them. For Goodcall we assume 1.5 calls per unique customer, Goodcall's own ratio. Names on the board link to our own vendor pages, not to the vendors.
Why lawn care and landscaping is different
Lawn care and landscaping calls follow the seasons: spring cleanup and design season is the busiest stretch, summer is maintenance and irrigation, fall is cleanup again, and winter is off-season for most crews. A plan that fits a quiet month can run over in April. Source: SubCall: Contractor Call Volume Benchmarks by Trade (seasonal patterns)
These starting numbers are examples, not survey data from your business. Replace them with a month from your phone log.
Where these starting numbers come from
- Calls a month: 170, the middle of the 90 to 250 a month that SubCall's contractor call volume benchmarks list for landscaping teams of 2 to 5 people Reported.
- After hours: 20%, the middle of the 15 to 25% SubCall lists for landscaping Reported.
- Call length: 3 minutes, rounded from the 2.9-minute average for home services calls in CallRail's study of 100 million calls (August 2020) Reported.
- SubCall sells an AI receptionist and says its ranges are aggregated from public marketing benchmarks and trade association reporting, not measured averages.
Other trades
- Plumbing
- HVAC
- Electrical
- Roofing
- Garage door
- Pest control
- Water damage restoration
- Lawn care and landscaping
- Handyman
- Painting and drywall repair
- Junk removal and hauling
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