AI receptionist costs for painting and drywall repair contractors
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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 painting and drywall repair is different
Painting and drywall repair are project work. Most calls are estimate requests and scheduling during the day, with few emergencies, so a smaller share of calls comes after hours than in trades like plumbing. Source: SubCall: Contractor Call Volume Benchmarks by Trade (after-hours share)
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: 100, between the middle of the 60 to 160 a month that SubCall's contractor call volume benchmarks list for painting teams of 2 to 5 people and the middle of its 50 to 130 for drywall Reported.
- After hours: 15%, the middle of the 10 to 20% SubCall lists for both painting and drywall 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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