Goodcall vs Simple Phones
Goodcall starts $31/mo cheaper than Simple Phones.
Both pages checked by August 19, 2026
- GoodcallAI only
- $66/mo
- Starter (annual) plan
- Agentic voice AI phone agents for local, multi-location and enterprise businesses, sold per agent per month with unlimited call minutes and a monthly cap on unique callers instead of per-minute billing.
- Simple PhonesAI only
- $97/mo
- Basic plan
- Turnkey AI phone answering service for small businesses: Simple Phones generates a starter agent from your business details, assigns a number you forward missed calls to, and their team makes ongoing agent customizations on request rather than you building the agent yourself.
The differences that matter
- Simple Phones offers a trial (Start a 14-day free trial and create an AI agent instantly.); Goodcall advertises none.
- Simple Phones documents Spanish-language calls; Goodcall does not say it does.
Feature by feature
| Capability | Goodcall | Simple Phones |
|---|---|---|
| Live transfer | Yes | Yes |
| Books appointments | Yes | Yes |
| Text follow-up | Yes | Yes |
| Outbound calls | unstated | Yes |
| Spanish | unstated | Yes |
| Human backup | No | No |
| Call recordings | Yes | unstated |
| Transcripts | Yes | Yes |
| Spam screening | Yes | unstated |
| Custom voice | unstated | unstated |
| API | unstated | Yes |
"unstated" means the vendor doesn't claim it in their own documentation. It is not the same as no — it means nobody will put it in writing.
Goodcall plans
| Plan | Published price | Includes | Over that |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter (monthly) | $79 monthly per agent | — | *$0.50/customer after 100 |
| Starter (annual) | $66 monthly per agent(annual billing) | — | *$0.50/customer after 100 |
| Growth (monthly) | $129 monthly per agent | — | *$0.50/customer after 250 |
| Growth (annual) | $108 monthly per agent(annual billing) | — | *$0.50/customer after 250 |
| Scale (monthly) | $249 monthly per agent | — | *$0.50/customer after 500 |
| Scale (annual) | $208 monthly per agent(annual billing) | — | *$0.50/customer after 500 |
| Enterprise | not published | — | — |
Simple Phones plans
| Plan | Published price | Includes | Over that |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | Simple Phones starts at $97/mo for 100 calls/mo. | 100 calls | If you cancel your plan, or you exceed the number of calls per month for your tier, your phone numbers will be released. |
| Advanced | not published | 500 calls | If you cancel your plan, or you exceed the number of calls per month for your tier, your phone numbers will be released. |
| Premium | not published | 2500 calls | If you cancel your plan, or you exceed the number of calls per month for your tier, your phone numbers will be released. |
| Pay As You Go | $0.19/min | — | — |
Goodcall sources
- Pricing page (monthly and annual tiers, unique-customer definition, overage, FAQ on numbers, team members, Zapier)goodcall.com · read August 19, 2026
- How it Works (transfers, escalation, local numbers, conditional forwarding, Zapier)goodcall.com · read August 19, 2026
- About page (CallJoy/Google Area 120 origin, 50 US states, responsible-AI claims)goodcall.com · read August 19, 2026
- Goodcall Help Center indexhelp.goodcall.com · read August 19, 2026
- Help Center: Goodcall Plan and Pricing Update (1 Dec 2025 migration, $79 Starter, 15% annual)help.goodcall.com · read August 19, 2026
- Help Center: Can I Port My Phone Number to Goodcall (porting not supported)help.goodcall.com · read August 19, 2026
- Help Center: conditional call forwarding setuphelp.goodcall.com · read August 19, 2026
- Help Center: toll-free numbers not supportedhelp.goodcall.com · read August 19, 2026
- Help Center: availability is USA onlyhelp.goodcall.com · read August 19, 2026
- Help Center: Can I Try The Demo Free? (free Demo plan, no agent number)help.goodcall.com · read August 19, 2026
- Help Center: call recording notification (transferred calls not recorded, consent whisper not disableable)help.goodcall.com · read August 19, 2026
- Help Center: appointment skill (four handling options)help.goodcall.com · read August 19, 2026
- Help Center: Boulevard booking integrationhelp.goodcall.com · read August 19, 2026
- Help Center: message taking, transcripts, email/SMS deliveryhelp.goodcall.com · read August 19, 2026
- Help Center: partnerships and integrations (Yelp, Google, Zapier)help.goodcall.com · read August 19, 2026
- Terms of Service (refunds and cancellations)help.goodcall.com · read August 19, 2026
Simple Phones sources
- Pricing / features / FAQ page (renders the site's pricing and FAQ sections: $97 for 100 calls, 14-day free trial, no commitment, overage = numbers released, country list, language list, forwarding, CRM/Zapier, transfer to a team member)simplephones.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Homepage (inbound, outbound, logging, customization, routing, voices, crawling)simplephones.ai · read August 19, 2026
- In-app billing screen (tier names "Basic Subscription - 100 calls/month", "Advanced Subscription - 500 calls/month", "Premium Subscription - 2,500 calls/month"; Pay As You Go $0.19/min and its 250 minutes/month minimum; >2,500 calls or >20 agents triggers Pay As You Go; whitelabel answer)app.simplephones.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Help centre: Creating an agent (one agent on the Basic plan)help.simplephones.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Help centre: Inbound Callshelp.simplephones.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Help centre: Outbound Calls (1 call per number per 24h, callback-only unless BYO Twilio)help.simplephones.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Help centre: Routing (transfer to any number, time-of-day rules, email/text/webhook alerts)help.simplephones.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Help centre: Crawling (website/FAQ knowledge base)help.simplephones.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Help centre / API: Call Details & Transcript (response fields: minutesUsed, start/end time, transcript; no recording URL)help.simplephones.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Help centre documentation indexhelp.simplephones.ai · read August 19, 2026