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2 September 2026 · Pricing

Stop paying for the hours the phone doesn't ring.

A night receptionist costs you eight hours. At the US median wage, $18.27 an hour, that is $146 for the night. The calls take fifteen minutes: five calls, three minutes each, and 465 minutes of waiting. That is not a lazy receptionist. That is the shape of the job. And you pay for all of it.

1 Tonight every minute on a call costs $9.74. With Ronic, 10¢. One eight-hour night shift, one square per minute. Green is a minute on a call. Red is paid and waiting. Faint is not paid.
Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025, receptionists’ median wage*$18.27 an hour × 8 h. Three min a call. AI Caller 10¢ per min while it talks.
2 What tonight costs The same calls, two bills
*Follows the pills on exhibit 1
3 What you keep Receptionist vs Ronic, per night, per call, per minute
*Follows the pills on exhibit 1

Now put Ronic on the same night, picking up every call (exhibit 1). The receptionist's grid is red edge to edge: paid, waiting. Only the green minutes are work. Ronic's grid has the same green minutes and nothing else to pay for. Five calls: $1.50 for the night against $146 (chart 2). Tap the pills. Even at forty calls Ronic is $12, and you keep $134 (chart 3).

“You are not paying for their time; you are paying for the minutes. If they have only five calls, those five calls become very expensive.”

Amit, 25 August 2026

That is how the AI Caller is priced. 10¢ per min while it talks. Nothing while it waits. Pay as you go. Disconnect anytime. Unused credits refunded. You pay for the fifteen minutes. The other 465 cost nothing.