SkipCalls vs Goodcall
AI answering services side by side: what a month of calls costs, what each does on the call, and where each falls short.
The short answer
- SkipCalls costs least at 100 calls a month ($19.99), Goodcall at 500 ($129).
| SSkipCallssolo trades and service businesses that miss calls while on the jobVisit site | GGoodcallVisit site | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | ||
| At 100 calls a month | SkipCalls$19.99Lowest | Goodcall$79 |
| At 500 calls a month | SkipCalls$176.50 | Goodcall$129Lowest |
| Advertised from | SkipCalls$19.99 a month | Goodcall$79 a month |
| The advertised plan covers | SkipCallsThe $19.99 plan covers all 100 calls. | GoodcallThe $79 plan covers all 100 calls. |
| Bills | SkipCallsper call | Goodcallper caller |
| Keeps answering past your allowance | SkipCallsPartlyNothing is cut off or auto-charged past the call allowance on Starter and PRO | GoodcallYesPast the allowance, service continues and each extra unique customer is billed at the… |
| Free trial or plan | SkipCallsPartlyA seven-day free trial lets you run it on your real line before paying, but there is no… | GoodcallPartlyThere is no free trial on a real line |
| Month to month, cancel online | SkipCallsYesMonth-to-month with no contract, cancellable from the app without contacting anyone, and… | GoodcallYesEvery plan is month to month with monthly billing only |
| On the call | ||
| Books appointments | SkipCallsYesThe agent checks live calendar availability during the call and writes the event itself,… | GoodcallYesBooks into Google Calendar during the call |
| Transfers to a person | SkipCallsYesBoth warm and cold transfers are offered, with the AI briefing the team member on a… | GoodcallYesTransfers callers to an escalation contact on every plan, retries busy lines and moves to… |
| Human receptionists as backup | SkipCallsNoThere is no vendor-staffed human answering tier: calls the AI cannot handle are… | GoodcallNoGoodcall supplies no human receptionists |
| After-hours rules | SkipCallsYesAnswering runs nights, weekends and holidays, and you can configure different… | GoodcallYesAnswers 24/7 on every plan and uses the hours, holidays and closures you set on calls |
| Urgent calls escalated | SkipCallsYesYou define keyword triggers per agent | GoodcallYesThe agent triages callers including urgent ones and transfers to the right person with a… |
| Texts your callers | SkipCallsPartlyAutomatic SMS follow-ups come on every plan, but two-way AI text conversations answered… | GoodcallPartlyThe agent can send a caller a text such as a confirmation or a link, but the number… |
| Call summary by text | SkipCallsYesSummaries are pushed by text as well as email and the dashboard, which is what the… | GoodcallYesAfter a call the agent sends the captured lead to you by text and email, while the caller… |
| Language, privacy and trying it | ||
| Languages | SkipCallsYes10 languages | GoodcallPartlyEnglish only |
| HIPAA, with a signed BAA | SkipCallsNoThe vendor states plainly on its transcription page that the product is not HIPAA… | GoodcallPartlyGoodcall signs a standard Business Associate Agreement only on the Scale plan ($299 a… |
| Hear it before you buy | SkipCallsYesA public demo number answers without signup, and the site also offers a scenario-driven… | GoodcallYesYou can hear it before paying: a free demo agent you build and call from your browser,… |
| What it connects to | ||
| Google Calendar | SkipCallsYesGoogle Calendar, Outlook/Microsoft 365, Calendly, Cal.com, Apple Calendar, TidyCal,… | GoodcallYesGoogle Calendar is a native connection used for booking on every plan |
| Outlook | SkipCallsYesGoogle Calendar, Outlook/Microsoft 365, Calendly, Cal.com, Apple Calendar, TidyCal,… | GoodcallPartlyOutlook: only a custom connection set up by a developer is named as the route |
| Calendly | SkipCallsYesGoogle Calendar, Outlook/Microsoft 365, Calendly, Cal.com, Apple Calendar, TidyCal,… | GoodcallPartlyCalendly: only a custom connection set up by a developer is named as the route |
| Your trade’s software | SkipCallsPartlyHousecall Pro and Jobber are supported for home-services scheduling and job creation, but… | GoodcallPartlyNo trade software (ServiceTitan, Jobber, Housecall Pro, Dentrix, Clio, OpenTable,… |
| Keep your number | SkipCallsYesYou keep your number and carrier and switch on forwarding | GoodcallYesYou keep your existing number with your carrier and forward either every call or only… |
| Our verdict | ||
| In short | SkipCallsSkipCalls is an AI receptionist and answering service for small businesses that answers calls on a forwarded or SkipCalls number, books appointments, screens spam and sends summaries. It is run from an iOS, Android or web app.All answers for SkipCalls | GoodcallGoodcall is an AI phone agent for small businesses, started inside Google in 2017, that answers a company's calls in place of voicemail. Its agent is built and changed by Gabi, an AI assistant that takes instructions in plain language.All answers for Goodcall |
| Checked | SkipCallsOctober 14, 2026 | GoodcallOctober 14, 2026 |
Costs are for 100 or 500 calls a month of 2½ minutes each, on the cheapest public plan. How we price