LimeCall vs Rosie
Rosie is the cheapest way to stop missing calls. LimeCall costs $10 more and does a different job — it also chases the leads on your website. The right answer depends on where your enquiries actually come from.
LimeCall
$59/mo
Booking and live transfer included on the entry plan.
Rosie
$49/mo
250 minutes. Booking and transfers start at $149.
No credit card · Answering calls in about 5 minutes · Cancel anytime
The short version
Rosie is the best cheap answering service. $49, flat, no overage, seven-day trial, up and running quickly. If the job is "cover the phone out of hours", it does that job well.
The $49 tier takes messages; it does not close. Booking appointments and transferring a hot caller to a person both live on the $149 plan. LimeCall includes both at $59, and adds the website side Rosie does not cover at any price.
Which one is for you
The short answer, before the detail. If the right-hand column describes you, buy Rosie — we would rather say so than waste your afternoon.
Choose LimeCall if…
- →You need calendar booking and warm transfers on the plan you actually buy
- →Two callers at once should both be answered
- →You need outbound calling, not inbound answering alone
- →Your website enquiries need chasing as well as your phone
- →You want CRM sync and analytics as you grow
Choose Rosie if…
- →You want the lowest monthly cost for basic 24/7 answering
- →Message-taking is enough and you do not need booking on the entry plan
- →You have no website lead-capture problem to solve
LimeCall AI Receptionist vs Rosie
Feature by feature
A flat-rate AI answering service for small businesses, with no overage charges. Compared against LimeCall AI Receptionist, from $59/mo for 200 AI talk minutes.
| Capability | LimeCall | Rosie |
|---|---|---|
| Who answers | AI, every call, 24/7 | AI, 24/7 |
| Sold in | AI talk minutes — 200 / 700 / 2,000 | Minutes — 250 / 1,000 / 2,000, no overage |
| Lead qualification | Included on every plan | Message scenarios; 2 on the entry plan |
| Appointment booking & scheduler | Included on every plan | Calendar booking on the $149 tier, not the $49 |
| Knowledge base & FAQs | Included | Custom training on its top tier |
| Recording, transcript & summary | Every call | Transcripts and summaries |
| Voices / languages | 40+ voices · 30+ languages | English and Spanish |
| Outbound calling | Every plan; campaigns on Growth, power dialer on Scale | Inbound only |
| Connect your own SIP trunk | Included | Not published |
| International call forwarding | Included | Call forwarding included |
| Website AI voice widget | Included | Not published |
| Missed-call recovery | Included | Not published |
| Concurrent AI calls | 2 / 5 / 10 by plan | Not published |
| CRM sync, lead scoring & analytics | Growth and up | Integrations available |
What Rosie does better
The cheapest credible entry point in the category, at a flat rate with no overage — the bill is the bill.
How the table falls
LimeCall takes 7 of 14 rows and Rosie takes 1, with 6 a draw. Prices verified 15 August 2026.
What you'd actually pay, side by side
Published prices, your volume, no spin. Move the volume and watch both bills move.
| Total cost | LimeCall | Rosie |
|---|---|---|
| Plan | — | — |
| What that includes | — | — |
| Monthly | — | — |
| Per year | — | — |
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Read this before you quote the number. Rosie is the cheapest credible entry point in the category and the table shows it winning at low volume. Two things the price alone hides: calendar booking and warm transfers sit on its $149 tier, not the $49 one, and it answers inbound only — it does not ring your website leads back.
Rosie prices read from their own pricing page on 15 August 2026. LimeCall prices are the ones on our pricing page. Vendors change prices often — check both before you decide.
What Each One Actually Costs
Published prices, with what you get for them. The entitlements differ — minutes, calls and unique callers are not the same unit — so compare the second column, not just the first.
LimeCall
- Starter Talk-time bundle · unlimited free web calls$59/mo
- Growth Most popular · larger bundle · lead routing$149/mo
- Scale High volume · multi-rep teams$399/mo
Calls taken in the browser on your own website are unlimited and free on every plan, and do not draw down your bundle.
Rosie
- Professional 250 minutes · 2 message scenarios$49/mo
- Scale 1,000 minutes · calendar booking · warm transfers$149/mo
- Growth 2,000 minutes · unlimited scenarios · custom training$299/mo
7-day free trial, cancel anytime.
Prices read from Rosie’s own pricing page on 15 August 2026. Vendors change pricing often — check Rosie for current figures before deciding.
Where Rosie Is Strong, and Where It Stops
If you are comparing these two you have probably already tried one of them. Here is the honest split.
What Rosie does well
- Cheapest credible entry point in the category at $49
- Flat rate with no overage charges — the bill is the bill
- Bilingual English/Spanish and native mobile apps on every tier
Where LimeCall covers what it doesn’t
- Calendar booking and warm transfers need the $149 tier, not the $49 one
- Minute-metered, so 250 minutes is roughly eight minutes a day
- Inbound answering only — it does not call your website leads back
- No callback widget or free web calling on your own site
Compare the Entry Plans, Not the Headline Price
$49 against $59 is a $10 difference. What sits inside each plan is a bigger one.
Rosie Professional · $49
- 24/7 AI answering
- 250 minutes
- Custom message taking (2 scenarios)
- Appointment links by text
- Spam detection
Calendar booking, warm transfers and in-call texting begin at the $149 Scale tier.
LimeCall Starter · $59
- 24/7 AI answering
- Talk-time bundle, extra minutes at cents
- Books into your calendar live
- Transfers hot callers to a rep
- Callback widget on your website
- Unlimited free calls in the browser
- AI-drafted post-call follow-ups
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Rosie cheaper than LimeCall? ▾
At the entry tier, yes — Rosie is $49/mo against LimeCall's $59/mo, and Rosie is the cheapest credible option in the category. The comparison changes once you need appointment booking or warm transfers, which sit on Rosie's $149 Scale tier rather than the $49 Professional one. LimeCall includes calendar booking and live transfer to a rep on its $59 Starter plan. So the honest answer is: cheaper for message-taking, more expensive once you want the AI to actually do something with the call. Prices verified 15 August 2026.
How many minutes is 250 minutes really? ▾
Roughly eight minutes per working day, or about two to three typical enquiry calls a day. For a sole trader or a quiet line that is comfortable. For a business running ads or fielding steady inbound it will not last the month, and the next tier up is $149. Rosie deserves credit for charging no overage — you are not stung by surprise fees — but the ceiling is a ceiling. LimeCall meters talk time too, with extra minutes at a few cents, but calls taken in the browser on your own website are unlimited and free and never touch the bundle.
What does LimeCall do that Rosie does not? ▾
Everything on the outbound and website side. Rosie answers calls that come to you. LimeCall also turns a website visitor into a live conversation in about 28 seconds, lets visitors call you free from the browser, gives you virtual numbers in 50+ countries, and drafts the follow-up email, SMS, contact, calendar event and CRM update after the call ends. If your problem is purely "nobody answers the phone after 6pm", Rosie solves it for $49. If your problem is "leads fill in a form and go cold", Rosie does not address it at all.
When should I pick Rosie? ▾
When you want the lowest monthly cost for basic 24/7 answering and message-taking, and you have no website lead-capture problem. Rosie is well-built, genuinely simple to set up, has a 7-day free trial, and its flat-rate no-overage promise means the bill is predictable. For a small local business that just needs the phone covered out of hours, it is a sensible buy and we would not argue you out of it.
Can I move from Rosie to LimeCall without losing my number? ▾
Yes. You can port an existing business number to LimeCall or point your current number at it by forwarding, which takes minutes and does not require you to cancel anything first. Most teams run both briefly — Rosie on the old line, LimeCall on a new number attached to the website — and compare what actually happens before cutting over. Setup is about five minutes and needs no developer.
Worth Ten Dollars? Find Out Free.
14 days, no credit card. If message-taking is all you need, Rosie at $49 is the right call and we will say so.