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The original virtual phone system — a business number, greeting and extensions layered over the phones you already own, priced per account
The $14 flat-rate business number for one person — the catch is it only presents and forwards calls; it never answers, books or transcribes them for you.
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Grasshopper layers a business number, greeting and extensions over your existing phones for a flat per-account price — $14/month for a true solo — with unlimited US/Canada minutes and no per-user fees.
You want a professional business number on your own phone, unlimited US/Canada calling, and a bill that stays $14 a month because it is priced per account, not per person.
You need the phone to do the work — AI answering, appointment booking or call transcription are not what Grasshopper sells.
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Starts You publish your Grasshopper number on your site, cards and listings
You get Every business call answered professionally on the phone you already own
Your personal number stays private and your business sounds established from day one
Starts A caller picks Sales, Support or Billing from your greeting menu
You get Callers routed by intent, not by who happens to pick up
A one-person business presents departments without hiring anyone
Starts A customer texts your business number, or you follow up by text
You get Business texts kept separate from your personal messages
Follow-ups stay on-brand and off your personal thread
The trial needs no credit card. Put the number on one real channel and judge call quality and the app before paying.
At $14 a month billed annually it includes your number, extension and unlimited US/Canada minutes; Solo Plus only earns its $25 when other people start answering.
Texting registration, an extra number at $9/month or a recorded greeting at $75 one-time are the extras a solo actually meets — price them in before comparing headlines.
Time to first useful result: Under 1 hour · no-code 5/5
Priced per account, not per user: True Solo $14/month billed annually ($18 monthly) for 1 user, 1 number, 1 extension; Solo Plus $25 annual ($32 monthly) with unlimited users, 1 number, 3 extensions; Small Business $55 annual ($70 monthly) with unlimited users, 4 numbers, unlimited extensions. 7-day free trial, no credit card.
$14/month billed annually ($168/year)
Flat / month · $14/mo for one person
$18/month billed monthly
Flat / month · $18/mo for one person
$25/month billed annually ($300/year)
Flat / month · $25/mo for one person
$32/month billed monthly
Flat / month · $32/mo for one person
$55/month billed annually ($660/year)
Flat / month · $55/mo for one person
$70/month billed monthly
Flat / month · $70/mo for one person
| Plan | Published price | Solo monthly | Billed by | Limits & overage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| True Solo (annual)Solo pick | $14/month billed annually ($168/year) | $14/mo | Flat / month | One user and one extension — a second person means Solo Plus · US and Canada service only; international calls are billed per minute and are not included |
| True Solo (monthly) | $18/month billed monthly | $18/mo | Flat / month | $4/month more than the annual rate |
| Solo Plus (annual) | $25/month billed annually ($300/year) | $25/mo | Flat / month | Still one phone number; extra numbers are $9/month each · Extra extensions beyond 3 are $3/month each (published rate) |
| Solo Plus (monthly) | $32/month billed monthly | $32/mo | Flat / month | $7/month more than the annual rate |
| Small Business (annual) | $55/month billed annually ($660/year) | $55/mo | Flat / month | Built for multi-line businesses; a solo rarely needs four numbers |
| Small Business (monthly) | $70/month billed monthly | $70/mo | Flat / month | $15/month more than the annual rate |
The plan price itself barely moves — it is per account, not per user. The creep is add-ons: extra numbers at $9/month, extra Solo Plus extensions at $3/month, texting registration fees, and per-minute international calling that is never included.
Price record · 2026-11-08: Checked 2026-11-08 on grasshopper.com/pricing: the page was read directly this run — its title and structured product data state pricing starting at $14/month, it presents the monthly/annual billing toggle, and its FAQ confirms the 7-day free trial with no credit card, plan changes at any time, per-minute international billing and the $75 Voice Studio greeting. The per-plan figures do not extract as text from the rendered pricing page, so they are corroborated here from Grasshopper's own official tariff/rate page on grasshopper.com (monthly $18 / $32 / $70; annual $168 / $300 / $660; extra numbers $9/month) and the vendor's own published plan tables, which agree exactly: True Solo $14 annual / $18 monthly, Solo Plus $25 / $32, Small Business $55 / $70. No directories or third-party reviews were used as price sources.
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Grasshopper is the simplest idea on this page, executed for a long time: it puts a professional business number — local, toll-free or vanity — on top of the mobile phone you already carry, answers it with your greeting and menu, and forwards calls to you or your extensions wherever you are. There is no desk phone to buy, no new handset contract, and, most distinctively, no per-user pricing. Every plan is priced per account: True Solo at $14 a month billed annually covers one user, one number and one extension; Solo Plus at $25 keeps one number, raises extensions to three and removes the user limit entirely; Small Business at $55 brings four numbers and unlimited extensions. All plans include unlimited calling minutes within the US and Canada and the same core feature set — the tiers ration numbers, extensions and users, not features. For a solo founder that makes Grasshopper unusually predictable: the True Solo Cost is $14 at both low and typical volume, because a business of one never needs the higher tiers. The honest limits matter just as much. Grasshopper is a forwarding and presentation layer, not an AI receptionist: it does not answer questions, take bookings into your calendar or hold a conversation with a caller, and live answering, where offered, is a separate human-answering add-on through a partner. Texting needs A2P registration with small one-time and monthly fees before you can send, international calling is per-minute and never included, and extra numbers and extensions add up at $9 and $3 a month. It is also a US-and-Canada product. Buy it when what you need is to look established and never mix business calls into your personal number; look elsewhere when the job has grown into answering, booking and transcribing themselves.
Solo Fit stays the public score: the qualitative roll-up of these four published inputs under the How We Rank method. A five-minute, no-code setup and the clearest flat pricing in the job carry it; the absence of any answering intelligence is recorded in the checklist, not hidden.
The difference: Quo replaces your phone app entirely at $15/user/month billed annually and includes an AI agent in credit allowances; Grasshopper is a $14 flat forwarding layer over your existing phone with unlimited users on higher tiers.
The difference: JustCall is the CRM-and-dialer phone system with a two-seat minimum; Grasshopper has no seat minimum at all because it does not price seats.
The difference: Dialpad adds AI transcripts, summaries and meetings to the phone system; Grasshopper is deliberately simpler — presentation and forwarding, at a flat account price.
True Solo is $14 per month billed annually ($168 a year) or $18 billed monthly, and it is priced per account, not per user: one user, one number, one extension, unlimited US/Canada minutes. The directory's True Solo Cost is $14 low and $14 typical, because a business of one needs nothing higher.
No — that is its defining trait. Solo Plus ($25/month billed annually) and Small Business ($55) allow unlimited users for the same flat account price; the tiers ration phone numbers and extensions instead. Extra numbers cost $9/month each and extra Solo Plus extensions $3/month each.
There is no free plan. The pricing page offers a 7-day free trial with no credit card required, and plans can be changed at any time — upgrades immediately, downgrades from the next billing cycle.
No. Grasshopper greets, routes and forwards calls to your own phones and takes voicemail; it does not hold conversations with callers or book into a calendar, which is why its calendar-booking checklist entry is recorded as not included rather than assumed.
Grasshopper is not in a published stack yet — stacks are edited buying guides, and memberships are added only when the combination has been worked through.
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