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SpeedToLead vs Voxa: flat SaaS vs pay-per-lead
Voxa sells AI answering to any small business at $299 a month and up, priced by the phone line. SpeedToLead sells only to contractors, priced by the qualified lead. Same job, opposite bets on what you should pay for.
October 11, 2026 · 6 min read
Voxa is an AI receptionist for small businesses generally — restaurants, clinics, salons, home services, anyone with a phone. Its pricing is classic flat SaaS: $299/month for one line, $600 for two, $1,000 for three. SpeedToLead is narrower and priced differently: contractors only, $9–$45 per qualified lead depending on trade, with the first 20 leads free. Here's how to choose.
The math at a real shop's volume
Say your shop gets about 10 qualified leads a month from missed and after-hours calls — a normal month for a 1-to-5 truck operation. On Voxa, that's $299 before the first job books, whatever the calls were worth. On SpeedToLead, 10 leads run roughly $90–$450 depending on your trade — and in a month where the phone only brought spam and wrong numbers, you pay $0. Flat pricing is predictable. Per-lead pricing is proportional. Which one you want depends on how much you trust your call volume to be real work.
Head to head
| Voxa | SpeedToLead | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | $299 / $600 / $1,000 per month, by lines | $9–$45 per qualified lead, by trade |
| Trial | Paid plans | First 20 qualified leads free, no card |
| Built for | Any small business | Contractors only — six trades |
| Slow month | Same bill | Smaller bill — you pay for leads, not lines |
| On the call | General small-business answering | Trade-specific triage, real booking windows, warm transfer |
Where Voxa wins
If you run several kinds of businesses, or your shop takes a high, steady volume of calls that are nearly all real customers, a flat line price is simple and can come out cheaper per call. And if you're not a contractor — a clinic, a salon — SpeedToLead isn't for you at all; Voxa's generality is the point.
Where SpeedToLead wins
- You pay for outcomes, not access. A line costs $299 whether it rings with jobs or with robocalls. A lead costs money only when it's a real customer with a real problem.
- The trial is the product. Twenty qualified leads free means the first month proves itself in booked work before any bill exists.
- It speaks contractor. Emergency categories, triage questions, and booking rules are built per trade — a restoration call and a roofing call don't get the same script.
The bottom line
Flat vs per-lead isn't a feature fight; it's a bet on your own call mix. Run your numbers on our missed-call cost calculator: if missed calls are costing you five figures a year and most of your ringing is real demand, either model beats voicemail — but per-lead is the one where a bad month never sends you a $299 bill for nothing. See also how we stack up against a per-seat model in SpeedToLead vs Allo.