Skip Posh's per-minute meter

Posh Virtual Receptionists is a US answering service that puts a live receptionist on your business line, 24/7/365. Its receptionists answer calls, take messages, book appointments and transfer callers through to you. You pay a monthly tier plus a per-minute rate for the receptionist time you use, and you can see that usage in the Posh portal.

Posh publishes seven tiers, effective 1 January 2026 and checked August 2026: Chic $65 with no included minutes, Vogue $130 for 50 minutes, Elegant $215 for 100, Luxurious $420 for 200, Prestigious $700 for 350, Lavish $975 for 500 and Exclusive $1,900 for 1,000. Minutes beyond your tier cost $1.90 to $2.30, and every call rounds up to the whole minute. Hey Jodie is a flat $49 a month with no metered minutes.

Yes. Posh now sells AI answering alongside its live team, at the same base rates as its human plans and still metered - $0.95 to $1.15 an AI minute, $1.15 on the $65 entry plan (checked August 2026). Hey Jodie's AI is $49 a month with no per-minute charge.

If the thing you want to leave behind is the meter, Hey Jodie is the closest swap: an AI answering service that answers 24/7, qualifies callers and takes messages for a flat $49 a month, with appointment booking and call transfers on the flat $99 Professional plan. Neither plan has a per-minute rate, so the comparison against a tier plus a meter holds either way. Posh does sell its own AI, but it is priced off the same base tiers and still bills by the minute. If what you actually want is a person on every call, stay on a human service.

Yes. Posh is a real, established US company headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia, with its own employed receptionists rather than an outsourced call center. The question for most buyers is not whether Posh is legitimate but whether a per-minute human receptionist or a flat-rate AI fits the way their phone actually rings.

Posh does several things genuinely well and we would rather say so. It publishes the full rate card so you can do the sums before you talk to anyone, every plan includes every feature, its pricing page says there are no hidden fees, and billing runs on a true monthly cycle rather than a 28-day one. The one thing to check is Spanish cover: Posh guarantees English and Spanish only Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm Eastern (checked August 2026).

Check the bill rather than the service: four things in Posh's own published terms decide what you actually pay. The entry tier includes zero minutes, usage rounds up to the whole minute, the clock runs from pickup until the receptionist finishes writing the call up, and AI agent time bills as worktime too. So a wrong number bills like a real lead, and the invoice is largest in your busiest month (terms checked August 2026).

Stay with Posh if you want a real person on every call. Hey Jodie is an AI: it answers, qualifies, books and takes messages around the clock for a flat fee, but it is not a human being and no amount of flat pricing changes that. Posh is also the better buy if your volume sits comfortably inside a tier you have already sized, or if your callers need a nuanced, unscripted conversation rather than an intake captured and an appointment booked.

Yes. Posh runs a seven-day trial that ends at 250 receptionist minutes if you reach that first, and it asks for no credit card (checked August 2026). Hey Jodie's trial is also seven days with no card, and there is no minute cap on it.

Start a 7-day Hey Jodie trial, forward your business number to Hey Jodie, and run both services in parallel for a week. Posh is month-to-month with no notice period, so you can cancel before the next billing cycle. Total switch time is under 1 hour of active work.