Clara AI Receptionist Pricing 2026: Plans and Fine Print
Search for Clara's price and you get three different answers
Look up Clara AI receptionist pricing and the first page of results is confusing. One software directory listing gives Clara four tiers called Starter, Growth, Scale and Enterprise, and says pricing is "not publicly disclosed". That does not match the price card the small-business Clara prints on its own website, and it does not match the other Clara's website either.
The reason is simple: two unrelated companies sell an AI receptionist called Clara, and the listings mix them up. This article sorts out which is which, then goes through what the small-business Clara's two plans include, what "unlimited calls" means in its terms of use, and the fine print worth reading before you forward a business line to it.
One disclosure up front. No Missed Call, which publishes this blog, sells an AI receptionist to the same kind of business, and Clara is one of the competitors closest to us. Read the comparison sections with that in mind. Every Clara figure below comes from Clara's own pricing page, feature pages, changelog and terms, read on 13 October 2026, and where Clara beats No Missed Call we say so plainly.
Which Clara are you looking at?
Clara at heyitsclara.com is a mobile app for trades and service businesses: plumbers, electricians, HVAC, cleaners, driving schools. Its terms of use name the operator as 44pixels Limited, a company registered in the United Kingdom, and the site footer reads "Clara AI, by 44pixels". It publishes plans for the US, UK and Canada. This is the Clara the rest of this article is about.
Clara AI at getclaraai.com is a separate product aimed at call-heavy businesses that want a done-for-you rollout. Its own pricing page lists Starter at $99 a month, Essential at $299, Growth at $500 and Scale from $749, as of October 2026, with booking integrations on the higher plans.
If a review, a comparison table or a directory listing quotes a Clara price, check which domain it links to before you trust it. The directory listing above says it covers getclaraai.com, not heyitsclara.com, and getclaraai.com now prints its prices anyway. A buyer searching for the small-business app can read that page and come away believing Clara hides its pricing, when it does not.
Clara AI receptionist pricing, as of October 2026
Clara sells two plans. Both answer unlimited calls. The difference is what happens around the call.
| Clara | Clara Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly billing | $39.99 a month | $69.99 a month |
| Annual billing | $399 a year (about $33.25 a month) | $699 a year (about $58.25 a month) |
| Calls answered | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Users | Single user only | Extra seats at $29 a month each |
| Live call transfers | Not included | Included |
| Automated text follow-ups | Not included | Included |
| Your caller ID on outgoing calls | Not included | Included |
| Personal contact exclusion | Not included | Included |
| Priority support | Not included | Included |
Source for every row: heyitsclara.com/us/pricing, including its "Compare features" table, read 13 October 2026. Both plans include the 24/7 AI receptionist, training in your own words, custom greetings and questions, unlimited outbound calling, and the choice of forwarding your existing number or taking a Clara number as a second line.
Three details on that page are easy to miss.
- The annual discount is "two months free". Clara's FAQ says you pay for ten months and get twelve, charged as one payment. The $33.25 and $58.25 figures are that payment divided by twelve, not a monthly bill.
- Seats stay monthly. Extra users on Clara Pro "are always billed monthly, even if your own plan is billed annually". A three-person shop on annual Pro pays $699 up front plus $58 a month for two extra seats, by our arithmetic from the published figures.
- The trial only applies to monthly plans. "Eligible monthly plans start with 7 days free. Annual plans start immediately at the annual price shown." If you want to test before you commit, start monthly.
One small inconsistency: the structured data inside the pricing page still describes Clara Pro as adding "business training", while the visible comparison table shows business-trained AI on both plans. Clara's changelog entry of 21 August 2026 explains it: "Additional Instructions is free", now on every plan. The visible table is the current one.
What "unlimited calls" means in the terms
The pricing FAQ is direct: "Every plan answers unlimited calls, so a busy month costs the same as a quiet one. There are no per-call or per-minute charges on top of the plan price."
The terms of use, last updated 11 July 2026, add a fair usage section. It says Clara "may apply reasonable fair usage limits (for example call minutes, concurrent calls, transcription volume, storage, or rate limits)", that it does "not currently enforce fixed numeric caps", and that it reserves "the right to introduce or adjust limits by plan over time", with "reasonable advance notice" where changes materially affect normal usage. It may also restrict usage that is "excessive, abnormal, or harmful".
We do not read that as a trap. A clause like this is how a flat-fee service protects itself from someone reselling the line or pointing a call centre at it. A two-truck electrician will not come near it. But it does mean "unlimited" is a current policy, not a contractual promise, and the terms let Clara set caps per plan later. If your business takes very long calls or very high volume, that is the clause to reread before you sign up for a year.
Compare that with the other billing models in this category. Rosie moves you up to the next plan when you pass your minutes. Goodcall charges per unique caller past an allowance. Our own product pauses the AI at the minute limit, which we cover below. We compared all of them in our read of twelve pricing pages on overage. Of the products we have checked, Clara's is the simplest answer to the question "what happens in a busy month": nothing, for now.
What the $39.99 plan leaves out
The entry plan answers, asks your questions, writes a summary, and lets you call people back. What it does not do is interrupt you.
Live transfers are Pro only. Clara's call transfers page describes the feature well: Clara listens for words that mean a call cannot wait, such as "a leak, no heat, a lockout", or for a regular asking for you by name, and rings your phone while the caller is still on the line. It also says "Available on Clara Pro." On the $39.99 plan, an urgent call becomes a well-written message that you read later.
For a trade business, that is the feature that matters on the worst call of the week. If emergencies are a real part of your work, budget for Pro, not for the headline price.
Text follow-ups are Pro only. On the entry plan, Clara writes up the call. On Pro, it can also send the caller a text with the next step, if the caller agreed to one, according to its summaries and follow-ups page.
"Skip Clara" is Pro only. Personal contact exclusion, renamed "Skip Clara" in the July 30 changelog, lets your family and suppliers reach you instead of the AI. On the entry plan, everyone who calls the forwarded line gets Clara.
How booking works
"Books appointments" means different things across this category, so it is worth reading Clara's scheduling page closely. Clara asks what the job is and when the caller wants it, checks that against the hours and services you set, and "puts the request on your calendar for you to confirm". You confirm with one tap. On Pro, the caller then gets a text with the day, the time and your number.
The calendar is Clara's own. The page says: "Bookings land in your Clara schedule in the app, so there is nothing to connect before you start. Sync with Google Calendar, Outlook and Apple Calendar is on the way." As of 13 October 2026, the sync is not live; you can ask for early access.
That design has a real upside: nothing gets booked without you, so a confused AI cannot fill your Tuesday with a job you do not do. The downside is that every booking waits on you, and the schedule lives in a separate app from the calendar you already use.
Languages
Clara's own comparison page, which it labels as published with "a commercial interest in your decision", claims "five published caller languages". We could not find the list of those five on the pages we read. The changelog of 17 July 2026 adds Spanish, French, Portuguese and Chinese as languages the app itself runs in, alongside English, and a toggle to read a transcript in the language the call happened in or translated into yours. Those are the app's menus and transcripts, which is not the same thing as what the voice on the phone can speak. If you serve callers in a language other than English, call Clara's demo line and test it in that language. We explain why that test matters in our guide to bilingual AI receptionists.
The fine print worth reading
This section quotes Clara's terms. It is general information, not legal advice; rules on call recording and AI disclosure vary by state and change, so check with a lawyer about your own situation.
- It is not an emergency service. The terms say: "We do not guarantee that calls will be answered, routed, recorded, transcribed, or summarised", and you are "responsible for maintaining alternative processes for urgent or critical situations". Clara also tells you not to publish a Clara number as an emergency contact.
- Recording notices and AI disclosure are on you. The terms make the business "solely responsible" for providing any required call-recording notices and for "informing callers where legally required that they are interacting with an automated or AI-powered system". Clara's transfers page says Clara opens with your business name and says it is your receptionist. We cover what the federal and state rules say in our AI disclosure explainer.
- English law applies. The terms are "governed by the laws of England and Wales", with the courts of England and Wales having exclusive jurisdiction. For a US business, that is worth knowing before a dispute, not after.
- Liability is capped at what you paid. Total liability is limited to the amounts you paid in the twelve months before the claim, and Clara is not liable for "missed calls" or "AI-generated outputs".
- App store purchases are refunded by the store. If you subscribe through Apple or Google, refunds follow that store's policies; Clara says it cannot grant them directly.
To be fair to Clara, none of that is a red flag. A service that answers phones through carriers it does not own cannot promise that every call connects, and it is better to have that written down than implied. The point is to plan for it: keep a real line for true emergencies, and decide your own disclosure wording.
How Clara's price compares
Every figure below was read from the vendor's own page on 13 October 2026.
| Product | Entry price | Billing unit |
|---|---|---|
| Clara (heyitsclara.com) | $39.99/mo, or $399/yr | Flat fee, unlimited calls; live transfers need Pro at $69.99 |
| Rosie | $49/mo | 250 minutes, then automatic move to the $149 plan |
| Goodcall | $79/mo | 100 unique customers, then a per-customer fee |
| Smith.ai AI Receptionist | Free for 25 calls | Per call: $3.00 a call after that on the free tier |
| PATLive (human) | $189/mo for 100 minutes | Per minute; about 40 calls by PATLive's own estimate |
| No Missed Call | Priced in the app stores | 250 AI minutes (Pro) or 500 (Premium); AI pauses at the limit |
On a published-price basis, Clara is the cheapest AI receptionist in this table that answers without a meter. The fairer comparison for a trade business is Clara Pro at $69.99, because that is the plan with live transfers. Even then it sits below Goodcall's entry plan and far below a human service.
Where Clara beats No Missed Call
Plainly, in several places.
- No meter. Clara answers unlimited calls. No Missed Call includes 250 AI minutes on Pro and 500 on Premium, and per our Help Center, at the limit "your AI pauses and callers hear a brief 'temporarily unavailable' message until your minutes reset". Ring-my-phone-first keeps working during a pause, but the AI backup is gone until the reset. In a very busy month, Clara's model is safer.
- A published dollar price. Clara prints its price on its website. No Missed Call is billed through the App Store and Google Play, and the store listing is where you see the current price.
- Live transfers. Clara Pro rings you mid-call on urgent jobs. Our Help Center does not document a live-transfer feature.
- Team seats. Clara Pro adds users on one account with shared inquiries and a shared calendar, priced per seat on the page.
Where No Missed Call differs
The honest difference is in what happens after the call, more than in the call itself.
Booking goes to your real calendar. With Calendar Sync on, a Premium feature, No Missed Call checks your actual Google Calendar while the caller is on the line, books into a genuinely free slot, and sends the caller an email invite. Clara's Google, Outlook and Apple sync is listed as coming. If you live in Google Calendar, that is a real difference today. If you prefer to approve every job yourself, Clara's confirm-first design may suit you better.
Calls you take yourself are free. With ring-my-phone-first, your phone rings first and the AI only answers if you do not. Only time the AI spends talking counts against your minutes.
Data goes where you want it. No Missed Call Premium includes webhooks and a REST API, so call details can flow into a CRM. Clara's support pages have an Integrations section and its scheduling page mentions early access; we did not find a public API on the pages we read.
Its honest limits against Clara: minutes instead of unlimited calls, no published dollar price, no documented live transfer, and Calendar Sync, spam filters and webhooks all on Premium rather than the entry plan.
How to test Clara before you pay
- Call the demo line first. Clara publishes a number, 1-855-77-CLARA, so you can hear how it answers before you install anything. Describe a real job from your week, including one urgent one.
- Start monthly, not annual. Only monthly plans get the 7-day trial. Annual starts at the full annual price immediately.
- Decide on transfers early. If urgent calls are part of your trade, trial Pro, because that is the plan you would actually need. Testing the entry plan tells you little about your worst call.
- Use conditional forwarding. Let Clara catch only the calls you miss for the first week. Our forwarding guide covers the carrier codes.
- Read the transcripts, not just the summaries. That is where you see whether the urgent call got flagged and whether the booking request has the right details.
Clara is a well-built, honestly priced product, and for a solo tradesperson who wants every call answered for a fixed fee, it is a strong choice. Check that the plan you are pricing is the one with the features you need, and check that the Clara you are reading about is the one at heyitsclara.com.
Frequently asked questions
What is Clara AI receptionist pricing in 2026?
As of October 2026, Clara at heyitsclara.com costs $39.99 a month, or $399 a year, on its entry plan. Clara Pro costs $69.99 a month, or $699 a year, with extra team seats at $29 a month each. Both plans answer unlimited calls. Source: Clara's pricing page. Check it before you buy, because prices change.
Is Clara really unlimited?
Clara's pricing page says every plan answers unlimited calls with no per-call or per-minute charges. Its terms of use add a fair usage policy: Clara does not currently enforce fixed numeric caps, but reserves the right to introduce limits by plan with reasonable advance notice, and can restrict excessive or abnormal usage.
Is heyitsclara.com the same company as getclaraai.com?
No. Clara at heyitsclara.com is a mobile app run by 44pixels Limited, a UK company, priced from $39.99 a month. Clara AI at getclaraai.com is a separate product whose pricing page lists plans from $99 to $749 a month and up, as of October 2026.
Does Clara's entry plan transfer urgent calls to me?
No. Live call transfers are listed as a Clara Pro feature on Clara's call transfers page. On the $39.99 plan, an urgent call becomes a written summary and priority tag in the app, not a call to your phone.
Does Clara book into Google Calendar?
Not yet, as of 13 October 2026. Clara's scheduling page says bookings land in the Clara schedule inside the app for you to confirm, and that sync with Google Calendar, Outlook and Apple Calendar is on the way.
Is there a free trial?
Clara's pricing FAQ says eligible monthly plans start with 7 days free, while annual plans start immediately at the annual price. Start on a monthly plan if you want to test it.
Try it on your own phone
No Missed Call is an AI receptionist that answers your business line 24/7, books appointments straight into your calendar, and sends you a transcript and summary of every call. Setup takes minutes from your phone, and there is a 7-day free trial.
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