Honest pricing math for a restaurant AI phone agent.

AI phone agent pricing is not usually per-call. It's per-plan with a minute cap, because the underlying voice, ASR, and LLM costs are per-minute. If a vendor advertises per-call pricing without a minute assumption, ask what happens on a 12-minute catering call.

The frame that actually matters is: how many additional captured orders per month does the plan need to pay for itself, at your average ticket and food-cost percentage? Our ROI calculator makes this math visible — no invented conversion rates, no benchmark handwaving.

Answer is our floor: pickup calls, catering leads, and hours checks. Order adds the full structured phone-ordering system with server-side pricing and the internal queue. Fire It Pro adds multi-agent orchestration and higher concurrency for multi-location or high-volume operators. Enterprise is a custom plan for multi-brand groups.

Fire It's plans aren't sized by feature count — they're sized by the operational load that separates a single overflow line from a multi-location group. Answer is designed for a shop that wants pickup, hours, and catering intake with a single concurrency slot. Order adds the full structured ticket flow, internal queue, and server-side pricing at a concurrency level that fits a single high-volume kitchen. Fire It Pro is where multi-location groups live — higher concurrency, per-location scoping, and the reporting that owners of two-plus shops actually use.

Overage minutes are billed against the same per-minute unit the plan uses, at the rate published on your pricing page. They're not a punishment — they're the honest reflection of underlying voice, ASR, and LLM costs, which are all per-minute at the wholesale layer. If a competitor advertises unlimited minutes at a flat price, ask them what happens on a month with an unexpectedly long catering call rush. The economics don't stop existing because a marketing page hides them.

The AI-versus-hire framing usually gets sold as a monthly-salary comparison. That framing hides shift-coverage economics, training time, and turnover cost. A fair comparison looks at the total cost of covering four peak evenings per week over a year — hourly wage times hours, plus payroll tax, plus training, plus the recruiting cost every time the seat turns. Plug your local numbers into the ROI calculator and compare to the plan cost. The answer varies by market; that's the point.