The short answer: $500 to $1,200 per month, and here is every line of the math
As of July 2026, running your service business on an AI operations platform costs between $500 and $1,200 per month on Run with Jarvis — and unlike most vendors in this category, we publish every number. The plan prices, the included AI call minutes, and the per-minute overage rates are all listed on the pricing page, and this post walks through the math behind each one.
Why write an entire article about our own pricing? Because "AI operations" is a category where sticker shock and hidden fees are the norm, not the exception. Owners comparing an AI receptionist, a booking system, a CRM, and call tracking usually end up with four quotes, three "contact us for pricing" walls, and no way to compare totals. This guide exists so you can do that comparison on one page — including the questions you should ask any vendor, us included, before signing.
If you are still deciding whether AI answering is worth it at all, our ROI breakdown (linked at the end) makes that case; this post is purely about the dollars once you know you need it.
The three plans at a glance
Run with Jarvis is priced as three tiers. The first tier is the complete operations system — answering, booking, CRM, POS, invoicing, and dispatch. The second adds the measurement layer. The third adds the AI growth engine.
| Plan | Monthly | AI minutes / mo | Overage | Systems included |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core | $500 | 500 | $0.45/min | KeyBot, GetTimePad, IntelliDrive |
| Pro | $750 | 1,000 | $0.40/min | Everything in Core + CallFlux call tracking |
| Elite | $1,200 | 2,500 | $0.35/min | Everything in Pro + Jarvis AI Assistant + AI marketing |
That is the only table you need, and three terms apply to every row: month-to-month billing with no long-term contract, zero setup fees, and unlimited users. There are no per-call fees anywhere — overage is billed per minute only, and notice that the overage rate drops as you move up tiers, not the other way around. Everything below unpacks what each row actually buys and how the per-minute math plays out at real call volumes.
Core — $500/mo: the complete operations system
Core is deliberately not a stripped-down starter tier. The full operating stack — answering, booking, CRM, POS, invoicing, and dispatch — ships in the first plan. For $500 a month you get:
- KeyBot AI call answering — the AI receptionist that picks up every call, 24/7, in English and Spanish (learn more at thekeybot.com)
- GetTimePad scheduling — the drag-and-drop calendar the AI books into (see gettimepad.com)
- IntelliDrive CRM + POS — customer records, point of sale, invoicing with payment links, and job management (see intellidriveos.com)
- Technician dispatch — GPS tracking, traffic-aware route optimization, and automatic ETA and arrival texts
- AI outbound follow-up calls and dynamic VIN-based quoting
- QuickBooks bidirectional sync
- Review automation for Google, Facebook, and Yelp
- SMS + WhatsApp messaging and a mobile app for iOS and Android
- 500 AI call minutes per month
The plan is built for a business whose single biggest leak is the phone: calls missed during jobs, after hours, or on weekends. If you have ever wondered what actually happens to your 11 PM callers, our after-hours call playbook (linked at the end of this post) walks through that scenario in detail. And because the CRM, dispatch, and invoicing are included from day one, a booked call flows straight into a dispatched, invoiced, paid job without a second subscription.
Who it fits: solo operators and small teams handling up to roughly 125 AI-answered calls a month (at a typical ~4 minutes per call, 500 minutes covers that).
Pro — $750/mo: know where every call came from
Pro adds the measurement layer. For $750 a month, you get everything in Core, plus CallFlux call tracking and attribution:
- CallFlux call tracking with dynamic number insertion (DNI)
- Google Ads attribution (gclid capture) and Facebook/Meta attribution, plus conversion upload back to Google Ads
- AI transcription and call recording with playback
- AI lead scoring (0–100) with sentiment and intent analysis
- Qualification rules and keyword detection
- Power dialer, browser softphone, whisper/barge/transfer, number masking, voicemail drop, and callback scheduling
- 1,000 AI call minutes per month
This is the tier for anyone spending real money on Google Ads, LSA, or any paid channel and guessing at what works. Call tracking answers "which ad made the phone ring"; attribution ties that call to the booked job and the collected payment. If that chain is fuzzy in your business today, our call tracking and attribution guide explains the mechanics — Pro is where the platform does it for you. (Locksmiths wanting the full end-to-end stack picture should also see our locksmith automation stack guide.)
Who it fits: businesses running paid acquisition, roughly 250 AI-answered calls a month, and owners who want recordings and transcripts of every AI conversation.
Elite — $1,200/mo: let AI run your growth
Elite is the complete stack. For $1,200 a month you get everything in Pro, plus the AI growth layer:
- Jarvis AI Assistant — 100+ tools, reachable over WhatsApp and SMS
- AI campaign builder for Google Ads and an AI landing page builder
- AI ad copy and image generation
- Meta/Facebook ads management
- Google Business Profile management with AI review replies
- LSA lead management and competitor intelligence
- AI outbound voice calls
- 2,500 AI call minutes per month
The Jarvis assistant is the piece that turns connected systems into one that talks back. Instead of opening dashboards, you ask: how much revenue did we collect today? Which tech closed the highest-ticket jobs this week? Send follow-up reminders to unpaid invoices. For a deeper look at what that layer actually does day to day, read what an AI employee is for service businesses — and for the assistant working the other direction, reaching out instead of answering, see our piece on AI outbound follow-up.
Who it fits: established operations handling roughly 625 AI-answered calls a month at a 4-minute average, that want a growth engine — campaigns, landing pages, review replies — not just answering.
The overage math, worked out
Every plan includes a monthly pool of AI call minutes. Go over, and you pay per minute: $0.45/min on Core, $0.40/min on Pro, $0.35/min on Elite — unusually for this category, the rate gets cheaper as you move up. Here is what that looks like at real usage levels.
Example 1 — 600 minutes on Core ($500, 500 included):
- 500 minutes included, 100 minutes over
- 100 × $0.45 = $45 in overage
- Total for the month: $545
Example 2 — 950 minutes on Core:
- 450 minutes over × $0.45 = $202.50 in overage
- Total: $702.50 — still under Pro's $750 flat, but only $47.50 under, and Pro's 1,000 minutes would cover the month outright. If you are also running ads, the attribution decides it.
Example 3 — 1,200 minutes on Pro ($750, 1,000 included):
- 200 minutes over × $0.40 = $80 in overage
- Total: $830 — well under Elite's $1,200.
Example 4 — 2,300 minutes on Pro:
- 1,300 minutes over × $0.40 = $520 in overage
- Total: $1,270 — now above Elite's $1,200 flat with 2,500 minutes. Move up.
Example 5 — 2,800 minutes on Elite ($1,200, 2,500 included):
- 300 × $0.35 = $105 in overage
- Total: $1,305 — and at this volume you are running a serious operation on the cheapest per-minute rate on the menu.
The break-even cheat sheet
Ignoring features entirely and looking purely at dollars per minute:
- Core → Pro: the pure-dollar lines cross at 1,500 minutes/month — Core costs $500 + 1,000 overage minutes × $0.45 = $950, exactly what Pro costs at the same usage ($750 + 500 × $0.40). But the practical trigger comes earlier: at about 1,055 minutes your Core bill already reaches ~$750, which means you are paying Pro money without Pro's attribution.
- Pro → Elite: above ~2,125 minutes/month, Elite wins ($450 price gap ÷ $0.40 = 1,125 overage minutes past Pro's 1,000 included).
In practice, most owners tier up before the pure-dollar break-even, because each tier's additions (call tracking on Pro, the AI marketing layer and Jarvis assistant on Elite) carry their own value. But the cheat sheet keeps the decision honest: you should never be paying meaningful overage month after month.
A worked example: pricing a real month
Take a two-truck locksmith averaging 260 answered calls a month at roughly four minutes each — about 1,040 AI minutes. Priced out:
- On Core: $500 + (1,040 − 500) × $0.45 = $500 + $243 = $743.
- On Pro: $750 + (1,040 − 1,000) × $0.40 = $750 + $16 = $766.
- On Elite: a flat $1,200 with 1,460 minutes of headroom — worth it only when the shop wants the AI marketing layer and the Jarvis assistant, not for the minutes.
Verdict for this shop: the dollars are a near-wash — $23 apart — so the deciding question is not price at all. If the shop runs no paid channels, Core with modest overage is the right answer. The moment it spends on Google Ads or LSA, Pro wins, because CallFlux attribution is what manages that spend. That is the whole method — your call log, four minutes a call, and the table above.
Three sizing mistakes that quietly cost owners money
Mistake 1: Buying the tier by feature envy instead of call volume. The Jarvis AI Assistant demo is genuinely impressive, but if you are answering 90 calls a month — about 360 minutes — Elite's 2,500 minutes will sit mostly unused while you pay $1,200 for a growth engine your operation is not ready to feed. Start where your minutes are; the higher tiers are still there when your volume is.
Mistake 2: Staying on Core with chronic overage. The inverse error is stubbornness. If your usage keeps landing at 1,100+ minutes, your Core bill is running at Pro's price or beyond — while Pro would cover the month flat and add the entire call-tracking layer. Recurring overage is not a badge of growth; it is a mispriced plan.
Mistake 3: Tiering up for operations features that are already in Core. The old instinct in this category is that the CRM, invoicing, and dispatch live in a "business" tier above the entry price. Here they do not — the complete operations system is the first tier. You move up for attribution (Pro) and AI marketing (Elite), not to unlock the basics. If a sales conversation anywhere leaves you thinking you need a middle tier to send an invoice, re-read the plan table.
The terms that apply to every plan
There is no annual-contract math to do here, because there is no annual contract:
- Month-to-month. Every plan runs month-to-month with no long-term commitment. If the platform stops earning its keep, you can leave — which keeps us accountable in a way a 24-month lock-in never would.
- Zero setup fees. The first invoice is the plan price. No onboarding charge, no "implementation package."
- Unlimited users. Add your fifth tech, your office manager, and your weekend dispatcher without the invoice moving. There is no per-seat line item on any tier.
- No per-call fees. The only usage-based charge is per-minute overage, at the published rates above.
How to pick your tier by call volume
Minutes are the honest sizing metric, but most owners think in calls. At a typical ~4 minutes per AI-handled call (budget 3–5 to be safe):
- Under ~125 calls/month (up to ~500 minutes): Core, $500. The complete operations system, sized for the phone volume of a small team.
- ~125–250 calls/month (~500–1,000 minutes): Core with some overage, or Pro. The dollars stay close across this range, so decide on attribution: if you spend on any paid channel, Pro's call tracking pays its own way.
- ~250–500 calls/month (~1,000–2,000 minutes): Pro, $750. The minute pool fits, and at this volume you are almost certainly marketing actively enough to need the measurement.
- ~500+ calls/month (~2,000+ minutes): Elite, $1,200. Above ~2,125 minutes it is cheaper than Pro on dollars alone, and at this scale the AI marketing layer and the Jarvis assistant compound.
Not sure where you land? Pull your phone bill or call log for the last 90 days, average the monthly answered-call count, multiply by four minutes, and compare against the included pools. Or book a demo and we will size it with you against your actual call history.
The hidden-cost questions to ask ANY vendor (including us)
The list price is rarely the whole price in this category. Before you sign with anyone — Run with Jarvis or a competitor — get written answers to these:
- What exactly counts as a billable minute? Ring time? Voicemail? Transferred calls? A vendor that cannot answer precisely will surprise you on the invoice.
- What is the overage rate, and is it published? Ours is $0.45/min on Core, $0.40 on Pro, and $0.35 on Elite, in writing. "We'll work with you on overages" is not a rate.
- Are there per-seat or per-user fees? Per-seat pricing quietly doubles as you grow. Ask what adding your fifth tech costs — on Run with Jarvis the answer is nothing, because every plan includes unlimited users.
- Is there a setup or onboarding fee? Some platforms charge four figures before the first call is answered. Get the number up front — ours is zero on every plan.
- What is the contract term and cancellation policy? Month-to-month should be the default, not a 24-month lock-in buried in the order form. Every Run with Jarvis plan is month-to-month with no long-term contract.
- Which features are actually in my tier? "Includes CRM" sometimes means "includes a CRM upsell." Ask for the feature list of your tier in writing — ours is itemized per plan above, and the CRM is in the first tier.
- What do integrations cost? If QuickBooks sync is a paid add-on elsewhere, factor it in. Here it is included on every plan, starting with Core.
- What does per-tool sprawl cost you in total? If you are pricing an answering service + a booking tool + a CRM + call tracking separately, add up all four invoices and the hours spent stitching them together. Our comparison of all-in-one vs point solutions walks through why the stitched-together stack usually costs more than it looks — as does our multi-tech CRM and dispatch guide for the operational side.
- What is the cost of the status quo? The most expensive line item in this whole analysis is usually the one that never appears on an invoice: the missed calls. The U.S. Small Business Administration (sba.gov) has long emphasized how thin small-business margins are — and for a service business, a handful of missed emergency calls a month can exceed the entire software subscription. That is the baseline every price above should be compared against.
What this replaces (and why the comparison is usually lopsided)
A useful final gut-check: list what you are paying today for the functions each tier covers. A typical service business piecing this together separately carries some combination of a human answering service billed per call or per minute, a scheduling tool, a CRM subscription, an invoicing product, and a call-tracking platform — plus the owner's own after-hours labor, which is real even though it is unpaid. Wage data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (bls.gov) makes one thing clear without needing a precise figure: any solution involving human overnight coverage costs multiples of any software subscription discussed here.
Against that stack, $500–$1,200/mo for one connected system is not just simpler — it is very often the cheaper total. If you are a locksmith or mobile service operator wanting the full picture of what a modern stack looks like end to end, our locksmith automation stack guide lays it out system by system.
Related reading
Pricing is only half the decision — the other half is knowing what the systems actually do for you day to day. Continue with how AI appointment booking works, see the revenue side of the equation in the AI receptionist ROI guide, or fix your biggest leak first with the after-hours call playbook. When you are ready to size a plan against your real call volume, book a demo — we will do the math from this article with your numbers.
