# Podcast voicemail cost calculator

What a year of listener voicemail costs on every major tool, with the free-tier caps stated plainly. Interactive version: https://call.show/voicemail-cost-calculator. Prices verified 2026-08-18 on each vendor's own site.

| Tool | Paid price | Free tier | Transcripts |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Call.Show | $60/yr | No free tier | Yes, plus AI title & summary |
| SpeakPipe | $144-$432/yr | 90-second messages, 100MB storage | Not advertised |
| Podline | $240-$600/yr | Unlimited messages within 100MB storage | Yes, plus AI title & summary |
| Whatayarn | $180/yr | 25 messages total, 60 seconds each | No |
| Soundbite | $150/yr | 30-second messages, 10 stored | Paid plans only |
| telbee | $162-$576/yr | 60 recording minutes per month, 1 user | Yes |
| Memo.fm | $49/yr | First 10 messages free | No |
| Voicecast | $180/yr | No free tier | Yes |

## FAQ

### Where do these prices come from?

Each vendor's own pricing page, checked by hand. The verification date is shown under the table, and anything a vendor doesn't publish is marked as such rather than guessed.

### Why do free tiers fail at higher volumes?

Caps. SpeakPipe's free plan stops at 90-second messages and 100MB of storage, Memo.fm keeps your first 10 messages, Soundbite stores 10 messages at 30 seconds each, and telbee's free plan includes 60 recording minutes a month. A show that asks for voicemails every episode outgrows all of these quickly.

### What does Call.Show cost at any volume?

$60 per year, flat. There are no message caps, storage caps, or per-minute fees, so the answer doesn't change with volume, and every message includes an AI transcript, title, and summary.

### What doesn't a pricing table capture?

Who answers when something breaks. Call.Show is built and supported by one person, Jeff Sarris; the voicemail you leave at call.show/demo goes to him and he replies by email. Also not in the table: listener consent is collected before every message sends, and team access never costs extra per seat.