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In pay-per-call, only Ringba publishes a number — Retreaver and TrackDrive route you to sales
Ringba lists $147/mo with full per-minute and per-number metering; its closest pay-per-call routing rivals publish no base price at all, which makes Ringba's page the only citable benchmark in the segment.
If you run a pay-per-call lead-gen operation and you want to compare platforms on price, the answer is short: Ringba is the only one of the dedicated pay-per-call routers that publishes a number. Its Business plan is $147/mo ($127/mo annual, ~13% off) and its Professional plan is $297/mo ($197/mo annual, ~33% off), each with every metered rate spelled out on the page. Its closest segment rivals — Retreaver and TrackDrive — publish no base price at all. So does Invoca’s pay-per-call line. For a buyer trying to model cost, that makes Ringba’s page the one citable benchmark, and the comparison is less “which is cheaper” than “which will tell you anything before a sales call.”
What Ringba actually publishes
Ringba’s pages are unusually complete for this category. There are no bundled minutes — it is a clean metered model where you pay base plus usage:
| Plan | Base/mo | Annual/mo | Local/min | Toll-free/min | Number/mo | Recording/min | Transcription/min |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business | $147 | $127 (~13% off) | $0.055 | $0.06 | $3.00 | $0.01 | $0.04 |
| Professional | $297 | $197 (~33% off) | $0.05 | $0.055 | $2.00 | $0.005 | $0.035 |
Every figure above is on the vendor’s pricing page and corroborated by G2’s 2026 Ringba listing ($147 Business / $297 Professional). Professional also bundles 5 Ring Tree setups a month. Enterprise is custom-quote, so it is the one Ringba tier without a public number — but two of three tiers being fully published is the exception in this segment, not the rule.
The practical reading: a buyer can model a campaign before signing anything. At Professional, 10,000 inbound local minutes a month is $297 + (10,000 × $0.05) = $797/mo before numbers and recording — a figure you can compute yourself from published inputs. You cannot do that arithmetic for any direct competitor below.
What the competitors publish: nothing comparable
The contrast is stark, and it is not a research gap on our side — it is the vendors’ deliberate posture.
- Retreaver — a tag-based pay-per-call routing platform, arguably Ringba’s most direct analogue. Its pricing page returned HTTP 404 on capture, and the vendor routes pricing through a sales conversation. No per-plan figure exists to record.
- TrackDrive — another pay-per-call router. It publishes no per-minute or monthly rate and routes to sales. The single published number anywhere is a $0.005/call abandoned-call surcharge — a line-item penalty, not a base price you could budget around.
- Invoca — publishes tier names for pay-per-call (Performance Professional, Performance Enterprise) scaled by annual phone-number volume, but states pricing is custom and routes to a sales form. Best-in-category AI, enterprise-only economics, zero published figure.
Three platforms, three sales gates. None of them lets a buyer estimate cost before a call with an account executive.
If you want a published rate but not Ringba’s base
There is one adjacent option for the cost-sensitive: Dialics runs a pure pay-as-you-go model with $0/mo base, local $0.045/min, toll-free $0.055/min, numbers at $1–$2/mo, transcription $0.02/min, and recording $0.0025/min. Its per-minute local rate undercuts Ringba’s Professional ($0.05/min) and Business ($0.055/min) tiers, and with no monthly base it is the cheapest published entry for low, spiky volume. The trade-off is that Dialics is a lighter metering tool, not a full Ring Tree / call-marketplace routing stack — so it competes with Ringba on rate transparency, not on the routing depth a serious pay-per-call buyer needs.
How to read this
For a pay-per-call lead-gen buyer the field splits cleanly. Ringba is the benchmark precisely because you can read it: $147 or $297/mo base, local minutes at $0.055 or $0.05, every adjacent rate (toll-free, numbers, recording, transcription) printed on the page and verifiable on G2. Retreaver, TrackDrive, and Invoca publish nothing you can model — a dead pricing URL, a single $0.005/call surcharge, and a set of tier names respectively. Dialics offers a cheaper published per-minute rate ($0.045/min local, $0 base) if you can live with a thinner feature set. The honest takeaway is not that Ringba is necessarily the cheapest pay-per-call platform — it may not be once a sales-gated rival quotes you — but that it is the only one in the dedicated segment that lets you do the math before the call.