How does Voksha's pricing compare to a traditional per-minute answering service for a studio?

For Fitness Studios

Traditional live answering services typically bill per minute once you're past a small included bucket, and fitness-related calls, especially membership pricing explanations or trial-class questions with back-and-forth, routinely run several minutes. A studio getting 150 calls a month averaging 3 minutes each would be looking at 450 billable minutes, which adds up fast at per-minute rates, before accounting for setup fees or minimum monthly commitments many answering services require. Voksha's Premium plan covers 150 calls for $99/month regardless of call length, with additional calls at $1 each rather than per minute. That structural difference matters specifically for fitness because studio calls skew longer than a quick "what are your hours" call, explaining membership tiers, class formats, and trial policies takes real conversation time, which is exactly where per-minute answering services get expensive. There's also a quality dimension: traditional answering services generally can't complete an actual class booking in your Mindbody or Zen Planner schedule, they take a message, meaning a studio is paying per-minute rates for a service that still doesn't close the loop on the transaction, leaving that work for staff to do later anyway. Voksha's call-based pricing, combined with the ability on Premium to complete the booking in that same call when Mindbody or another supported platform is connected, means studios generally get a lower total monthly cost and a more complete outcome per call compared to legacy answering services built around per-minute billing.