Nexa vs Simple Phones
Simple Phones publishes its pricing; Nexa does not.
Both pages checked by August 19, 2026
- NexaAI + human backup
- Pricing not published
- no published plan
- People-powered 24/7 call answering, client intake, inbound and outbound sales and live chat/text service for home services, healthcare, legal and real estate businesses, with an optional Voice + AI agent that can hand calls off to human agents.
- Simple PhonesAI only
- $97/mo
- Basic plan
- Turnkey AI phone answering service for small businesses: Simple Phones generates a starter agent from your business details, assigns a number you forward missed calls to, and their team makes ongoing agent customizations on request rather than you building the agent yourself.
The differences that matter
- Nexa is ai + human backup; Simple Phones is ai only. That is the real decision here, not the price.
- Nexa can put a human on the line; Simple Phones is bot-only.
- Simple Phones offers a trial (Start a 14-day free trial and create an AI agent instantly.); Nexa advertises none.
- Simple Phones publishes prices. Nexa makes you ask.
Feature by feature
| Capability | Nexa | Simple Phones |
|---|---|---|
| Live transfer | Yes | Yes |
| Books appointments | Yes | Yes |
| Text follow-up | Yes | Yes |
| Outbound calls | Yes | Yes |
| Spanish | Yes | Yes |
| Human backup | Yes | No |
| Call recordings | unstated | unstated |
| Transcripts | unstated | Yes |
| Spam screening | unstated | unstated |
| Custom voice | unstated | unstated |
| API | unstated | Yes |
"unstated" means the vendor doesn't claim it in their own documentation. It is not the same as no — it means nobody will put it in writing.
Nexa plans
| Plan | Published price | Includes | Over that |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nexa 100 | not published | 100 min | If you go over the minute allowance for any given billing cycle, every additional minute will be charged at your base rate. |
| Nexa 300 | not published | 300 min | If you go over the minute allowance for any given billing cycle, every additional minute will be charged at your base rate. |
| Nexa 500 | not published | 500 min | If you go over the minute allowance for any given billing cycle, every additional minute will be charged at your base rate. |
Simple Phones plans
| Plan | Published price | Includes | Over that |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | Simple Phones starts at $97/mo for 100 calls/mo. | 100 calls | If you cancel your plan, or you exceed the number of calls per month for your tier, your phone numbers will be released. |
| Advanced | not published | 500 calls | If you cancel your plan, or you exceed the number of calls per month for your tier, your phone numbers will be released. |
| Premium | not published | 2500 calls | If you cancel your plan, or you exceed the number of calls per month for your tier, your phone numbers will be released. |
| Pay As You Go | $0.19/min | — | — |
Nexa sources
- Plans page (Nexa 100/300/500 minute allowances and per-tier feature lists; no prices, quote request only)nexa.com · read August 19, 2026
- Pricing page (no dollar amounts; overage described as "charged at your base rate"; setup fee described but not priced)nexa.com · read August 19, 2026
- Terms and Conditions (whole-minute rounding rounded up, what counts as billable time, non-refundable one-time setup fee, month-to-month auto-renewal, 1-month written cancellation notice, AI Agent billed per Service Plan, call recording)nexa.com · read August 19, 2026
- FAQ (bilingual English/Spanish answering; "combination of people and AI-powered solutions"; named CRM and field-service integrations; confirms no published pricing, trial, or billing detail)nexa.com · read August 19, 2026
- Voice + AI product page (AI handles answering, booking, scheduling and support; escalates to a human agent; human-first or AI-first configurable; calls answered in under 30 seconds; no pricing)nexa.com · read August 19, 2026
- About page (founded 1982 as Answer 1 Communications, rebranded Nexa 2019, Phoenix AZ HQ at 2001 W Camelback Rd #400, additional offices, industries served)nexa.com · read August 19, 2026
- Nexa's own cost article, checked for first-party prices: publishes only generic industry ranges, not Nexa's own ratesnexa.com · read August 19, 2026
Simple Phones sources
- Pricing / features / FAQ page (renders the site's pricing and FAQ sections: $97 for 100 calls, 14-day free trial, no commitment, overage = numbers released, country list, language list, forwarding, CRM/Zapier, transfer to a team member)simplephones.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Homepage (inbound, outbound, logging, customization, routing, voices, crawling)simplephones.ai · read August 19, 2026
- In-app billing screen (tier names "Basic Subscription - 100 calls/month", "Advanced Subscription - 500 calls/month", "Premium Subscription - 2,500 calls/month"; Pay As You Go $0.19/min and its 250 minutes/month minimum; >2,500 calls or >20 agents triggers Pay As You Go; whitelabel answer)app.simplephones.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Help centre: Creating an agent (one agent on the Basic plan)help.simplephones.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Help centre: Inbound Callshelp.simplephones.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Help centre: Outbound Calls (1 call per number per 24h, callback-only unless BYO Twilio)help.simplephones.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Help centre: Routing (transfer to any number, time-of-day rules, email/text/webhook alerts)help.simplephones.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Help centre: Crawling (website/FAQ knowledge base)help.simplephones.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Help centre / API: Call Details & Transcript (response fields: minutesUsed, start/end time, transcript; no recording URL)help.simplephones.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Help centre documentation indexhelp.simplephones.ai · read August 19, 2026