The price is on the page.
12 of the 20 platforms we reviewed make you sit through a sales call to find out what they cost. We think that's a tell. Three plans, month-to-month, AI on every one — and the AI you use billed at cost.
Starter
- Online booking widget + checkout
- Dispatch board + driver app
- Container & inventory tracking
- Stripe billing + customer portal
- AI web chat agent — website + customer portal
- QuickBooks & Xero sync
Growth
- Everything in Starter
- AI voice agent answering your inbound calls — quotes, books, takes payment
- Route optimization
- Service-recovery engine — automatic SLA credits
- Review automation with AI-drafted replies
- Batch invoicing
AI Pro
- Everything in Growth
- Lead attribution & multi-site routing — ad to invoice
- Outbound call campaigns + speed-to-lead calls
- Partner hauler & broker network tools
- Advanced BI + demand forecast
- Priority support
The AI model, phone minutes and texts your agent uses are billed at the providers' rates, itemized, no markup. Estimate yours.
Card payments run through your own Stripe account at Stripe's rates. We don't skim.
Month-to-month on every plan, no setup fee. Stay because it works.
Want jobs, not just software? Ask about our cost-per-lead program, layered on any plan.
Pennies per chat. Well under a dollar per phone booking.
On the default model, a five-minute AI phone booking — model, phone line, speech-to-text and voice — runs about 30 cents before any keypad card payment, and a chat booking about 6 cents. We show you the math for every step of a rental and every model.
Default assumptions on the estimator: Claude Haiku 4.5, half of bookings by AI phone, 30% by AI chat, one mid-rental AI conversation and five texts per rental.
What the category charges.
Platforms with a published number, re-checked 27 Sep 2026, plus what a standalone AI receptionist costs. CansOut sits above the flat-rate cluster because none of them include an AI agent that takes your customer's call through to a paid booking, automatic service recovery, or closed-loop attribution.
| Platform | Entry | Top tier | AI your customers talk to | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CansOut.AI | $149 | $749 | Voice + web chat that books and takes payment | No setup fee; AI and card processing at cost |
| Roll-Off Amigo | $0 | $99 | None | Free tier is owner-only |
| Dumpster Controls | $0 | $169 + Enterprise | Staff-facing assistant | Card fees 2.99% + $3.99 on free tier |
| Bond4Waste | $50 | Custom | None | Implementation fee |
| Dumpster Rental Systems | $79.95 | $279.95 | None | Tiers by container count |
| Bin Boss | $99 | $99 | Website chatbot that helps book | Website add-on extra |
| iCANS | $99 | $159 | Roadmap | Text volume capped |
| Box Tracker | $200 | By fleet size | None | $1,000 setup fee |
| QuoteIQ | $29.99 | $699 | Takes messages; doesn't book | General trades CRM; minutes capped by credits |
| Standalone AI receptionists | $29 | $789 | Some book appointments | Separate product; not connected to your dispatch or billing |
Vendors' own pricing pages, re-checked 27 Sep 2026. Demo-gated platforms (Docket, CurbWaste, ServiceCore, Hauler Hero, TrashLab, CRO, Basestation, WAM, Routeware, AMCS) aren't shown because they publish no price. Prices change — check each vendor's site. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we'll correct it.
The fine print, in large print.
Is there a setup fee or a contract?
Why is AI usage billed separately?
Can I use my own OpenAI or Claude API key?
How do card-processing fees work?
Can I change plans?
What's the performance-based leads program?
Run your own numbers first.
See what an agent that books jobs is worth — and what it costs to run.