Grasshopper vs Ringover
An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.
The short answer
Editorial assessmentGrasshopper compared with Ringover
Ringover sells numbers in 65-plus countries with a power dialer on its Business tier and separately priced AI modules, with a three-user minimum above the entry plan. Grasshopper is North America only, has no dialer, and no minimum because it does not charge per user. Take Ringover if you call internationally or dial lists; take Grasshopper if you want the cheapest possible professional business number in the US or Canada.
Choose Grasshopper if
Solo operators, consultants, freelancers, trades, real estate agents, and businesses of two to five people who want a professional business number with a menu and extensions ringing the phones they already own, at a flat price with no per-seat cost and no contract.
Choose Ringover if
European and internationally distributed sales and support teams of three or more who want local numbers across many countries, solid telephony fundamentals, and the option to add multichannel prospecting and conversational AI from the same vendor rather than assembling three subscriptions.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Grasshopper | Ringover |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Calling | Calling |
| Starting price | $14 per month (whole account, unlimited users) (7 days trial) | $15 per user per month billed annually ($24 monthly), twelve-month commitment (free trial) |
| Pricing model | Flat monthly subscription per account rather than per user, with unlimited users, calls, minutes, and texts within the US and Canada on every plan; tiers differ by how many phone numbers and extensions are included and whether recording, transfers, and simultaneous call handling are available. | Per-user per-month base subscription for telephony with twelve-month commitments, plus separately licensed per-user modules for AI, prospecting, messaging, analytics, and CRM autofill, and usage-based pricing on the AI voice agent. |
| Free plan | No | No |
| Free trial | 7 days | Yes, a self-serve free trial is offered on the entry plan |
| Best for | Solo operators, consultants, freelancers, trades, real estate agents, and businesses of two to five people who want a professional business number with a menu and extensions ringing the phones they already own, at a flat price with no per-seat cost and no contract. | European and internationally distributed sales and support teams of three or more who want local numbers across many countries, solid telephony fundamentals, and the option to add multichannel prospecting and conversational AI from the same vendor rather than assembling three subscriptions. |
| Setup time | Under an hour on a new number: sign up, choose a number, record or upload a greeting, point extensions at existing mobile numbers, and you are live. Porting an existing number takes one to three weeks for a simple local port, during which the old line keeps working. | Two to four days for a small team. Numbers provision quickly and the CRM integration is straightforward, but international number provisioning in several countries can take longer depending on local regulatory requirements for proof of presence. |
| Learning curve | Minimal. There is no PBX vocabulary to learn, no dial plan, and no device provisioning. The only real decision is how many extensions you need and where each one forwards. | Low for agents, moderate for administrators. The interface is approachable and the sequential dialer requires no pacing decisions. The real complexity is commercial: working out which modules you actually need, since Empower, Cadence, omnichannel messaging, analytics, and CRM autofill are all separate licences. |
| Platforms | iOS, Android, Windows desktop app, macOS desktop app, Web portal, Any existing mobile or landline via call forwarding | Web app, Windows desktop, macOS desktop, iOS, Android, Chrome extension |
| Compliance | STIR/SHAKEN call signing through the underlying carrier, 10DLC brand and campaign registration required for US business texting, E911 registration for the addresses associated with the account | GDPR-native as a French operator, Customer responsibility for TCPA, Do Not Call registries, and national telemarketing rules, stated explicitly by the vendor, Configurable call recording for varying consent regimes, European telecom regulatory compliance for number provisioning |
| Founded | 2003 | 2018 |
| Headquarters | Boston, Massachusetts, United States (operated as part of GoTo) | Paris, France |
| Ownership | Owned by GoTo (formerly LogMeIn), which is privately held by Francisco Partners and Evergreen Coast Capital | Venture-backed |
Strengths and limitations
Grasshopper
Strengths
- Flat pricing with unlimited users, which is structurally cheaper than every per-seat competitor once you pass three or four people.
- Unlimited calls, minutes, and texts within the US and Canada on every plan, with no per-minute meter to model.
- The lowest-friction way to stop giving customers a personal mobile number: no hardware, no porting requirement, no new handset, live the same day.
- Instant Response, which texts back every missed call automatically, is genuinely the highest-ROI feature in the product for any local service business competing on who answers first.
Limitations
- No outbound dialer, dispositions, cadences, or local presence rotation, so it is unusable as a sales calling tool.
- Call recording, transfers, and simultaneous call handling are reserved for the top tier, which means the entry plan drops a second concurrent caller to voicemail.
- No meaningful CRM integration: no CTI panel, no screen pop, no automatic activity logging, which puts it well behind Quo, Aircall, and RingCentral.
- Reporting is a call log with charts. There are no per-rep performance metrics and no talk-time analysis.
Ringover
Strengths
- The TALK tier at $15 includes call recording, summaries, transcription, and an unlimited AI virtual receptionist, which is more capability at an entry price than almost any competitor offers.
- Local numbers in more than 65 countries backed by genuine telecom operating history, which is a different quality of infrastructure than a reseller stack.
- Unlimited national calling on every tier removes per-minute modelling for domestic traffic.
- Cadence at $59 a user means telephony and multichannel prospecting come from one vendor with one CRM connection, which is a real reduction in operational overhead.
Limitations
- The power dialer is strictly sequential. No parallel lines, no predictive mode, no answering machine detection, so outbound throughput is fundamentally limited.
- Local presence dialing, voicemail drop, and call campaigns all sit on the custom-quoted Advanced tier, which puts the core outbound toolkit behind a sales conversation.
- Twelve-month commitments on every plan including the $15 entry tier, so evaluation risk is higher than with monthly competitors.
- The three-user minimum on Business means the dialer tier starts at $141 a month.
Pricing compared
Grasshopper
Flat monthly subscription per account rather than per user, with unlimited users, calls, minutes, and texts within the US and Canada on every plan; tiers differ by how many phone numbers and extensions are included and whether recording, transfers, and simultaneous call handling are available.
- True Solo$14
- Solo PlusAbout $25
- Small BusinessAbout $55
Judged on cost per person, Grasshopper is the cheapest thing in this category by a wide margin and the gap widens as your headcount grows. Small Business at around $55 flat covers unlimited users; five seats of RingCentral Advanced is $125 and five seats of Quo Business is $115. Judged on capability per dollar, it is limited on purpose: no dialer, no CRM logging, no per-user analytics, no desk phone management, no attribution. The right way to read the price is as the cost of a professional phone presence rather than the cost of a phone system. For a three-person team making 100 calls a day each, Grasshopper is technically unlimited and would cost $55 flat, but every one of those 6,300 calls is dialed by hand from a mobile with no disposition, no logging, and no recording below the top tier, which is why the number is misleading and why an outbound team should not buy this.
Ringover
Per-user per-month base subscription for telephony with twelve-month commitments, plus separately licensed per-user modules for AI, prospecting, messaging, analytics, and CRM autofill, and usage-based pricing on the AI voice agent.
- TALK$15
- BUSINESS$47
- ADVANCEDCustom
TALK at $15 is one of the best entry tiers in this category on paper: a number, unlimited national calling, recordings, summaries, transcription, and an AI receptionist, for the price of a Quo Starter seat with far more included. The value degrades as you climb. Business at $47 with a three-user minimum is priced against Aircall Professional but with a weaker integration catalogue, and the modules push a fully equipped sales seat to roughly $145, which is PhoneBurner money without PhoneBurner's throughput or its included CRM. Where Ringover genuinely wins is consolidation: if you would otherwise buy a European phone system and a separate prospecting sequencer, one vendor with one CRM sync at $106 a seat is a real saving in money and in operational overhead.
Editorial verdict on each
Grasshopper
Best ValueGrasshopper is the cheapest honest answer to a narrow question: how does a very small business stop giving customers a personal mobile number and start sounding like a company. At $14 a month flat with unlimited users, unlimited calls and texts, a custom greeting, extensions that ring the phones you already own, and automatic text replies to missed calls, it does that job better per dollar than anything else here, and the flat pricing means it gets relatively cheaper as you add people. It is also strictly limited: no dialer, no CRM logging, no per-rep analytics, no desk phones, no marketing attribution, and no recording below the top tier. Buy it if you are one to five people who want a professional front door with zero administration. Move to Quo, Ooma Office, or RingCentral the moment more than one person needs to see the same conversation, log it to a CRM, or be measured on it.
Read the full Grasshopper profileRingover
Ringover is the consolidation play in European business calling: real telecom infrastructure, numbers in more than 65 countries, an entry tier at $15 that includes recording, transcription, summaries, and an AI receptionist, and the option to add conversational AI and a multichannel prospecting sequencer from the same vendor on the same CRM connection. That last part is the genuine argument, because the alternative is two contracts and two data syncs. What you are not buying is a dialer. The power dialer is sequential with no parallel mode and no answering machine detection, and local presence, voicemail drop, and call campaigns are all stranded on a custom-quoted Advanced tier. Add twelve-month commitments on every plan, a three-user minimum on Business, and modules that push a fully equipped seat to roughly $145, and the picture is clear: buy Ringover as European phone infrastructure with prospecting attached, not as an outbound dialer. If dials per hour is the number your quarter depends on, CloudTalk costs less and does far more.
Read the full Ringover profileGrasshopper profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Ringover last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.