How much does an 800 number for business cost?
An 800 number for your business costs $6.95 a month with eTollfree. That's the Call Forwarding plan, and it includes the toll-free number itself, 100 minutes a month (5.9¢/min after that), voicemail-to-email, auto-attendant, call recording, and the same 100+ features every plan gets. Setup is $0. There's no contract — month-to-month, with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
If your team lives on the phone, unlimited calling is $14 per user/month on eBizLine Lite — our most popular plan. The full system with automations, lead management and Microsoft Teams integration is $24.95 per user/month. Nothing on that list is an upsell you discover later: the auto-attendant, the call recording and the voicemail-to-email are standard at $6.95, the same as they are at $24.95.
Run the year and it's $83.40 for a toll-free business number. That's about 23 cents a day to stop looking like a cell phone number.
| What you need | Plan | Price |
|---|---|---|
| One 800 number that rings your existing phone | Call Forwarding | $6.95/mo — 100 minutes included, then 5.9¢/min |
| Unlimited calling for a small team | eBizLine Lite | $14/user/mo — most popular |
| Full phone system + automations | Business Phone Basic | $24.95/user/mo |
Is there a free 800 number for business? (what "free" really costs)
Short answer: no — not a real toll-free business number. Every 800, 833, 844, 855, 866, 877 and 888 number in North America is administered through the SMS/800 database by a registered provider, and somebody pays for the minutes. On a toll-free number, that somebody is you. "Free 800 number" offers are one of three things:
- A free trial. Usually 7–30 days, then $15–$30 a month. Fine, but it's a trial, not a price.
- A free number bundled into a paid plan. True at most providers, including us — your number is included in the $6.95 plan fee. The number is free; the service isn't.
- A free local number from a personal app. Google Voice and ad-supported apps like TextNow give individuals a free local number. That's genuinely useful — but it isn't toll-free, so customers outside your area code can still pay to call you, and it's built for one person, not a company.
Here's what changes the moment the number represents a business:
- No toll-free prefix. A free number is a local number. Callers from the next state see a long-distance number and hesitate. That hesitation is the entire reason toll-free exists.
- Built for one person. No team extensions, no "press 1 for sales", no business-hours routing. When you hire your second person, you start over.
- The features are the real price. No call recording, no voicemail-to-email a team can share, no business texting at volume, no reporting on which calls turned into work.
- You can't take it with you. Getting a number out of a free service is where the hidden cost shows up. A business number you can't keep is a business number you can't build on.
Our take, plainly: if you just need a second number so your personal mobile stays private, take the free one — seriously. If the number is going on your van, your invoices and your website, $6.95 a month buys the toll-free prefix, the full 100+ feature phone system, humans on support, and the right to port the number out free of charge whenever you want. That's the whole difference, and it's $83.40 a year.
(Outgrowing a free Google Voice number? Here's our Google Voice alternative guide.)
How do I get an 800 number for my business?
- Search what's available. Open our number search and see real, available toll-free numbers in seconds. All seven prefixes cost the same $6.95/month; the 800 prefix is the oldest and the scarcest, so 833 and 844 have the widest choice. (Full prefix breakdown and how buying works →)
- Check out online. About three minutes, $0 setup, and the number activates the same day. Month-to-month from $6.95, and if it isn't right you have 30 days to get your money back.
- Point it at your existing phone. Your cell, your office line, a call centre, or our desktop and mobile apps. Change the destination yourself any time; you don't need us to do it.
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How does eTollfree compare with other 800 number providers?
Here's how the most-searched providers line up on the things that show up on your monthly bill. Every company below is a legitimate choice — which one is right depends on how many people need a line and how much you mind an annual commitment.
| Provider | Starting price | Contract for best price? | Setup fee | Features included | Money-back guarantee | US-based support |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| eTollfree Our Pick | $6.95/mo full phone system from $14/user/mo |
No — month-to-month | $0 | 100+ on every plan | 30 days | Yes |
| Grasshopper | From $14/mo billed annually |
Lower rate needs annual billing | $0 | Core calling; some features are add-ons | Limited trial | Yes |
| RingCentral | From ~$20/user/mo | Yes — annual for best price | Varies by plan | Advanced features on higher tiers | Trial only | Yes |
| Nextiva | From ~$20/user/mo | Yes — annual for best price | Varies by plan | Advanced features on higher tiers | Trial only | Yes |
| Google Voice | From $10/user/mo | Requires Google Workspace | $0 | Basic calling; no toll-free | None advertised | Online only |
Competitor details reflect publicly published pricing and terms at the time of writing and can change — always confirm current rates directly with each provider. Prices shown are advertised starting points; per-user plans scale with the number of users.
Run the year: $6.95 × 12 = $83.40 with eTollfree, versus roughly $240 a year at the ~$20/user providers — and at $240 you're usually locked into annual billing to get that rate. Add a second person and eBizLine Lite is $14 × 2 × 12 = $336/year for unlimited calling on both lines, still month-to-month. Grasshopper's $14/mo headline is $168/year and only at annual billing.
Read the full 2026 provider comparison →
What is an 800 number — and is the call really free?
An 800 number is a toll-free business number: the caller dials it from anywhere in the US or Canada and pays nothing, because the business receiving the call pays for the minutes instead. That's the whole idea, and it's why "toll-free" means what it says — free for the caller.
"800" is just the oldest of seven toll-free prefixes. 800, 888, 877, 866, 855, 844 and 833 all behave identically, all reach you the same way, and all cost the same $6.95/month here. The 800 blocks were exhausted decades ago, which is exactly why the others exist.
On our side, a toll-free call costs 5.9¢ a minute after the 100 minutes included in the $6.95 plan, 2¢ on eBizLine Lite and 1.2¢ on Business Phone Basic. So a 20-minute customer call on the entry plan costs you about $1.18 — and the customer paid nothing to make it.
One thing worth knowing, because a lot of sites are vague about it: under FCC rules toll-free numbers are assigned to your business through a registered provider, not sold outright. You control the number as long as you keep service, and you can port it away free of charge whenever you want. Nobody actually "owns" an 800 number — we just tell you that up front. (The honest long version →)
Will an 800 number ring my cell phone?
Yes, and that's how most of our small business customers run it. Your 800 number isn't tied to a desk, a line or a building — you tell it where to ring, and it rings there. Your mobile, your landline, three phones at once, a different phone after 6pm, or straight into our desktop and mobile apps.
Caller ID shows the customer's number, and the app shows you it came in on the business line, so you know to answer "Thanks for calling…" instead of "Hello?". You can change the destination yourself in about ten seconds, as often as you like, and it doesn't change the $6.95/month.
Want to look local instead of national? A US local number does the same job from $6.95/month — see US virtual phone numbers, or read our breakdown of 800 numbers vs local numbers if you're deciding between the two.
What happens when nobody's there to answer?
Every plan includes the parts that stop a missed call being a lost job: an auto-attendant ("press 1 for sales, press 2 for service"), business-hours routing, and voicemail that arrives in your inbox as an email instead of sitting in a mailbox nobody checks. All standard at $6.95/month — we don't charge extra for "the system".
If you'd rather never send a caller to voicemail at all, add the AI Receptionist to any plan: as low as $6.95/month (that's the plan fee, and it includes your number) plus 15¢ a minute, dropping to 13¢ on eBizLine Lite and 10¢ on Business Phone Basic. It answers every call, knows your hours, prices and services, and books work while you're on a ladder. A five-minute call costs about 75¢ on the entry plan.
See how the AI Receptionist works →
What's included with every eTollfree 800 number?
- Same-day activation — search, check out, take calls
- Forward to any phone: cell, office, call centre, or several at once
- Desktop and mobile apps — answer from anywhere
- Voicemail-to-email, so nothing sits where nobody looks
- Business texting (SMS) on eBizLine Lite and above
- Call recording for training and disputes
- Auto-attendant / IVR — "press 1 for sales, press 2 for service"
- Team extensions and business-hours routing
- Call reporting, so you know which ads made the phone ring
- Porting in and out at no charge — the number is yours to take
- Optional AI Receptionist — as low as $6.95/mo plan + 15¢/min (13¢ / 10¢ on higher plans)
- 24/7 human support, US-based, since 2004
- 100+ features standard on every plan — enterprise-grade features without the corporate headaches
Want a number that spells something — 1-800-YOUR-BIZ? That's a vanity 800 number, same $6.95/month, and it's worth reading up on before you search. Ready to pick one now? Here's how buying an 800 number online works.
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