Gobo Studios · a DBA of Monterey Skates LLC · Monterey, CA · (831) 264-8797 · gobostudios.com
Every phone service on this page bills per user, per month. GoboPhone does not. That single difference is worth more than any feature comparison, and it gets larger with every handset you add.
These are list prices taken from each company’s own website in August 2026, at month-to-month rates rather than the discounted price they quote for an annual commitment. Prices move. Check them yourself before deciding anything — every company here is linked.
A business phone system charges for every person who uses it. GoboPhone charges for the venue. Ten handsets in a family entertainment center is one Pro plan, not ten seats.
| Service | How it bills | Ten handsets |
|---|---|---|
| GoboPhone Pro | Flat, per venue | About $61 |
| Quo (formerly OpenPhone) | $19 per user | $190 |
| Ooma Office | $19.95 per user | $199.50 plus taxes |
| Nextiva | $23 per user | $230 |
| Dialpad | $27 per user | $270 |
| RingCentral | $30 per user | $300 |
| Vonage | $29.99 per line, plus a $3.50 per-extension fee | About $335 |
GoboPhone Pro is $35 a month and covers ten numbers and ten handsets at one venue. The phone service itself runs on your own voip.ms account at roughly $2.60 a line plus usage, which runs less than a penny a minute, billed to you by them rather than by us. That is the number in the table: $35 plus ten lines.
Most of the names above sell to businesses and price accordingly. For a phone in a kitchen, there are two real alternatives, and they are worth taking seriously.
A screenless landline for kids with a parent-approved contact list, free calling to other Tin Cans, and 911 always enabled. If that sounds familiar, it should — we are solving the same problem.
The Party Line plan is $9.99 a month per device, not per family. A second child who needs to call a grandparent is a second $9.99. Three is $29.97.
GoboPhone Family is $10 a month for three numbers and three handsets, plus about $2.60 a line. Around $17.80 for the same three phones.
Ooma’s Basic residential plan really is $0 a month for the service, and it is a genuinely good deal for unlimited US calling. It is the honest competitor on price.
What “free” leaves out: taxes and regulatory fees still apply and typically run $6 to $9 a month. The Telo device is $69.99. Bringing your existing number across is a one-time $39.99.
Basic is one line. A second line, voicemail-to-email, and Trusted Circle calling — their approved-caller list, where only your contacts ring the phone — are Premier features at $9.99 a month.
This is the feature that matters most for a child’s phone, and it is worth being precise: every one of us has it. The difference is what you pay to switch it on.
| Service | What it is called | Cheapest plan that includes it |
|---|---|---|
| GoboPhone | Approved callers | Home, the free plan — $0, plus about $2.60 for the line |
| Tin Can | Approved contacts | Party Line — $9.99 a month, per device |
| Ooma Telo | Trusted Circle calling | Premier — $9.99 a month, plus $6–9 in fees |
Ooma’s Trusted Circle is a real equivalent and we are not going to imply otherwise. It is their most restrictive blocking setting and it does the same job. It is simply not on the free plan, and neither is Tin Can’s.
GoboPhone Home is $0 a month for one number and one handset. The phone service is your own voip.ms line at roughly $2.60. There is no plan fee to grow out of and no upsell attached to the features that keep a child safe. The approved-caller list and emergency calling are on the free tier — which, of the three services on this page, is true only here.
We are not going to pretend Ooma is expensive. For an adult who wants unlimited nationwide calling on one line, it is a strong product. We are built for a different job: a phone a child uses, that a parent configures without ever logging into the handset.
This is the part that does not show up in a price comparison, and it is the part we would defend hardest.
The handset we suggest first, the Fanvil H2U, is sold by Fanvil as a hotel phone. It sits in guest rooms, hospitals, and schools, in buildings where somebody has to maintain hundreds of them and cannot afford for any of them to be fussy. That is not a consumer device with a family-friendly sticker on it. It is commercial equipment that happens to suit a kitchen very well.
What that buys you is unglamorous and real: HD voice with the G.722 and Opus codecs, a full-duplex speakerphone, dual Ethernet with PC bypass, PoE, VLAN and QoS support, 802.1x, and TR-069 provisioning — which is the mechanism that lets the phone configure itself from us with no cable, no admin password, and nothing for a child to wander into.
Ten physical speed-dial buttons, no screen, no menu. The protection is inherent in the hardware rather than a setting somebody has to remember to switch on.
Buy it from any VoIP reseller. We do not sell handsets and earn nothing on them. Ooma’s Telo is $69.99 and the H2U lands in similar territory, so the hardware is close to a wash — the difference is what kind of device you end up with.
These are real products with real capabilities, sold to companies with a phone on every desk. If that is your situation, one of them may well be right. The pricing model is the thing to look at.
| Service | Per user, per month | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Quo | $19 – $47 | Formerly OpenPhone. One number per user included. |
| Ooma Office | $19.95 – $29.95 | No contract. Taxes and fees extra. |
| Nextiva | $23 and up | Headline $15 requires an annual commitment. |
| Dialpad | Not published | Pricing page now leads with AI credits and “talk to sales.” |
| RingCentral | Not published | Plan prices sit behind a configurator and a custom quote. |
| Vonage | Not published openly | Widely reported around $19.99 – $39.99 per line, plus per-extension fees. |
RingCentral, Dialpad and Vonage no longer put a simple per-seat number where you can read it. RingCentral asks how many users you have and routes you to a quote. Dialpad’s pricing page has moved to conversation credits. That is a legitimate way to sell to enterprises, and it is also the reason we have left those cells empty rather than repeat a figure from a comparison site we cannot stand behind.
Every GoboPhone price is on our pricing page, in dollars, without a form.
A comparison that finds no fault with itself is an advertisement. Here is where the products above genuinely beat us.
Their price covers calling. Ours does not — you hold your own voip.ms account and pay them directly. That is cheaper and it means the line is yours rather than ours, but it is one more account to set up, and it is a genuine reason to pick somebody else if you would rather have one bill.
Auto-attendants, call queues, contact center routing, analytics, and integrations with the big CRMs. GoboPhone is narrower on purpose and it is still being built — ROLLER integration is next, so a caller’s account and bookings can be on screen before anyone picks up. If you need calls landing in Salesforce this quarter, buy one of theirs.
Their mobile apps turn a phone into an extension: the business line rings it, and staff can call out as the business from anywhere. GoboPhone manages desk handsets on your own network — the management interface is fully responsive and runs fine from a phone, but administering the system is a different thing from carrying the line in your pocket. If your staff need the main number to reach them at home, that is a real reason to pick one of theirs.
Contracts, uptime commitments, and somebody to call at two in the morning. We are a small operation on the Monterey Peninsula. That has advantages, and a 24-hour support desk is not among them.
Every price here was read from the company’s own website in August 2026 and reflects month-to-month billing. Several of these companies discount substantially for an annual commitment, and all of them change prices. Follow the links and check.
One number and one handset, free. The approved-caller list and emergency calling are there from the first day, not held back for a paid tier. The line runs on your own voip.ms account at about $2.60 a month plus usage, which runs less than a penny a minute.