How much do international calls cost a small business?

An international call costs a small business a per-minute rate that depends on the country, plus, on many phone plans, a monthly fee for every person who might make one. This guide shows the part you can check yourself: what a minute costs to ten countries, and three monthly bills worked out from those prices.

Every price below is read from QuikRing's team rates when the page loads, and each bill shows its minutes and rates, so you can redo any line with a calculator.

Three things: the country, whether the number is a landline or a mobile, and the minutes. Prices differ a lot between countries, and between a country's landlines and its mobiles.

Calls are billed per started minute, so a 61-second call counts as two. There is no connection fee, and busy, unanswered and failed calls cost nothing. On QuikRing a team pays no monthly fee and no per-seat fee: the bill is the minutes, from one shared prepaid balance.

What 100 billed minutes cost to each country, to a landline and to a mobile, at the rates a team is billed today. Multiply by your own minutes for a quick estimate.

These ten were chosen because calls to them are common for small businesses and the price is low; they are not a sample of the whole list. Other destinations cost several times more, and in some countries a landline and a mobile differ a lot, in either direction. Check any country you plan around on the rates page before you budget.

Three teams of the kind that use Team Calling, each priced from the same rates. The minutes are round figures a team like it could plausibly use. Swap in your own and the arithmetic stays the same.

The first is the pattern in how to give an offshore assistant a US number: the client funds one balance and caps what each assistant can spend. The second is calling candidates abroad as a recruiter, and the third is a travel desk ringing hotels and local partners, which are mostly landlines.

To compare with a per-seat plan, take what one seat costs per person per month and set it beside the per-person figure of a bill above. Many seat plans also bill international minutes on top of the seat, so check what yours includes. The calculator on team pricing does the division for you: it shows how many minutes per person a month a seat fee has to cover before it costs less than QuikRing.

A rented US or Canada company number, if you want one, is the only recurring cost; the first is free for 90 days with your first package. QuikRing is built for outbound calls: it has no phone menus, call queues, CRM connections, text-message sending or desk phones. If customers need a main line they ring, that comes from somewhere else alongside it.

What a team does get is one shared balance, a monthly limit for each person and the countries they may call, and an activity log. See every spending control, or create a team account; it is free and asks for no card.