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RingCentral pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives

RingCentral (ringcentral.com) is a business phone system. Per-user monthly subscription in three RingEX tiers (Core, Advanced, Ultra), cheaper on annual billing; each tier includes a set SMS allowance per user.. No free plan.

What RingCentral costs

  • 1 user: $45/mo (Core $30/mo (monthly billing) covers calling and a local number but includes only 25 SMS/user/mo, Advanced 100; extra SMS has no published rate, so Ultra $45/user (200 SMS/user/mo) is the cheapest plan that fully covers 200 texts. Calling-only would be Core $30.)
  • 10 users: $450/mo (Ultra $45/user x 10 = $450 (2,000 texts needs 200 SMS/user; Advanced 100/user x 10 = 1,000 falls short). Call queues are included on all tiers; Core $30 x 10 = $300 would cover calling only.)

Plan compared: Ultra (cheapest tier whose included 200 SMS/user/mo covers the scenario). Prices are USD per month on monthly billing for one user, or a 10-person team sharing a main number, each user with a local US number, about 1,000 calling minutes and 200 texts a month; taxes, regulatory and 10DLC fees, hardware and promos are excluded. Annual-only plans are shown as the annual price divided by 12, and phone add-ons that need a suite licence (Google Workspace, Microsoft 365) are priced without the suite.

RingCentral price hikes

Cheaper alternatives to RingCentral

At 1 user, RingCentral costs $45/mo. 2 business phone systems cost less:

RingCentral alternatives: 3 business phone systems compared, at every size.

Every change we logged

  • Dec 2023 · Price increase: The per-message rate for RingCentral's High Volume (A2P/marketing) SMS add-on rose from $0.0085 to $0.01, about 17.6%. Standard business SMS allowances in RingEX plans were not part of this change.

Sources

Pricing page: ringcentral.com/office/plansandpricing.html. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Prices come from RingCentral's own plans-and-pricing data feed (US, productId 2), which gives the same per-user price at 1, 2, 20 and 100 users. SMS allowances (Core 25, Advanced 100 per user) are from the page's comparison data; Ultra's 200 is inferred from the comparison rows. PricingSaaS logged a 2025Q4 jump to Core $45/Advanced $55, but the live official prices don't show it, so it isn't recorded. The High Volume SMS change is dated by quarter only. WebSearch was unavailable (budget exhausted), so no news sources were checked.