Seat-priced phone system · United States

Grasshopper vs Intermedia Unite Pricing (2026): $5.50 vs $27.99 per Seat

At ten seats over three years, Grasshopper costs $5.50 per seat per month and the other costs $27.99 — a difference of $8,096 across the term for a ten-seat business.

The published prices are $55.00 a month flat and $27.99, which is not always the same ranking.

Side by side

The cheapest plan on each side that covers ten seats, United States pricing. Where a plan's user cap is passed at a larger size, the row names the plan the provider moves you to and prices that instead. Sources: Grasshopper checked 2026-09-05 and Intermedia Unite checked 2026-09-05.
	Grasshopper	Intermedia Unite
Cheapest plan that covers 10 seats	Small Business	Pro
Published price	$55.00 a month flat	$27.99
On	flat monthly	monthly billing
Monthly billing	not published	$27.99
Minimum seats	1	none stated
Requires first	nothing stated	nothing stated
Effective / seat at 1 seat	$14.00 True Solo	$27.99
Effective / seat at 3 seats	$8.33 Solo Plus	$27.99
Effective / seat at 5 seats	$11.00	$27.99
Effective / seat at 10 seats	$5.50	$27.99
Effective / seat at 25 seats	$2.20	$27.99
Effective / seat at 50 seats	$1.10	$27.99
Three-year cost at 10 seats	$1,980	$10,076
Taxes and fees	says nothing about taxes or regulatory fees on its pricing page	says nothing about taxes or regulatory fees on its pricing page
Owner	not confirmed	not confirmed

How that is worked out

seats billed = max(seats you have, minimum seats the plan requires) plan per month = published seat price x seats billed three-year cost = plan per month x 36 + setup fee effective per seat = three-year cost / (36 x seats you have) monthly-billing gap = monthly-billing price / annual-billing price flat package = flat monthly price + (seats billed - users included) x additional-user price add-on plans = shown on the provider's page, never ranked (they are not a phone system on their own) calls not included = shown on the provider's page, never ranked (calls are billed per minute, or sold as separate call packages, on top of the seat price) plan at each size = the cheapest plan that covers that seat count; a plan with a user cap hands over to the next one

Nothing else is added. Taxes, regulatory recovery fees, USF and e911 charges are not added to any figure on this site. On taxes and regulatory fees, 2 of the 37 providers state that the price already carries them on at least one plan, 0 publish what they come to, 14 say they are extra without an amount, and 21 say nothing. Where a provider says the price is all-inclusive or includes them, the page says so beside the figure; everywhere else the invoice will be higher than the figure. Where a plan needs another subscription first (a Google Workspace or Microsoft Teams license), that subscription is not in the figure and the page says so. Handset purchases, number porting, international calling and overage are excluded. Every figure here is a floor. The full method is at Method.

Where the answer changes

Size does not change the ranking here. Grasshopper is cheaper per seat at every size where both have a plan.
The plan changes as the team grows. Grasshopper moves to True Solo at 1 seat, then Solo Plus at 3 seats. The figures above already price the plan you would actually be on at each size, not the entry plan stretched past its cap.
Neither figure is the invoice — taxes and regulatory fees are added on top of both, and neither provider publishes what they come to.

What is not confirmed on either side

Figures on this page come from each provider's published pages only. These points were not stated there, so the comparison does not include them:

Grasshopper (6 open items)

Taxes and regulatory fees: not stated in the provider's published documentation (checked 2026-09-05).

Ownership: not stated in the provider's published documentation (checked 2026-09-05).

Not confirmed: monthly-billing prices (only "billed annually" and "annual savings over 20%" are published in text).

Not confirmed: whether the $25 and $55 figures are annual-billing or monthly-billing prices (blog table does not say).

Intermedia Unite (5 open items)

Taxes and regulatory fees: not stated in the provider's published documentation (checked 2026-09-05).

Fees disclosure: not stated in the provider's published documentation (checked 2026-09-05).

Ownership: not stated in the provider's published documentation (checked 2026-09-05).

Annual-billing price: no annual or term price is published; FAQ mentions month-to-month options.

The full list for each provider is on its own page: Grasshopper, Intermedia Unite.

What changed on either side

4 recorded changes across the two providers: 0 on a provider's own page, 4 correcting a figure this site held. The most recent:

2026-09-05 — Grasshopper: correction to our data plan line-up unknown → True Solo, Solo Plus, Small Business. Three plans read from the vendor's own 2026 blog graphic; the pricing page is geo-blocked outside the US and its table did not render in earlier fetches.
2026-09-05 — Grasshopper: correction to our data True Solo: flat monthly price not held → 14. Read from the blog graphic "Price Per Month (2026)".
2026-09-05 — Grasshopper: correction to our data Solo Plus: flat monthly price not held → 25. Read from the blog graphic "Price Per Month (2026)".
2026-09-05 — Grasshopper: correction to our data Small Business: flat monthly price not held → 55. Read from the blog graphic "Price Per Month (2026)".

Every entry, by month, with an RSS feed: What changed.

Who this is not for

This compares published prices and nothing else. It is not a judgment about call quality, support or reliability, and neither product has been used by us. If the two prices are close, this page will not decide it for you and should not.

Sources

Grasshopper pricing page. checked 2026-09-05
Intermedia Unite pricing page. checked 2026-09-05

Written by Kaz (pen name). Figures are copied from providers' published pricing pages on the dates shown. We have not used these products. Corrections: contact form.