Wing Assistant is $999 a month. We start from $2,400. The difference is who you get.

At a glance

Both companies sell a dedicated person on one flat monthly fee, month to month, with no placement fee. Wing's figures below were read on their own public pages on 17 September 2026. Where they publish nothing, the cell says so rather than guessing.

Where Wing Assistant is the better choice

Wing's full-time plan is $999 a month for 160 hours, read on their virtual assistant page on 17 September 2026. Part-time is $699 a month for 80 hours. That is the aggressive end of this market, and we are not going to talk you out of a number that good. We cost more. If your decision is a price decision, it is already made and you can stop reading.

They are also ahead of us on security paperwork. Wing states ISO 27001 compliance and other security certifications, with encryption in transit and at rest, NDAs, and role-based tool access. Ours is contractual rather than certified. If your procurement team requires a formal security report before anyone outside the company touches a system, raise it on the first call.

Three more things they do better than we do:

• They show the counts under their ratings. 4.5 on 123 Google reviews and 4.7 on 51 Capterra, on the page, where you can check them. Most companies in this category publish a star average and no denominator. We publish no reviews at all yet.
• 150+ distinct role plans. Their menu is wider than ours, and if the role you want is something like real estate transaction coordination or healthcare front desk, they have a plan built for it and we would be improvising.
• Named case studies with real companies and real numbers. Our proof is smaller and we describe it the way it is: a sample of recent work, 22 seats across four companies (DLN Medical, Unikat Home, AIM, Smooth Aligners).

When $999 is the right answer

If the work is inbox, calendar, scheduling, data entry and research, and a bad week costs you an irritating afternoon rather than a closed month, $999 for 160 hours is good value. Take it. A one-person business getting its first few hours back does not need a search run for it. It needs hands, quickly, at a price that does not keep it awake. That is the purchase Wing is built for, and at our rate we would be selling you more process than you have work for.

The core difference

Wing supports 10,000+ companies with 10,000+ active assistants across 20+ countries, all figures from their own page. At that size, matching is allocation. You describe the work, the operation finds someone in the pool whose profile fits the shape of it, and a Customer Success Manager holds the relationship together afterwards. It is a sensible way to run a business at that volume, and it is the only way the price works.

We run the other way, and the extra money is mostly that decision. When a brief comes in, we go looking for people for that seat. Not the closest match already sitting in a pool, but candidates approached for your role, screened against your scope, with their availability confirmed in the week you are hiring. If the seat is a bookkeeper who has to close a month in QuickBooks with your CPA, we go and find people who have closed months in QuickBooks with a CPA.

The second half of that sentence carries as much weight as the first: who manages them after day one. Our AI layer trains the person on the tooling before they start, including Claude Code, then captures how the seat is actually done into a living playbook for that seat and coaches the person against it every week. It is knowledge capture, not monitoring. Its real value shows up the day someone leaves, because the next person starts from the playbook instead of from your memory of what the last one did.

So the honest framing of this page is not that one company is good and one is not. You are comparing $999 to from $2,400, and the difference is who you get and who manages them.

What you get for the money

Take the arithmetic head on. Wing full-time is $999 a month, which is $11,988 over a year. An executive or virtual assistant with us starts from $2,400 a month, which is from $28,800 over a year. Call the gap somewhere near $17,000. That is a real amount of money for a small business and it deserves a specific answer rather than a paragraph about quality.

Here is what the gap pays for:

• A search run for your seat, rather than an assignment from a pool. Three people approached for your role, with their availability confirmed that week.
• The AI layer: tooling training before day one, a playbook that captures how your seat is done, and weekly feedback to the person doing it. A replacement inherits the playbook.
• A bench that goes past admin. Finance and accounting seats (bookkeeping, AP/AR, month-end close, reporting) start from $2,800 a month, and that is a different hiring pool from general assistant work.
• One flat rate and one invoice. We contract and pay the person, so there is no second currency, no contractor paperwork and no payroll question at your end.

Our full price list sits on the pricing section with the word "from" in front of every number, because the rate moves with the role and the seniority. Operations and admin and SDR/BDR/CSR both start from $2,500 a month. Engineering and AI seats get scoped and priced on the call, because pretending otherwise would be a made-up number.

If you want to check either number against what the same work costs you in-house, run our cost calculator. It uses the fully loaded cost of a US employee, not the base salary, which is the comparison most people skip and then regret.

Speed, and who you actually meet

Wing advertises going live in 24 to 48 hours after a free consultation. If that holds for your role, it is faster to a working person than we are, and when you are underwater that matters more than almost anything else on this page.

What their site does not give you is a name before the call. Talent profiles are not shown publicly anywhere on wingassistant.com, so the first specific human you see is the one allocated to you. For a general assistant plan that is a reasonable trade. For a seat with your bank feed in it, most people want to meet the person first.

Our clock runs differently and we describe it precisely, because everyone in this category quotes a different thing and calls it the same word. We define time-to-fill as brief to first day of work. Three availability-confirmed candidates land within 48 hours of the brief. On recent placements, 4 to 7 days from brief to first day. The shortlist is not the finish line, so we do not measure to it.

Availability is the part that usually rots. A candidate who was free when a recruiter last spoke to them in July is not a candidate in September. We re-confirm availability every week, and the featured people on our front page are public, dated, and need no call to look at. You can check people who are genuinely free this week before you talk to a salesperson, which is the opposite of how this industry normally works.

How your risk is covered

Wing lists free replacement as a feature of both plans. What the window is, what you have to do to qualify, and whether there is a limit are not published on their site when we checked (17 September 2026). That is not unusual in this market, and it may well be generous in practice. It does mean the terms are whatever the consultation tells you, so get them in an email before you sign.

Picture the case that actually tests a guarantee. A bookkeeper starts on the 3rd, gets through a week and a half, and stops answering on the 28th, four days before close. What you need at that moment is not goodwill, it is a written rule you can point at.

Ours is free replacement as many times as it takes, and the four conditions are published on our guarantee section: the replacement is for the same role and scope; you gave the person defined work and written feedback; at least 10 working days have passed before a request; and after three replacements either side can walk away on the standard 30 days' written notice. Conditions on a guarantee are normal. Publishing them is the part that is worth something, because you can hold us to a rule you can read.

Security, plainly

Wing has ISO 27001 and other certifications. We are not going to tell you our internal controls are just as good, because you would have no way to check. What we do: an NDA before any access, logins created and owned by you rather than by us, and same-day offboarding when someone leaves the seat. For a regulated buyer that is not enough, and Wing is the better answer.

One thing neither of us should be doing is quoting an acceptance rate at you. Nobody in this category publishes the denominator, so "top 1%" is a number you cannot test. We make no such claim and you should discount ours if we ever do.

Which one should you pick?

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Sources and how this page was written

We read Wing Assistant's public pages ourselves on 17 September 2026 and quote what they publish, not what a third party says about them. We describe their claims rather than reproduce their copy. If something here is out of date, tell us and we'll correct it. Our own numbers come from our pricing section and our published guarantee.

1. 01Wing Assistant plans, pricing, inclusions, geography, security and proof, wingassistant.com/virtual-assistant, read 17 September 2026
2. 02Wing Assistant pricing page (the rate card is not on it; the rates above come from source 01), wingassistant.com/pricing, read 17 September 2026
3. 03Contractanaut prices and guarantee conditions, contractanaut.com/#pricing, published and current on 17 September 2026