ai voice agent platforms

every advertised per-minute rate here covers a different subset of the four things a phone call actually needs — so we priced the whole call instead.

5 listed · 5 researched by us · featured first, then most upvoted

Retell AI

we checked this$0.07/min

the only vendor whose headline band already includes telephony, stt, tts and the llm — with the sub-rates printed underneath.

#teams-who-want-one-numbe

LiveKit Agents

we checked this$0.01/min

apache 2.0 top to bottom — self-host it and the platform fee simply stops existing.

#engineering-teams-who-wa#pay-providers-directly

Pipecat

we checked thisfree self-hosted

bsd-licensed, provider-agnostic, and free if you run it yourself — the framework the others are competing with.

#teams-who-want-to-swap-a#pay-nobody-for-the-privi

Bland AI

we checked this$0.11/min

bundles the llm, stt and tts with no token charges — the simplest bill here, with telephony left outside it.

#teams-that-want-a-predic#already-have-telephony-s

Vapi

we checked this$0.05/min

five cents a minute for vapi, and everything that makes a phone call work costs extra.

#teams-with-existing-prov#nothing-else

this page is deliberately short: a handful of ai voice agent platforms we looked at properly, rather than everything that exists. if you build one that belongs here, a free listing takes two minutes and $50 pins it to the top of this page.

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