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Telnyx Voice AI

calls its rate 'all-in' on a page that lists telephony and llm tokens as separate charges.

$0.05/min#teams-who-want-telephony#inference-from-one-vendo

genuinely fast infrastructure and a genuinely misleading label — 'all-in' excludes the phone call and the model.

the technical proposition is real: telnyx co-locates gpus with its telephony points of presence, eliminating inter-provider network hops, and claims sub-200ms latency as a result — the lowest figure any vendor here publishes, and its own claim.

the pricing language is the problem. $0.05 a minute is labelled 'all-in' and covers speech-to-text, text-to-speech and orchestration plus a roster of included voices. call control is $0.002 a minute, webrtc another $0.002, sip trunking fees apply, and llm tokens are billed separately per million. premium voices bill per character on top. a realistic standard call is $0.07 to $0.10, before any premium voice.

the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.

pricing
$0.05/min
website
telnyx.com
our verdict

genuinely fast infrastructure and a genuinely misleading label — 'all-in' excludes the phone call and the model.

we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.

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