Voice AI rates, without the asterisk.
Public self-serve pricing normalized around connected minutes. Snapshot verified 2026-07-18; negotiated enterprise pricing is intentionally excluded.
Start with what the rate includes
A platform fee, a voice-infrastructure fee, and a bundled agent minute can differ by more than 3× after all call components are added.
Vapi
$0.05/min platform fee, plus model and carrier costs.
02Retell AI
$0.055/min voice infrastructure, plus TTS, LLM, and telephony.
03Bland Start
$0.14/min including STT, LLM, and TTS; carrier cost is separate.
04ElevenAgents
$0.08/min Speech Engine rate, with telephony billed separately.
05Pipecat Cloud
$0.01/min active agent-1x hosting; 1:1 WebRTC voice is included.
06LiveKit Cloud
Ship starts at $50/mo with 5,000 agent minutes, then $0.01/min.
07Self-hosted baseline
$143/mo infrastructure baseline before observability and engineering time.
08Pricing methodology
Inspect formulas, inclusion rules, snapshot policy, and the complete primary-source registry.
09Build a custom stack
Combine any listed platform with speech, model, carrier, and recording choices.