AI voice agent platforms compared: per-minute pricing
Updated 2026-10-22 · listed A to Z, not ranked
Voice agent platforms run AI agents that talk on the phone or in an app: they combine speech-to-text, a language model and text-to-speech, plus telephony. Pricing is usually per minute of conversation, and what that per-minute figure includes differs a lot.
Listed A to Z. All are general AI tools paid by card or subscription; none lists crypto payment.
- Published price
- $0.14/min (Start, no platform fee); $0.12/min plus $299/month (Build)
- Free credit / plan
- Start plan: 2 credits and an inbound number, no card
- What the price covers
- One flat rate covering the language model, speech-to-text and text-to-speech (per Bland)
- Published price
- Voice agents $0.06/min; plans from $5/month
- Free credit / plan
- Free plan: 20K credits/month and $1 of agent usage
- What the price covers
- Agent minutes billed separately from text-to-speech and speech-to-text credits
- Published price
- See the Agents tab on the provider’s pricing page
- Free credit / plan
- 15 minutes included free
- What the price covers
- Voice and chat agents on ElevenLabs voices
- Published price
- $0.07–$0.31/min pay as you go
- Free credit / plan
- $10 in free credits
- What the price covers
- Range depends on the model, voice and telephony you choose; 20 concurrent calls included
- Published price
- Enterprise contracts from $30,000/year
- Free credit / plan
- None listed
- What the price covers
- Scoped by call volume, telephony, integrations and security
- Published price
- Usage per minute; optional packages from $29/month
- Free credit / plan
- $5 in free credits
- What the price covers
- Transcriber, model, voice and telephony providers are priced separately and passed through
How we checked: Prices are quoted from each vendor’s official pricing page on Oct 22, 2026. Per-minute figures are not always comparable: some include the model, voice and phone line, others pass those costs through separately. Check what is included before you compare.
How they differ
- All-in vs pass-through pricing: Bland quotes one rate that includes the model and voice. Vapi passes provider costs through, so your total depends on the providers you pick. Retell publishes a range.
- Self-serve vs sales-led: Bland, Cartesia, Retell and Vapi let you start with free credit. Synthflow is sold on enterprise contracts.
- Voice quality and languages vary by provider and model; test with your own scripts.
More voice tools
See our Voice & Voice Agents category for text-to-speech and speech-to-text tools too, or the voice generation APIs you can pay per call in USDC.
Sources (official pages, read 2026-10-22)
- bland.ai
- bland.ai/pricing
- cartesia.ai
- cartesia.ai/pricing
- elevenlabs.io/agents
- elevenlabs.io/pricing
- retellai.com
- retellai.com/pricing
- synthflow.ai
- synthflow.ai/pricing
- vapi.ai
- vapi.ai/pricing
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