AI Voice Agent Cost per Minute, All-In: Vapi vs Retell vs Bland (LLM, Voice and Telephony Split)

Vapi advertises $0.05 a minute and Retell $0.07. Neither is what a phone call costs. We split the all-in minute into platform fee, speech, LLM and… Aliteq Tensor · Local AI & Automation Editor

An AI voice agent costs about $0.08 to $0.15 a minute all-in for a US call, with a mid-size LLM. The advertised rates are lower because most leave something out. Vapi's $0.05 and Retell's $0.055 are…

Platform-fee pricing: Vapi $0.05/min, Retell $0.055/min, both plus speech, LLM and phone

Bundled pricing: Bland $0.14/min (Start) or $0.12 + $299/month, LLM and voices included

Speech included, LLM extra: ElevenLabs Agents $0.08, OpenAI GPT-Live $0.05, Twilio ConversationRelay $0.07

The phone line is never in the headline: Twilio US is $0.0085/min inbound, $0.014 outbound

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