Comparison
Everyone quotes a per-minute price.They all mean different things by it.
Ours is the whole call. Theirs is a platform fee, before speech, the model, and the phone line. Here is the like-for-like.
| Platform | Headline | What it covers | Telephony |
|---|---|---|---|
| AvA | $0.05 | The whole call — carrier, speech, reasoning, transcript, recording | Included |
| Vapi | $0.05 / min | The Vapi platform only. | Extra |
| Retell AI | $0.055 / min | Voice infrastructure only. | Extra |
| Bland AI | $0.11 – $0.14 / min | The AI in one number — model, speech-to-text and speech synthesis, with no token charges or provider pass-throughs. | Extra |
Competitor figures read from their own pricing pages on 30 August 2026. Prices change — ours too. Each comparison links to its source.
AvA vs Vapi
Their page is explicit that network and data transport are “charged by provider, not Vapi”, and that speech and model costs pass through at cost. The headline is real; it is just not what a call costs.
Read the comparisonAvA vs Retell AI
That is not our arithmetic — it is the worked example on their own pricing page: $0.04 model + $0.055 infrastructure + $0.015 TTS.
Read the comparisonAvA vs Bland AI
$0.14 on Start, $0.12 on Build, $0.11 on Scale. Bundling the AI into one number is the honest half of what we do; telephony is the half they leave out.
Read the comparisonDo not take our word for any of it
Every figure links to the source. And the quickest test of a voice platform is to let it call you.
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