Comparison
AvA vs Retell AI
Both of us publish a per-minute price. They cover different things, and that difference is most of the answer.
AvA
$0.05
per connected minute
The carrier leg, the speech, the reasoning, the transcript and the recording. Nothing is added on the invoice.
Retell AI
$0.055 / min
their published headline
Voice infrastructure only.
What Retell AI bills on top
Quoted from their own pricing page, read on 30 August 2026.
- Text-to-speech — $0.015/min on their own voices, $0.040/min on ElevenLabs
- The language model — $0.003/min to $0.16/min depending which you pick
- Telephony — around $0.015/min for most US numbers, varying by country
Realistically
~$0.11 / min
That is not our arithmetic — it is the worked example on their own pricing page: $0.04 model + $0.055 infrastructure + $0.015 TTS.
Where Retell AI is the better answer
There is one, and you should know it before you talk to us.
A long menu of model and voice providers, priced individually. If you want to pick a specific LLM and a specific voice vendor and see each line separately, that is exactly what they are built for.
Beyond the per-minute number
Telephony is included
Retell AI bills the carrier separately. Ours is in the number above, which is why the two figures are not comparable as printed.
All 22 Eighth Schedule languages
Bodo, Santali, Manipuri, Dogri and the rest — not just the easy ten. If you are selling in India beyond the metros, this is usually the deciding factor rather than price.
White-label, if you are reselling
Your domain, your brand, per-client accounts with their own budgets and data isolation. Most platforms in this space sell direct and have no reseller path at all.
Every Retell AI figure on this page was read from their own pricing page on 30 August 2026. Prices change — ours do too — so check both before you decide. If we have got something wrong here, tell us and we will correct it.
The comparison that settles it
Have both call you. Ours takes about ten seconds to arrange.