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Comparison

AvA vs Vapi

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.

Vapi

$0.05 / min

their published headline

The Vapi platform only.

What Vapi bills on top

Quoted from their own pricing page, read on 30 August 2026.

  • Speech-to-text — at cost, or $0 if you bring your own API key
  • The language model — at cost, or $0 with your own key
  • Text-to-speech — at cost, or $0 with your own key
  • Telephony — billed by the carrier, not by Vapi

Realistically

$0.05 plus four other bills

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.

Where Vapi is the better answer

There is one, and you should know it before you talk to us.

If you already hold your own OpenAI, Deepgram and ElevenLabs keys and want to tune every layer yourself, bringing them cuts those line items to zero and gives you control we do not offer.

Beyond the per-minute number

Telephony is included

Vapi 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 Vapi 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.

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