VOICE AI PRICING

$0.05 per minute. No fine print.

Orchestration, speech-to-text, and text-to-speech in one rate. LLM tokens at our own GPU prices, telephony at carrier cost. A production agent lands near $0.056 per minute, not the $0.12 to $0.42 of a stitched-together stack.

INCLUDEDVoice engine
$0.05Per minute
OrchestrationFull agent runtime - turn-taking, interruption handling, tools, knowledge base retrieval.
Text-to-speechTelnyx Ultra, Natural & NaturalHD, Qwen3TTS, Inworld, Rime, Resemble, and Murf.
Speech-to-textDeepgram, Telnyx STT - Telnyx-hosted, real time.
ADD-ONLLM tokens
On Telnyx owned GPUsKimi, typically ~$0.004/min, no prompt-size multipliers.
Or on a managed frontier modelAnthropic & OpenAI models rates.
ADD-ONTelephony
Carrier costStarting at $0.0032/min.
One invoiceOne Telnyx invoice instead of five different vendor invoices.
ESTIMATE YOUR COST

Your numbers, itemized

Set your volume and call profile. Every line of the estimate maps to a line on your invoice, and we'll show what the same month runs elsewhere.

ADJUST SETTINGS
0500K
Call profile
LLM
Add-ons
ESTIMATED COST
$0.056*Per minute
$12,968 per month at 230,000 minutes
Voice engine - orchestration, STT, TTS
$0.05
Telephony - local inbound, US
$0.0032
LLM tokens
$0.0032

*LLM per-minute figures are estimates at roughly 6,000 prompt tokens per minute for a realistic production agent with tools, knowledge retrieval, and transcript, with prompt caching and 500 output tokens. Actual billing is per token at the rates in the tables below: no prompt-size multipliers, no minimums, and caching means big prompts cost far less than list rate. Competitor estimates from public pricing and independently reported production costs, July 2026.

PLANS

Pick your commitment, not your features.

Every plan runs the same platform, same models, same network. Commit more, pay less per minute.

PAY AS YOU GO
$0

Standard rates. Live in minutes, card on file.

  • Full platform, every product
  • Voice engine $0.05/min, LLM at GPU token rates
  • 500 concurrent calls, 100 API req/s, 50 SMS/s
  • Community support
START BUILDING
BEST VALUECOMMITTED
$500Monthly minimum

Volume discounts on everything you use.

  • Everything in pay as you go plan
  • Volume discounts across all usage
  • Dedicated account manager
  • Priority support and higher rate limits
GET VOLUME RATE
ENTERPRISE
$5,000Monthly minimum

Custom pricing on dedicated infrastructure.

  • Everything in committed plan
  • Dedicated infrastructure and IP addressing
  • Private network interconnect
  • Unlimited rate limits
CONTACT SALES
PAY AS YOU GO

Building with components instead?

The Voice AI voice engine bundles orchestration, hosted STT, and hosted TTS at $0.05/min, with LLM tokens at the rates below. If you're using pieces standalone, STT for transcription, TTS in your own app, inference over API, these rates apply.

Telephony and messaging component rates
COMPONENTRATE
Voice API platform fee$0.002 / minSIP trunking billed on top
SIP trunking — inboundfrom $0.0032 / min
SIP trunking — outboundfrom $0.005 / min
Call recording$0.0012 / min
Media streaming (WebSockets)$0.0035 / min
Conference$0.002 / participant / min
Phone numbers (US local)$0.25 / moVolume pricing from $0.79/mo
Number lookupfrom $0.0015 / query
SMS outboundfrom $0.0005 / msgVolume tiers down to $0.0005/msg
Fax (send or receive)$0.007 / page
COMPETITION

Built for agents. Not retrofitted for them.

On most platforms, agents sit on top of UI-first products, constrained by rented infrastructure and manual approval paths. Telnyx is different. We're the only agent-native platform that owns the primitives, not abstracting over someone else's foundations.

FEATURE
Telnyx logo
Vapi logo
Retell logo
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Voice engine rate

$0.05/min
$0.05/min
$0.055/min
$0.08/min

Orchestration, STT, TTS included in sticker

LLM billing

Per token on Telnyx GPUs
Pass-through, per token
$0.003–$0.08/min listed
Passed through, per token

Realistic all-in

≈ $0.056/min
$0.12–$0.42/min
$0.088–$0.31/min
$0.10+/min

No monthly platform fee

Concurrency included

500 calls
10 lines, + $10/line/mo after
20 calls
4-40 by plan, then 2x burst pricing

HIPAA included in every plan

Owns the network

Owns AI inference

Compare what 10K minutes could cost you per month

$564per month
$1,450-$3,250*per month
$880-$1,650*per month
$880-$1,650*per month

* Competitor estimates from public pricing and independently reported production costs, July 2026.

COMPLIANCE

Compliance is included. Not an add-on.

Some voice AI platforms charge up to $2,000/month extra for HIPAA. On Telnyx, regulated-industry readiness is standard on every account, on every plan, including pay as you go.

  • AICPA SOC 2 certification badge
  • HIPAA compliance badge
  • GDPR compliance badge
  • PCI DSS certification badge
  • ISO 27701:2019 certification badge

Ship a voice agent for about six cents a minute.

Every layer priced at what it actually is, no bundling tax, no fine print. Usage-based with no commitments, and if you're coming from Vapi or Retell, US and Canadian numbers port in free.

FAQ

The voice engine: orchestration (turn-taking, interruption handling, tools, knowledge base retrieval) plus Telnyx-hosted speech-to-text (including Deepgram models) and Telnyx-hosted text-to-speech (Telnyx Ultra, Natural, NaturalHD, Qwen3TTS, Inworld, Rime, Resemble, Murf). It is the same layer Retell prices at $0.055/min before add-ons.