--- title: AI Voice Agent Pricing | $0.05/min voice engine, LLM per token | Telnyx canonical: https://telnyx.com/pricing/voice-ai-agents --- # AI Voice Agent Pricing | $0.05/min voice engine, LLM per token | Telnyx 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 $0.06 per minute, not the $0.12 to $0.42 of a stitched-together stack. [SIGN UP FOR FREE](https://telnyx.com/sign-up)[GET VOLUME RATE](https://telnyx.com/contact-us) 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 GPUsBilled at priority-tier inference rates. Kimi typically \~$0.006/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 Minutes per month 0500K Call profile Local inbound, US LLM Kimi on Telnyx GPUs Add-ons Premium third-party Call recording SMS follow-up Agent knowledge base ESTIMATED COST $0.06\*Per minute ≈ $13,700 per month at 230,000 minutes Voice engine - orchestration, STT, TTS $0.05 Telephony - local inbound, US $0.0032 LLM tokens $0.0064 [SIGN UP FOR FREE](https://telnyx.com/sign-up)[GET VOLUME-BASED RATE](https://telnyx.com/contact-us) \*Telnyx estimates exclude per-call voice-engine rounding to 60-second increments, so actual voice-engine charges can be higher, especially for short calls. LLM usage is billed per token; telephony follows its own billing rules. 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. The voice engine and LLM rates are the same on every plan; committing lowers the telephony, messaging and number charges underneath your agents. 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](https://telnyx.com/sign-up) BEST VALUEGROWTH $2,000/ mo Monthly minimum spend. 15% discount on Voice, Messaging and Numbers. * Everything in pay as you go plan * 15% discount on Voice, Messaging and Numbers * Automatic volume discounts applied with usage * Support 24/7 via chat or call [CHOOSE YOUR PLAN](https://portal.telnyx.com/#/pricing/plans) ENTERPRISE $5,000/ mo Monthly minimum spend. Custom pricing on dedicated infrastructure. * Everything in growth plan * Dedicated infrastructure and IP addressing * Private network interconnect * Unlimited rate limits [CONTACT SALES](https://telnyx.com/contact-us) 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 messagingSpeech-to-textText-to-speechLLM Inference __Telephony and messaging component rates__ | COMPONENT | RATE | | ---------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------- | | Voice API platform fee | $0.002 / minSIP trunking billed on top | | SIP trunking — inbound | from $0.0032 / min | | SIP trunking — outbound | from $0.005 / min | | Call recording | $0.002 / min | | Media streaming (WebSockets) | $0.0035 / min | | Conference | $0.002 / participant / min | | Phone numbers (US local) | $1.00 / moVolume pricing from $0.79/mo | | Number lookup | from $0.0015 / query | | SMS outbound | from $0.004 / 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 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 ≈ $0.06/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 $596per month $1,450-$3,250\*per month $880-$1,650\*per month $880-$1,650\*per month Telnyx estimates exclude per-call voice-engine rounding to 60-second increments, so actual voice-engine charges can be higher, especially for short calls. LLM usage is billed per token; telephony follows its own billing rules. \* 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. ## 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. [START BUILDING FREE](https://telnyx.com/sign-up)[TALK TO AN EXPERT](https://telnyx.com/contact-us) ## 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. [START BUILDING FREE](https://telnyx.com/sign-up)[TALK TO AN EXPERT](https://telnyx.com/contact-us) ## FAQ ### What exactly does the $0.05/minute include? 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. ### How is the LLM billed, and why isn't it bundled into the minute rate? ### What about the phone call itself? ### How are minutes measured? ### Vapi also advertises $0.05/minute. What's the difference? ### I'm on Vapi or Retell today. How hard is it to switch? ### When does the Growth plan beat pay-as-you-go? ### What are the rate limits? 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