How to cut your voice AI costs in half: Migrate your AI assistants from ElevenLabs to Telnyx

Looking to get more from your voice AI platform? Migrating your AI assistants to Telnyx unlocks better performance, built-in telephony, and global reach, all on a single, reliable platform. With our new one-click import feature, moving your ElevenLabs AI assistants to Telnyx is quick and straightforward. Run, manage, and scale your AI workflows with less effort and more control.

Why migrate your AI assistants?

As businesses scale their voice AI solutions, many find that their original platform no longer meets their needs. This could be due to rising costs, reliability concerns, missing telephony features, or the need for greater integration and control. Migrating AI assistants lets companies improve performance, reduce vendor complexity, and streamline operations.

However, migration can often be a manual and risky process. Telnyx eliminates the hassle. Simply export your assistant from ElevenLabs, import it into Telnyx, and you're ready to go. No rebuilds. No integration headaches. No downtime.

How Telnyx simplifies AI assistant migration

Our new AI assistant import feature enables users to:

• Directly import AI assistants created in ElevenLabs into the Telnyx AI Inference environment.
• Automatically translate and preserve the conversation flows, logic, and settings used in ElevenLabs.
• Eliminate manual rebuild efforts, significantly decreasing deployment time.
• Use Telnyx’s infrastructure, advanced inference capabilities, and rich API ecosystem to strengthen your AI assistant’s reach and reliability.

But this migration is just part of what makes Telnyx’s offering stand apart in the AI and telephony space.

The Telnyx advantage: unified telephony and AI

Telnyx stands out with a fully integrated telephony stack built into our AI-powered Communications-Platform-as-a-Service (CPaaS). Unlike ElevenLabs, which focuses only on voice generation and depends on third-party telephony providers, Telnyx gives you everything you need to deploy and manage voice AI assistants, all in one place.

When you build on Telnyx, you can:

• Buy or port phone numbers from dozens of countries
• Set up SIP trunks without external carriers
• Handle inbound and outbound calls on a single platform
• Build conversational AI assistants leveraging both SMS and voice.

All call routing, SIP trunking, and media streaming happen within the Telnyx network. You avoid complex integrations, reduce vendor management, and cut down points of failure. Bringing telephony and AI together streamlines your workflow, saves development time, and lowers deployment costs.

With ElevenLabs, you need to connect to external telephony providers to enable phone calls. This creates extra complexity and adds risk, since managing webhooks, multiple media streams, and service SLAs from different vendors can increase latency and reduce reliability.

With Telnyx, you get a unified solution that keeps your voice AI operations simple, reliable, and efficient.

Why owning the stack sets Telnyx apart in conversational AI

In live conversational AI, every millisecond counts. Delays or inconsistencies in audio can disrupt the flow of a natural conversation.

Telnyx stands out by owning the entire technology stack, from the telephony layer to AI processing. Our private, carrier-grade network and edge infrastructure keep latency extremely low. Voice agents respond instantly during live calls.

Other platforms, like ElevenLabs, offer high-quality, low-latency voice generation, but rely on external telephony providers. Audio travels through extra network hops: caller, phone provider, ElevenLabs, and then back again. Each step adds delay and increases the risk of inconsistency.

By keeping telephony and AI together on one platform, Telnyx shortens the signal path. Speech recognition, AI logic, and speech synthesis are processed entirely within our infrastructure, unlocking fast and reliable real-time conversations for any use-case, from customer communications to complex logistics operations.

How to import your AI assistants from ElevenLabs

Getting started is simple:

1. Sign up to the Telnyx portal
2. Export your assistant from ElevenLabs as a compatible package.
3. Upload the file to Telnyx using the Console or API.
4. Telnyx automatically converts and imports your assistant.
5. Deploy, test, and manage your assistant in Telnyx right away.

For more details, see our developer documentation or watch this step-by-step walkthrough:

Benefits of migrating your AI assistants to Telnyx

Moving your AI assistants to Telnyx gives you more than just a quick migration. You get a platform that unifies AI, telephony, and global connectivity for maximum impact:

Speed and simplicity

With Telnyx, migration and deployment are faster; there are no complicated rebuilds or juggling multiple vendors.

Single unified platform

Manage phone numbers, call routing, media streaming, and AI assistants together. This cuts operational overhead and simplifies management.

Reliable infrastructure

Telnyx’s carrier-grade network and global coverage ensure your AI assistants perform consistently.

Cost efficiency

Telnyx conversational AI pricing is competitive. At approximately $0.05 per minute, it is substantially more affordable than some alternatives, helping reduce your overall operational costs.

Ongoing platform improvements

By migrating your assistants into Telnyx, you gain access to a platform that continuously expands AI capabilities and telecom integrations.

Migrate your AI assistants to Telnyx today

Telnyx’s ElevenLabs import feature is built to simplify your operations and help you get more from AI voice assistants. With Telnyx, you get a single platform for native telephony, global connectivity, and advanced AI, including automatic conversation logic conversion and fast, low-effort setup. Our carrier-grade network and unified console mean faster deployments, reliable interactions, and a lower total cost of ownership.