The real difference
ElevenLabs offers voice synthesis. Telnyx provides a full communications stack with carrier licenses, private network, and co-located AI infrastructure. This setup avoids public internet delays and third-party dependencies, enabling sub-second latency. ElevenLabs requires separate telephony, adding unpredictable latency, complexity, and an additional point of failure.
COMPARISON
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Telnyx is a licensed carrier with a full telecom stack. You get phone numbers, call control, and AI orchestration on a single platform, managed through one API. This simplifies development and ensures end-to-end reliability.
ElevenLabs has no native telephony. You must contract with and integrate a separate carrier like Twilio to handle phone calls. This adds vendor complexity, increases setup time, and splits accountability for performance.
Pricing comparison
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Telnyx uses a pay-as-you-go model. Our effective rate of ~$0.09–0.10/min includes telephony, STT, TTS, and LLM orchestration. You only pay for what you use with no upfront commitment.
Requires a subscription with a fixed number of conversational minutes. This model creates waste from unused minutes or incurs overage fees. The price does not include the separate cost of a telephony provider.
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Telnyx conversational AI pricing
As the full-stack conversational AI platform, Telnyx delivers lower costs and faster performance while giving you complete control over your voice and AI stack.
1,000
5 minutes
Est. Cost Breakdown
Conversational AI base
$0.0000($0.000/min)
LLM monthly cost
$125.00($0.025/min)
TTS monthly cost
$0.00
Voice API monthly cost
$400.00($0.080/min)
Total monthly cost*$525.00($0.105/min)
*Telephony charged separately
Additional pricing: SIP Trunking and Voice API
Pricing above includes orchestration, real-time speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and open-source LLMs. Costs for premium models or voice engines are added at the provider rate if selected. Global telephony pricing is added separately. All prices are in USD and subject to change.
*The estimated costs shown here are only an estimate: It will not completely reflect real-world call patterns, model behavior, or production-level traffic.
WHY TELNYX?
Voice AI Agents for businesses that want to grow without the extra cost
Build cost-effective, low-latency conversational AI solutions with one provider.
Cost-effective AI agents
Implement AI for less with Telnyx’s private global communications network and GPU infrastructure.
Speech-to-text
Transcribe speech in real time for half the price of other providers with Telnyx’s in-house speech-to-text engine.
Text-to-speech
Speak dynamic text in 29 languages and accents, powered by Telnyx NaturalHD, Amazon Polly, Azure, Google, and even ElevenLabs.
One-click telephony integration
Telnyx is a licensed carrier with local numbers in 140+ countries. Purchase a phone number and assign it to your AI agent with one click.
Low-latency voice
Get quick responses from your AI agent using a real-time communications network combined with quantized LLMs.
Noise suppression
Build from the best possible audio inputs to create accurate, natural AI responses with Telnyx noise suppression and HD Voice codecs automatically built in.
Context-rich conversations
Create a more personalized user experience by integrating your Voice AI Agent with external tools like CRMs or databases to add context to calls.