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AgentVoice vs Vapi

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors. AgentVoice starts at $0.10, Vapi at $0.05. Only AgentVoice has a free tier. Both ship a public API.

AgentVoiceDeploys AI voice agents that handle phone calls and complete the CRM and scheduling work after.VapiDeveloper platform for building and running voice phone agents, billed per minute of call time.

Side by side

FactAgentVoiceVapi
CategoryVoice Agents & Phone AIVoice Agents & Phone AI
Pricing modelFreemiumPaid
Starts at$0.10 minute$0.05 minute
Public APIYesYes
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb, API
CompanyAgentVoiceVapi Inc.
Launched—2020
Last verifiedSep 1, 2026Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

AgentVoice

AgentVoice's strength is going past the call itself into the CRM update, calendar booking and follow-up workflow that usually needs separate automation glued on afterward. The no-developer-needed setup keeps it accessible, but $0.10/minute across every call component adds up quickly for high call-volume operations.

Pros

  • Post-call automation (CRM updates, scheduling) is built in, not a separate add-on
  • Native integrations with HubSpot, Salesforce, Google Calendar and Twilio
  • No-code setup claimed to take under 30 minutes for a working agent

Cons

  • Per-minute pricing across LLM, voice, STT and TTS combined can be hard to predict per call
  • Only 5 concurrent calls included before needing a custom plan
  • No company founding year or funding history published

Vapi

The default answer when a developer needs a voice agent on a phone line rather than a chat widget: it handles the hard real-time parts — barge-in, latency, turn-taking, telephony — and lets you swap in your own models. Enterprise adoption at Ring and Intuit is real validation. Cost forecasting is the hard part, because the platform fee is only one of four meters running.

Pros

  • Handles real-time voice mechanics: turn-taking, interruptions, latency and telephony
  • Bring-your-own-key support across OpenAI, Anthropic and Google avoids double model markup
  • CRM and helpdesk integrations for Salesforce, HubSpot and Zendesk
  • SOC 2, HIPAA and PCI compliance plus SSO and RBAC on the enterprise tier
  • Proven at scale, with Amazon Ring routing inbound support volume through it

Cons

  • The $0.05/minute platform fee sits on top of speech, model and voice provider costs
  • Concurrency beyond ten lines costs $10 per line per month
  • Enterprise compliance features require an annual Scale contract
  • It is a developer platform, so there is no usable no-code path

Which one fits

Choose AgentVoice if you need

  • Small and midsize businesses wanting phone coverage without hiring a call center
  • Teams already using HubSpot, Salesforce or Twilio who want calls to trigger workflows automatically

Choose Vapi if you need

  • Developers building phone-based support, booking or qualification agents
  • Replacing IVR trees with something that actually listens
  • Teams that want to bring their own model and voice provider keys

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