Compare
Voice agent platforms, side by side.
What each company publishes for a voice agent: price per minute and what that price covers. Every figure comes from the company's own pricing page and is dated.
| Platform | Published price per minute | What to know | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lokutor | 4.1–4.75¢ | Speech recognition, language model and voice included, on plans from $19 a month. | Pricing |
| ElevenLabs | 8¢ (16¢ at burst) | Agents, on every listed plan. Check whether the language model is billed on top. | Compare → |
| Cartesia | 6¢ (+1.4¢ with its phone number) | Billed as call duration. Language-model use is free for agents built in its UI "for a limited time". | Compare → |
| Deepgram | 7.5¢ (6.8¢ on Growth) | Voice Agent Standard, with recognition, language model and voice. Cheaper tiers if you bring your own model or voice. | Compare → |
| Vapi | 8.2–12.9¢ (its own example) | 5¢ platform fee, plus recognition, language model and voice at each provider’s rate. | Compare → |
| Retell AI | 7–31¢ (its own range) | 5.5¢ voice infrastructure, plus voice, language model and telephony billed separately. | Compare → |
Each company's own pricing page, read 5 October 2026; follow the links to check, because prices change. Where a price is a range or an example, it is the company's own. We compare published prices and features only, not audio quality or latency, which we have not benchmarked for anyone else. Telephony is extra on most platforms, and on ours a phone minute counts as two or three plan minutes.
Head to head
Read the detail.
- Lokutor vs ElevenLabsElevenLabs is a widely used synthetic-voice platform and covers far more languages than we do. Lokutor puts speech recognition, the language model and the voice in one lower per-minute price, and runs in your own infrastructure or on a device.
- Lokutor vs CartesiaCartesia sells voice models and a voice-agent product billed by call duration. Lokutor is one integrated pipeline at a single per-minute price, with Catalan, Galician and Basque as first-class languages and an on-premise or on-device option.
- Lokutor vs DeepgramDeepgram is a speech-recognition company that also sells a voice agent, with tiers that let you bring your own language model or voice. Lokutor is a single integrated agent at one price, with Iberian languages and an on-device option.
- Lokutor vs VapiVapi is an orchestration platform: you pick a provider for each stage and pay each one. Lokutor is the opposite design, one integrated pipeline with one per-minute price and no providers to assemble.
- Lokutor vs Retell AIRetell AI is a voice-agent platform with a lower base rate and separate charges for the voice, the language model and the phone line. Lokutor charges one per-minute price for the whole agent. Retell includes more concurrent calls than our entry plans.
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