Tool profile
A voice agent platform for building and operating phone and conversational AI systems.
Voice agents
Vapi is a voice-agent platform for teams building phone and conversational AI systems that have to work with real telephony, real providers, and real call economics. Its job is to sit between the application and the stack of model, speech, and phone vendors that make production voice experiences work.
That makes it much more infrastructure-like than a generic chatbot builder. Buyers should evaluate it on call orchestration, developer ergonomics, provider flexibility, and the total per-minute cost of the full voice stack, not just on the headline platform fee.
Quick fit
Editorial take
Vapi should be judged on call quality, orchestration, and total stack economics. The platform fee is only one layer; the real spend comes from telephony, STT, TTS, and model usage underneath the system you are building.
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Pricing snapshot
Vapi's public guidance points to a free entry tier with 1,000 Vapi minutes per month. After that, the platform shifts to pay-as-you-go pricing of about $0.05 per Vapi minute, plus separate telephony, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and model-provider costs.
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