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 | about 5.2¢ | 4.2¢ a minute for the platform plus the language model by the token, about 1¢ at a typical prompt; prepaid, billed per second. | 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 12 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, ours included: a phone line is priced per minute by country. Lokutor’s figure is at a typical prompt; a longer prompt uses more language-model tokens.
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 publishes a lower price per minute, with speech recognition and the voice inside it and the language model at a published price per token, 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 on one bill, 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 on one bill, 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 on one bill, with no providers to assemble.
- Lokutor vs Retell AIRetell AI is a voice-agent platform with a base rate and separate charges for the voice, the language model and the phone line. Lokutor’s platform minute includes the voice and speech recognition, with the language model by the token. Retell includes more concurrent calls by default.
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