Pick Retell if
teams that want a voice agent today and will pay minutes + add-ons, without an annual commit.
Read the Retell pageRetell vs Vapi
Our take
Pick Retell if teams that want a voice agent today and will pay minutes + add-ons, without an annual commit. Pick Vapi if builders who want a voice agent with a Dashboard plus an API, and will pay hosting + provider pass-through. Skip Retell if buyers who want one all-in minute that already includes the LLM (Bland). Skip Vapi if teams that want one all-in per-minute rate with LLM/STT/TTS included (Bland).
Best for
Retell A phone or chat agent billed by the minute
Vapi A phone or web voice agent you can publish
Free plan
Retell $0 · to start. Retell Voice Infra $0.055/min. Platform voices / Minimax / Fish / Cartesia / OpenAI / Inworld TTS $0.015/min. ElevenLabs Flash $0.040/min (higher ElevenLabs rows on the same table). LLM rows are per-minute (example GPT 4.1 $0.045/min). 20 concurrent included
Vapi No free plan
Lowest paid
Retell Telephony $0.015
Vapi No Success Package $5
Next step up
Retell Monthly add-ons $2/mo
Vapi Pro $999/mo
Coding agent
Retell Simulation testing
Vapi
Watch out
Retell Infra is not the all-in rate
Vapi Hosting is $0.05/min plus providers
Last checked
Retell 2026-10-22 · retellai.com/pricing
Vapi 2026-10-22 · vapi.ai/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Vapi if
builders who want a voice agent with a Dashboard plus an API, and will pay hosting + provider pass-through.
Read the Vapi page