Ultravox
Stand up a phone or web voice agent in the Ultravox console: Agents, Playground, Voices, Call history.
OUR TAKE
Pick Ultravox for builders who will burn 30 free minutes, then $0.05 / min, and may clone the MIT model. $0.05 / min is not the SIP / token bill.
Good fit
Builders who will burn 30 free minutes, then $0.05 / min, and may clone the MIT model.
Poor fit
Teams that want one all-in talk-time rate with LLM/STT/TTS bundled (Bland).
Pay as you go · Pro $100
USD, before tax · Checked 2026-10-28 · ultravox.ai/pricing
OUR TAKE
Pick Ultravox for builders who will burn 30 free minutes, then $0.05 / min, and may clone the MIT model. $0.05 / min is not the SIP / token bill.
Good fit
Builders who will burn 30 free minutes, then $0.05 / min, and may clone the MIT model.
Poor fit
Teams that want one all-in talk-time rate with LLM/STT/TTS bundled (Bland).
Pay as you go · Pro $100
USD, before tax · Checked 2026-10-28 · ultravox.ai/pricing
What it costs
USD, before tax · Checked 2026-10-28 · ultravox.ai/pricing
Pay as you go
30 free minutes; then / min. No surge. Unlimited playground. 5 concurrent. SIP 0.5¢ / min. Threads tokens / 1M input, / 1M output (uncached)
$0
Pro
as printed. No hard concurrency cap; outbound scheduler; 5 custom voices; 20 RAG corpora. SIP 0.48¢ / min
Lowest paid
$100
Enterprise
Not published by the vendor
Not published by the vendor
Checked 2026-10-28·ultravox.ai/pricing
Before you pay
Good fit
Builders who will burn 30 free minutes, then $0.05 / min, and may clone the MIT model.
Poor fit
Teams that want one all-in talk-time rate with LLM/STT/TTS bundled (Bland).
Watch out
$0.05 / min is not the SIP / token bill
Instead, try
Vapi if Dashboard + $0.05 / min hosting if you want to swap STT/LLM/TTS; Retell if infra $0.055 / min; 20 free concurrent
Compare Ultravox with
Limits, in full
- 01
$0.05 / min is not the SIP / token bill
- 02
PAYG caps concurrent calls at 5
- 03
Hosted wallet ≠ running the MIT repo
If Ultravox isn't it
Why: Dashboard + $0.05 / min hosting if you want to swap STT/LLM/TTS.
Paid only$5
Hosting is $0.05/min plus providersChecked 2026-10-22·vapi.ai/pricing
vs Ultravox
Why: infra $0.055 / min; 20 free concurrent.
Free· paid from$0.015
Infra is not the all-in rateChecked 2026-10-22·retellai.com/pricing
vs Ultravox
Why: one talk-time rate (Start $0.14 / min).
Free· paid from$299/mo
Start is 100 calls/day and 10 concurrentChecked 2026-10-22·bland.ai/pricing
vs UltravoxLimits & alternatives3 limits · Vapi, Retell, Bland instead
Limits, in full
- 01
$0.05 / min is not the SIP / token bill
- 02
PAYG caps concurrent calls at 5
- 03
Hosted wallet ≠ running the MIT repo
If Ultravox isn't it
Why: Dashboard + $0.05 / min hosting if you want to swap STT/LLM/TTS.
Paid only$5
Hosting is $0.05/min plus providersChecked 2026-10-22·vapi.ai/pricing
vs UltravoxWhy: infra $0.055 / min; 20 free concurrent.
Free· paid from$0.015
Infra is not the all-in rateChecked 2026-10-22·retellai.com/pricing
vs UltravoxWhy: one talk-time rate (Start $0.14 / min).
Free· paid from$299/mo
Start is 100 calls/day and 10 concurrentChecked 2026-10-22·bland.ai/pricing
vs Ultravox