AI Stack PricesPrices checked 11 November 2026
Vapi pricing and real costs
What Vapi voice agents cost per minute with the default speech, AI and voice providers, plus the optional monthly packages. Copied from the official pricing page.
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What goes into Vapi's per-minute price
| Vapi hosting fee | $0.05/min |
|---|---|
| Speech-to-text, Deepgram | $0.0095 to $0.0099/min |
| AI model, OpenAI | $0.0077 to $0.0452/min |
| Voice, ElevenLabs | $0.0146 to $0.0238/min |
| Vapi telephony, SIP, WebSockets, WebRTC | Free |
| Twilio calls | $0.008/min in, $0.014/min out |
| Telnyx calls | $0.0055/min |
- $5 in free credits to start
- 4 concurrent calls and 1 phone number with no package
- Core package, $29/month: 10 concurrent calls, 5 numbers, email support
- Extra call lines: $10 each per month
- Model costs passed through with no markup
Per-minute range uses Vapi's default setup: Deepgram speech-to-text, OpenAI model, ElevenLabs voice and Vapi telephony. Other providers change the rate. The Pro package (10% of the hosting fee, $999/month minimum) is not included.
Questions people ask
How much does Vapi cost?
Vapi charges a $0.05 per minute hosting fee plus the providers you choose, passed through at cost. With its default providers that comes to about $0.08 to $0.13 per minute. Monthly packages are optional: Core is $29/month.
Is Vapi free?
You start with $5 in free credits and no monthly fee. After that you pay per minute.
What does the Core package add?
Core costs $29/month and raises you from 4 to 10 concurrent calls and from 1 to 5 included phone numbers, with email support on a 2 business day response time.
Does Vapi mark up model costs?
Vapi says provider and model costs are passed through with no markup. Its own charge is the $0.05 per minute hosting fee.
How we get these numbers. We copy each price from Vapi's official pricing page and note the date we checked it: 11 November 2026. We don't earn anything from the links on this page.
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