Real-Time Voice AgentsfreemiumLimited free

Vapi

Orchestrates STT/LLM/TTS providers of choice into one low-latency voice-agent pipeline

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What Vapi does

  • Orchestrates STT/LLM/TTS providers of choice into one low-latency voice-agent pipeline
  • Usage-based per-minute pricing with free trial minutes included
  • SOC 2/HIPAA/PCI compliance add-ons for regulated call-center deployments

Vapi — straight answers

What is Vapi?

Vapi is listed under Real-Time Voice Agents, in the AI Agents & Automation category on Flocci AI Tools. Orchestrates STT/LLM/TTS providers of choice into one low-latency voice-agent pipeline. It is freemium — a usable free tier with paid plans above it, and it lives at vapi.ai.

Is Vapi free?

Partly. Only a small one-time starter credit, then pay per minute. If you need it free right now, Bolna does the same job for free.

Can I use Vapi in a browser, or is there an app?

Vapi works in a normal browser tab with no install. It is available on the web and an API. You can sign in with a Google account.

What can Vapi do?

Vapi does 3 things the catalog singles out: Orchestrates stt/llm/tts providers of choice into one low-latency voice-agent pipeline; usage-based per-minute pricing with free trial minutes included; soc 2/hipaa/pci compliance add-ons for regulated call-center deployments.

What is the best free alternative to Vapi?

Bolna is the best free alternative: it does the same job and you can start without paying. Kyutai Unmute, LiveKit Agents and Pipecat also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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Retell AI

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  • Free starting credit with no contract required
  • Supports swapping GPT, Claude or Gemini as the reasoning layer per agent
  • Batch calling campaigns plus live AI-to-human call transfer built in
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Bland AI

Real-Time Voice Agents
freemium
  • All-in-one per-minute pricing bundles LLM+STT+TTS with no separate token pass-through charges
  • Free start with call credits plus an inbound number included
  • Tiered platform fees (Build/Scale) unlock lower per-minute rates for high volume
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LiveKit Agents

Real-Time Voice Agents
free
  • Apache-2.0 open-source framework, fully self-hostable on your own servers
  • Native WebRTC client support across web/mobile/telephony out of the box
  • Native Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for tool-using voice agents
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Pipecat

Real-Time Voice Agents
free
  • BSD-2-Clause open-source Python framework for real-time voice/multimodal agents
  • Supports distributed multi-agent systems with handoffs over a shared bus
  • Maintained by Daily with an active plugin ecosystem for STT/LLM/TTS providers
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Ultravox

Real-Time Voice Agents
freemium
  • Speech-native processing skips the STT-to-text bottleneck, preserving tone/cadence/pitch
  • Free tier: 5¢/min including TTS for up to 5 concurrent calls
  • Open-weight models (fixie-ai) published on Hugging Face for research use
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Bolna

Real-Time Voice Agents
freeNew
  • Open-source framework for phone voice agents, from an India-based team
  • Connects to telephony, STT, LLM and TTS providers of your choice
  • Supports Indian languages
  • Self-host free; hosted platform is pay-as-you-go
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