Vapi pricing starts with a hosting fee of $0.05 per minute, as listed on vapi.ai as of Oct 2026. Speech-to-text, the language model, the voice and some telephony are billed on top at provider cost. Optional success packages cost $29 a month (Core) or a $999 monthly minimum (Pro), and new accounts get $5 in free credits.
Guide · By GRX10 team · Updated
Vapi separates usage from support. Every account pays for the minutes its agents run, at a pre-paid hosting rate of $0.05 per minute plus the cost of each model provider. A success package is optional and adds phone numbers, concurrent calls, data retention and support. Vapi states that models are passed through at cost with no markup on every package, and that every plan includes unlimited agents.
| No Success Package | Core | Pro | Premier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Package price | $0 to start, usage only | $29/month | 10% of Vapi hosting fee, $999/month minimum | Custom, direct sales only |
| Included Vapi phone numbers | 1 | 5 | 10 | Custom |
| Concurrent calls | 4 | 10 | 30 | Custom, above Pro |
| Organizations | 2 | 2 | 10 | Custom, above Pro |
| Raw data retention | 14 days | 30 days | 180 days | Custom, above Pro |
| Support | Discord community, email without SLA | Email, 2 business day response SLA | Email and dedicated Slack, one working day SLA, 99% uptime SLA | Named support team, 1 hour P0 response, 99.9% uptime SLA |
| Other | $5 in free credits | Zero data retention (ZDR) included | RBAC and ZDR | Custom RBAC, ZDR and SSO; dedicated SIP available |
Vapi's pricing calculator adds its hosting fee to the cost of each layer of the voice agent. The calculator's default providers are Deepgram for transcription, OpenAI for the language model and ElevenLabs for the voice. If you pick other providers, those layers change price. Transport is charged by the provider, and Vapi's own telephony and SIP are listed as free.
| Component | Published rate (vapi.ai, Oct 2026) |
|---|---|
| Vapi hosting | $0.05/min, pre-paid |
| Transcriber (Deepgram, calculator default) | $0.0095 to $0.0099/min |
| Language model (OpenAI, calculator default) | $0.0077 to $0.0452/min |
| Voice (ElevenLabs, calculator default) | $0.0146 to $0.0238/min |
| Transport | Vapi Telephony/SIP, Vapi WebSockets and Daily WebRTC free; Twilio inbound $0.008/min, Twilio outbound $0.014/min, Vonage $0.00814/min, Telnyx $0.0055/min, charged by the provider |
| Add-ons (monthly) | HIPAA compliance $2,000; additional concurrency $10 per line; additional organizations $20 each |
Vapi's calculator estimates $82 to $129 for 1,000 minutes a month on its default providers with Vapi telephony and no success package. That works out to about $0.082 to $0.129 per minute, so a 2-minute call costs about $0.16 to $0.26.
If your calls go out through Twilio at $0.014 per minute, the top of the range becomes about $0.143 per minute, or $0.29 for a 2-minute call. A Core package adds $29 a month and a Pro package adds at least $999 a month. HIPAA adds $2,000 a month if you need it.
One figure is unclear from the page. Vapi lists its own telephony as free but does not publish which countries it covers, so teams calling India, the UAE or other markets should check the telephony cost for their numbers before relying on the low end of the range.
GRX10 Voice AI is priced at $0.119 per minute for the platform (₹7.99 per minute in India), with telephony at carrier cost as a separate line (₹0.85 per minute on managed SIP in India). The voice model is included and there is no language surcharge. A typical 2-minute call is about $0.24 or ₹16 on the platform line. Vapi can come in cheaper at its low end, and it gives developers full control of each provider.
| Vapi (as listed on vapi.ai, Oct 2026) | GRX10 Voice AI | |
|---|---|---|
| Headline rate | $0.05/min hosting plus provider costs | $0.119/min platform (₹7.99/min in India) |
| What the rate covers | Hosting only; transcription, LLM and voice billed at provider cost | Single audio-to-audio model included |
| Telephony | Vapi Telephony/SIP free; third-party carriers billed by the provider | Separate line at carrier cost; ₹0.85/min on managed SIP in India |
| 2-minute call | About $0.16 to $0.26 on the calculator defaults | About $0.24 platform plus telephony |
| Packages and add-ons | $29/month Core, $999/month minimum Pro; HIPAA $2,000/month | No package needed; per-minute billing |
| Languages | Depends on the providers you choose | All languages*, no surcharge |
| After the call | You connect your own CRM and follow-up | Recording, transcript, summary and CRM disposition on every call |
| Managed option | Premier includes a named support team | Optional VoiceOps team runs the calling operation for you |
Vapi suits engineering teams that want to choose each layer of the stack, swap providers as prices change and build their own integrations. Its calculator makes it easy to model cost before you build, and the pass-through model means you see exactly what each provider charges.
GRX10 Voice AI suits teams that want one platform rate with the model included and a first-word response under 700 ms on real phone calls. You describe the agent's job in one sentence and GRX10 generates the prompt, greeting, guardrails and voice. It works in Hindi, Tamil, Hinglish and other Indian languages, and every call is written to the CRM with a disposition. India outbound calls run within TRAI's 9 am to 9 pm hours and DND rules. Read the full GRX10 Voice AI vs Vapi comparison or the list of Vapi alternatives.
Competitor figures as listed on each vendor's own site, checked 16 Oct 2026. Prices change often; check the source before you budget. Sources: vapi.ai/pricing
Vapi charges a hosting fee of $0.05 per minute, as listed on vapi.ai as of Oct 2026. Transcription, the language model, the voice and some telephony are added at provider cost, and Vapi's calculator shows about $0.082 to $0.129 per minute in total on its default providers.
You can start on Vapi with no success package for $0 and $5 in free credits. After that you pay for the minutes your agents run.
Pro costs 10% of your Vapi hosting fee with a $999 monthly minimum. It includes 10 organizations, 10 phone numbers, 30 concurrent calls, 180 days of data retention, Slack support and a 99% uptime SLA.
Vapi lists HIPAA compliance as an add-on at $2,000 a month, covering HIPAA-eligible data handling with a standard DPA and a Business Associate Agreement.
Vapi lists its own telephony and SIP as free. Third-party carriers are charged by the provider, for example Twilio outbound at $0.014 per minute and Telnyx at $0.0055 per minute.
It depends on your setup. On Vapi's calculator defaults the total is about $0.082 to $0.129 per minute before any package, while GRX10 charges $0.119 per minute plus telephony at carrier cost, with the voice model, CRM logging and all languages* included.
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