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Among the 23 voice ai tools we track, Vocode has the 1st-cheapest per-minute rate - a fit for cost-sensitive, high-volume work.

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Facts verified Jul 15, 2026Website →

What we know about Vocode

This is our verified profile of Vocode, a voice ai platform - open-source framework. Every fact about Vocode below carries the source it came from and the day we checked it.

Vocode does not publish a public per-minute rate we have been able to verify, so the price figure here stays blank until we can confirm one. We would rather show nothing than a guessed number; if you have a current Vocode quote, it is the fastest way for us to close that gap.

On capabilities, Vocode covers native sip trunking, bring-your-own llm, bring-your-own tts voice, native outbound campaigns, warm transfer to human, and built-in knowledge base, and does not offer no-code agent builder. Each of those is verified against Vocode's own docs or dashboard, not marketing copy.

For compliance, with Vocode: HIPAA is paid_addon on the plans we checked. If you are in a regulated space, confirm the current posture with Vocode before you commit, since these change plan by plan.

Vocode ranks the 1st-cheapest per-minute rate of the 23 voice ai tools we track, so where it lands for you depends on which of those matters more.

In total we track 13 verified facts for Vocode today, each linking the primary source it came from so you can check our work - and vendor claims we have not measured ourselves are labeled as such on the Vocode fact sheet below.

Reviewed by vsref Editorialfacts verified Jul 15, 2026Methodology →

Vocode pricing

≈ $0 per minute all-in (est.), verified Jul 15, 2026 (source).

Vocode cost at monthly volume tiers
Monthly volumeAll-in monthly bill
1K min/moSolo builder$0
10K min/moAgency$0
100K min/moCall center$0

All-in monthly: platform fee + per-minute + telephony. Assumes GPT-4o class model, ElevenLabs voice. How we compute costs →

Fact sheet

Pricing
Pricing facts
Base price / min$0.00Jul 15
Capabilities
Capabilities facts
Native SIP trunking✓ YesJul 15
Bring-your-own LLM✓ YesJul 15
Bring-your-own TTS voice✓ YesJul 15
Native outbound campaigns✓ YesJul 15
Warm transfer to human✓ YesJul 15
Built-in knowledge base✓ YesJul 15
DTMF / IVR navigation✓ YesJul 15
Compliance & trust
Compliance & trust facts
HIPAA BAA on base plan◑ Paid add-onJul 15
Build experience
Build experience facts
No-code agent builder✗ NoJul 15
API-first (full lifecycle via API)✓ YesJul 15
White-label / sub-accounts for agencies✗ Not availableJul 15
Commercial
Commercial facts
Founded year + HQUnited States of AmericaJul 15

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TTS in this stack

Vocode lets you bring your own text-to-speech voice, so the voice engine is a separate pricing and quality decision. Compare the engines builders plug in most: ElevenLabs, Cartesia, OpenAI TTS, or the full text-to-speech comparison →

STT in this stack

A voice agent hears through its speech-to-text engine, and transcription accuracy and streaming latency are priced per audio minute. Compare the engines builders pair with Vocode: Deepgram, AssemblyAI, GPT-4o Transcribe, or the full speech-to-text comparison →

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Vocode head-to-head

Vocode vs Bland AI →won 2 · lost 4 · tied 0
No-code agency deployslostCustom pipeline controlwonEcommerce support and orderslostHealthcare compliancewonOutbound sales campaignslostSMB receptionist and bookinglost
Vocode vs ElevenLabs Agents →won 3 · lost 2 · tied 0
No-code agency deployslostEcommerce support and orderswonHealthcare compliancewonOutbound sales campaignswonSMB receptionist and bookinglost
Vocode vs Retell AI →won 2 · lost 4 · tied 0
No-code agency deployslostCustom pipeline controlwonEcommerce support and orderslostHealthcare compliancewonOutbound sales campaignslostSMB receptionist and bookinglost
Vocode vs Vapi →won 1 · lost 4 · tied 1
No-code agency deployslostCustom pipeline controlwonEcommerce support and orderslostHealthcare compliancetieOutbound sales campaignslostSMB receptionist and bookinglost