AI Stack PricesNo package
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Pay only for the minutes you use
- $5 in free credits to start
- 1 Vapi phone number
- 4 concurrent calls
- 14 days of raw data retention
- Email support without a response time
Prices 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.
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Estimated cost
Vapi plans
Core
$29/month
plus the minutes you use
- 5 Vapi phone numbers
- 10 concurrent calls
- 30 days of raw data retention
- Email support, 2 business day response
Pro
$999+/month
10% of the Vapi hosting fee, $999/month minimum, plus the minutes you use
- 10 Vapi phone numbers
- 30 concurrent calls
- 180 days of raw data retention
- Email and dedicated Slack support
- 1 business day response, 99% uptime SLA
Premier
Custom
By quote from Vapi sales
- Custom number of phone numbers
- Named support team and onboarding
- 1 hour response for critical issues
- 99.9% uptime SLA
- SSO and dedicated SIP
Extra call lines cost $10 each a month and extra organizations $20 each, on any package. Model costs are passed through with no markup.
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 |
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.