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Best platform to build AI voice agents
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Vapi
Vapi gives developers the building blocks for phone and web voice agents: you plug in your choice of speech-to-text, LLM and voice, add tools and get a phone number. It's flexible enough for custom agents while handling the hard parts like latency and interruptions.
- Starting price
- Not verified — check current price
- Free tier
- Yes
- Skill level
- advanced
Last verified: 2026-10-15
Setup guide
- Sign up and create an assistant.
- Pick your transcriber, model and voice.
- Write the system prompt and add tools/functions.
- Attach a phone number or web widget.
- Test calls and review transcripts before going live.
Backup pick
Retell AI
Voice AI agent platform for calls. Good for: Call-center agents.
- Starting price
- Not verified — check current price
- Free tier
- Yes — page says: “$0, pay only for what you use…”
- Skill level
- intermediate
Last verified: 2026-10-15
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