Pricing

The lowest prices
on the market.

We believe in pricing so competitive that you won't find a lower price elsewhere, not even by building your own stack.

Cost of one call minute
Other voice AI10¢
Platform feeTranscriptionLLMVoice
ThunderPhone Spark
One all-inclusive rate

Spark at 2¢/min, vs a typical 10¢/min itemized stack.

Three tiers

Pick the brains for the job.

Flat per-minute pricing. Move a workload up or down a tier whenever you want.

Spark
Cost effective
/min

Somewhat slower latency, but acceptable for most use cases. High audio understanding, average instruction following.

LatencyGood
Audio understandingStrong
Instruction followingGood
Start with Spark
Bolt
Much faster
/min

Like Spark, but much faster. Slightly lower audio understanding, with higher instruction following.

LatencyStrong
Audio understandingGood
Instruction followingStrong
Start with Bolt
StormMost capable
Best performance
/min

Strong latency with the best audio understanding and instruction following. Combines thinking and non-thinking LLMs.

LatencyStrong
Audio understandingExcellent
Instruction followingExcellent
Start with Storm
Typical other voice AI

Fast — but it mishears and drifts off-script, exactly where Bolt and Storm pull ahead.

LatencyStrong
Audio understandingFair
Instruction followingFair

All tiers show base per-minute rates. Premium voices, long prompts, and demo numbers are optional add-ons, billed separately.

What's included

Simple rates, no surprise platform fees.

Included at no platform fee

Every tier ships with the full stack.

Inbound & outbound calls Included
SIP trunking Included
Web voice widgets Included
40+ languages understood Included
Curated voice library Included
Testing & simulations Included
Monitoring & transcripts Included
Transfers & DTMF Included
Bring your own TTS Included

Optional upcharges

Pay only for what your use case needs.

TTS upcharge (selected languages)Selected less-common languages carry a TTS upcharge.
+2¢/min
31 premium-voice languages
BengaliBulgarianCroatianCzechDanishEstonianFinnishGreekGujaratiHungarianIndonesianKannadaLatvianLithuanianMalayalamMarathiNorwegianPunjabiRomanianSerbianSlovakSlovenianSwahiliSwedishTamilTeluguThaiTurkishUkrainianUrduVietnamese
Long promptsNo prompt upcharge for the first 5K prompt tokens. Then billed per additional 10K-token block, at a per-tier rate.
Spark+0.5¢/min
Bolt+1¢/min
Storm+2¢/min
Demo numbersUS demo numbers from ThunderPhone. Bring your own SIP trunk for free.
+1¢/min
Cost comparison

Cheaper than the competition.

Competitors charge platform fees on top of model costs and start at 7¢/min — and go much higher than that. ThunderPhone keeps the full stack affordable and charges no platform fee. Cost per live call minute, reviewed May 2026.

ThunderPhone Spark
2¢/min
ThunderPhone Bolt
4¢/min
ThunderPhone Storm
6¢/min
Vapibest achievable ~7¢/min+
~7¢+
Retell AIfrom 7¢/min
7¢+
Bland AIfrom 11¢/min
11¢+
Synthflowfrom 15¢/min
15¢+

Vapi shown as a best-achievable typical stack: its platform fee plus transcriber, model, voice, and telephony. Competitor totals vary by provider choices.

Our pricing philosophy

Voice AI should be a low-margin business.

We think voice AI should work like AWS or Costco: low margins at high volumes, making customers successful at fair, low prices. We don't add a platform fee on every minute.

Best performance at any price. Best price for any performance.

We'll match or beat the performance of any competing stack on your use case, and we'll beat the pricing as well. We price so low that you won't even save money if you build your own stack in-house. (Reach out if you think we're wrong!)

Even lower rates possible (enterprise)

For high-volume use cases including but not limited to outbound with long hold times, voicemail, and screeners, we can reach 1¢/min or less with an enterprise agreement. Reach out to learn more.

See enterprise pricing
From 2¢/min, all-inclusive

Launch an agent in ten minutes.

Pick a tier, write a prompt, connect your number.