Comparison
Voxera vs Vapi
A voice agent platform with a large provider marketplace and full telephony, billed as a per-minute platform fee on top of the model and voice costs you incur.
Every Vapi figure below is quoted from vapi.ai/pricing as it read on . Pricing moves — check the source before deciding anything on it.
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Where Vapi is the better choice
If any of these matter to you, stop reading and use them. A comparison that pretends otherwise is not worth your time.
- Real phone calls. Vapi does inbound and outbound telephony; Voxera has no SIP or PSTN support at all, so if you need a phone number this comparison ends here.
- A much larger marketplace of speech and model providers to pick from.
- HIPAA and zero-data-retention are purchasable add-ons. Voxera offers neither.
- Bringing your own provider keys removes the model cost entirely, which at high volume can beat any bundled price.
Pricing
What each one costs
Vapi
- Platform fee
- $0.05 / min
- Model and voice
- at cost, or $0 with your own API key
- Concurrency
- 10 included, then $10 / line / mo
- HIPAA add-on
- $2,000 / mo
- Zero data retention
- $1,000 / mo
- Call history
- 14 days on the Build tier
Voxera
- Free
- 60 min/mo, $0
- Hobby
- $19/mo, 500 min — about $0.038/min
- Growth
- $99/mo, 2,500 min — about $0.040/min
- Scale
- $299/mo, 10,000 min — about $0.030/min
Design
Where they actually differ
Not feature checkboxes — the choices that change how each one behaves.
What a minute costs
Vapi
$0.05 platform fee plus whatever the model and voice cost that minute, which varies by provider and by how much was said.
Voxera
One number. On Free and Hobby the providers are included, so the plan price is the whole bill.
Predictability
Vapi
Two variable components. Cheap to start, harder to forecast before you have traffic.
Voxera
A fixed monthly allowance. Sessions are refused when it is spent rather than billing over.
Bringing your own providers
Vapi
Supported on any tier, and the main way to control cost.
Voxera
Growth and Scale only. On Free and Hobby you use the bundled defaults.
Choose Vapi if
You need phone numbers, a specific provider Voxera does not bundle, HIPAA, or you are at volume where your own provider keys beat a bundled minute.
Choose Voxera if
You are putting voice inside an app you already ship, and want one bill you can forecast before you have traffic rather than two variable ones.
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