Parloa

Contact Center & CCaaS Enterprise Voice & Phone AI

AI Agent Management Platform focused on natural, human-sounding phone automation for contact centers.

Best for

High-volume enterprise contact centers whose hardest channel is the phone and want natural-sounding voice agents in 130+ languages, with tooling to simulate, test and release agent fleets, outcome-based pricing, hosting in North America, Europe or Asia-Pacific and SOC 2, GDPR and ISO 27001 coverage.

Look elsewhere if

You are a small team or want published pricing: Parloa is enterprise-only and quote-priced with a volume commitment, and its verified channels are voice and chat, not email.

Pricing
Paid from Custom
Founded
2018
Minimum commitment
Volume package commitment (custom)
Company
Independent, venture-backed $560M+ raised; latest: Series D, $350M (January 2026)
Channels
Chat, Voice
Languages
130+ languages
Data residency
North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific
Compliance
SOC 2 GDPR ISO 27001

Parloa is an enterprise platform built for the hardest support channel of them all: the phone. It focuses on natural-sounding, low-latency voice agents that can actually hold a conversation, and it wraps them in what it calls an AI Agent Management Platform, tooling to build, simulate, test, and safely release fleets of agents at contact-center scale. Though voice is its heart, Parloa has grown multimodal, extending the same agents to chat, WhatsApp, and Microsoft Teams, always aimed at high-volume enterprise contact centers rather than small teams.

The founders come by their voice obsession honestly. Parloa was started in 2018 in Berlin by Malte Kosub and Stefan Ostwald, who had previously built voice experiences and were among the first developers in Germany to create applications for Amazon's Alexa. That head start on talking machines shows up in a product designed to make phone automation feel human instead of robotic.

Investors have noticed in a big way. Parloa became one of Germany's newest unicorns in 2025 and then roughly tripled its valuation to around three billion dollars in early 2026, all while surpassing fifty million dollars in annual recurring revenue, a remarkable clip for a company automating something as unglamorous as inbound calls. Its commercial model is outcome-based, so customers pay for successfully resolved conversations rather than per minute or per seat, and a handoff to a human does not trigger the full charge.

Enterprises like Allianz, Booking.com, HealthEquity, SAP, and Decathlon trust it with serious call volumes across insurance, travel, and well beyond. Pricing is sales-led and geared toward large organizations handling hundreds of thousands of calls a year. If your support pain is concentrated squarely on the phone and you want AI that sounds genuinely natural even at massive scale, Parloa is a specialist built precisely for that particular fight.

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Parloa best for?
High-volume enterprise contact centers whose hardest channel is the phone and want natural-sounding voice agents in 130+ languages, with tooling to simulate, test and release agent fleets, outcome-based pricing, hosting in North America, Europe or Asia-Pacific and SOC 2, GDPR and ISO 27001 coverage. Look elsewhere if you are a small team or want published pricing: Parloa is enterprise-only and quote-priced with a volume commitment, and its verified channels are voice and chat, not email.
How much does Parloa cost?
Parloa is a paid product. The vendor does not publish prices, so expect a custom quote from sales. Compare pricing across all listed tools →
What does Parloa integrate with?
Parloa integrates with Genesys, Amazon Connect, Twilio, Salesforce, Zendesk, and ServiceNow.
What compliance standards does Parloa meet?
Based on the vendor's own security and trust pages, Parloa claims SOC 2, GDPR, and ISO 27001 compliance. See how that compares across vendors →
Which support channels does Parloa cover?
Parloa handles customer conversations over chat and voice.
What languages does Parloa support?
Parloa supports 130+ languages.
Can Parloa take actions, or does it only answer questions?
Parloa can take actions in connected systems, not just answer questions, including custom API actions.
When was Parloa founded?
Parloa was founded in 2018.
What are the best Parloa alternatives?
Popular alternatives include Ajoxi, Amazon Connect, and Balto. See all Parloa alternatives →
Sources for the facts on this page

Updated October 2026

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