AI Agents & Chatbots Voice & Phone AI
Self-serve platform for building, testing, and monitoring AI phone agents, priced per minute with published component costs.
Developers and operations teams that want to build their own AI phone agents from interchangeable speech, LLM, voice and telephony parts, with published per-minute pricing from $0.07, free starting credits, 55 languages, US hosting and SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR coverage.
You want a finished support agent or a help desk integration out of the box: Retell is a builder's platform, and its verified integrations are telephony, automation and scheduling tools rather than ticketing systems.
Retell AI is a platform for building AI phone agents that answer and place calls. You compose an agent from interchangeable parts: a speech-to-text layer, your choice of LLM, a voice from providers like ElevenLabs, and telephony via Twilio, Vonage, Telnyx, or your own SIP trunk. The platform handles the hard real time bits, interruption handling, latency, call transfer, and IVR navigation, and adds testing, monitoring, and post call analysis aimed squarely at contact center and front desk workloads.
The company came out of Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch, founded in 2023, with Evie Wang among the cofounders. It grew unusually fast for a seed stage company: a $4.6 million seed led by Alt Capital in September 2024 arrived alongside a reported $3 million in annual revenue within months of launch. Named customers include telehealth company Ro, plus BPOs and contact center operators.
Pricing is published and usage based, which is refreshingly rare. Retell quotes $0.07 to $0.31 per minute all in, depending on your voice and model choices, with components itemized: text-to-speech from $0.015 per minute, LLM costs from $0.003 to $0.16 per minute, US telephony around $0.015 per minute. Every account includes 20 concurrent calls, extra concurrency is $8 per line monthly, phone numbers cost $2 monthly, and new accounts get $10 in free credits. Enterprise plans with dedicated infrastructure are custom.
Choose Retell if you have some technical ability, want a working phone agent this week, and value published per minute economics you can model before committing. Its contact center tilt (batch calling, warm transfer, IVR traversal) makes it a natural fit for support lines. Look elsewhere if you want a fully managed enterprise deployment with a vendor doing the tuning, or a pure no-code experience for a non-technical team.
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$0.07-$0.31 / min for AI Voice Agents $0.002+ / msg for AI Chat Agentschecked September 2026
Build, deploy, and manage next-generation AI voice agents that sound human, execute tasks, and scale effortlessly.checked September 2026
Seamlessly switch calls with AI-powered warm and cold transfers that save time, maintain context, and keep customers engaged.checked September 2026
Choose your options LLM GPT 5.5 GPT 5.4 GPT 5.2 GPT 5.1 GPT 5 GPT 5 nano GPT 5 mini GPT 4.1 GPT 4.1 mini GPT 4.1 nano Claude 4.5 sonnetchecked September 2026
Book Appointments Check availability and bookchecked September 2026
Go live in minutes with $10 in free credits. Full platform access, no commitments.checked September 2026
$0.07-$0.31 / min for AI Voice Agents $0.002+ / msg for AI Chat Agents Sign up for freechecked September 2026
We raised a $4.6M seed round, backed by Alt Capital and an amazing group of angel investors.checked September 2026
Retell supports 55 languages at the platform level, but an individual agent’s range is set by the voice and speech recognition providers behind it.checked September 2026
Retell AI is based in the United States, and the personal information we collect is primarily stored and processed in the United States.checked September 2026
we are thrilled to share that Retell AI has secured a $4.6 million seed funding round.checked October 2026
we are thrilled to share that Retell AI has secured a $4.6 million seed funding round.checked October 2026
True pay as you go. Only pay for the minutes you use.checked October 2026
Voice Call Deliver natural, human-like phone conversations at scale. Chat Deploy AI-powered conversations across web and in-app chat experiences. SMS Engage customers through reliable, compliant text messaging workflows.checked October 2026
Fully compliant with HIPAA, SOC2 Type II, GDPR and ISO 27001.checked October 2026
You pay only for what you consume. No minimums, no contracts, no surprises.checked October 2026
$0.07-$0.31 / min for AI Voice Agentschecked October 2026
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