{"head":{"title":"Voice Agent Cost Calculator per Minute | OceanLab","description":"Price a voice AI agent per minute: speech-to-text, the LLM and text-to-speech, from prices on official pages. Telephony is yours to enter. Editable.","canonical":"https://oceanlab.in/tools/voice-agent-cost"},"tool":{"slug":"voice-agent-cost","path":"/tools/voice-agent-cost","name":"Voice agent cost","h1":"Voice agent cost calculator","lede":"Price an AI phone or voice agent per minute and per month: speech-to-text, the model and the voice.","category":"ai","categoryTitle":"AI cost and planning","method":["Per minute = speech-to-text on the caller audio + LLM calls for each agent turn + text-to-speech for the agent's share of the call + telephony.","Per-character voice prices are turned into minutes with an editable characters-per-minute assumption (the default follows ElevenLabs' pricing page: about 1,000 characters per minute).","Telephony rates were not verified for any carrier, so they start at 0. Enter your provider's per-minute price."],"sources":[{"label":"OpenAI speech pricing","url":"https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing","checkedAt":"2026-10-25"},{"label":"Deepgram speech pricing","url":"https://deepgram.com/pricing","checkedAt":"2026-10-25"},{"label":"ElevenLabs speech pricing","url":"https://elevenlabs.io/pricing/api","checkedAt":"2026-10-25"},{"label":"Google speech pricing","url":"https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing","checkedAt":"2026-10-25"},{"label":"Anthropic API pricing","url":"https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing","checkedAt":"2026-10-23"},{"label":"OpenAI API pricing","url":"https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing","checkedAt":"2026-10-23"},{"label":"Google API pricing","url":"https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing","checkedAt":"2026-10-23"},{"label":"DeepSeek API pricing","url":"https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing","checkedAt":"2026-10-23"},{"label":"MiniMax API pricing","url":"https://platform.minimax.io/docs/pricing/overview","checkedAt":"2026-10-23"}],"faq":[{"question":"What is included per minute?","answer":"Speech-to-text on the caller audio, the LLM calls for each agent turn, and text-to-speech for the agent's share of the call. Telephony is a separate input."},{"question":"Why is telephony at zero?","answer":"No carrier's rates were verified, so it starts at 0. Enter your provider's per-minute price."},{"question":"How are per-character voice prices turned into minutes?","answer":"With an editable characters-per-minute assumption. The default follows ElevenLabs' pricing page, which equates about 1,000 characters with 1 minute."},{"question":"Where do the prices come from?","answer":"Each price is read from the provider's official pricing page and shows the date it was checked. Prices that could not be verified are left out, or start at 0 for you to fill in."}],"updatedAt":"2026-10-25"},"related":[{"href":"/tools/ai-chatbot-cost","label":"AI chatbot cost","detail":"Work out what an AI chatbot costs to run each month on each model, and roughly what it costs to build."},{"href":"/tools/llm-api-cost-calculator","label":"LLM API cost","detail":"Enter your monthly tokens and the input, cached and output mix, and compare what each model would cost."},{"href":"/tools/ai-agent-cost","label":"AI agent cost","detail":"Estimate what an AI agent costs per task and per month, including the context it re-sends on every step."}],"studies":[{"meta":{"slug":"pitline","industry":"ai","projectType":"Voice agent","country":"gb","tags":["ai","enterprise"],"compliances":["UK GDPR","Data Protection Act 2018","Investigatory Powers Act 2016","PECR","Ofcom General Conditions","PCI DSS"],"cover":{"src":"/case-studies/pitline/01-home.png","width":1440,"height":1000}},"text":{"en":{"title":"Pitline - AI Voice Agent and Call Review Console for a Garage Chain","description":"Designed and built a clickable staff console for an AI phone agent that books, moves and cancels car servicing and MOTs, reads out job status and answers common questions for a chain of 14 Midlands garages - with every call reviewable turn by turn, every tool call on the record and a warm transfer to a person whenever the agent should not decide.","category":"AI Agents / Voice Agent","client":"Wrekinvale Garages"}}},{"meta":{"slug":"cayuco","industry":"support","projectType":"Voice AI call centre","country":"pa","tags":["ai","insurtech","healthcare","enterprise"],"compliances":["Panama Law 81 of 2019","Executive Decree 285 of 2021","PCI DSS v4.0.1","Panama Labour Code"],"cover":{"src":"/case-studies/cayuco/01-home.png","width":1440,"height":1000}},"text":{"en":{"title":"Cayuco - Voice AI Contact Centre for Health Insurance Member Services","description":"Designed and built a clickable cloud contact centre for a Panama City health insurer's member services line: an AI voice agent that says it is automated, verifies callers and handles claim status and card replacement, an agent desktop with live transcript, suggested answers, secure card payments and AI call summaries, and review tools for every AI-handled call.","category":"Customer Support / Voice AI Call Centre","client":"Seguros Corotú"}}},{"meta":{"slug":"pahana","industry":"support","projectType":"AI support agent","country":"lk","tags":["ai","enterprise"],"compliances":["PDPA (Sri Lanka)","Sri Lanka Telecommunications Act"],"cover":{"src":"/case-studies/pahana/01-home.png","width":1440,"height":1000}},"text":{"en":{"title":"Pahana - Trilingual AI Support Agent with Safe Human Handoff","description":"Designed and built the staff console for a trilingual AI support agent at a Colombo telecom operator: a dashboard of containment and satisfaction, every conversation with its tool calls and guardrail events, a live monitor where team leads take over a chat, and a handoff queue that makes sure no customer passed to a person is lost.","category":"Customer Support / AI Support Agent","client":"Randiya Telecom"}}}],"more":[{"href":"/case-studies/industry/ai","label":"AI agents & automation case studies","detail":"Every OceanLab product build in AI agents & automation."},{"href":"/case-studies/industry/support","label":"Customer support case studies","detail":"Every OceanLab product build in Customer support."},{"href":"/case-studies","label":"All case studies","detail":"Every OceanLab product build."},{"href":"/ai-automation","label":"AI automation","detail":"AI built into real business workflows, with people in charge."}],"today":"2026-10-25"}