What is Vapi? Facts, license and pricing (Oct 2026)
Vapi is developer platform for voice agents; $5 free credits, then pay for the minutes you run. License: Proprietary. Facts were read from official pages on Oct 25, 2026 and are Reported, not Tested.
Evidence: Reported. Everything here was read from Vapi's own pages on 2026-10-25 (America/Chicago). We have not run Vapi for this page, so it says nothing about quality or speed.
What Vapi is
Vapi's pricing page offers $5 in free credits, pay-per-minute use (pre-paid with $0.05 a minute Vapi hosting), and lists plan amounts of $29 and $999 a month plus enterprise.
We list Vapi under AI voice and speech.
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Vapi key facts
| Feature | Vapi |
|---|---|
| Vendor | Vapi |
| License | Proprietary |
| Platforms | API and dashboard |
| Pricing model | Pay as you go |
| Free tier | $5 free credits |
| Evidence | Reported from vendor pages |
Who Vapi is for
- Good for: Developers who want to assemble their own voice stack.
- Skip if: You want a flat per-seat price.
How to start with Vapi
- Sign up for $5 in free credits and create an assistant.
Vapi alternatives
- Retell AI: Voice AI agents for phone calls with pay-per-minute pricing and 20 free concurrent calls.
- Cartesia: Realtime voice AI: text-to-speech, speech-to-text in 44 languages and voice agents, with a free plan and credit tiers.
- Deepgram: Voice AI APIs for speech-to-text, text-to-speech and agents with $200 in free credit.
What we did not verify
- Release date (none published on the pages we read; the date shown is the day we first covered this entry).
- What the $29 and $999 amounts buy.
- Output quality, speed and reliability of Vapi: we have not run it for this page.
FAQ
What is Vapi?
Vapi's pricing page offers $5 in free credits, pay-per-minute use (pre-paid with $0.05 a minute Vapi hosting), and lists plan amounts of $29 and $999 a month plus enterprise.
What license is Vapi under?
Proprietary. Read from the project's own pages on Oct 25, 2026.
Is Vapi free?
$5 free credits. Checked Oct 25, 2026; prices change, so confirm on the vendor's page.
Sources
- Vapi (fetched 2026-10-25)
- Vapi pricing (fetched 2026-10-25)
Related
Page history
- : First published from official pages read on 2026-10-25.
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