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RPlivo vs Vapi
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose Plivo if…
- you want to trial it before paying
- you work on macOS
- you're in its core audience: developers building voice agents, customer support teams
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Choose Vapi if…
- you want a free plan to start with
- you're in its core audience: developers, startups building voice products
Side by side
Feature Plivo Vapi
Pricing modelFree trialFreemium
Starting price—$29/mo
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
PlatformsWeb, API, macOSWeb, API
CompanyPlivo Inc.Vapi, Inc.
Full feature lists
P Plivo
- No-code AI agent studio built from plain-English prompts
- SDKs for Python, Node and Go, plus REST API
- SIP trunking and bidirectional audio streaming
- LiveKit and Pipecat integrations
- Turn detection, barge-in handling and AI noise cancellation
- Simulation testing and transfer to a human
- CLI to test streams and diagnose failed calls
- US, EU or APAC data residency
V Vapi
- Configurable voice, conversation flow and telephony
- Choice of transcriber, LLM and voice providers
- Model costs passed through without markup
- Call testing and simulation before going live
- Real-time call monitoring and observability
- Conversation guardrails to reduce hallucinations
- Built-in Vapi telephony, SIP, WebSockets and WebRTC
- SOC 2, HIPAA and PCI compliance
Their home pages
What each vendor shows first: the pitch, the plans and the sign-up.
Plivo · plivo.com
Vapi · vapi.aiWhat you'd pay
The cheapest plan that fits, per month, billed yearly where the plan offers it.
Work it out for your team
All plans and prices
Plivo
Pay as you goUsage-based ($10 free credits)
EnterpriseFrom $1,000/mo
Vapi
No Success Package$0 to start, $0.05/min hosting
Core$29
Pro10% of hosting fee, $999/mo minimum
PremierCustom
Strengths and limitations
Plivo
- $10 in free credits with no credit card required
- Per-minute pricing with no lock-in
- Choice of no-code builder or SDKs, API and CLI
- HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2 and PCI DSS compliance listed
- SMS, WhatsApp and Verify require the $1,000/month Enterprise plan
- Pay-as-you-go coverage limited to the US and India
- Agent fee of $0.03/min excludes telephony, which is billed separately
Vapi
- $5 free credits and no minimum minutes
- Model provider costs passed through without markup
- Unlimited agents on every plan
- SOC 2, HIPAA and PCI compliance
- Total per-minute cost stacks hosting, model, voice and transport fees
- HIPAA add-on costs $2,000/month
- Pro package has a $999/month minimum
- Free tier is limited to 4 concurrent calls
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