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Our voice agent costs 2.5¢ a minute. Here's the whole bill.
Community description: We run an AI interviewer that talks to candidates over phone calls. It started on a managed voice...
Dev.to | Oct 2, 2026 | Neeraj Sharma
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It started on a managed voice platform at roughly 10¢ a minute. The same interviews now run on a custom LiveKit pipeline at about 2. 5¢ a minute, all in. For reference, Retell's pricing calculator defaults to 11¢ a minute and LiveKit Cloud's own calculator to about 4. 8¢. xAI streaming STT, Gemini 2. 5 Flash-Lite, xAI TTS $0. 10 in / $0. 40 out per 1M tokens TTS is the biggest line.
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