What does an AI calling platform actually cost?
Every number is published on this site, so here is the whole shape of the bill rather than a range you have to call somebody for.
You pay a monthly plan price that carries your calling capacity, $0.005 per call attempt on the calls your account places, and AI usage by the minute: $0.13 per minute month to month, or $0.09 per minute on a signed 3-year commitment, stepping down with total monthly spend to a published floor of $0.07 per minute. Outbound plans start at $349 a month. Inbound answering starts at $250 a month, and a Receptionist invoice is that plan price plus any extra connections you buy, because it answers calls rather than placing them.
The carrier line is the one most comparisons leave out. Production calls leave your own Twilio account at the rate you already negotiated, and Twilio bills you for those minutes directly, so your Twilio rate is the rate you pay. The per-minute figure above prices the AI session, which is why it reads the same whoever holds the carrier account.
Every figure is on the pricing page, implementation is $0, and the sandbox in front of all of it is free. Price your own campaign shape against these same rates before you talk to anybody.
Where this is documented in full
Telephony
Whose carrier account the call rides on, what the invoice charges for, and what stays yours.
Read the pagePricing
Published rates and terms, what the free sandbox includes, and what a production order covers.
Read the pageCompliance engine
The four controls with no off state, the one gate every dial passes, and where a revocation lands.
Read the pageCheck it yourself, before anybody signs anything
The sandbox is free and needs no card. Build the agent, run the whole dial path with every compliance gate live, and read the file it writes.