Retell AI
Developer-focused voice AI platform for building phone-based conversational agents, priced per minute of usage.
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How the product is positioned
Developer-focused voice AI platform for building phone-based conversational agents, priced per minute of usage.
Our summary of the vendor’s positioning — verbatim claim not yet recordedWhat we found
Level 1 · assistive
Seeded at the rubric default. No independent evidence of end-to-end task completion has been reviewed yet, so the lowest grade applies until it is.
Any human checkpoint here is a product setting, not a regulatory requirement — confirm how it is configured for your deployment.
Graded 2026-08-01 · re-check 2026-11-01
Procurement detail
- Deployment
- saasvendor documentation
- Compliance
- SOC 2report dates not disclosed — request before signing
- Integrations
- Twilio claim unverifiedcustom telephony via SIP claim unverifiedCRM webhooks claim unverified
- Pricing
- usagePublished $0.07/min platform fee; realistic all-in cost (LLM, STT/TTS, telephony) $0.08-$0.15/min, roughly $3,200-$6,000/month at moderate volume.
- Human checkpoint
- Requiredproduct setting
- Named customers
- Not independently verifiedfrom cited sources
Will they still be here?
- Funding
- Privately held; venture-backed, specific round not independently verified in this pass
- Founded
- 2023
- HQ
- San Francisco, USA
Sources
Logo retrieved 2026-08-01from the vendor’s own site · trademark of Retell AI
- medium.comIndependent · retrieved 2026-08-01
- ainora.ltIndependent · retrieved 2026-08-01
Where it’s weak
Published per-minute rate excludes LLM tokens, premium voices and telephony pass-through, which can roughly double the real bill; requires engineering effort to assemble a production voice stack.
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