From today, a Lokutor voice agent costs about 2¢ a minute, with speech recognition, the language model and the voice all included. On the Business plan it is 1.4¢. There is no separate fee for the model, no separate fee for the voice, and a free plan with 60 minutes a month to try it.
What 2¢ buys, next to what the category charges
Most voice-agent platforms publish a per-minute price that covers only part of the call. Here is each company's own pay-as-you-go rate, read from their pricing pages on 23 September 2026:
| Platform | Published price per minute | What that covers |
|---|---|---|
| Lokutor | 1.4 to 2¢ | Everything: recognition, language model, voice |
| Cartesia | 6¢ | Call duration |
| Deepgram Voice Agent | 7.5¢ | Standard tier, pay as you go |
| ElevenLabs Agents | 8¢ | Per minute beyond a plan's allocation |
| Retell AI | 5.5¢ + LLM + voice | Voice engine; model and TTS billed on top |
| Vapi | 5¢ + providers | Platform fee; recognition, model and TTS billed on top |
The whole Lokutor minute costs less than most platforms' fee before you have chosen a model.
The plans
| Plan | Price | Minutes included | Per minute | Concurrent calls | Beyond the allowance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 60 | n/a | 1 | n/a |
| Starter | $19/mo | 1,000 | 1.9¢ | 3 | 2¢ |
| Growth | $99/mo | 6,000 | 1.65¢ | 8 | 1.8¢ |
| Business | $349/mo | 25,000 | 1.4¢ | 20 | 1.5¢ |
Every plan also includes text-to-speech and speech-to-text API allowances. 12 million characters of synthesis on Growth works out at about $8 per million, where the premium voice APIs charge $30 to $100. Growth and Business add voice cloning and phone numbers.
Why it can be this cheap
Because the models are small. Our voice model, Versa, is a few tens of millions of parameters, not billions. Our turn-taking and noise-suppression models are smaller still. Most of the category serves models tens of times larger on scarce GPUs, and prices the minute to match. Ours are built to run on commodity hardware, which is also why the same stack can run on your own servers or on a device. This is not an introductory price that doubles next quarter; it is what the architecture costs to run, plus a business.
How you are billed, all of it
- The minute is measured per second of connected session, and includes recognition, the language model and the voice. Unused minutes don't roll over.
- Phone calls count as two minutes per minute on the line, to cover the carrier: 3.3¢ on Growth, 2.8¢ on Business. Numbers are $5 a month.
- Web search is off unless you turn it on for an agent; each search counts as four minutes.
- At your limit, calls stop until next month, with no surprise bill. Or turn on overage and keep going at your plan's rate, up to one extra month's minutes, billed with your next invoice.
- Changing plan: upgrade any time and a new billing month starts that day, less credit for what's left of the old one. A smaller plan applies straight away.
That list is the entire bill. It is on the pricing page too, with an estimator that shows the maths for your volume.
Built in Spain, native in the languages others skip
Lokutor speaks nine languages: Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Basque, Portuguese, English, French, Italian and German. Catalan, Galician and Basque are first-class, not an afterthought: if you serve customers across Iberia, you don't have to choose a platform that only does Spanish. And if your audio can't leave your infrastructure, the whole pipeline runs on-premise in the EU.
Start free with 60 minutes, no card, or talk to us about volume.
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