Silence Is Billable on Voice Models: Even Dead Air Costs Money
sophiamyang · x · 2026-10-15
Sophia Yang points out an often-overlooked quirk of voice model billing: silence is billable. Dead air in a voice conversation still incurs token/time costs—paying even when nobody speaks.
For developers building voice agents, every pause while a user thinks is real cost, so pricing structure and interaction design should account for the price of silence.
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