Voice agents cost $0.02/min in India, puzzling an EU dev charging 5x more
Relative-Ad2665 · reddit · 2026-10-26
A developer building custom voice AI and WhatsApp agents for EU businesses charges $0.10–0.15/min, on par with Vapi and Retell, and can't close a single Indian client: local vendors offer calling agents at ₹2–2.5/min ($0.02/min), below his cost stack.
He asks whether this is market-capture burning or a fundamentally cheaper TTS+voice+telephony stack, whether to resell their APIs, and what the sustainable per-minute price for India really is.
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