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9 Ringly alternatives, 4 with a free plan (2026)
The closest alternatives to Ringly in October 2026 are ElevenLabs Agents, Retell AI and Bland.
9 agents compared · 4 with a free plan · prices checked 2 September–29 October 2026
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Ringly and its alternatives at a glance
| Agent | Best for | Starts at | Better than Ringly at | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ringly | From $99 a month source | 9 September 2026 | ||
| ElevenLabs Agents | Developers and product teams who want ElevenLabs' voice quality and cloning as the foundation of their agent, and are comfortable assembling the rest of the stack themselves. | Free, then $6 a month source | Multi-agent, Agent permissions | 18 October 2026 |
| Retell AI | Product and engineering teams that want a low-latency, human-sounding phone agent with flexible model and telephony choice. | From $0.07 per minute source | Multi-agent, Claude | 23 September 2026 |
| Bland | Security-conscious enterprises in regulated industries that want a compliant, infrastructure-owned voice platform with deterministic call flows. | Free, then $0.14 per minute source | Multi-agent, Self-hosted | 18 October 2026 |
| LiveKit Agents | Engineering teams that want to own their voice-agent stack end to end, self-hosted or on LiveKit Cloud, without being locked into one vendor's API. | Free, then $50 a month source | Multi-agent, Claude | 2 September 2026 |
| Vapi | Engineering teams that want maximum control to build custom voice agents on their own choice of model, voice and telephony. | From $0.05 per minute source | Multi-agent, Claude | 3 September 2026 |
| OpenAI Realtime API | Engineering teams building a voice agent from scratch who want to go directly to OpenAI's own speech-to-speech model (no orchestration platform, no per-minute markup) and are comfortable being single-vendor on OpenAI. | From $10 per 1m input tokens source | Multi-agent, Open source | 25 October 2026 |
| Cartesia | Engineering teams that want an open-source voice-agent SDK with real LLM choice, built on speech models several rival platforms in this category already license as a component. | Free, then $5 a month source | Claude, Open models | 2 September 2026 |
| Deepgram Voice Agent API | Engineering teams that want a managed speech pipeline with real LLM-provider choice, and regulated enterprises that need a self-hosted or VPC deployment option a typical closed-source voice-agent vendor does not offer. | From $0.05 per minute source | Multi-agent, Claude | 2 September 2026 |
Closest alternatives to Ringly
The ones people open most here come first, then the closest matches. How we check
- From Free
Hosted platform for building voice and chat agents, with telephony, SDKs and a choice of LLM.
Why it's on this listMulti-agent: YesAn orchestrator agent routes a live conversation to specialist agents on natural-language conditions, and transfers can be nested; the transcript carries across.
Trade-offs- Admin controls: Partly ↗
Watch forCovers the voice + LLM-orchestration layer, not a turnkey ops product, CRM/helpdesk workflows, observability and compliance UI are yours to build.
- From $0.07 per minute
Pay-as-you-go platform for building, testing and running AI phone, chat and SMS agents.
Why it's on this listMulti-agent: YesOne call can be handed between several specialised AI agents mid-conversation, with the destination agent inheriting the full transcript, so work is split across agents rather than one monolith.
Trade-offs- Admin controls: Partly ↗
Watch forTrue per-minute cost is the sum of stacked components, so budgeting requires modelling model, voice, and telephony together.
- From Free
Enterprise voice AI platform for inbound and outbound phone agents, running on Bland's own self-hosted models.
Why it's on this listMulti-agent: PartlyWarm transfer runs a second proxy-agent leg alongside the primary agent, but that is call handoff, not general orchestration.
Watch forVoice cloning across the full 40+ language set and the lowest per-minute rates are effectively Enterprise-tier features.
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- From Free
LiveKit Agents
Open-source Python and Node.js framework for voice AI agents, with LiveKit Cloud hosting, telephony and observability.
Watch for: A framework, not a no-code or dashboard-first builder. Expect to write and deploy real code, unlike this category's more configured rivals.
- From $0.05 per minute
Vapi
Developer platform for building, testing and deploying voice AI agents that make and receive phone calls.
Watch for: True per-minute cost is the sum of several passed-through services, so the headline platform fee understates spend.
- From $10 per 1m input tokens
OpenAI Realtime API
Speech-to-speech voice agent API with tools, interruptions and WebRTC, WebSocket or SIP transports.
Watch for: 60-minute maximum session duration.
- From Free
Cartesia
Real-time speech models and a managed runtime for production phone and web voice agents.
Watch for: Line's voice-agent runtime cannot be self-hosted — only the underlying Sonic/Ink models can, on an Enterprise contract.
- From $0.05 per minute
Deepgram Voice Agent API
One WebSocket API that runs speech-to-text, LLM orchestration and text-to-speech for real-time voice agents.
Watch for: No dedicated free tier. A one-time $200 credit only, then usage billing from the first paid session.
- From $0.05 per minute
Telnyx Voice AI AgentsVerified owner
Carrier-owned platform for phone and web voice agents, with telephony, STT, TTS, LLM and orchestration in one stack.
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What are the best alternatives to Ringly?
ElevenLabs Agents, Retell AI and Bland are the closest. They share the most of Ringly's features.
What is the cheapest alternative to Ringly?
4 of the 9 have a free plan: ElevenLabs Agents, Bland, LiveKit Agents and Cartesia.
When were these prices checked?
Between 2 September 2026 and 29 October 2026, each read on the maker's own pricing page.
Sources and method
Closest first: most of Ringly's features, then the fewest gaps. How we check
Every price here was read on the maker's own pricing page.
- Ringly: ringly.io/pricing, checked 1 November 2026
- ElevenLabs Agents: elevenlabs.io/pricing/agents, checked 2 September 2026
- Retell AI: retellai.com/pricing, checked 28 October 2026
- Bland: bland.ai/pricing, checked 18 October 2026
- LiveKit Agents: livekit.com/pricing, checked 24 October 2026
- Vapi: vapi.ai/pricing, checked 28 October 2026
- OpenAI Realtime API: developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing, checked 25 October 2026
- Cartesia: cartesia.ai/pricing, checked 24 October 2026
- Deepgram Voice Agent API: deepgram.com/pricing, checked 28 October 2026
- Telnyx Voice AI Agents: telnyx.com/pricing/voice-ai-agents, checked 29 October 2026
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