Retell AI

Voice agent platforms, AI receptionists, AI customer service agents, AI outbound calling

Retell AI is a platform for building and running AI phone agents that handle inbound and outbound calls, with chat and SMS agents alongside. Teams design agents in a no-code builder or through its API and SDKs, choose the LLM and voice provider, and pay per minute of use. Retell also packages common use cases such as AI receptionist, appointment setting and outbound batch campaigns.

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Charges by
Usage-based
Starts at
Free tier (Pay as you go)
Includes
$10 in free credits; 20 concurrent calls at no charge
Per minute
$0.07
How it works
AI only
Free trial
$10 in free credits on sign-up
Checked
October 15, 2026

Retell AI pricing

PlanPriceIncludes
Pay as you go$0/moVoice agents $0.07-$0.31/min depending on models and add-ons; chat agents from $0.002 per message; $10 free credits; 20 free concurrent calls; community/email support
EnterpriseQuoteCustom pricing; higher concurrency; RBAC; custom SSO; custom MSA/DPA and BAA; dedicated support and account manager
  • Contract: No commitment on Pay as you go; Enterprise is custom
  • Retell lists voice agents at $0.07-$0.31 per minute, built from separate components. Its default calculator setup totals $0.11/min: Retell voice infrastructure $0.055/min, LLM $0.04/min, TTS $0.015/min, telephony $0.00. LLM is billed per minute by model (from $0.0016/min to $0.64/min on the listed models). TTS is $0.015/min for Retell, MiniMax, Fish, Cartesia, OpenAI and Inworld voices, and $0.04-$0.10/min for ElevenLabs voices. Telephony through Retell (Twilio or Telnyx) is $0.015/min; SIP trunking or custom telephony has no Retell telephony charge. Per-call add-ons: knowledge base +$0.005/min, batch call +$0.005/dial, branded call +$0.10 per outbound call, advanced denoising +$0.005/min, safety guardrails +$0.005/min, PII removal +$0.01/min, AI quality assurance $0.10/min after 100 free minutes, SMS $0.01/message. Monthly items: Retell phone numbers $2/month, Retell SMS $20/month, concurrency beyond 20 at $8 per concurrent call per month, knowledge bases beyond 10 at $8 each per month, verified phone number $10/number. Calls are billed to the second; after a transfer the AI fee stops but telephony continues; silence and hold time are billed; failed calls are not billed.

What it does

Answers inbound calls
Yes
Places outbound calls
Yes
Books appointments
Yes
Warm transfer to a person
Yes
Text follow-up
Yes
Call recording
Yes
Transcripts
Yes
CRM sync
Yes
Keep your number (porting)
Unconfirmed
Spanish
Yes
Other languages
Yes
Web chat
Yes
API
Yes
Custom voice
Yes

Retell's language-support docs list about 55 languages per provider table, including Spanish (es-ES and es-419). Multilingual agents are supported when a single voice provider and a single speech-recognition provider cover all selected languages; Deepgram, Soniox and AssemblyAI support code-switching.

Integrations

As listed by Retell AI. Integrations not listed may still be possible through an API or Zapier.

Security and compliance

Signs a HIPAA BAA
Yes
SOC 2
SOC 2 Type II
Discloses it's an AI
Unconfirmed
Consent capture tools
Unconfirmed
Do-not-call scrubbing
Unconfirmed
Calling-hour controls
Yes

Retell's compliance docs say 'A signed BAA is required before transmitting PHI through Retell' and that the BAA is available for self-signing at click-agreements.retellai.com with no additional fee. The pricing page also lists HIPAA/BAA and custom BAA terms under Enterprise.

“Unconfirmed” means Retell AI's public pages don't say either way. Rules for AI phone calls

Company

Headquarters
Redwood City, CA
Built for
Small business, Enterprise
Industries
Medical, Financial services, Insurance, Logistics, Retail, Hospitality, Home services
Built on
Customer-selected models: LLMs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google; voices from Retell's own library, ElevenLabs, Cartesia, MiniMax, Fish Audio, OpenAI and Inworld; speech recognition from Deepgram, Azure, Soniox and AssemblyAI (per Retell's pricing page and docs). Custom LLMs can also be connected.

Sources

  1. Retell AI pricing pricing, compliance. Accessed October 15, 2026
  2. Retell AI homepage features, compliance, integrations. Accessed October 15, 2026
  3. Retell AI integrations integrations. Accessed October 15, 2026
  4. Retell docs: compliance compliance. Accessed October 15, 2026
  5. About Retell AI company. Accessed October 15, 2026
  6. Retell AI terms of service company, compliance. Accessed October 15, 2026
  7. Retell docs: platform voices features. Accessed October 15, 2026
  8. Retell docs: transfer call tool features. Accessed October 15, 2026
  9. Retell docs: supported languages features. Accessed October 15, 2026
  10. Retell API: get call features. Accessed October 15, 2026
  11. Retell docs: chat and voice widget features. Accessed October 15, 2026
  12. Retell docs: batch calls features, compliance. Accessed October 15, 2026
  13. Retell docs: do-not-call handling compliance. Accessed October 15, 2026
  14. Retell docs: affiliate program affiliate. Accessed October 15, 2026
  15. Retell Solution Partner Program affiliate. Accessed October 15, 2026
  16. Retell app partners affiliate. Accessed October 15, 2026

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