Kannada AI Receptionist Bangalore: ₹2/min

Every rupee that can leave your account, in one table. These are our own published figures, taken from the live pricing source of the site, checked 26 Jul 2026.

What there is not

• No monthly platform or SaaS subscription.
• No per-seat, per-user or per-branch fee.
• No minimum monthly minutes and no annual contract on usage.
• No surcharge for Kannada, and no surcharge for a caller switching between Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and English on the same call.
• No charge to add another agent type later — booking, WhatsApp, payments and the rest share the same credit balance. See what we build.

What month one actually costs

The founding offer has a real floor and we would rather you see it now than in an invoice. If you take the free build as a founding client, your first ₹10,000 credit load is consumed roughly like this:

That ₹3,000 buys about 1,500 billed minutes at ₹2/min. Whether that is generous or tight depends entirely on your own call log, and you should check your log rather than take a number from us. Be clear-eyed about the outlay either way: your first month's real payment is a ₹10,000 credit load billed at ₹11,800 with GST, not ₹960 of call time. The Care Plan and the number recharge come out of the same balance as your calls, which is why the balance moves faster in months one to three than it will from month four.

From month four the Care Plan becomes optional. A business running 480 billed minutes then pays ₹960 of talk time plus ₹2,000 for the number — ₹2,960 a month. Full terms on the pricing page.

This is the question that actually separates the vendors, and almost nobody frames it this way. Several Indian voice-AI companies publish an attractive entry rate that covers Hindi and English, and put the regional languages on a higher plan. If your callers speak Kannada, the entry rate is not your rate.

Every figure below was read on the vendor's own page and recorded in our price ledger on 21 Jul 2026. Nothing here comes from a search snippet, an AI summary or a rival's comparison page. Competitor pricing moves fast — Trikon's live pages read ₹5/min while search results were still carrying an older, higher ₹6/min title — so re-verify before you decide.

One caveat on that table that we would rather state than bury: only four of the sixteen vendors in our ledger — Trikon, Botsense, Agni and Scalify — name Kannada anywhere on their own pages. Where a row says "not named", that means we could not read the claim, not that the vendor cannot do it. Ask them directly and get it in writing.

Three things to read carefully in that table

Agni's ₹2/min is not Agni's price for Kannada. Their marketing advertises "all-in from ₹2/min", but their own rate card puts ₹2/min on the quote-only Enterprise tier, qualified on their homepage as an "Enterprise volume rate at 10,000+ minutes". The buyable published rates are ₹8/min overage on Starter, ₹6/min on Growth and ₹4/min on Scale. That is the neutral fact; we are not characterising it further. Their Starter tier is Hindi and English only in any case, so a Kannada-speaking business starts at Growth.

Scalify's regional-language premium is not Scalify's policy. Their blog does say Kannada and other regional languages "typically add ₹0.10–₹0.20/min premium depending on the platform and voice quality required" — but they write that as an observation about the industry, not as their own rate card. Attributing it to them as their charge would be inaccurate, and we are flagging it here precisely because it is the kind of number that gets misquoted.

HuskyVoice's entry plan works out expensive per included minute, on their own two figures. ₹1,999 buys 100 voice credits, and their page states 2 credits equals 1 minute of AI call. That is 50 included minutes, or about ₹40 per included minute. That division is our arithmetic from their two published numbers, not a rate HuskyVoice publishes anywhere — they publish no effective rate for that tier, and overage beyond the included credits is described only as "Pay only for additional minutes used" with no figure.

On dollar-denominated pricing

One pattern worth knowing about before you sign anything: some India-facing vendors quote part of the bill in dollars. Edesy publishes a rupee headline of "from ₹4/min ($0.04)" and a Pay As You Go tier at "₹6 / minute + telephony $0.07/min" — the telephony component is priced in dollars on an otherwise rupee page, which means that line of your bill moves with the exchange rate. Edesy's own comparison tool separately claims ₹1.50/min and no setup fee, while their pricing page publishes a ₹20,000 onboarding package. Both pages were live on 21 Jul 2026. Edesy does not name Kannada on any page in our ledger — they publish "8+ Indian languages" without listing which — so they appear here purely as the dollar-denominated example, not as a Kannada option. Read every page a vendor has before you accept a rate from any one of them.

Our position, stated as terms rather than as a superlative: ₹2/min from the very first minute, no subscription, no minimum volume, no lock-in, and Kannada at the same rate as English. More on how these rates compare across the market in AI calling agent price in India 2026.

Plenty of Bangalore phone calls do not stay in one language. A caller opens in Kannada, says the nouns in English, drops into Hindi if the person on the other end sounds like they will not follow, and finishes in whatever is fastest. We have no sourced figure for how often that happens on any given line — you will know your own callers better than we do — but it is the case the agent has to be built for.

The agent handles that. It follows the caller's language mid-sentence rather than asking anyone to choose a language at the start of the call, and Kannada, the mixing, and every other scheduled Indian language sit on the same ₹2/min rate.

Illustrative exchanges below. The businesses and callers are invented, and the romanisation of Kannada is our own — there is no standard spelling for written Kanglish, which is part of why a keypad menu handles it so poorly.

> Caller: Saar, naale morning slot ideya? > Agent: Naale beligge 10:30 mattu 11:15 khaali ide. Yaava time nimage OK aagutte? > Caller: 11:15 fix maadi. And what is the price for the full service? > Agent: 11:15 hold maadidini. Full service ₹1,200. Nimma hesaru mattu confirmation kalisoke number kodi.

> Caller: Sikkapatte traffic ide, twenty minutes late aagutte, cancel maadbedi. > Agent: Parvagilla, nimma slot hold maadidini. Twenty minutes late barbahudu.

Why a mixed-language line is the real requirement

A Bangalore business line can take Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam and English callers in the same afternoon. We are not going to attach a percentage to that mix, because we do not have a sourced figure for it and are not going to borrow an unsourced one.

What we will say is what it means mechanically. A Kannada-only agent is the wrong build for most Bangalore businesses, and so is a Hindi-and-English-only agent. What you need is one number where the agent picks up whatever the caller opens in and stays there.

The practical contrast is with a keypad IVR, where the caller has to translate their own language into a keypress before the conversation has started. More in multilingual, multilingual AI receptionist for Hindi and Telugu, and when customers call in Telugu.

What we will not promise about the Kannada

We are not going to tell you our Kannada is indistinguishable from a Bangalore front-desk person, because that is exactly the sort of claim that should be tested rather than asserted. Before you commit any money, make us run a test call in Kannada on your own script, with your own words for your own services, and listen to it. Insist on that from us and from every vendor you shortlist. A recording of the agent handling your actual callers' phrasing is worth more than any page of copy, including this one.

All three businesses are invented, sized to be realistic rather than flattering. Minutes are billed minutes, meaning each call is already rounded up to the next whole minute, and all talk time is priced at the ₹2/min Bharat Standard rate that covers Kannada.

Business A — a single salon in Jayanagar

180 inbound calls a month averaging 2 billed minutes, plus 60 reminder and rebooking calls at 2 billed minutes. Total 480 billed minutes. Uses a Dvaarik number.

Read that blended figure honestly. At this volume the ₹2/min headline is not the whole story, because the fixed ₹2,000 number charge dominates. Be sceptical of us at low volume, exactly as you should be of everyone else. If you already have a working Bangalore number you want us to answer on, the ₹2,000 disappears and it becomes ₹960 a month.

Same 480 minutes on Trikon's published flat ₹5/min is ₹2,400, and their own India page states "A 500-minute month works out to ~₹2,500" (trikon.tech, 21 Jul 2026). But their ₹5/min explicitly excludes telephony — "Telephony/DID numbers are billed separately by your carrier" — so your landed cost is ₹2,400 plus whatever your carrier charges for the number and the minutes. Ours is ₹2,960 with the number included. Depending on your carrier bill, Trikon may well be cheaper than us at this volume. We are not going to pretend otherwise on a page about honest pricing.

Business B — a rental and property enquiry desk in Whitefield

Runs portal and social ads, so speed of callback decides whether a lead converts. 600 inbound calls at 2.5 billed minutes and 400 callback attempts at 2 billed minutes = 2,300 billed minutes. One extra concurrent line so two enquiries never collide.

Without the second concurrent line the month-4 blend is ₹2.87 per billed minute. Our model gets cheaper per minute the more you use it, because the fixed number charge is spread further, and the direction of travel is the opposite of a plan with included minutes.

The same 2,300 minutes on the published alternatives, using each vendor's own numbers and our arithmetic where a division is needed:

All competitor figures verified on the vendors' own pages, 21 Jul 2026. The Agni total is our arithmetic applied to their published plan price, included minutes and overage rate — it is not a figure Agni publishes.

Business C — a chain with eight Bangalore outlets and a shared call desk

High simultaneous volume across locations, an existing CRM the staff live inside, and a requirement for uptime guarantees and a support rota.

We would decline this, or take a single outlet as a pilot. The reasons are in the next section but one, and they are not marketing modesty.

Run your own numbers with the missed call calculator.

Described mechanically, with no performance claims attached, because we have no Kannada case study yet and will not borrow anyone else's numbers.

Answering and booking

The agent answers every call, including after hours and on Sundays, identifies your business by name, offers real open slots from your calendar, holds the slot while it confirms details, and sends a WhatsApp confirmation. It does this in the language the caller opened in. Details on booking.

Calling your ad leads back fast

If you run ads, the agent calls the lead back within about 60 seconds of the enquiry landing, in Kannada or whatever language the lead's form or message suggests, and writes the outcome into your lead sheet. See outbound calls.

The conduct rules on that are fixed and not configurable:

• We call only your own leads and enquiries. No purchased lists, no scraped numbers, no cold databases. Ever.
• The agent identifies your business by name at the start of every outbound call.
• Calling hours are set by you and respected.
• Anyone who says stop is marked and not called again by that campaign.

On the regulatory side, read is AI calling legal in India, and take your own advice before running outbound at scale. We are not lawyers and this page is not legal advice.

Reminders, rescheduling and no-shows

Reminders go out on WhatsApp from your own number, with a voice reminder call as an option for customers who do not use WhatsApp. A cancellation handled on the call releases the slot back into availability immediately rather than being discovered as a gap the next morning. WhatsApp message fees are billed by Meta directly to your own Meta account with zero markup from us.

Payments

Where a no-show costs you a booked slot, the agent can send a payment link mid-conversation and confirm on receipt. We take no commission on what you collect. See payments.

Where it stops

The agent does not improvise on price beyond what you authorise it to quote, does not negotiate, and does not give professional advice of any kind. Anything outside its brief is routed to a human with a note and an alert to you. You sign off on the exact refusal wording before go-live.

What we will not tell you is what any of this does to your booking rate, your no-show rate or your revenue. We do not have those figures for Bangalore businesses and will not publish someone else's unsourced ones. Measure it yourself over a quarter.

Four situations where another vendor genuinely serves a Bangalore business better than we do. This section exists because the rest of the page is only credible if this one is honest.

1. You are at low call volume and already have a carrier you like

Our ₹2,000 per 30 days number charge is a fixed cost, and at 300 to 500 billed minutes a month it dominates your bill. Trikon publishes a flat ₹5/min with no subscription and no setup fee, and expects you to bring your own carrier — at 480 minutes that is ₹2,400 of platform cost against our ₹2,960 all-in, and if your existing carrier line is cheap the gap widens in their favour. Their page names Kannada among the languages included at no extra cost (trikon.tech, 21 Jul 2026). If you are low-volume and telephony-savvy, price them properly against us rather than taking our word for it.

2. You want a vendor in Bangalore you can meet

We are not a Bangalore company. Dvaarik is registered in Paloncha, Bhadradri Kothagudem, Telangana, and everything is done remotely. If a face-to-face relationship in the city matters — and for some businesses it genuinely does — buy locally. ArtIntele, for example, is based in Rajarajeshwari Nagar, Bengaluru and names Kannada among the languages it commonly deploys (read on their own pages 26 Jul 2026 for our comparison pages); they publish no per-minute rate or setup fee, so ask them directly for a written number rather than assuming one.

3. You need proof it has worked for a business like yours

We have no Kannada case study, no Bangalore client testimonial and no outcome percentage, because founding seats are still open and we have a hard rule against publishing proof we do not have. Competitor pages will show you testimonials and "trusted by 500+" style counters. If your decision requires evidence that it worked at a comparable business, we cannot give you that today. The only honest counter we have is that you can make us run a live test call in Kannada on your own script and judge the thing directly. That is a real disadvantage and you should hear it from us.

4. You want one round monthly number and no arithmetic

A fixed monthly plan is easier to approve than pay-as-you-go credits with a ₹10,000 first load, a number recharge and a Care Plan in the first three months. Our model can work out cheaper in total at the volumes worked through above — and Business A shows a case where it does not — but it loses badly on cognitive simplicity. If your manager wants one predictable line item and no variability, a flat plan is a legitimate choice even at a higher effective rate. Predictability has value and we are not going to argue that it does not.

If none of those four apply, the case for us is short: a published rupee rate, Kannada at the same rate as English, no subscription, and no minimum volume.

Take this list to us and to everyone else. The answers separate the vendors faster than the demos do.

1. Is Kannada included in your entry rate, or does it need a higher plan. Ask them to point at the line on their own page. Several publish an entry tier that is Hindi and English only.
2. What is your per-minute rate, in rupees, on a page I can read without booking a demo. If part of the bill is quoted in dollars, ask which part and who carries the exchange-rate risk.
3. Is billing per second or per whole minute. Ours is whole minutes, and we say so — a 40-second call bills one minute, which is a real cost if your calls are short.
4. What do I pay in month one before a single call is answered. Setup, plan fee, number, minimum credit load, onboarding, GST.
5. Is there a minimum monthly volume or a minimum commitment period. One vendor in our ledger publishes a minimum engagement of 10,000 minutes a month with a three-month initial commitment. That is a very different product from pay-as-you-go.
6. Does the telephony come with the per-minute rate, or do I bring my own carrier. This single question changes the comparison more than the headline rate does.
7. Can I hear a recorded test call in Kannada, on my script, with my services, before I pay anything.
8. What happens when the caller switches from Kannada to English mid-sentence. Ask for a recording, not a description.
9. Where do WhatsApp message fees land — on your invoice with a markup, or on my own Meta account.
10. Is there lock-in, a notice period, or do credits expire.
11. Every statistic on your website — which business, what period, measured how. If it cannot be sourced, discount the page. That test applies to this page too.
12. Will you call numbers I did not give you. The only acceptable answer is no.

Related reading: AI receptionist cost in India 2026 and the FAQ. If you want us to answer any of these in writing for your specific business, ask at contact.