Business Virtual Number India: ₹2,000/30 Days

On Dvaarik it is two figures, not one: ₹2,000 per 30 days for the number and its first concurrent call line, plus ₹2 per minute of talk-time. Both debit from the same prepaid credit balance. There is no subscription underneath them, no minimum monthly volume and no lock-in.

The first figure is fixed and the second one moves, which is why a single "per month" number cannot honestly exist for anybody. Here is the pair multiplied out at volumes a small Indian business would recognise. Every cell is our published rate arithmetic — ₹2,000 fixed, plus ₹2 for each billed minute — not a survey, a benchmark or a claim about what businesses like yours typically spend.

That last column is the part most pricing pages leave out, including ours until now, and including pages that advertise a lower headline rate than ours. A fixed charge divided by a small number of minutes produces a large effective rate. At 200 minutes a month our ₹2/min is really ₹12/min once the line is paid for. The same distortion applies to every vendor in this market who charges anything fixed, which is nearly all of them, and it applies much harder to the ones whose fixed charge is ₹9,999 or ₹15,000 rather than ₹2,000.

The practical reading: below roughly 500 billed minutes a month, the per-minute rate barely decides anything. The fixed charges decide it. Above about 1,000 minutes the per-minute rate starts to dominate and is worth arguing about.

Two mechanics to build into your own estimate rather than be surprised by. Billing is whole-minute and telecom-standard, so a 65-second call bills as two minutes, or ₹4. And all our prices are quoted exclusive of GST — 18% applies at the point of loading credits, so a ₹10,000 load is billed ₹11,800, which is ₹10,000 usable plus ₹1,800 GST.

Because most of the English-language writing about business phone numbers is American, and it is priced the American way: per user, per month, in US dollars. Search a query with "india" in it and you will still get a page of that, because genuine India-specific material on this exact question is thin.

That model assumes something untrue of the business asking. It assumes seats. You pay a per-user fee, and the number is a feature bolted to the seats. A shop, a clinic, a two-person agency does not have seats. It has one number that rings and a person who is already occupied.

Two consequences follow, and they are why a dollar figure does not convert into your budget even after you do the currency maths.

A per-user price has no floor you can plan against. It scales with headcount, not with calls. Add a person and the bill moves even though the phone volume did not.

The dollar figure is rarely the landed cost of an Indian number. International platforms price the platform in dollars and bill the actual Indian telephony separately, frequently through a third-party carrier at a rate quoted elsewhere on the site. Retell AI, for instance, publishes phone numbers at $2.00 per month and a Verified Phone Number at $10.00 per number per month plus a one-time $10 fee — entirely in USD, with no INR pricing published anywhere on their site (read 21 Jul 2026). Their platform rate of $0.07–$0.31 per minute is separately labelled as excluding telephony. Vapi is USD-only too, and the table its $0.05/min sits in carries the heading "Excludes Model Provider Costs" (read 21 Jul 2026).

None of that makes those products bad. Both are genuinely strong developer platforms with no minimums and no contracts. It makes them un-budgetable from India without doing the currency, telephony and model-cost arithmetic yourself first — which is exactly the arithmetic this page does in rupees.

One more thing that is not a price and that nobody sells you: in India, promotional outbound calling belongs in the designated 140 number series and can be blocked under a subscriber's DND preference. That governs what a business number is allowed to do rather than what it costs, and it is the reason our agents call only your own leads and enquiries — people who rang you, filled your form or clicked your ad — and never a bought or scraped list, at any volume, for any price.

Stated plainly, so you can hold it against anyone else's quote:

• An Indian business phone number, supplied by us, that your customers dial.
• One concurrent call line on it — meaning one live conversation at a time, which is the same physical constraint any single line has anywhere.
• The agent that answers it, 24 hours a day, in your business's name, across 22 scheduled Indian languages plus English with no per-language surcharge, switching mid-call when the caller switches.
• Auto-debit from your credit balance on a 30-day cycle. No card on file, no invoice arriving after the fact. If the balance cannot cover the next recharge, the number pauses and a top-up resumes it.

What the ₹2,000 does not include, so there is nothing to discover later:

• Talk-time, which is ₹2/min on Bharat Standard, billed by the whole minute.
• Extra simultaneous lines, ₹1,500 per line on the same 30-day cycle, if two customers need to be answered at once.
• Extra numbers, ₹750 per month each, if you want a separate number for ads or a second branch.
• Call recording, +₹0.10/min where you want it.
• WhatsApp message fees, which Meta bills directly to your own WhatsApp account. We add zero markup and never touch that money.

And the charge does not exist at all if you bring your own number. More on that below.

Where a fuller voice menu is warranted, the choices on one account are Bharat Standard ₹2/min, Studio HD ₹3/min, Global covering 99 languages ₹4–5/min, and Ultra realtime ₹10/min. These are voice-quality choices, not subscription tiers, and the advertised base is always ₹2/min.

This is the row almost nobody publishes cleanly, because in most products the number is bundled into a plan and has no standalone price. Every cell below was read on the named vendor's own page on 21 Jul 2026, with their own qualifiers kept. Rates in this market moved within weeks during collection, so re-check any row you intend to act on.

Three things this table is deliberately not doing.

It is not converting the USD figures into rupees. Retell and Vapi publish no India pricing, and any conversion would be my arithmetic dressed up as their price.

It is not calling anyone expensive. Aixclerate's ₹9,999 buys 500 bundled minutes and a business number and a managed setup; VaniAgent's ₹21,999 buys unlimited calling on one line, which above roughly 11,000 minutes a month genuinely beats a ₹2/min meter. Those are different products, not worse ones.

And it is not claiming we are the cheapest. Our claim is narrower and checkable: ₹2/min from the very first minute, with no subscription, no minimum volume and no lock-in. The fuller vendor-by-vendor cost comparison lives at /blog/ai-calling-agent-price-india-2026.

Take a business that takes our number and runs about 500 billed minutes a month — roughly 250 calls at two billed minutes each. Every figure is our published price.

How money enters that balance: the minimum first credit load is ₹10,000, billed ₹11,800 with 18% GST applied at the point of loading. Month one debits ₹2,000 for the number and ₹5,000 for the Care Plan, which leaves roughly ₹3,000 for actual usage — about 1,500 voice minutes, or 25 hours of talk-time, at ₹2/min. Later top-ups start from ₹500 and credits never expire.

The free build is a trade, and it belongs in the open rather than in fine print. We build the agent free for our 10 founding clients in return for two things: the Care Plan for the first three months at the founding rate of ₹5,000/month, and an honest testimonial plus a short case study after go-live. The Care Plan covers monitoring, tuning the agent's behaviour once you have heard how it actually handles your callers, campaign and pricing setup help, a monthly report, and priority WhatsApp support direct to me. From month four it is optional. If the agent does not work, that trade is bad for us — which is the point of structuring it that way.

The founding rate is locked for six months. The list price of the Care Plan is ₹12,000/month, so this is a real discount with a real expiry, and I would rather you knew that before you started than after.

Usually not, and this is the distinction worth being pedantic about before you spend anything.

A traditional virtual number is a routing product. It receives the call and then does something with it: forwards it to a mobile, distributes it around a team, plays an IVR menu, records it, logs it, fires a missed-call alert to your WhatsApp. Every one of those is genuinely useful, and none of them is answering. At the end of all that routing, a human still has to pick up. The reason most people search for a business number in the first place is that the human is busy, on the other line, or asleep.

So the honest test to apply to any quote you receive is one question: at the end of this, who says hello?

On a Dvaarik number, the agent does, and here is specifically what it does after that:

• Answers immediately, at any hour, in your business's name, and handles each concurrent line independently rather than queueing callers behind one another.
• Speaks the language the caller speaks. All 22 scheduled Indian languages plus English are included at ₹2/min with no surcharge, including code-mixed Hinglish, Tenglish and Tanglish, switching mid-call when the caller does. This matters more than anything else on this list, because a customer ringing at 9pm is not going to repeat themselves in English for you.
• Answers the actual question — your hours, your prices, whether the thing is in stock, whether a slot is free — because the flow is written around your real pricing and the questions your customers actually ask, not a template with your name dropped in.
• Books. Slot-locking so two callers cannot take the same slot, plus a WhatsApp confirmation and a reminder afterwards.
• Takes money, via a payment link sent mid-conversation for a deposit. We take no commission on it.
• Escalates. Some calls need you — an angry customer, an unusual request, a decision that bends a rule. The agent's job on those is to take the details and get them to you fast, not to improvise.

Before believing any of that, argue with it. The live demo is at app.dvaarik.com/dvaarik-ai. Interrupt it, switch language halfway through, give it a name it has never heard, and speak the way your customers really speak with your shop's background noise behind you. Five minutes of that is worth more than this entire page.

The fuller version of this distinction — what a phone system does versus what an agent does — is at /blog/cloud-telephony-vs-ai-voice-agent-india.

Yes, and for most established businesses you should. That number is on your board, your bills, your Google Business Profile and every card you have handed out for years. Changing it quietly discards years of accumulated calls.

When you use your own number, the ₹2,000 per 30 days does not apply at all. That charge exists only when we supply the number. You still pay ₹2/min for talk-time, because that is the agent doing the work, but the line charge disappears from your bill.

The honest caveat in exchange: concurrency on your own line then becomes a question for your carrier and your connection type, not something we can price for you. An ordinary mobile SIM carries one conversation at a time.

There are two workable paths, and they suit different businesses.

Keep your number and add ours alongside it. Put the new number on your ads, your website and your WhatsApp Business profile so paid and web enquiries land on a line that always answers, while the board number keeps doing what it has always done. This has a second benefit that is easy to miss: enquiries arriving on the campaign number are, by definition, the ones the campaign produced, so attribution stops being guesswork.

Point everything at our number. Simplest, and it removes the problem entirely, but it means updating your listing, your signage and your printed material, which is real work and a real risk if done carelessly.

Whichever vendor you talk to, ask whether they can work with your existing number or will insist on issuing a new one. The answer tells you a lot about the product. More on the mechanics at /features/phone.

Five situations where I would tell you not to buy this from us. I would rather lose the enquiry than have you work it out in month two.

1. You are under roughly 200 billed minutes a month. Look again at the table at the top of this page: at that volume the ₹2,000 line charge makes your effective rate about ₹12/min, and the same fixed-cost problem hits every vendor in this market, most of them harder. At two billed minutes a call that is around a hundred calls a month — a problem better solved by a clearer voicemail greeting and a person who returns calls at 6pm. Come back when the phone is genuinely beating you.

2. What you actually need is a phone system, not an agent. If you have a team of people who should each get calls, and you want ring groups, call distribution, IVR trees, seat-level reporting and a supervisor view, that is cloud telephony and you should buy cloud telephony. MyOperator publishes plans from ₹2,500/month for 3 users up through ₹15,000/month for 10, billed annually with GST applicable (read 21 Jul 2026). We do not build that, and pretending otherwise would waste your money.

3. You genuinely only want a number, and calls are already answered fine. If your staff pick up reliably within your working hours and calls never overlap, buy a number and forward it. On our rate card an additional number by itself is ₹750/month. Do not buy an agent to solve a problem you do not have.

4. You are running thousands of minutes on one line and want a flat, predictable bill. At real volume an unlimited plan can win the arithmetic. VaniAgent publishes 1 Concurrency at ₹21,999/month for unlimited calling, excluding 18% GST, with a 3-month minimum commitment on the unlimited plans (read 21 Jul 2026). Above roughly 11,000 minutes of talk-time a month on one line, that fixed figure beats a ₹2/min meter. Do that division yourself before speaking to anyone, including us.

5. You want to buy something self-serve tonight for a few hundred rupees. We do not do that. Our entry is a WhatsApp conversation, a build made for your business, and a ₹10,000 first credit load. Several vendors in the table above publish self-serve plans you can buy without speaking to a human. If your goal is a cheap experiment this week rather than a working agent this month, that is genuinely the better fit.

Everything, with nothing held back for a sales call:

The fuller voice menu, where a breakdown is warranted: Bharat Standard ₹2/min, Studio HD ₹3/min, Global covering 99 languages ₹4–5/min, Ultra realtime ₹10/min. These are voice-quality choices on one account, not subscription tiers, and the advertised base is always ₹2/min.

The sentence worth quoting anywhere: ₹2/min from the very first minute — no subscription, no minimum volume, no lock-in. The only commitment that exists is the three-month Care Plan the free founding build is traded against, and it is on this page rather than in a contract you read later.

Every number above also appears on /pricing. If what you are really pricing is the calls you are currently missing, /tools/missed-call-calculator runs the arithmetic on your own figures. And if you want this priced against your own call volume, tell us your problem on WhatsApp at +91 93923 98750 — the numbers on this page are the numbers you will be quoted.