Honest comparison
Agni Ravan.ai vs Dvaarik: ₹2,999/mo vs ₹2/min
Both of us publish ₹2/min. The difference is what you have to buy first, and how many minutes you have to promise before that rate applies to you.
Setup free for our 10 founding clients — then ₹40,000.
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rows where Dvaarik wins
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features compared
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ties or Agni by Ravan.ai wins
Search intent
If you searched Agni, Ravan.ai or "₹2 per minute AI receptionist", read this first
Agni by Ravan.ai advertises "all-in from just ₹2/min", which is the same headline number Dvaarik publishes. So the useful comparison is not the number — it is the conditions attached to it. On Agni's own rate card, read on 26 Jul 2026, "upto ₹2/min" appears on the Enterprise tier, which is priced "Custom", and their homepage describes it as the "Enterprise volume rate at 10,000+ minutes". The tiers you can actually buy publish overage at ₹8/min (Starter), ₹6/min (Growth) and ₹4/min (Scale), each on top of a monthly plan. Dvaarik charges ₹2/min from the very first minute, with no plan to buy and no volume to reach. We are not claiming to be the lowest-priced option in India, and we do not make that claim anywhere. We are saying our rate has no volume condition on it. The second difference is what you are buying: Agni is a self-serve platform you configure, and Dvaarik is a custom agent the founder builds for you.
- Do I have to buy a monthly plan before I can make a single call
- Does the advertised per-minute rate apply to me at my actual volume, or only at 10,000+ minutes
- Is telephony inside the quoted rate or billed separately on top of it — Agni's own pages answer this two different ways, so ask them
- Do I want a dashboard to configure myself, or an agent that arrives already working
- Do I need voice only, or voice plus WhatsApp on my own number, Instagram DMs, booking and payment collection as one system
The 60-second verdict
Agni by Ravan.ai's cheapest buyable plan is ₹2,999 a month for 300 included minutes and ₹8/min after that, while Dvaarik charges ₹2/min from the first minute with no plan to buy. Both companies advertise ₹2/min, and that is exactly why this page exists. Agni's receptionist post says an AI receptionist is available "all-in from just ₹2/min", but on their own pricing page, read 26 Jul 2026, "upto ₹2/min" sits on the Enterprise tier priced "Custom", and their homepage qualifies it as the "Enterprise volume rate at 10,000+ minutes". Their published, purchasable tiers are Starter ₹2,999/mo (300 mins, ₹8/min overage, "Hindi + English"), Growth ₹5,999/mo (1,000 mins, ₹6/min overage, "All 30+ Indian languages"), Scale ₹12,999/mo (2,500 mins, ₹4/min overage, "All + 100+ accents & dialects") and Enterprise as a sales quote. Their pricing page also lists telephony as a separate third-party pass-through marked "Not included" — roughly ₹1.08/min outbound India, ₹0.71/min inbound India and ₹96/month for an Indian number — although their receptionist post says Agni "bundles voice (STT+TTS), the LLM, the emotion engine and telephony into one all-in rate", so the two pages disagree and you should ask them which applies to you. Their add-ons meter on top of a plan, each with a published free allowance: extra knowledge bases beyond 2 on Starter, 5 on Growth and 15 on Scale at ₹799/KB/month, knowledge-base live retrieval at ₹1/min with no free tier, and Agent Memory at ₹2/min on Scale and Enterprise. All their prices are stated exclusive of 18% GST, and so are ours. Dvaarik is a different shape of purchase. There is no plan, tier or trial: the founder builds a custom agent for your business — Receptionist, Leads, Sales, WhatsApp, Instagram, Booking or Payments — and you pay ₹2/min of talk time on simple per-minute billing and ₹2 per chat conversation, from prepaid credits that never expire. Setup is ₹40,000 one-time and is currently free for our ten founding clients, in return for 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. Our honest monthly floor in those first three months is therefore ₹5,000 Care Plan plus ₹2,000 per 30 days for the phone number if we supply it, before any talking — quote us on that basis, not on ₹2/min alone. Minimum first credit load is ₹10,000, top-ups from ₹500, and 18% GST applies at the point of loading credits, so a ₹10,000 load is billed ₹11,800.
Choose Agni if you want to be live this afternoon without talking to anyone, and your need is a phone line answered. Their homepage offers "Start building free" with "5 free calls today" and "No credit card required", their pricing is fully published, and their receptionist post says "Most businesses are live in an afternoon." That is a genuinely low-friction start, and it is lower-friction than ours: our route begins with a WhatsApp conversation and a ₹10,000 first credit load. If your volume is small and steady and you are happy to configure the agent yourself, their ₹2,999/month Starter plan is a reasonable, honestly published product. Now the money, stated plainly against our real floor rather than our headline rate. In your first three months our fixed floor is ₹7,000 a month — ₹5,000 Care Plan plus ₹2,000 for the number — before a single minute. Against their published plans, they come out lower than us up to somewhere between roughly 1,500 and 1,750 minutes a month: about 1,500 if you add their published telephony pass-through, about 1,750 on their plan and overage rates alone. Below that line, in months one to three, they are cheaper and you should know it. From month four, when the Care Plan becomes optional and our floor drops to ₹2,000, we come out lower at effectively every volume their published rate card covers, and the gap widens as minutes rise, because ₹2/min applies to us at every minute while their published overage is ₹8, ₹6 or ₹4. The one place that flips is their quote-only Enterprise tier: if you genuinely run 10,000+ minutes a month and they will hold "upto ₹2/min" for you, ask them for that quote, because at that volume a negotiated enterprise rate is a real option and we would rather you got a fair price than a Dvaarik one. We are not claiming to be the cheapest AI voice option in India, and we will not, because we cannot verify it and neither can anyone else. What we claim is narrower and checkable: ₹2/min from the very first minute, no subscription and no minimum volume on the rate. Finally, the two products answer different questions. Agni sells you voice software, and it is more than a dumb phone tree — their pages publish appointment booking during the call and show the agent sending a UPI payment link over WhatsApp. Dvaarik hands you a working system across channels: calls answered, ad leads called back in about 60 seconds, WhatsApp follow-up on your own number with Meta billing you directly at zero markup, Instagram DM and comment-to-DM automation, bookings locked with reminders and deposits collected — built and tuned by the person you talk to. If what you need is a phone answered well, they may be enough. If what you need is the whole enquiry-to-payment path run across voice, WhatsApp and Instagram as one system, that is the thing we build.
Feature by feature
Dvaarik AI vs Agni by Ravan.ai
| Feature | Dvaarik AI | Agni by Ravan.ai |
|---|---|---|
| What one minute costs from the start | ₹2/min from the very first minute, with no plan to buy. Minimum first credit load ₹10,000, later top-ups from ₹500, credits never expire. | ₹2,999/month Starter with 300 minutes included, then ₹8/min overage. If you use exactly the bundle and no more, that is about ₹10 a minute — our arithmetic from their published figures (₹2,999 ÷ 300), not a rate Agni quotes (their pricing page, 26 Jul 2026). |
| Is a subscription required to start | No. There is no plan, tier or trial. You load credits and usage draws them down. | Yes. Every published route to using Agni is a monthly platform plan with included minutes; the per-minute rates appear only as overage on top of a plan. No pay-as-you-go or credit top-up option is published (their pricing page, 26 Jul 2026). |
| What the ₹2/min headline actually is | Our published base rate, charged from minute one with no volume condition attached. Where a full breakdown is warranted: Bharat Standard ₹2/min, Studio HD ₹3/min, Global (99 languages) ₹4–5/min, Ultra realtime ₹10/min, call recording +₹0.10/min. | Their receptionist post reads "all-in from just ₹2/min". On their own rate card, "upto ₹2/min" sits on the Enterprise tier, which is priced "Custom", and their homepage describes it as the "Enterprise volume rate at 10,000+ minutes". The buyable published overage rates are ₹8, ₹6 and ₹4/min (their pricing page and homepage, 26 Jul 2026). |
| Minimum volume before the advertised rate applies | None on the rate itself — ₹2 applies at minute one, so a month with twenty minutes on it costs forty rupees of talk time. The ₹2,000 per 30 days number recharge is separate and applies whether or not you call. | ₹2/min is described on their homepage as the Enterprise volume rate at 10,000+ minutes, and Enterprise is quote-only, so that rate is not independently verifiable from their public pages. |
| Setup fee and who builds the agent | ₹40,000 custom build, currently free for our ten founding clients in return for the Care Plan for the first three months at ₹5,000/month and an honest testimonial plus a short case study after go-live. The founder builds and tunes the agent personally. | No setup or onboarding fee is published on their pricing page, so we make no claim either way. It is self-serve: their homepage offers "Start building free", "5 free calls today" and "No credit card required", and their receptionist post says "Most businesses are live in an afternoon." You do the building. |
| Commitment before you see value | No contract, but the Care Plan is required for the first three months at ₹5,000/month and optional from month four. Minimum first credit load ₹10,000. Unused credits never expire. | Their pricing page states "No credit card to start" and "Cancel anytime", and publishes no minimum contract term. Lower commitment than ours at the start, though you pay the monthly fee whether or not you use the minutes. |
| Real monthly floor before any talking | ₹7,000 in months one to three — ₹5,000 Care Plan plus ₹2,000 per 30 days for the number if we supply it. ₹2,000 from month four if you drop the Care Plan. | ₹2,999/month on Starter, plus roughly ₹96/month for an Indian number listed as a telephony pass-through (their pricing page, 26 Jul 2026). |
| Telephony — inside the rate or on top | Inside the ₹2/min. The ₹2,000 per 30 days number recharge covers the number and one concurrent line; extra line ₹1,500/month, extra number ₹750/month. | Their own two pages disagree, so ask them. Their pricing page lists telephony as a third-party pass-through marked "Not included", at roughly ₹1.08/min outbound India, ₹0.71/min inbound India and ₹96/month for an Indian number, and its footnote says "all plans include voice, LLM, and emotion engine" without naming telephony. Their receptionist post says Agni "bundles voice (STT+TTS), the LLM, the emotion engine and telephony into one all-in rate". We cannot resolve that from outside, so we claim no win here — get it in writing before you compare totals. |
| Languages, and whether a tier gates them | 22+ Indian languages including code-mixed Hinglish on every build, at the ₹2/min Bharat Standard rate. Nothing is gated behind a plan, because there are no plans. The 99-language Global voices are a separate ₹4–5/min option. | Claims "30+ Indian languages" — a higher headline count than ours — but gated by tier: Starter is "Hindi + English", "All 30+ Indian languages" begins at Growth (₹5,999/month), and "All + 100+ accents & dialects" at Scale (their pricing page, 26 Jul 2026). |
| Add-ons that meter on top of the plan | Call recording +₹0.10/min is the only per-minute extra we publish. We publish no separate knowledge-base or memory charge — knowledge is folded into the build we hand over. | Published add-ons meter on top of the plan, each with a stated free allowance: extra knowledge bases beyond 2 on Starter, 5 on Growth and 15 on Scale at ₹799 per KB per month; knowledge-base live retrieval ₹1/min with "No free tier — charged per use"; Agent Memory ₹2/min, published as available on Scale and Enterprise. Their page says the last two "stack on base per-min rate" (their pricing page, 26 Jul 2026). |
| GST treatment | All prices quoted exclusive of GST. 18% applies when you load credits — a ₹10,000 load is billed ₹11,800, being ₹10,000 usable plus ₹1,800 GST. | Their pricing page states "All prices exclude 18% GST" and "GST invoice provided (ITC-claimable)" with "INR billing". Same treatment as ours, so both sides compare like for like on tax, and they say the ITC point out loud. |
| Channels beyond the phone call | Seven agents from one brain on one credit balance: Receptionist, Leads (ad leads called back in about 60 seconds, lead sheet auto-filled), Sales campaigns, WhatsApp on your own number with coexistence and Meta billing your own account at zero markup from us, Instagram DM and comment-to-DM, Booking with slot-locking and reminders, and Payments links sent mid-conversation with no commission on what you collect. | Voice is the product, and it reaches past the call: their pages publish "Appointment booking" with the agent booking, rescheduling or cancelling during the call, and their homepage demo has the agent saying "I'm sending the UPI payment link on WhatsApp". What we did not find on the three pages we read on 26 Jul 2026 is any Instagram automation product (Instagram appears only as their own social link), WhatsApp as a channel you run campaigns on from your own number, or any pricing for a non-voice channel — their rate card meters minutes. |
Pick Dvaarik when
Dvaarik is the better choice
- Your volume is low or spiky and you do not want to pay a monthly fee for minutes you may not use. There is no plan on our side, so a quiet month adds almost nothing to whichever fixed floor applies to you — ₹7,000 in months one to three, ₹2,000 from month four.
- You want the advertised rate to apply to you today. Our ₹2/min is charged from the very first minute, with no plan and no minimum volume — and it is our permanent price, not a founding discount.
- You want voice, WhatsApp and Instagram running as one system rather than a phone line plus separate tools: follow-up on your own WhatsApp number with Meta billing you directly, Instagram DM and comment-to-DM rules, and bookings and deposits handled in the same conversation.
- You run Meta or Google ads and want every new lead called back within about a minute. Speed-to-lead is the workflow we build most often.
- You want the Indian languages ungated. All 22 scheduled Indian languages and code-mixed Hinglish come with every build at ₹2/min, rather than starting at a higher tier.
- You would rather have an agent built, tested and tuned for you than a dashboard to learn. The founder does the work and you talk to him directly, not to a ticket queue.
Pick Agni by Ravan.ai when
Agni by Ravan.ai is the better choice
- You want to start today without speaking to anyone. Their homepage offers "Start building free" with "5 free calls today" and "No credit card required", and their pricing page says "No credit card to start" and "Cancel anytime". There is no self-serve signup at Dvaarik — our route starts with a WhatsApp conversation and a ₹10,000 first credit load, which is a real barrier if you just want to try something.
- Your first three months are low volume. Up to somewhere between roughly 1,500 and 1,750 minutes a month, their plan plus overage comes out below our ₹7,000 fixed floor of Care Plan plus number recharge in months one to three — about 1,500 minutes if you add their published telephony pass-through, about 1,750 on their plan rates alone. That is arithmetic from both published rate cards, and it does not favour us.
- You genuinely run 10,000+ minutes a month. That is the volume their homepage attaches to the "upto ₹2/min" Enterprise rate. If they will hold that rate for you on a quote, it sits at or below our ₹2/min plus fixed monthly costs, and you should ask them for it rather than assume.
- You need calls answered and appointments booked, and nothing beyond that. Their pages publish "Appointment booking" with the agent booking, rescheduling or cancelling during the call, and their homepage demo shows it sending a UPI payment link — so "they only answer the phone" would be wrong, and if that is the whole job, a ₹2,999/month published plan is a straightforward way to buy it.
- Your finance team wants one predictable number. A plan with included minutes is easier to budget and approve than variable usage drawn from credits, even when the variable option works out lower.
- You want knowledge bases as a modular, self-serve product. They publish a free allowance of 2 to 15 knowledge bases by tier, extra ones at ₹799 per KB per month and live retrieval at ₹1/min, so you can add and remove them yourself. We fold knowledge into the build instead, which is less granular if you want to manage many of them.
- You are evaluating the voice stack itself. Their homepage claims speech-to-speech voice AI, sub-300ms responses, emotion awareness and 100+ accents and dialects. We deliberately do not name or benchmark the technology behind our agents, so if published voice specs are your deciding factor, that is their story to tell and not ours.
Pricing at a glance
How much each one costs
Agni by Ravan.ai pricing verified from Agni by Ravan.ai's own pricing page (https://www.ravan.ai/pricing), homepage (https://ravan.ai/) and receptionist post (https://www.ravan.ai/blog/ai-receptionist-indian-business-2026), all re-read live on 26 Jul 2026 and cross-checked against COMPETITOR_PRICE_LEDGER_2026-07-21.md. Their page states "All prices exclude 18% GST", "GST invoice provided (ITC-claimable)", "INR billing", "No credit card to start" and "Cancel anytime". No setup or onboarding fee, no minimum contract term, no billing-rounding statement and no pay-as-you-go option are published there, so we make no claim on any of those. Prices change — check their page before you decide..
Dvaarik AI
No monthly plan
- Custom setup₹40,000 · free for founding 10
- AI voice callsfrom ₹2/min, per minute
- AI chat₹2/conversation
- WhatsApp markup₹0
Prepaid credits, never expire. Number recharge ₹2,000/30 days only if your agent has a real phone number.
Agni by Ravan.ai
From ₹2,999/month (Starter — 300 minutes included, then ₹8/min overage)
- Free trial₹0
- Starter₹2,999/mo
- Growth₹5,999/mo
- Scale₹12,999/mo
- EnterpriseCustom (quote-only)
- Add-ons (on top of any plan, after a free allowance)₹799 / KB / month
- Telephony (third-party pass-through, listed "Not included")~₹1.08/min outbound India
Source: Agni by Ravan.ai's own pricing page (https://www.ravan.ai/pricing), homepage (https://ravan.ai/) and receptionist post (https://www.ravan.ai/blog/ai-receptionist-indian-business-2026), all re-read live on 26 Jul 2026 and cross-checked against COMPETITOR_PRICE_LEDGER_2026-07-21.md. Their page states "All prices exclude 18% GST", "GST invoice provided (ITC-claimable)", "INR billing", "No credit card to start" and "Cancel anytime". No setup or onboarding fee, no minimum contract term, no billing-rounding statement and no pay-as-you-go option are published there, so we make no claim on any of those. Prices change — check their page before you decide.
Frequently asked
Questions about Dvaarik vs Agni by Ravan.ai
Agni advertises ₹2/min and so does Dvaarik. What is the actual difference?
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Is Dvaarik cheaper than Agni by Ravan.ai?
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Does Dvaarik claim to be the cheapest AI voice agent in India?
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Do I have to buy a monthly plan to use Agni?
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Is telephony included in Agni's per-minute rate?
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Which one handles WhatsApp, Instagram, bookings and payments?
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How fast can each one go live, and who does the work?
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