AI receptionist cost India
An AI receptionist in India costs from ₹2 a minute, and this page shows the whole bill.
An AI receptionist in India costs from ₹2 per minute with Dvaarik, so a clinic taking about 300 minutes of calls a month pays ₹600 in voice charges plus a ₹2,000 phone number recharge every 30 days — ₹2,600 a month once the founding Care Plan period ends. There is no software subscription: you load prepaid credits and voice, chat and the number recharge all draw from that one balance. Custom setup is ₹40,000 and free for our 10 founding clients, in return for keeping the Care Plan at the founding rate of ₹5,000/month for the first three months and giving an honest testimonial and short case study after go-live. All prices are exclusive of GST, and 18% GST applies when you load credits, so the minimum ₹10,000 first load is billed ₹11,800 with ₹10,000 usable. For the same 300 minutes, published Indian rates checked on 21 Jul 2026 run from ₹1,500 on Trikon's flat ₹5/min plus your own carrier's telephony, through ₹2,000 on ConnectAI's ₹800/month plus ₹4/min, up to ₹9,999 on Aixclerate's Starter plan and ₹10,000 a month on MyOperator's annually billed AI voice plan.
What it costs with Dvaarik
₹2
Voice from, per minute — permanent base rate
₹600
300 minutes of calls in a month
₹2,600
Clinic month from month 4 if you drop the Care Plan
₹0
Setup for our 10 founding clients
Send us your monthly call volume on WhatsApp and we will work out your real monthly number before you commit to anything.
What does an AI receptionist cost per minute in India?
Every figure below is what that company publishes on its own site, in its own terms. Where a rate is a volume tier, an overage rate or an estimate, it is labelled as such, because presenting it as an entry price would misrepresent them.
| Provider | Published per-minute rate | Monthly fee required? | Setup or onboarding fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dvaarik | ₹2/min base (Bharat Standard); Studio HD ₹3/min, Global ₹4–5/min, Ultra realtime ₹10/min | No — prepaid credits, no software subscription | ₹40,000, free for our 10 founding clients |
| Agni by Ravan.ai | ₹8/min Starter overage, ₹6/min Growth, ₹4/min Scale; upto ₹2/min published as the Enterprise volume rate at 10,000+ minutes | Yes — Starter ₹2,999/mo with 300 minutes included | None published |
| Trikon | ₹5/min flat; telephony and DID billed separately by your own carrier | No — their comparison table lists Platform / Subscription Fee as None | No setup fees, per their published page |
| ConnectAI | ₹4/min (8 credits) talk-time | Yes — ₹800/mo standalone, or ₹499/mo as an add-on to the ₹2,499/mo Suite | ₹1,000 one-time onboarding for new clinics |
| HuskyVoice.AI | ₹4/min published only as enterprise volume pricing; the entry-tier overage rate is not published | Yes — ₹1,999/mo Pay As You Go with 100 voice credits at 2 credits = 1 minute, published on their use-case pages; their own pricing FAQ says rates depend on volume and workflow | None, per their pricing FAQ |
| VaniAgent | ₹4.5/min Vani Ultra to ₹5.5/min Ultra Fast | Yes — Metered Credits ₹4,999/mo; unlimited concurrency plans from ₹21,999/mo | Not published |
| Botsense | ₹9/min Starter, ₹7/min Growth, ₹5/min Enterprise | No monthly commitment stated on their AI calling page | No setup fees on that page; their main pricing page lists a required ₹15,000–₹25,000 one-time setup for the WhatsApp product |
| Dhiyo AI Labs | Starts at ₹5/min; they state final pricing depends on volume, workflow, setup, language and use case | Not published | Not published |
| Edesy | ₹4–6/min platform rate; Pay As You Go is ₹6/min plus telephony at $0.07/min | No — Pay As You Go has no monthly commitment; ₹1,499–₹14,999/mo plans are optional rate buy-downs | ₹20,000 onboarding package, which they state converts into ₹20,000 of platform credits |
| Bolna AI | 6.00¢/min, displayed on their own page as ₹5.52/min, plus provider and telephony costs and a platform fee whose amount is not published | No — prepaid credits, no commitment | Not published |
| Aixclerate | ₹7/min for minutes beyond the plan bundle | Yes — Starter ₹9,999/mo with 500 minutes, Business ₹24,999/mo with 2,000 minutes | Not published; setup is described as included |
| MyOperator | No per-minute rate published; extra usage is ₹8 per conversation | Yes — ₹10,000/mo SUV AI - Voice with 2,000 minutes, billed annually | ₹20,000 one-time dedicated onboarding |
| Scalify Labs | ₹0.40/min headline, which their own page labels an estimate requiring a formal quote; minutes are billed on top of a plan | Yes — plans from ₹15,000/mo; their blog states a 10,000 minutes/month minimum engagement with a 3-month commitment | ₹15,000–₹40,000 one-time |
| Sarvam AI (Samvaad) | No price published for the conversational agent product | Not published — the product page routes to Contact Us | Not published |
Published rates as checked on 21 Jul 2026, taken from each company's own website. Competitor pricing changes without notice — check the source page before you decide.
What does 300 minutes of calls a month actually cost?
The same clinic, the same 300 minutes of conversation, run through each company's published pricing. The middle column shows how their published terms apply; the right column is the total that falls out of it.
| Provider | How their published pricing applies to 300 minutes | Monthly total on published rates |
|---|---|---|
| Dvaarik | 300 × ₹2 = ₹600 of voice, plus the ₹2,000 phone number recharge; founding clients also carry the Care Plan at ₹5,000/mo for the first three months | ₹7,600 a month in months 1–3, then ₹2,600 a month from month 4 — all exclusive of GST |
| Trikon | 300 × ₹5 flat, with no subscription and no setup fee; their page states telephony and DID are billed separately by your carrier | ₹1,500 plus your own carrier's telephony bill |
| Dhiyo AI Labs | 300 × ₹5 at their published starting rate | ₹1,500 if the starting rate holds; they state final pricing is quoted per business |
| Bolna AI | 300 × ₹5.52 — the rupee figure their own pricing page displays for 6.00¢/min, converted client-side at a hard-coded 92 INR/USD rather than priced for India | ₹1,656 before provider and telephony costs and their unpublished platform fee |
| Edesy | 300 × ₹6 on Pay As You Go, with telephony charged on top at $0.07/min | ₹1,800 plus telephony |
| ConnectAI | ₹800/mo subscription plus 300 × ₹4 of talk-time | ₹2,000 a month, plus ₹1,000 one-time onboarding for new clinics; GST treatment not published |
| Botsense | 300 × ₹9 on Starter, or 300 × ₹7 on Growth | ₹2,700 on Starter, ₹2,100 on Growth; GST treatment not published |
| Agni by Ravan.ai | Starter ₹2,999/mo includes exactly 300 minutes, so there is no overage at this volume; their published Starter tier covers Hindi and English only, with all 30+ Indian languages starting at Growth (₹5,999/mo) | ₹2,999, which they publish as excluding 18% GST; third-party telephony billed separately |
| VaniAgent | ₹4,999/mo Metered Credits base plus 300 × ₹4.5–5.5 | ₹6,349 to ₹6,649, which they publish as excluding 18% GST |
| Aixclerate | Starter ₹9,999/mo bundles 500 minutes, so 300 sits inside the bundle | ₹9,999; GST position not stated on the page we checked |
| MyOperator | SUV AI - Voice ₹10,000/mo bundles 2,000 minutes, so 300 sits inside the bundle | ₹10,000 a month on an annual commitment, plus ₹20,000 one-time onboarding, GST applicable |
| HuskyVoice.AI | ₹1,999/mo buys 100 voice credits, and at their published ratio of 2 credits = 1 minute that covers 50 minutes; the overage rate on that tier is not published | Not calculable from their published figures |
| Scalify Labs | 300 minutes is below the 10,000 minutes/month minimum engagement stated on their blog | Not applicable at this volume on their published terms |
Published rates as checked on 21 Jul 2026. Monthly totals are our own arithmetic applied to each company's published rates — they are not quotes issued by those companies, and volume, language and workflow can change what any of them charge you.
What does a Dvaarik month look like, line by line?
Our entire price list. There is no platform fee, no per-seat charge and no tier above this that unlocks the real product.
| Line item | Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Custom setup | ₹40,000 — free for our 10 founding clients | Discovery, the agent built and trained on your business, one lead source connected, one workflow end to end, and launch. Free in return for the Care Plan for the first three months at the founding rate, and an honest testimonial plus a short case study after go-live. |
| AI voice calls | From ₹2/min | Bharat Standard: 22 scheduled Indian languages plus English, inbound or outbound, simple per-minute billing on whole minutes. |
| AI chat conversations | ₹2 per conversation | Website chat, WhatsApp and Instagram, priced per customer conversation over a 24-hour window. |
| Phone number recharge | ₹2,000 per 30 days | Your dedicated number plus one concurrent call line, auto-debited from credits. |
| Care Plan | ₹5,000/month founding rate (list ₹12,000/month) | Monitoring, agent tuning, campaign and pricing setup help, monthly report, priority founder WhatsApp support, unlimited Instagram automations and campaign boards. Required for the first three months of the founding trade, optional from month 4. |
| First credit load | ₹10,000 minimum | Billed ₹11,800 with 18% GST, of which ₹10,000 is usable. Credits never expire; at zero balance everything pauses gracefully. |
| Later top-ups | From ₹500 | One balance covers voice, chat and the number recharge. |
| WhatsApp messages | ₹0 Dvaarik markup | Meta bills your own WhatsApp account directly at their rates. We add nothing on top. |
| Call recording | +₹0.10/min | Optional, added to whichever voice rate you are on. |
| Other voices on the menu | Studio HD ₹3/min · Global, 99 languages, ₹4–5/min · Ultra realtime ₹10/min | Chosen only if your use case needs them. The base advertised rate stays ₹2/min. |
Dvaarik price list as published on 21 Jul 2026. All prices are exclusive of GST; 18% GST applies at the point of loading credits.
Three numbers decide the bill, not one
AI receptionist pricing in India is almost always advertised as a per-minute rate, but the per-minute rate is only one of three lines that end up on your invoice. The other two are the recurring monthly fee that unlocks the agent at all, and the one-time setup or onboarding fee. ConnectAI, for example, publishes talk-time at ₹4 per minute (8 credits), but the receptionist itself is unlocked by a ₹800/month standalone subscription or ₹499/month as an add-on to their ₹2,499/mo AI Clinic Automation Suite, with a one-time ₹1,000 onboarding fee for new clinics. VaniAgent publishes ₹4.5 to ₹5.5 per minute on its Metered Credits tier, and that tier is itself listed at ₹4,999/month. Scalify Labs publishes a ₹0.40/min headline, but their own page labels those rates estimates that need a formal quote, their service page lists plans from ₹15,000/month with voice minutes billed separately on top, and setup at ₹15,000 to ₹40,000 one-time. Dvaarik has one usage line at ₹2/min, one telephony line at ₹2,000 per 30 days for the number, and a setup line of ₹40,000 that is free for our 10 founding clients. When you compare quotes, write all three numbers down before you compare anything.
A clinic taking 300 minutes of calls a month, costed in full
Take a clinic whose reception phone handles roughly 300 minutes of conversation in a month — appointment requests, timings, fees, directions, a few after-hours calls. On Dvaarik that is 300 × ₹2 = ₹600 of voice, billed in whole minutes, so a 3-minute call is ₹6 and nothing is rounded in some other direction. Add ₹2,000 for the phone number recharge, which covers your dedicated number and one concurrent call line for 30 days and is auto-debited from your credits. Founding clients also carry the Care Plan at the founding rate of ₹5,000/month for their first three months, which is the stated trade for the free build. So months one to three draw ₹7,600 of credit each, and from month four, when the Care Plan becomes optional, the same clinic draws ₹2,600 a month. You begin by loading the minimum ₹10,000 of credit; because 18% GST applies at the point of loading, that first load is billed ₹11,800 with ₹10,000 usable. Month one debits ₹2,000 for the number and ₹5,000 for the Care Plan, leaving about ₹3,000, of which the 300 minutes consume ₹600 and ₹2,400 carries forward. Later top-ups start at ₹500, credits never expire, and at a zero balance everything pauses gracefully rather than generating a surprise invoice.
The same 300 minutes on other published Indian rates
Run the identical 300-minute month through what each competitor publishes and the spread is wide. Trikon publishes a flat ₹5/min with no subscription and no setup fee, which is ₹1,500, though their page states telephony and DID numbers are billed separately by your own carrier on top. Dhiyo AI Labs publishes a starting rate of ₹5/min, which is ₹1,500 if that starting rate holds, and they state twice that final pricing depends on volume, workflow, setup, language and use case. ConnectAI comes to ₹2,000 — ₹800 subscription plus ₹1,200 of talk-time — plus their one-time ₹1,000 clinic onboarding. Botsense publishes ₹9/min on Starter and ₹7/min on Growth, which is ₹2,700 or ₹2,100. Agni by Ravan.ai includes exactly 300 minutes in its ₹2,999/month Starter plan, so at this volume there is no overage. VaniAgent lands at ₹6,349 to ₹6,649 once the ₹4,999 base is added. Aixclerate's ₹9,999/month Starter bundles 500 minutes, so 300 sits inside it and you pay ₹9,999 either way. MyOperator's ₹10,000/month SUV AI - Voice bundles 2,000 minutes and is billed annually, with a ₹20,000 one-time onboarding fee. Every total here is our arithmetic applied to their published rates, not a quote issued by any of those companies.
Where ₹2 a minute sits in the published Indian market
We are not going to tell you ₹2/min is the cheapest rate in India, because it is not a claim that survives checking. Agni by Ravan.ai advertises an AI receptionist all-in from ₹2/min in its marketing copy, although its own rate card shows ₹2/min as the Enterprise volume rate at 10,000 minutes a month and up, with entry-tier overage at ₹8/min. Scalify Labs publishes a ₹0.40/min headline, which their page itself labels an estimate and which sits on top of a plan starting at ₹15,000/month. MyOperator's own market survey puts self-serve voice AI in India at roughly ₹2/min at the floor. So ₹2/min sits at the low end of the published Indian range — among the lowest published rates, not uniquely below everything else. What is genuinely unusual is the combination: ₹2/min as a permanent base rate rather than a volume tier or an expiring discount, with no monthly software subscription attached, setup free for our 10 founding clients, and zero Dvaarik markup on WhatsApp messages, which Meta bills straight to your own account.
The monthly fee is usually bigger than the talk time
At 300 minutes a month, the recurring platform fee is the dominant cost almost everywhere, not the per-minute rate. Aixclerate publishes ₹9,999/month for Starter with 500 minutes and ₹7/min beyond. MyOperator publishes ₹10,000/month for a standalone AI voice agent with 2,000 minutes included, billed annually, with extra usage at ₹8 per conversation rather than per minute. Scalify Labs' service page starts at ₹15,000/month with minutes billed separately. VaniAgent's metered tier is ₹4,999/month before a single minute is spoken, and its unlimited concurrency plans start at ₹21,999/month with a three-month minimum. Agni is ₹2,999/month, HuskyVoice ₹1,999/month, ConnectAI ₹800/month. Trikon, Botsense's AI calling page, Bolna and Edesy's Pay As You Go tier all publish no mandatory monthly fee, and so does Dvaarik. If you are a small clinic or salon, the honest test is simple: divide the monthly fee by the minutes you will actually use, and see what you are really paying per minute of conversation.
Setup and onboarding fees nobody puts in the headline
One-time fees are where quotes diverge most sharply. MyOperator publishes ₹20,000 for dedicated onboarding. Scalify Labs publishes ₹15,000 to ₹40,000 one-time setup. ConnectAI charges new clinics a one-time ₹1,000 onboarding fee. Edesy sells a ₹20,000 onboarding package, though they state that amount converts fully into ₹20,000 of platform credits with no expiry. Trikon publishes no setup fees, and HuskyVoice's pricing FAQ answers the setup-fee question with None. Botsense is worth reading carefully: their AI calling page states no setup fees and no long-term contracts, while their main pricing page carries a section headed one-time setup, required, at ₹15,000 to ₹25,000 for their WhatsApp product. Dvaarik's custom setup is ₹40,000, and it is free for our 10 founding clients. That trade is stated plainly rather than buried: the free build is in return for keeping the Care Plan for the first three months at the founding rate of ₹5,000/month, and giving an honest testimonial and a short case study after go-live.
GST, telephony and the costs that show up after you sign
All Dvaarik prices are quoted exclusive of GST, and 18% GST applies at the point of loading credits, so a ₹10,000 load is billed ₹11,800 — ₹10,000 usable and ₹1,800 GST. VaniAgent and Agni both publish that their prices exclude 18% GST, and MyOperator states GST is applicable, so those three can be compared with us on the same tax basis. ConnectAI and Botsense publish no GST treatment on the pages we checked, so a like-for-like tax comparison against their figures is not possible from what they publish. We did not check the tax wording of every other vendor, so we make no claim either way about them. Telephony is the other line that moves after signing: Trikon states telephony and DID numbers are billed separately by your carrier, Edesy's Pay As You Go is ₹6/min plus telephony at $0.07/min, Agni's pricing page publishes third-party telephony rates billed separately, and Bolna's docs describe total call cost as voice processing plus telephony plus a Bolna platform fee whose amount is not published. Retell AI and Vapi publish in USD only with no India price list — Retell bills telephony separately from its platform rate and offers India carrier options in a calculator that renders its rates client-side, and Vapi's table states plainly that its $0.05/min hosting figure excludes model provider costs. With Dvaarik the telephony line is the ₹2,000 per 30 days number recharge, and it is on the price list.
What ₹2 a minute includes, and what it does not
The ₹2/min base rate buys a real conversation in a human-like voice, in the caller's own language, that finishes a job — answering the phone 24/7, checking your real availability, locking the slot so two customers cannot book the same one, sending a WhatsApp confirmation, and taking a message or escalating when the question is outside its brief. It covers 22 scheduled Indian languages plus English, including code-mixed Hinglish and Tenglish, at the same rate whichever language the caller uses. Billing is simple per-minute billing on whole minutes, the telecom standard. Chat conversations on your website, WhatsApp and Instagram are ₹2 per conversation over a 24-hour window. What ₹2/min does not include: the ₹2,000 per 30 days phone number recharge, call recording at an extra ₹0.10/min if you want it, and the other voices on the menu if your use case needs them — Studio HD at ₹3/min, Global covering 99 languages at ₹4 to ₹5/min, and Ultra realtime at ₹10/min. These are voice-quality and language-reach choices on one account, not subscription tiers. The base advertised rate stays ₹2/min. WhatsApp message costs are billed by Meta directly to your own WhatsApp account and we add nothing on top.
When a cheaper headline rate is the right call for you
Dvaarik is a studio, not a self-serve tool. We build one custom agent per business, the founder builds it personally, and it goes live in days. That model is worth paying for when your calls are the business — a clinic that loses a patient every time the phone rings unanswered, a real estate desk where the first caller back wins the site visit, a wholesale counter taking orders in a noisy shop. It is not worth it for everyone. If you want to configure a tool yourself rather than have one built for you, a self-serve platform with a published monthly plan from around ₹2,000 will suit you better. If you are running 10,000 minutes a month or more, several providers publish volume rates at that scale and you should collect those quotes. And if you only need Hindi and English, several of the cheaper options cover exactly that. The point of this page is not to win every comparison, it is to let you put real numbers next to each other and decide before anyone gets on a sales call with you.
Questions buyers ask about cost
How much does an AI receptionist cost in India per month?
On Dvaarik, a business taking about 300 minutes of calls a month pays ₹600 for voice at ₹2/min plus ₹2,000 for the phone number recharge, which is ₹2,600 a month. Founding clients add the Care Plan at ₹5,000/month for their first three months, taking those months to ₹7,600. There is no software subscription on top. Across the rest of the Indian market on 21 Jul 2026, the same 300 minutes ranges from ₹1,500 on Trikon's flat ₹5/min, before your carrier's telephony bill, to ₹9,999 on Aixclerate's Starter plan and ₹10,000 a month on MyOperator's annually billed AI voice plan.
Is Dvaarik cheaper than HuskyVoice, ConnectAI or VaniAgent?
It depends entirely on your call volume, and the honest answer is that at 300 minutes a month the totals are close for some and far apart for others. ConnectAI publishes ₹800/month plus ₹4/min, which is ₹2,000 for 300 minutes plus a ₹1,000 one-time clinic onboarding fee. VaniAgent publishes ₹4,999/month plus ₹4.5–5.5/min, which comes to ₹6,349–₹6,649. HuskyVoice publishes ₹1,999/month covering 100 voice credits at 2 credits per minute, which is 50 minutes, and does not publish the overage rate for that tier, so a 300-minute total cannot be worked out from what they publish. Dvaarik is ₹2,600 for the same month from month 4. Those are our calculations on their published rates, not quotes from those companies.
What does the ₹2 per minute include?
A full conversation in a human-like voice in the caller's own language, across 22 scheduled Indian languages plus English including code-mixed Hinglish, with the agent answering 24/7, checking your real availability, locking the appointment slot, sending a WhatsApp confirmation, and escalating or taking a message when a question is outside its brief. Billing is simple per-minute billing on whole minutes, so a 3-minute call is ₹6. It does not include the ₹2,000 per 30 days phone number recharge, optional call recording at ₹0.10/min, or the other voices on the menu if you choose them — Studio HD ₹3/min, Global covering 99 languages at ₹4–5/min, and Ultra realtime ₹10/min. These are voice-quality choices on one account, not subscription tiers.
Are there hidden charges, a platform fee or a minimum contract?
No platform fee, no per-seat charge, no annual contract and no subscription to cancel. The one commitment is the founding trade itself: the Care Plan for your first three months at the founding rate of ₹5,000/month, optional from month 4. The complete list is the one on this page: ₹2/min for voice, ₹2 per chat conversation, ₹2,000 per 30 days for the phone number, the Care Plan at ₹5,000/month at the founding rate, and setup at ₹40,000 which is free for our 10 founding clients. WhatsApp message costs are billed by Meta directly to your own WhatsApp account, and Dvaarik adds zero markup to them.
Is GST charged on top of these prices?
Yes. All Dvaarik prices are quoted exclusive of GST, and 18% GST applies at the point of loading credits. A ₹10,000 credit load is billed ₹11,800, made up of ₹10,000 usable credit and ₹1,800 GST. Nothing is charged separately as a platform fee. For comparison on the same basis, VaniAgent and Agni also publish that their prices exclude 18% GST and MyOperator states GST is applicable, while ConnectAI and Botsense publish no GST treatment on the pages we checked, which means their figures cannot be compared against ours on tax without asking them. For the remaining vendors we did not verify tax wording either way.
Is ₹2 a minute the cheapest AI receptionist rate in India?
No, and we will not claim it is. Agni by Ravan.ai advertises an AI receptionist all-in from ₹2/min in its marketing copy, though its own rate card shows ₹2/min as the Enterprise volume rate at 10,000 minutes a month and up, with entry-tier overage at ₹8/min. Scalify Labs publishes a ₹0.40/min headline, which their page itself labels an estimate needing a formal quote and which sits on top of a plan from ₹15,000/month. What we can say is that ₹2/min sits at the low end of the published Indian range, that it is our permanent base rate rather than a volume tier or an expiring discount, and that it comes with no monthly software subscription, free setup for our 10 founding clients, and zero markup on WhatsApp.
How much is the phone number, and can I avoid paying for it?
A dedicated number with one concurrent call line is ₹2,000 per 30 days, auto-debited from your credit balance. An extra concurrent line is ₹1,500 per 30 days and an extra number ₹750 per 30 days. You only need it if your agent answers a real phone number — WhatsApp, Instagram and website chat agents do not need one, so a business that only wants chat coverage skips the ₹2,000 entirely and pays ₹2 per conversation. If your balance cannot cover a recharge, the number pauses and a top-up resumes it, rather than generating an invoice you did not expect.
What happens when my credits run out?
Everything pauses gracefully. The agent stops taking new calls and the number pauses at its next recharge, and a top-up brings it all straight back. Credits never expire, so anything you load stays yours, and top-ups start at ₹500 after the ₹10,000 minimum first load. There is no auto-renewing subscription running in the background, no cancellation to remember, and no bill arriving for a month you did not use.
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