Air AI pricing & cost
Enterprises running 10,000+ calls/month with dedicated dev teams; heavy outbound sales.
Entry price
$25,000–$100,000 upfront license + per-minute
AI usage rate
$0.11/min outbound, $0.32/min inbound (estimates)
Free tier
No
Billing model
per-minute + contact-sales
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Our verdict
Enterprise outbound only — the steep upfront license and ring-time billing make it the wrong call for almost any SMB.
Strengths
- Built for very high outbound volume
Watch-outs
- $25k–$100k upfront license
- Billed for ring time before answer
- Reported complexity/support issues — poor SMB fit
Who it's for
Enterprises running 10,000+ calls/month with dedicated dev teams; heavy outbound sales. Typically a fit for enterprise teams.
Sources
Air AI alternatives
Free ($0.14/min); Build $299/mo ($0.12/min); Scale $499/mo ($0.11/min)
The 'no surprises' option — its headline rate is roughly the real rate, which is rare; you pay a monthly fee for that predictability.
Cartesia (Line)Free; Pro $5/mo; Startup $49/mo
A strong low-latency voice layer for builders — but the $0.06/min Line figure is before LLM and STT, so model the full stack.
Deepgram (Voice Agent API)$0 PAYG ($200 free credit)
The cost-sensitive, high-volume builder's pick — best free credit in the category, but mind the websocket-time billing.
Dialpad (AI Agents)Phone from $15/user/mo; AI Agents = contact sales
Buy it for the phone system with AI baked in — the autonomous voice-agent product, though, is a contact-sales black box.