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Vaani Opens Its Voice-Agent Platform to Developers
Vaani has opened a self-serve platform for building, running and reviewing voice-agent calls. Its pay-as-you-go plan uses prepaid billing and a ₹1-per-minute platform fee, with provider keys available under Enterprise.
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Vaani is pitching its new voice-agent platform as a way to build and run calls without assembling the underlying tools—but its pay-as-you-go plan still leaves customers choosing and paying for individual components. The Bengaluru-based company opened the self-serve platform on October 29, putting agent creation, call operations and review tools in one product while retaining usage-based charges for the services behind each conversation.
From a brief to a test call
Vaani’s platform organizes its workflow into six stages: Build, Humanise, Connect, Run, Improve and Scale. In Build, a user describes the job and Vaani’s Teacher AI proposes an agent, including its voice, tools and desired outcomes. Users can review the proposed changes and test a call before publishing.
The other stages address the work around that initial setup. Humanise lets users adjust turn-taking, language and delivery; Connect links the agent to tools and applications. Run handles calling hours and retry rules, while Improve brings together call outcomes, summaries and captured details for review and retesting.
For outbound campaigns, the platform lets users bring a calling list, an agent and phone numbers, then track each contact from the first attempt to a booking, callback or other next step. Vaani also describes configured backups for keeping calls moving when capacity is constrained. The public product page presents those controls as connected parts of one service, rather than separate setup steps.
Pay-as-you-go uses prepaid billing and a per-minute platform fee
Vaani’s pay-as-you-go plan uses a prepaid wallet and charges a platform fee of ₹1 per minute. Customers can choose their voice models and carrier; bringing their own provider keys is listed as an Enterprise option. Vaani’s pricing page says speech recognition, reasoning, voice synthesis and telephony may each add separate usage charges.
The plan currently lists two concurrent calls, while daily and hourly calling are shown as unlimited. Some features—including the self-learning voice harness and warm transfers—are marked free under an Early Launch Offer. The pricing table displays crossed-out rates beside some features, but does not establish that those rates were previously charged or say when the offer ends. Its calculator gives an illustrative estimate, not a fixed quote, and warns that provider use, billing intervals, taxes and phone-number rental can change the final cost.
That distinction matters for teams assessing what “self-serve” means in practice. Vaani has put the builder and operating controls in public view, but a developer still needs to configure a calling stack and understand its usage charges. Enterprise customers can instead discuss custom billing, carrier arrangements and provider keys with the company.
Vaani says the system has already run at more than 100 businesses
In a LinkedIn post announcing the platform’s availability, Vaani co-founder and CEO Tushar Shinde said the company designed it for long-term memory and mixed-language settings. He also said groups of agents had already been deployed across more than 100 businesses. That figure is the company’s account of existing deployments, not an independently measured customer count.
“We have built it in a way that a group of agents can form a swarm and get things done, and that's something which we have already deployed across 100+ businesses,”
— Tushar Shinde, Co-Founder & CEO of Vaani, in a LinkedIn post
Product Hunt gives the launch an early scorecard
Vaani’s Product Hunt listing describes the platform as a no-code way to design call flows, handle objections and edge cases, connect tools and knowledge bases, and deploy an agent to a phone number. Product Hunt lists the platform at #1 Day Rank with 349 points. That launch ranking measures Product Hunt engagement; it does not establish how well the agents perform in production.
Vaani’s product page puts the next test in users’ hands: whether its builder and call-review loop can help teams improve live conversations without obscuring the cost and configuration choices beneath them.