---
title: "How Much Does an AI Appointment Setter Cost in 2026?"
slug: how-much-does-an-ai-appointment-setter-cost
author: "Leonardo Maldonado"
category: "AI Setter Operations"
articleType: data-research
tags: ["AI setter pricing","AI appointment setter cost","AI setter ROI"]
publishedAt: 2026-08-15T09:00:00.000Z
updatedAt: 2026-08-15T09:00:00.000Z
canonical: https://setluca.com/blog/how-much-does-an-ai-appointment-setter-cost
---# How Much Does an AI Appointment Setter Cost in 2026?

> In 2026, AI appointment setters cost from free up to $3,497 a month depending on the billing model. Flat subscriptions like Luca run $99-$499. Per-minute voice agents bill $0.07-$0.31 a minute. Building your own runs roughly $3,800-$7,600 up front plus monthly upkeep.

## Key takeaways

- AI appointment setter pricing spans $0 to $3,497/month across published plans, plus per-minute voice agents at $0.07-$0.31/min (Retell AI, 2026).
- Luca is a flat subscription: Starter $99, Pro $249, Scale $499, priced by conversation volume, not per booked call.
- Building your own stack costs roughly $3,800-$7,600 in labor up front at the $63.20/hour median developer wage (BLS, 2024), before any monthly running cost.
- A human setter averages $50,455/year in base salary alone (ZipRecruiter, 2026); agencies charge $50-$350+ per booked meeting (Tomba, 2026).
- Gartner expects over 40% of agentic AI projects to be canceled by end of 2027 on escalating costs and unclear value. That is the build path's real risk (Gartner, 2025).

---

You want the number before you commit. The honest answer has three parts: the sticker price, the metered layer sitting underneath it, and the option most pricing pages never mention, which is building the thing yourself.

Published prices in this category spread wide. Chatfuel's AI Pro plan is $49 a month. Setter AI's Business plan is $3,497 a month. Synthflow sells annual enterprise contracts starting at $30,000. Luca sits at $99 to $499 a month, flat, covering every reply, follow-up, and booked call across your channels.

This post prices all three paths (buy, build, hire), lays out the five ways vendors bill, puts seven named tools in one table with prices checked this month, and works the cost at 500, 5,000, and 25,000 conversations a month. Human-setter figures come from published 2026 salary and per-appointment data, cited at the bottom.

## How much does an AI appointment setter cost?

The price depends on what the vendor counts, not on what the software does. Two tools can do the same job and bill you seventy times apart, because one charges for a plan and the other charges for every lead it touches. On published plans the range runs $49 to $3,497 a month: Chatfuel's AI Pro tier at $49, Setter AI's Starter at $497 for 500 credits, Business at $3,497 for 5,000. Both prices were checked on the vendor's own page in August 2026.

Luca is a flat monthly fee: **$99, $249, or $499 a month**. The price scales with conversation volume, not with how many calls get booked, so a busy month doesn't inflate the bill. No salary, no commission per appointment, no overhead past the subscription. See [Luca's pricing](/pricing) for what sits in each band.

| Tier | Price | Conversations included | Best for |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Starter | $99/mo | 300, one channel | Coaches with steady DMs, testing the water |
| Pro | $249/mo | 1,500, all four channels | A full inbox across two or more channels |
| Scale | $499/mo | 5,000, all channels, multi-account | High-volume creators and small teams |

Over a year that's **$1,188 to $5,988**. A full-time human setter averages **$50,455 a year** in base salary in 2026, per ZipRecruiter's August data, with the middle 50% between $33,000 and $62,000 before commission. Salary.com's 2026 figures land lower, at a median of **$41,415** (about $20 an hour). We break that side down in [how much does an appointment setter cost](/blog/how-much-does-an-appointment-setter-cost).

## Buy, build, or hire: which one should you pay for?

Most cost comparisons stop at two options and get the answer wrong. There are three: buy a finished AI setter, build one from parts, or hire a person. Sticker prices in 2026 run about $99-$3,497 a month to buy, $3,800-$7,600 up front plus upkeep to build, and $41,415-$50,455 a year to hire (Salary.com and ZipRecruiter, 2026).

Here's the decision, stated plainly.

**Buy** if you get more than about 100 inbound DMs a month, you close in conversations rather than on forms, and you'd rather spend your hours on calls than on a Make automation that broke overnight. This is most coaches.

**Build** if you have a genuinely odd workflow no vendor covers, you already write code or pay someone who does, and you can give up four to eight hours a month to upkeep for as long as it runs. Building to save money is the wrong reason. Building because nothing fits is the right one.

**Hire** if your deals need real judgment mid-conversation, you clear 30 qualified meetings a month, or your leads expect a phone call rather than a DM. An in-house SDR costs $5,000-$10,000+ a month all in, and starts paying for itself somewhere past 30 qualified meetings (Tomba, 2026).

**Do both** if you're already paying a setter and drowning anyway. Let the AI take the first reply and the qualifying questions; let the person take the live pushback. [Hire a setter vs AI](/blog/hire-a-setter-vs-ai) walks the split in detail.

## What does it cost to build your own AI appointment setter?

You're buying your own hours, not software. The parts are cheap and the building is not. A 60 to 120 hour build works out to **$3,800-$7,600 up front** at the BLS median developer wage of **$63.20 an hour** (May 2024 data, published 2026), then **$700-$1,000 a month** to keep it running at 1,500 conversations.

The typical DIY stack is an automation platform, a language model API, and a message transport. Verified August 2026 unit prices:

| Line item | Verified unit price | Monthly at 1,500 conversations |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Automation platform (Make Core) | $12/mo, 10,000 operations | $12 |
| Language model (OpenAI mid-tier) | $2.00/1M input, $12.00/1M output | \~$125 |
| SMS transport (Twilio US long code) | $0.0083/segment + carrier fee \~$0.0035 | \~$360 |
| Phone number (Twilio long code) | $1.15/mo | $1.15 |
| Voice instead of SMS (Vapi hosting) | $0.05/min + model at cost + $10/line/mo | varies with call length |
| Build labor, one-time | $63.20/hr x 60-120 hrs | $3,792-$7,584 |
| Maintenance labor | $63.20/hr x 4-8 hrs/mo | $253-$506 |

Two things fall out of that table. The API bills are small, and the human hours are not. A coach who values their own time at anything reasonable pays more per month in upkeep than a Pro subscription costs.

The second thing is how easily it breaks. Your stack has to survive Meta changing a permission, OpenAI retiring a model, and Make renaming a step. Every one of those is an evening you didn't plan, and none of them show up on a quote. Gartner expects **over 40% of agentic AI projects to be canceled by the end of 2027**, blaming rising costs, unclear value, and thin risk controls.

## Which five pricing models do AI setters use?

AI setters bill in five shapes, and the shape matters more than the rate. Comparing sticker prices across two different shapes tells you almost nothing. The number that counts is what a qualified meeting ends up costing you once it actually happens, which is the same point Tomba's 2026 pricing work makes about human setters.

| Model | How you're billed | Predictable? | Fits | Watch for |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Flat subscription | Fixed monthly fee inside a volume band | Yes | Steady inbound DM volume | Overage rates once you pass the band |
| Per-minute or per-message | Metered on actual usage | No | Spiky, seasonal volume | Long calls, retries, silent airtime |
| Per-appointment | A fee per booked meeting | Partly | Testing with no fixed commitment | What counts as "booked," and show rate |
| Revenue share | A percentage of closed deals | No | Very low upfront budget | Your best month costs the most |
| Hybrid AI + human | Base retainer plus a per-meeting fee | Partly | Complex or high-ticket sales | Two bills, and a monthly minimum |

Flat subscription is the only model where your cost per booked call falls as you get better at this. Under per-minute or per-appointment billing, doing more of what works costs more every time, forever.

Revenue share sounds friendly when you're starting and turns expensive fast. A percentage of closed revenue is cheap at $2k months and painful at $40k months, and it hands the vendor a claim on deals you'd have closed anyway.

## What do other AI setters cost in 2026?

Named prices as of August 2026. Every figure below came off the vendor's own pricing page this month, not a roundup.

| Vendor | Billing model | Entry price | Top published price | What the price meters |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Luca | Flat subscription | $99/mo | $499/mo | Conversations across Instagram, WhatsApp, Telegram, Messenger |
| ManyChat | Flat, by active contacts | Free / $14/mo | $139/mo (25,000 contacts) | Active contacts; overage $0.004-$0.10 each |
| Chatfuel | Flat subscription | Free (Light) | $49/mo (AI Pro) | Plan usage limits |
| Setter AI | Credit-based subscription | $497/mo (500 credits) | $3,497/mo (5,000 credits) | Credits, roughly one per lead handled |
| Retell AI | Pure per-minute | $0 + usage | $0.07-$0.31/min | Voice minutes, plus \~$0.015/min telephony |
| Vapi | Per-minute and per-message | $0.05/min | Custom annual contract | Call minutes, $0.005/msg, $10/line/mo |
| Synthflow | Annual enterprise contract | $30,000/yr | Custom | Volume, concurrency, telephony, integrations |

Read that table by category, not by price. ManyChat and Chatfuel are chat-marketing tools that added AI; they're cheap because they count contacts and flows, not sales conversations. Retell and Vapi rent you the pipes for a voice agent, and you build the agent yourself, so their per-minute rate is the price of a part, not a finished thing. Setter AI and Luca sell the finished setter, which is why they price per lead or per conversation.

Two are worth a closer look: [our ManyChat alternative breakdown](/blog/manychat-alternative-for-coaches) and the [Setter AI review](/blog/setter-ai-review), where we say what it does better than us.

## Which three cost layers sit behind every quote?

Every AI setter bill has three layers: the platform fee, the plumbing underneath it, and what you use. Vendors quote whichever layer makes them look cheapest. Retell AI's pricing page shows all of it in the open: $0.055/min for the voice service, plus $0.015-$0.040/min to turn text into speech, plus the model at $0.045-$0.16/min, plus $0.015/min for phone carriage. Four line items to reach one per-minute number.

**Layer one is the platform fee.** The subscription, the dashboard, the inbox, the support. This is the number on the pricing page.

**Layer two is the plumbing.** Phone numbers at $1.15-$2.15 a month on Twilio, concurrency lines at $10 each on Vapi (a concurrency line is one extra call the system can take at the same time), knowledge bases at $8 a month on Retell, health-privacy add-ons like Vapi's $2,000/mo HIPAA tier. Small on their own, and they stack.

**Layer three is what you use.** SMS at $0.0083 a segment plus a carrier fee of $0.0035-$0.0045 depending on the network. Model usage at $0.20-$5.00 per million words in. WhatsApp template messages billed one by one since Meta moved off conversation-based pricing on July 1, 2025.

That last one has a wrinkle worth knowing. Meta's own docs say service conversations have been free for every business since November 1, 2024, and a plain reply sent inside an open service window costs nothing. So a setter that only answers people who messaged you first, with no cold outreach at all, sits almost entirely in the free zone on WhatsApp. A tool that blasts marketing templates does not. That gap is the only reason a "flat fee, no per-message charges" claim can be true, and it's why the [WhatsApp 24-hour window](/blog/whatsapp-24-hour-window) rules hit your bill and not just your paperwork.

## What does it cost at 500, 5,000, and 25,000 conversations?

Sticker price tells you little until you attach it to your own volume. Here are the same 2026 numbers run at three volumes, assuming about 12 messages per conversation:

| Monthly conversations | Flat subscription (Luca) | Metered per-message (Vapi chat + model) | Contact-based (ManyChat) | Credit-based (Setter AI) | DIY build |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 500 | $157 (Starter + 2 top-ups) | \~$45 + build labor | $29 (Pro) | $497 (Starter) | \~$300-$550/mo after build |
| 5,000 | $499 (Scale) | \~$450 + concurrency | $69 (Business) | $3,497 (Business) | \~$700-$950/mo |
| 25,000 | Custom, past published bands | \~$2,250 + concurrency | $139 (Advanced) | $2,997/mo (annual Enterprise) | \~$2,750-$3,250/mo |

Metered pricing rises in a straight line. Flat pricing bends: the same $499 covers 3,000 conversations or 5,000, so your cost per conversation drops by a third as you grow. That's the case for a subscription if your volume is steady and climbing.

ManyChat's column looks unbeatable and is counting something else. An active contact is not a sales conversation, and the plan gives you no review queue, no qualifying flow built for a coaching offer, and no replies in your voice. It's cheap per contact because it's doing a different job.

## What does an AI appointment setter cost per booked call vs a human?

Cost per booked call is the fairest way to compare, and the gap is wide. A human-set appointment runs **$50 to $350+ per booked meeting** in 2026 (Tomba, 2026), with bigger-company and C-suite meetings well past that. Book 20 in a month and you're at $1,000 on the low end, $7,000 on the high one.

Luca's cost per booked call depends on how many it books, since the fee is flat. Take Pro at $249 a month. Twenty calls works out to about **$12 a call**. On Scale at $499, forty calls is roughly $12.50. Those booking counts are made up for the example and depend on your own inbox. The shape holds either way: a fixed fee spread across more calls gets cheaper per call as you grow, which is the opposite of what a per-appointment agency bill does.

### Cost per booked call: human setter vs Luca

**Chart:** A human-set appointment costs about $50 to $350 per booked meeting in 2026 (Tomba). Luca on Pro, booking around 20 calls a month, works out to about $12 per booked call; on Scale, booking around 40 calls, about $12.50. Luca figures are illustrative and depend on volume. (Source: Tomba appointment-setting pricing (2026); Luca pricing. Luca per-call figures are illustrative and depend on your DM volume.)

## How do you read an AI setter quote?

Ask seven questions before you sign, because the monthly number is rarely the whole number.

**What's the setup fee?** Setter AI's published plans show none. Enterprise voice contracts often do, folded into an onboarding line. Get it in writing.

**What's the contract minimum?** Synthflow's enterprise pricing starts at $30,000 annually, scoped around call volume and concurrency. Vapi's Scale plan is an annual contract with committed volume. Month-to-month and annual-with-minimum are different products.

**What triggers overage, and at what rate?** ManyChat charges $0.004-$0.10 per additional active contact depending on tier, a 25x spread. Find your rate, not the headline one.

**Is the plumbing included or billed on top?** Retell charges $8 for every call past the first twenty that runs at the same time, and phone numbers, transcripts, and noise cleanup are separate lines at most voice vendors.

**Who pays the carrier fees?** US SMS carries a carrier surcharge on top of Twilio's $0.0083 base. If the vendor doesn't say, assume you pay.

**What does it cost to connect your other tools?** Ask which connections are built in. Calendar, CRM, and payment links are sometimes free and sometimes a setup fee.

**Is there a tuning retainer?** Some agencies price the tool low and the ongoing prompt work high. Ask what happens in month four when the replies start drifting.

## What's the AI setter ROI math that decides it?

ROI on an AI setter turns on one number: the booked calls you'd otherwise lose to a slow reply. Say your offer is $2,000 and the setter books three extra calls a month you'd have missed at midnight. One close covers the Pro plan eight times over. Against Tomba's $50-$350 per human-set appointment, three recovered meetings would cost $150-$1,050 through an agency.

Run your own version. Take your close rate on booked calls, your average client value, and a careful guess at the extra calls you'd get from faster, round-the-clock replies. Even one client saved a quarter usually pays for a year of the subscription. For the quality side of the same question, see [AI setter vs human setter](/blog/ai-setter-vs-human-setter).

**The honest limit:** the per-call and ROI figures above assume the setter books at the volumes shown, and that comes down to your own traffic. If a handful of leads DM you each month, cost per booked call goes up, and a $99 plan sits underused. There's a floor here worth naming. Under roughly 50 inbound DMs a month, no tool in this category pays for itself, including ours. Luca lowers the cost of replying fast and well. It doesn't create demand, it won't rescue a weak offer, and it can't warm up a cold audience. You need leads in the inbox for any of this math to work.

There's a second limit on the other end. A lead who's negotiating scope, comparing you to two other coaches, or asking about a payment plan is a human conversation. Luca drafts, you send, and on those threads you'll rewrite more than you approve. That's the intended behavior, not a failure, and it's why the review queue stays on by default. If you're unsure which role you're actually missing, [do I need a setter or a closer](/blog/do-i-need-a-setter-or-a-closer) sorts it.

## Worked example: what Dani pays at 600 DMs a month

Dani coaches strength clients out of Austin. She gets about 600 inbound DMs a month across Instagram and WhatsApp, sells a $1,800 twelve-week 1:1 program, and answers everything herself between sessions. Her three-way comparison, on the verified 2026 numbers, is illustrative, and your inputs will differ.

**Buy.** 600 conversations puts her on Pro at **$249 a month**, with 1,500 included and room to grow. Annual cost: $2,988. No setup fee, no commission, month-to-month.

**Build.** Make Core at $12, a mid-tier model at roughly $50 for her volume, Twilio SMS at about $144 if she routes to SMS, a number at $1.15. Software: **around $210 a month**. Then four hours of maintenance. If she hires that out at the $63.20 median developer rate, add $253. First-year total including a 60-hour build at $3,792: **roughly $9,300**.

**Hire.** A part-time setter at Salary.com's $20 median hourly rate, twenty hours a week, is about **$1,730 a month** before commission, payroll tax, or ramp. An agency on per-appointment pricing at Tomba's $50-$350 range, booking 20 meetings, is $1,000-$7,000 a month.

The build path costs three times the subscription and hands her a system to babysit. The hire path costs seven times the subscription and needs managing. She bought, and kept the review queue on so every reply still sounds like her.

> **DM example (illustrative):Lead (12:14am):** hey do you still have room for 1:1 coaching?**Luca draft (12:14am):** I do -- a couple spots this month. Quick one so I point you the right way: are you doing this solo right now, or have you worked with a coach before?**Lead:** solo, and kind of stuck tbh**Luca draft:** That's the common spot, and it's fixable. Want to grab 20 min this week so I can map your next step? I've got Wed 7pm or Thu 12pm.

No salary sent that message. A $249 subscription did, at midnight, in her words. The full picture of how the workflow fits together is in our guide to an [AI setter for coaches](/ai-setter).

## Which mistakes do coaches make when pricing an AI setter?

**Comparing sticker prices instead of the cost of a meeting that happens.** What matters is the price of a qualified meeting after no-shows and bad fits are taken out, which is where Tomba's 2026 analysis lands too. A $50 appointment nobody attends costs more than a $200 one that closes.

**Leaving labor out of the build estimate.** The API bills come to about $200 a month. The four to eight hours of monthly upkeep at $63.20 an hour come to $253-$506. People price the first and forget the second, then wonder why the DIY route never got cheaper.

**Buying a volume band you don't fill.** A $499 plan sized for 5,000 conversations is a bad deal at 400 conversations. Buy the band you're in now and move up when the overage bill tells you to.

**Reading a small per-minute rate as a small bill.** $0.07 a minute sounds like nothing. Two hundred four-minute qualifying calls is 800 minutes, and at the $0.31 top of Retell's range that's $248, before phone carriage at $0.015 a minute and before $8 a line for calls taken at the same time.

**Skipping the shape of the contract.** Year-long deals with a minimum volume are normal at the big end; Synthflow starts at $30,000 a year. That's a fine deal at scale and an expensive mistake at 600 DMs a month.

**Forgetting your own hours.** A review queue costs you time. Approving forty drafts a week at fifteen seconds each is ten minutes; rewriting forty is an hour, so price the version you'll actually run rather than the demo.

## Troubleshooting: when the cost stops making sense

| Symptom | Likely cause | Fix |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bill jumped with no extra leads | Metered billing counting retries, follow-up touches, and silent airtime | Ask for a per-message breakdown; cap follow-up cadence length |
| Cost per booked call keeps climbing | You're paying for a volume band you don't fill | Drop a tier and buy top-ups on spike months |
| Quote was cheap, invoice wasn't | Platform fee quoted; infrastructure and usage billed separately | Request an all-in cost per conversation at your volume, in writing |
| Paying per appointment, few show up | "Booked" is counted when it's scheduled, not when it happens | Move the deal to show-based, or add a reminder before the call |
| Credits burn out mid-month | Unqualified leads consuming credits at the same rate as good ones | Qualify before the handoff so credits only spend on real prospects |
| DIY stack costs more every quarter | Retired models, API price changes, platform moves | Log your upkeep hours for three months, then compare them honestly to a subscription |

The pattern is the same every time. The thing you're billed on isn't the thing you care about. You care about meetings that happen; vendors bill on minutes, messages, contacts, or credits, and every gap between the two hides a surprise.

## Edge cases most pricing pages skip

**You get fewer than 50 DMs a month.** No tool in this category earns its fee at that volume, ours included. Spend the $99 on filling the inbox first, starting with [coaching lead generation](/blog/coaching-lead-generation).

**Your volume is seasonal.** A launch month at four times your normal volume blows past a flat plan's band. Top-ups usually beat moving up a tier for one month and back down again. Luca's are $29 per 100 conversations. Do the sums before you switch, because most annual discounts lock you at the higher band.

**You already pay a human setter.** Don't price this as a replacement. Price it as first-touch coverage on the hours they don't work, and measure whether their booked-call count goes up. If it does, the AI fee comes out of the calls the setter would have missed, not out of their salary.

**You run several brands or accounts.** Per-account pricing is the norm, and it's where flat plans get expensive fast. Multi-account is bundled at Luca's Scale tier; at most vendors it's a separate subscription each. Ask directly.

**Your leads are outside the WhatsApp 24-hour window.** That's the day-long stretch after someone messages you, when replies are free. Reopen a conversation after it closes and you have to send a template message, billed one by one under Meta's post-July-2025 model. A setter that only replies inside the window never pays that; one that wakes up cold lists does.

If your inbox is busier than your calendar, [see Luca's pricing](/pricing) and start on the tier that matches the DM volume you actually get.


## FAQ

### How much does an AI appointment setter cost per month?

AI appointment setters cost $0 to $3,497 a month on published 2026 plans. Chatfuel's AI Pro is $49, Luca runs $99-$499, and Setter AI's Business tier is $3,497. Per-minute voice agents like Retell bill $0.07-$0.31 a minute instead of a flat fee.

### Is an AI setter cheaper than a human appointment setter?

Yes, by a wide margin. Luca runs about $1,188-$5,988 a year, while a human setter averages $50,455 a year in base salary alone in 2026 (ZipRecruiter), before commission. Per booked call, a flat-fee AI setter often lands near $12 versus $50-$350 for a human-set appointment.

### Is it cheaper to build my own AI appointment setter?

Rarely. The APIs are cheap: Make Core is $12 a month and OpenAI's mid-tier model $2.00 per million input tokens. A 60-120 hour build at the $63.20 median developer wage (BLS) still costs $3,792-$7,584 before launch, plus $253-$506 a month in maintenance labor.

### What pricing models do AI appointment setters use?

Five: flat subscription, per-minute or per-message metering, per-appointment fees, revenue share, and hybrid AI-plus-human retainers. Tomba's 2026 data puts hybrid appointment setting at $1,000-$3,000 base plus $40-$120 per meeting. Flat subscription is the only model where cost per call falls as you improve.

### What's included in AI setter pricing?

Every Luca tier includes the full setter: a multi-channel inbox for Instagram, WhatsApp, Telegram, and Facebook Messenger, replies drafted in your voice, follow-up and rescue cadences, the "Ask Luca" copilot, and a human review queue. Higher tiers add conversation volume and multi-account support.

### Are there hidden usage fees like SMS or WhatsApp charges?

On metered stacks, yes. US SMS runs $0.0083 a segment on Twilio plus a carrier fee of $0.0035-$0.0045. WhatsApp bills templates per message since July 2025, though Meta made service conversations free for all businesses in November 2024, so inbound replies stay free.

### How do I calculate the ROI of an AI setter?

Multiply the extra booked calls you'd otherwise miss by your close rate and average client value, then compare to the monthly fee. Three recovered meetings would cost $150-$1,050 through an agency at Tomba's $50-$350 per-appointment range. One recovered client a quarter usually clears a year of subscription.

### Are there setup fees or per-call charges with an AI setter?

With Luca, no. The subscription is the cost, with no setup fee, no commission per appointment, and no ramp period. Elsewhere it varies: Synthflow's enterprise contracts start at $30,000 a year, and Vapi charges $10 per concurrency line monthly on top of usage.


## Sources

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3. [Tomba -- Appointment Setting Pricing 2026: Real Costs & Models](https://tomba.io/blog/appointment-setting-pricing)
4. [Gartner -- Over 40% of Agentic AI Projects Will Be Canceled by End of 2027 (June 2025)](https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-06-25-gartner-predicts-over-40-percent-of-agentic-ai-projects-will-be-canceled-by-end-of-2027)
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8. [OpenAI -- API Pricing](https://openai.com/api/pricing/)
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10. [ManyChat -- Pricing](https://manychat.com/pricing)
11. [Chatfuel -- Pricing](https://chatfuel.com/pricing)
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13. [Retell AI -- Pricing](https://www.retellai.com/pricing)
14. [Vapi -- Pricing](https://vapi.ai/pricing)

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