Honest competitor breakdown

Yomigo vs Retell AI

Usage-based voice AI infrastructure, priced per component.

Retell is what a team builds on. Yomigo is what a business buys. The comparison only really matters if you are deciding whether to build or buy.

Yomigo
$49–$149/mo
Solo 100 min · Pro 600 min · overage $0.18 / $0.16 per min
Retell AI
$0.07–$0.31/min/mo
pay-as-you-go · no platform fee · no minimum

Retell AI pricing read from www.retellai.com/pricing on 10 August 2026. Vendors change prices — check theirs before deciding.

The short version

Retell prices honestly and transparently — no platform fee, no feature gating, and a public breakdown of what each component costs per minute. On raw usage it will beat us, because we are charging for something they deliberately don't sell: the finished application. If you have engineers, the accurate framing is that Retell is a good place to build a competitor to us. If you don't, the per-minute saving is theoretical, because there is nothing to answer your phone until someone builds it.

Side-by-side

Where we win.
Where they do.

Pricing

FeatureYomigoRetell AI
Monthly fee$49/mo and upNone — usage only
Per-minute rateIncluded, then $0.16–$0.18 over$0.07–$0.31 depending on model and features
Minimum commitmentMonthly planNone
Predictability of the billFixed plan plus overageVaries with model choice and usage
Cost transparencyPlan and overage publishedPer-component breakdown published

Build versus buy

FeatureYomigoRetell AI
Working phone agent on day oneYesAfter you build it
Choose your own LLM / TTSNo — we choose and tune itYes
Full API controlAPI availableAPI-first
Feature gating by tierSome features by planNone advertised
Booking, campaigns, notifications includedYesBuild them
Non-technical operator UIYesDeveloper-oriented
What you'd actually pay

Run the numbers

The working is shown so you can check it against your own call log rather than take our word for the total.

Small shop
60 calls a month, averaging 3 minutes (180 minutes)
Yomigo · Solo
$63.40
$49 + 80 min over × $0.18
Retell AI
$12.60–$55.80
180 min × $0.07 to $0.31, depending on model
Cheaper on usage at every model choice, and that is the correct comparison only if the engineering time to build the rest is worth zero to you. For a contractor it is not; for a software team it may well be.
The honest take

When each is the right pick

Pick Yomigo if…

  • You want to buy an answering service, not assemble one.
  • Nobody at your company is going to choose between text-to-speech providers.
  • You want the dashboard, booking, campaigns and notifications already built.

Pick Retell AI if…

  • You have engineers and are building your own product.
  • You want to pick your own model, voice and telephony stack.
  • You want pure usage-based billing with no monthly commitment.
  • You are an agency building bespoke agents for clients.
Common questions

Before you decide

Is Yomigo built on Retell?+
No. We run our own pipeline on LiveKit. The comparison here is about what you buy, not what runs underneath — Retell sells the layer, we sell the finished thing.
Retell looks much cheaper. What am I missing?+
Nothing on price — they are cheaper per minute and they say so plainly. What is not in that number is everything between "a voice answers" and "a booked job on your calendar with the address confirmed and your on-call tech texted". That work exists either way; the question is whether you do it.

Don't take our word for any of this.

Call the agent and judge it yourself. No form, no demo booking, no sales call.