An AI agent for ecommerce order support in India costs ₹2 per minute on Dvaarik, charged from the very first minute, with no voice subscription and no minimum volume. For a D2C brand shipping 1,200 orders a month — 600 of them COD — the realistic monthly total is about ₹6,600: 1,800 billed voice minutes at ₹2/min (₹3,600), around 500 WhatsApp and Instagram order conversations at ₹2 each (₹1,000), and the ₹1,500 per 30 days phone number recharge, all debited from one prepaid credit balance. That works out to ₹3 of voice per order shipped, or ₹5.50 per order once chat and the number are included. Two things make that number honest rather than a headline. First, billing is whole-minute, so a 40-second COD confirmation call bills as one minute — the maths below already assumes 1.5 billed minutes per COD order rather than pretending calls are free at the margin. This page works the arithmetic for ecommerce specifically — COD confirmation, WISMO calls, NDR callbacks, return pickups — and puts Dvaarik's rate next to what twelve other Indian voice-AI vendors published on their own pages on 21 Jul 2026, including what each of those rates actually requires you to buy first.
What does AI order support actually cost a D2C brand in India?
Dvaarik is self-serve SaaS today: there is no setup fee and no minimum commitment. You log in, add your services, staff, hours and knowledge, connect channels, and pay only for what your agents actually do.
| What | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| AI voice calls | from ₹2/min | Simple per-minute billing on whole minutes; higher grades up to ₹5/min |
| AI chat | ₹2 per conversation | 24-hour window |
| Phone number + 1 concurrent line | ₹1,500 per 30 days | Includes up to 3 numbers; debited from credits |
| Social Plan — WhatsApp + Instagram agents + campaigns | ₹1,500 per 30 days | Only if you use those channels |
| WhatsApp message charges | ₹0 markup | Meta bills your own WhatsApp Business account directly |
The comparison above states the published row-by-row differences; read each row with its source, date, and qualifying notes.
Credits are prepaid and never expire; at zero balance agents pause gracefully, so there are no surprise bills. Agencies and developers can sell the same platform under their own brand through the white-label partner programme, and set their own client pricing.
Which order-support jobs actually pay for themselves?
Generic "AI receptionist" copy assumes one job: answer the phone. An ecommerce operation has at least five distinct jobs, and they have very different economics.
1. COD confirmation before dispatch. The agent calls every COD order shortly after it is placed, confirms the item, the address and that the customer still wants it, and marks the order confirmed, cancelled or unreachable in whatever your team already works from. This is the highest-value call a D2C brand makes, because it happens *before* you have paid forward shipping.
2. Order status — the WISMO call. "Where is my order." The agent reads the current status against the order record, states the expected delivery window, and pushes the tracking link to WhatsApp so the customer stops calling. These are short calls, but they are the bulk of inbound volume during a sale week.
3. NDR and failed-delivery callbacks. When a courier marks a shipment undelivered — customer unreachable, address incomplete, asked to reschedule — the agent calls the same day, gets a corrected address or a new delivery date, and hands it back. A same-day callback on an NDR is worth more than a same-day callback on almost anything else you do.
4. Returns and exchange pickup coordination. Confirming the pickup window, checking the item is packed and available, and reducing the number of failed reverse pickups that cost you a second attempt.
5. Checkout drop-off callbacks — to your own customers only. If a logged-in customer abandoned a checkout, the agent can call back within about 60 seconds. This is the speed-to-lead pattern applied to carts. Dvaarik agents call only your own customers and your own order records — never bought or scraped lists. Calling hours are respected and the agent identifies your brand at the start of the call.
What is *not* on this list matters as much. Cold prospecting, review-farming calls and "just checking in" campaigns burn minutes and goodwill without moving an order, and we will tell you so before we build them.
What does a month look like for a brand shipping 1,200 orders?
Dvaarik is self-serve SaaS today: there is no setup fee and no minimum commitment. You log in, add your services, staff, hours and knowledge, connect channels, and pay only for what your agents actually do.
| What | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| AI voice calls | from ₹2/min | Simple per-minute billing on whole minutes; higher grades up to ₹5/min |
| AI chat | ₹2 per conversation | 24-hour window |
| Phone number + 1 concurrent line | ₹1,500 per 30 days | Includes up to 3 numbers; debited from credits |
| Social Plan — WhatsApp + Instagram agents + campaigns | ₹1,500 per 30 days | Only if you use those channels |
| WhatsApp message charges | ₹0 markup | Meta bills your own WhatsApp Business account directly |
The comparison above states the published row-by-row differences; read each row with its source, date, and qualifying notes.
Credits are prepaid and never expire; at zero balance agents pause gracefully, so there are no surprise bills. Agencies and developers can sell the same platform under their own brand through the white-label partner programme, and set their own client pricing.
What do Indian voice-AI vendors publish per minute, and what does it take to get that rate?
Every figure below was read on the vendor's own page on 21 Jul 2026 and is stored with the sentence it came from. Nothing here comes from a search snippet, an AI summary or a rival's comparison page — each of those produced at least one demonstrably false number during collection.
| Vendor | Published voice rate | What it takes to get that rate | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dvaarik | ₹2/min | Nothing. First minute, no voice plan, no minimum volume, no lock-in. ₹1,500/30d number recharge is separate and stated | 21 Jul 2026 |
| Trikon | ₹5/min flat | Pay-as-you-go, ₹0 setup, no platform fee. Telephony/DID is excluded and billed by your own carrier | 21 Jul 2026 |
| ConnectAI | ₹4/min (8 credits) | Requires the ₹800/month subscription (₹499/month as a Suite add-on) plus a one-time ₹1,000 onboarding for new clinics. Product is scoped to clinics | 21 Jul 2026 |
| Botsense | ₹9/min Starter · ₹7/min Growth · ₹5/min Enterprise | The pricing section is headed "No monthly commitment" and the Starter card repeats it; the ₹5/min Enterprise tier is a Contact-Sales card. GST treatment is not stated anywhere on the page | 21 Jul 2026 |
| Agni by Ravan.ai | "upto ₹2/min" | Published as the Enterprise volume rate at 10,000+ minutes, quote-only. The buyable entry is ₹2,999/month with 300 minutes and ₹8/min overage; Growth is ₹5,999/month with ₹6/min overage | 21 Jul 2026 |
| Bolna AI | 6.00¢/min, which Bolna's own page displays as ₹5.52/min | Standard rate on prepaid credits, no voice subscription. Falls to 4.51¢ only at a $3,000 one-time load. Bolna's docs state telephony and a flat platform fee sit on top; that fee's amount is not published | 21 Jul 2026 |
| Edesy | ₹6/min pay-as-you-go · ₹5/min on Pro | PAYG needs a ₹500 minimum recharge and adds telephony at $0.07/min. The ₹5/min rate requires the ₹1,499/month Pro plan (300 minutes included) | 21 Jul 2026 |
| HuskyVoice.AI | ₹4/min | Enterprise volume only. The entry plan is ₹1,999/month, which includes 100 voice credits at 2 credits = 1 minute, i.e. 50 minutes; the overage rate on that tier is not published | 21 Jul 2026 |
| Scalify Labs | ₹0.40/min | Self-labelled as an estimate with "always get a formal quote" attached, and it sits on top of a ₹15,000/month plan with a 10,000 minutes/month minimum, a 3-month commitment and ₹15,000–₹40,000 one-time setup | 21 Jul 2026 |
| Aixclerate | ₹7/min (withdrawn 29 Jul 2026) | This is the overage rate above the bundle, not a standalone rate. The lowest published entry is ₹9,999/month for 500 minutes | 21 Jul 2026 |
| MyOperator | No ₹/min published | AI voice starts at ₹10,000/month with 2,000 minutes, plus a one-time ₹20,000 onboarding, billed annually. Voice overage is published as ₹8 per conversation | 21 Jul 2026 |
| VaniAgent | ₹4.5–5.5/min | On the Metered Credits plan, base ₹4,999/month; the ₹4.5 end is the lower voice tier | 21 Jul 2026 |
| Dhiyo AI Labs | "starts at ₹5/min" | A floor, not a rate. Dhiyo states twice that final pricing depends on call volume, workflow, setup, language, integration and use case; its own pricing page shows "Custom" for every tier | 21 Jul 2026 |
The comparison above states the published row-by-row differences; read each row with its source, date, and qualifying notes.
Two cautions we apply to ourselves as well as to them. Vendors' claims about *other* vendors are not evidence: Trikon publishes third-party rates that contradict those vendors' own pages, and Edesy's comparison tool claims ₹1.50/min for Edesy while Edesy's own pricing page says ₹6/min pay-as-you-go. Where the two disagree we use the vendor's pricing page, not its marketing tool. And we do not claim to be the lowest-priced option in India. The claim we will defend is about terms: ₹2/min from the very first minute, no voice plan, no minimum volume, no lock-in. Seven of the vendors above — ConnectAI, Aixclerate, MyOperator, HuskyVoice.AI, VaniAgent, Agni and Scalify Labs — publish no route to a first call that does not begin with a monthly plan.
What does an 1,800-minute D2C month cost on each vendor?
The subject described in this section: This table is our arithmetic applied to their published figures as of 21 Jul 2026 — not quotes from them, and not a claim about what a salesperson would offer you. Telephony is excluded except where the vendor publishes it. GST is excluded throughout: Agni and VaniAgent publish that their prices exclude 18% GST, as do ours, while Botsense and ConnectAI publish no GST treatment at all.
| Vendor | Basis used | Platform cost for 1,800 minutes | What is still on top |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dvaarik | ₹2/min, no plan | ₹3,600 | ₹1,500/30d number recharge (from the same credits) → ₹5,100 |
| ConnectAI | ₹800/mo + ₹4/min | ₹8,000 | One-time ₹1,000 onboarding for new clinics; GST treatment not published |
| Edesy (Pro) | ₹1,499/mo + 300 min incl. + ₹5/min | ₹8,999 | Telephony at $0.07/min |
| Trikon | ₹5/min flat, ₹0 setup | ₹9,000 | DID/telephony from your own carrier, amount not published |
| Bolna AI | ₹5.52/min (Bolna's own INR conversion at a hard-coded 92 INR/USD) | ₹9,936 | Telephony, plus a Bolna platform fee whose amount is not published |
| MyOperator | ₹10,000/mo incl. 2,000 min, billed annually | ₹10,000 | One-time ₹20,000 onboarding; GST stated as applicable; Meta charges extra |
| Agni (Growth) | ₹5,999/mo incl. 1,000 min + 800 × ₹6 overage | ₹10,799 | Twilio pass-through published by Ravan as ~₹1.08/min outbound, ~₹0.71/min inbound; prices exclude 18% GST |
| Edesy (pay-as-you-go) | ₹6/min | ₹10,800 | Telephony at $0.07/min; ₹500 minimum recharge |
| Botsense (Growth) | ₹7/min | ₹12,600 | Rounding and GST treatment not published |
| Aixclerate (Starter) | ₹9,999/mo incl. 500 min + 1,300 × ₹7 | ₹19,099 | Call recording ₹0.20/min; extra number ₹699 (withdrawn 29 Jul 2026) |
| Scalify Labs | — | Not purchasable at this volume. Published minimum is 10,000 minutes/month on a 3-month commitment | ₹15,000/month plan and ₹15,000–₹40,000 setup before any minutes |
| HuskyVoice.AI | — | Not computable from published figures. The ₹1,999/month entry plan includes 50 minutes (100 credits at 2 credits/min) and the overage rate for that tier is not published | — |
The comparison above states the published row-by-row differences; read each row with its source, date, and qualifying notes.
The last two rows are the point of the table. A rate you cannot buy at your volume is not a price, and a plan whose overage rate is unpublished cannot be compared at all. If a vendor will not tell you what minute 1,801 costs, that is information.
What does the agent have to prevent before it pays for itself?
We do not publish an RTO-cost figure for your brand, because we have not measured your brand. Several pages ranking for this query do publish one as their own unsourced estimate, with no citation attached to it. Use your own number instead. Here is the arithmetic with a variable in it.
COD confirmation in the worked example costs ₹1,800 a month for 600 COD orders — ₹3 per COD order confirmed.
If your fully loaded cost per return-to-origin is R rupees (forward shipping + reverse shipping + packaging + handling + the acquisition cost you already spent), then confirmation pays for itself the moment it prevents 1,800 ÷ R returns in the month:
| Your fully loaded RTO cost (R) | Returns that must be prevented to break even | As a share of 600 COD orders |
|---|---|---|
| ₹200 | 9.0 | 1.5% |
| ₹300 | 6.0 | 1.0% |
| ₹400 | 4.5 | 0.75% |
| ₹600 | 3.0 | 0.5% |
The comparison above states the published row-by-row differences; read each row with its source, date, and qualifying notes.
Everything above that line is margin you keep. Cancelling an order on the confirmation call is also a win, not a loss — you never paid to ship it.
Apply the same discipline to the inbound side. 300 WISMO calls cost ₹1,200, or ₹4 per call answered. Put that against what one hour of your support team costs you, using your payroll and not a benchmark we invented. If your team already answers those calls comfortably at your current volume, say so, and we will build the COD and NDR flows first and leave inbound alone until a sale week breaks it.
What is not inside the ₹2/min rate?
Three things, all stated up front rather than discovered on an invoice.
**GST.
The phone number. ₹1,500 per 30 days, auto-debited from credits, covering the number and one concurrent line. On a sale day when 40 people call at once, one concurrent line takes them one at a time — extra concurrency is ₹1,500/month per line and is worth buying before a campaign, not during it. If your balance runs short the number pauses and a top-up resumes it.
WhatsApp's own charges. Meta bills WhatsApp conversation charges directly to your own WhatsApp Business account. Dvaarik adds zero markup on them. What we charge is ₹2 per conversation for the agent handling it, within a 24-hour window.
One more thing that is not hidden but is often misread: billing is whole-minute, the telecom standard. A 40-second COD confirmation bills as one minute. We say it plainly and the worked example is built on 1.5 billed minutes per COD order for exactly that reason. Anyone modelling this at 40 seconds × ₹2 ÷ 60 is going to be unpleasantly surprised, whoever they buy from.
What will the agent not be allowed to decide?
An order-support agent that improvises on money is a liability. The boundaries we build in by default:
- No refund, discount or compensation decisions. The agent states your published policy and hands the conversation to a human with the transcript attached.
- Damaged, wrong or missing items go straight to a human, because they need photographs and a judgement call.
- Payment disputes and chargebacks are never handled by the agent.
- An angry or abusive caller is transferred, not argued with.
- No cold calling, ever. Outbound goes only to your own customers and your own order records — never bought, scraped or rented lists. Calling hours are respected, and the agent identifies your brand in the first sentence.
Everything the agent does is logged: transcript, captured intent, the field it wrote back to your order record. Today Dvaarik is self-serve with no setup fee and no required plan — usage is prepaid credits, voice from ₹2/min with whole-minute billing.
You do not have to take any of this on faith. The live demo agent is on app.dvaarik.com/dvaarik-ai — talk to it, interrupt it, switch language mid-sentence, and judge it before you spend anything.
Is there a setup fee or minimum commitment?
Dvaarik is self-serve SaaS today: there is no setup fee and no minimum commitment. You log in, add your services, staff, hours and knowledge, connect channels, and pay only for what your agents actually do.
| What | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| AI voice calls | from ₹2/min | Simple per-minute billing on whole minutes; higher grades up to ₹5/min |
| AI chat | ₹2 per conversation | 24-hour window |
| Phone number + 1 concurrent line | ₹1,500 per 30 days | Includes up to 3 numbers; debited from credits |
| Social Plan — WhatsApp + Instagram agents + campaigns | ₹1,500 per 30 days | Only if you use those channels |
| WhatsApp message charges | ₹0 markup | Meta bills your own WhatsApp Business account directly |
The comparison above states the published row-by-row differences; read each row with its source, date, and qualifying notes.
Credits are prepaid and never expire; at zero balance agents pause gracefully, so there are no surprise bills. Agencies and developers can sell the same platform under their own brand through the white-label partner programme, and set their own client pricing.
Frequently asked questions
How much does this cost me per order?
About ₹3 per order in voice, or ₹5.50 per order all-in, for a brand shipping 1,200 orders a month with 600 of them COD. That comes from 1,800 billed voice minutes at ₹2/min (₹3,600), roughly 500 chat conversations at ₹2 each (₹1,000) and the ₹1,500 per 30 days number recharge — ₹6,600 in total, divided by 1,200 orders. Your split between COD confirmation, order-status and NDR calls will move that figure, but the rate does not move: ₹2/min from the first minute.
Do I have to pay a monthly subscription for this?
Dvaarik is self-serve SaaS today: there is no setup fee and no minimum commitment. You log in, add your services, staff, hours and knowledge, connect channels, and pay only for what your agents actually do.
| What | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| AI voice calls | from ₹2/min | Simple per-minute billing on whole minutes; higher grades up to ₹5/min |
| AI chat | ₹2 per conversation | 24-hour window |
| Phone number + 1 concurrent line | ₹1,500 per 30 days | Includes up to 3 numbers; debited from credits |
| Social Plan — WhatsApp + Instagram agents + campaigns | ₹1,500 per 30 days | Only if you use those channels |
| WhatsApp message charges | ₹0 markup | Meta bills your own WhatsApp Business account directly |
The comparison above states the published row-by-row differences; read each row with its source, date, and qualifying notes.
Credits are prepaid and never expire; at zero balance agents pause gracefully, so there are no surprise bills. Agencies and developers can sell the same platform under their own brand through the white-label partner programme, and set their own client pricing.
Can it call my COD customers before I ship, and will that actually cut my returns?
Yes, that is the highest-value call in the set. The agent calls each COD order shortly after it is placed, confirms the item, the address and the intent to buy, and marks the order confirmed, cancelled or unreachable. At 600 COD orders a month that is ₹1,800, or ₹3 per COD order. Whether it pays for itself depends on your own fully loaded RTO cost, which we will not invent for you: if a return costs you ₹300 all-in, the spend is recovered by preventing six returns out of 600 orders — one percent. Cancellations on the call count as wins too, because you never paid to ship them.
Will it work with Shopify, or do I have to change my order panel?
You do not change anything. We build against wherever your orders already live — Shopify or WooCommerce, your OMS, your courier or shipping-aggregator panel, or a Google Sheet your team updates by hand. Where there is an API we read and write to it, so the agent can quote a live status and write back a confirmation. Where there is no API, we work from a sheet on an agreed refresh. Today Dvaarik is self-serve with no setup fee and no required plan — usage is prepaid credits, voice from ₹2/min with whole-minute billing.
My customers speak Tamil and Marathi, not just Hindi. Is that extra?
No. Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, Kannada and the other scheduled Indian languages plus English are all inside the ₹2/min Bharat Standard tier — 22+ Indian languages at the base rate, and the agent can switch mid-call when the customer does. This is worth checking on any vendor you compare: Agni publishes Hindi and English only on its ₹2,999/month Starter with all 30+ languages from Growth upward, and Botsense publishes Hindi and English only on its Starter tier, both read on their own pricing pages on 21 Jul 2026.
Is it legal to call my customers like this?
Calling your own customers about their own orders is a service call, not marketing, and that is the only kind of outbound we build. The agent calls only your own customers and your own order records — never bought, rented or scraped lists — it identifies your brand in the first sentence, and it respects calling hours. If a customer asks not to be called again, that is recorded. We will decline to build a campaign that calls a list you did not collect yourself, and we will say so before you pay anything.
I only do 200 orders a month. Is this worth it for me?
Honestly, it is borderline. At 200 orders — say 100 COD, 50 inbound status calls, 20 NDR events and 15 return pickups — you would use roughly 310 billed minutes (₹620) and about 120 chat conversations (₹240), which with the ₹1,500 number recharge comes to around ₹2,860 a month, or ₹14.30 per order. Notice that the fixed ₹1,500 number is 70% of that. At your volume the case is strong only if you are also losing orders to calls you miss after hours or during a sale spike; if your own team answers everything comfortably today, wait until volume grows or start with the COD confirmation flow alone.
Tell us your call volume on WhatsApp and we will work out your real monthly number before you commit to anything.
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Written by
Rohith Sriramula
Founder & CEO, Dvaarik AI
A laid-off engineer who went all in on Dvaarik AI. He builds the platform and product workflows from hands-on work with Indian businesses, not theory.