Dvaarik vs Agni by Ravan.ai
Agni Ravan.ai vs Dvaarik: ₹2,999/mo vs ₹2/min
Both of us publish ₹2/min. The difference is what you have to buy first, and how many minutes you have to promise before that rate applies to you.
Direct SaaS setup fee is zero. Voice starts from ₹2/min. Partner wholesale rates are public.
Setup
vertical-first
Voice
core channel
Branding
white-label
Partner voice
₹1.50/min Essential
If you searched Agni, Ravan.ai or "₹2 per minute AI receptionist", read this first
Agni by Ravan.ai advertises "all-in from just ₹2/min", which is the same headline number Dvaarik publishes. So the useful comparison is not the number — it is the conditions attached to it. On Agni's own rate card, read on 26 Jul 2026, "upto ₹2/min" appears on the Enterprise tier, which is priced "Custom", and their homepage describes it as the "Enterprise volume rate at 10,000+ minutes". The tiers you can actually buy publish overage at ₹8/min (Starter), ₹6/min (Growth) and ₹4/min (Scale), each on top of a monthly plan. Dvaarik charges ₹2/min from the very first minute, with no plan to buy and no volume to reach. We are not claiming to be the lowest-priced option in India, and we do not make that claim anywhere. We are saying our rate has no volume condition on it. The second difference is what you are buying: Agni is a platform you configure, and Dvaarik is a finished agent generated from your business data.
- Do I have to buy a monthly plan before I can make a single call
- Does the advertised per-minute rate apply to me at my actual volume, or only at 10,000+ minutes
- Is telephony inside the quoted rate or billed separately on top of it — Agni's own pages answer this two different ways, so ask them
- Do I want a dashboard to configure myself, or an agent that arrives already working
- Do I need voice only, or voice plus WhatsApp on my own number, Instagram DMs, booking and payment collection as one system
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The verdict
What do the dated pages show?
Agni by Ravan.ai's cheapest buyable plan is ₹2,999 a month for 300 included minutes and ₹8/min after that, while Dvaarik charges ₹2/min from the first minute with no plan to buy. Both companies advertise ₹2/min, and that is exactly why this page exists. Agni's receptionist post says an AI receptionist is available "all-in from just ₹2/min", but on their own pricing page, read 26 Jul 2026, "upto ₹2/min" sits on the Enterprise tier priced "Custom", and their homepage qualifies it as the "Enterprise volume rate at 10,000+ minutes". Their published, purchasable tiers are Starter ₹2,999/mo (300 mins, ₹8/min overage, "Hindi + English"), Growth ₹5,999/mo (1,000 mins, ₹6/min overage, "All 30+ Indian languages"), Scale ₹12,999/mo (2,500 mins, ₹4/min overage, "All + 100+ accents & dialects") and Enterprise as a sales quote. Their pricing page also lists telephony as a separate third-party pass-through marked "Not included" — roughly ₹1.08/min outbound India, ₹0.71/min inbound India and ₹96/month for an Indian number — although their receptionist post says Agni "bundles voice (STT+TTS), the LLM, the emotion engine and telephony into one all-in rate", so the two pages disagree and you should ask them which applies to you. Their add-ons meter on top of a plan, each with a published free allowance: extra knowledge bases beyond 2 on Starter, 5 on Growth and 15 on Scale at ₹799/KB/month, knowledge-base live retrieval at ₹1/min with no free tier, and Agent Memory at ₹2/min on Scale and Enterprise. All their prices are stated exclusive of 18% GST, and we quote our own rates plainly on our pricing page. Dvaarik is a different shape of purchase. There is no plan or tier: you sign up self-serve, the agent — Receptionist, Leads, Sales, WhatsApp, Instagram, Booking or Payments — is configured from your business data, and you pay ₹2/min of talk time on simple per-minute billing and ₹2 per chat conversation, from prepaid credits that never expire. Setup is ₹0 with no conditions. Our honest monthly floor is ₹1,500 per 30 days for the phone line, number included, before any talking — quote us on that basis, not on ₹2/min alone. Top-ups start at ₹500.
Verdict: Choose Agni if you want to be live this afternoon without talking to anyone, and your need is a phone line answered. Their homepage offers "Start building free" with "5 free calls today" and "No credit card required", their pricing is fully published, and their receptionist post says "Most businesses are live in an afternoon." That is a genuinely low-friction start, and it includes free usage — ours does not: Dvaarik signup is also self-serve and free, but there are no free credits. If your volume is small and steady and you are happy to configure the agent yourself, their ₹2,999/month Starter plan is a reasonable, honestly published product. Now the money, stated plainly against our real floor rather than our headline rate. Our fixed floor is ₹1,500 a month for the phone line — below their cheapest plan at ₹2,999 — and ₹2/min applies to us at every minute while their published overage is ₹8, ₹6 or ₹4. On their published rate card we come out lower at effectively every volume, and the gap widens as minutes rise. The one place that flips is their quote-only Enterprise tier: if you genuinely run 10,000+ minutes a month and they will hold "upto ₹2/min" for you, ask them for that quote, because at that volume a negotiated enterprise rate is a real option and we would rather you got a fair price than a Dvaarik one. We are not claiming to be the cheapest AI voice option in India, and we will not, because we cannot verify it and neither can anyone else. What we claim is narrower and checkable: ₹2/min from the very first minute, no voice subscription and no minimum volume on the rate. Finally, the two products answer different questions. Agni sells you voice software, and it is more than a dumb phone tree — their pages publish appointment booking during the call and show the agent sending a UPI payment link over WhatsApp. Dvaarik hands you a working system across channels: calls answered, ad leads called back in about 60 seconds, WhatsApp follow-up on your own number with Meta billing you directly at zero markup, Instagram DM and comment-to-DM automation, bookings locked with reminders and deposits collected — one product, configured from your business data. If what you need is a phone answered well, they may be enough. If what you need is the whole enquiry-to-payment path run across voice, WhatsApp and Instagram as one system, that is the thing we sell.
| Feature | Dvaarik AI | Agni by Ravan.ai |
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| What one minute costs from the start | ₹2/min from the very first minute, with no plan to buy. Top-ups from ₹500, credits never expire. | ₹2,999/month Starter with 300 minutes included, then ₹8/min overage. If you use exactly the bundle and no more, that is about ₹10 a minute — our arithmetic from their published figures (₹2,999 ÷ 300), not a rate Agni quotes (their pricing page, 26 Jul 2026). |
| Is a subscription required to start | No. There is no plan, tier or trial. You load credits and usage draws them down. | Yes. Every published route to using Agni is a monthly platform plan with included minutes; the per-minute rates appear only as overage on top of a plan. No pay-as-you-go or credit top-up option is published (their pricing page, 26 Jul 2026). |
| What the ₹2/min headline actually is | Our published base rate, charged from minute one with no volume condition attached. Where a full breakdown is warranted: Bharat Essential ₹2/min, Standard ₹2.50/min, Studio HD ₹4/min, Premium ₹5/min, Global (99 languages) ₹4–5/min, Ultra realtime ₹10/min, call recording +₹0.10/min. | Their receptionist post reads "all-in from just ₹2/min". On their own rate card, "upto ₹2/min" sits on the Enterprise tier, which is priced "Custom", and their homepage describes it as the "Enterprise volume rate at 10,000+ minutes". The buyable published overage rates are ₹8, ₹6 and ₹4/min (their pricing page and homepage, 26 Jul 2026). |
| Minimum volume before the advertised rate applies | None on the rate itself — ₹2 applies at minute one, so a month with twenty minutes on it costs forty rupees of talk time. The ₹1,500 per 30 days phone line is separate and applies whether or not you call. | ₹2/min is described on their homepage as the Enterprise volume rate at 10,000+ minutes, and Enterprise is quote-only, so that rate is not independently verifiable from their public pages. |
| Setup fee and who builds the agent | ₹0 — self-serve signup, no setup fee, no conditions. The agent is configured automatically from your business data, with optional help from the Dvaarik team. | No setup or onboarding fee is published on their pricing page, so we make no claim either way. It is self-serve: their homepage offers "Start building free", "5 free calls today" and "No credit card required", and their receptionist post says "Most businesses are live in an afternoon." You do the building. |
| Commitment before you see value | None. No contract, no minimum commitment, top-ups from ₹500, and unused credits never expire. | Their pricing page states "No credit card to start" and "Cancel anytime", and publishes no minimum contract term — though you pay the monthly fee whether or not you use the minutes. |
| Real monthly floor before any talking | ₹1,500 per 30 days for the phone line, number included — below their cheapest plan. | ₹2,999/month on Starter, plus roughly ₹96/month for an Indian number listed as a telephony pass-through (their pricing page, 26 Jul 2026). |
| Telephony — inside the rate or on top | Inside the ₹2/min. The ₹1,500 per 30 days line covers the number and one concurrent call; each line includes up to 3 numbers. | Their own two pages disagree, so ask them. Their pricing page lists telephony as a third-party pass-through marked "Not included", at roughly ₹1.08/min outbound India, ₹0.71/min inbound India and ₹96/month for an Indian number, and its footnote says "all plans include voice, LLM, and emotion engine" without naming telephony. Their receptionist post says Agni "bundles voice (STT+TTS), the LLM, the emotion engine and telephony into one all-in rate". We cannot resolve that from outside, so we claim no win here — get it in writing before you compare totals. |
| Languages, and whether a tier gates them | 22+ Indian languages including code-mixed Hinglish on every agent, at the ₹2/min Bharat Essential rate. Nothing is gated behind a plan, because there are no plans. The 99-language Global voices are a separate ₹4–5/min option. | Claims "30+ Indian languages" — a higher headline count than ours — but gated by tier: Starter is "Hindi + English", "All 30+ Indian languages" begins at Growth (₹5,999/month), and "All + 100+ accents & dialects" at Scale (their pricing page, 26 Jul 2026). |
| Add-ons that meter on top of the plan | Call recording +₹0.10/min is the only per-minute extra we publish. We publish no separate knowledge-base or memory charge — knowledge is part of the dashboard you fill in. | Published add-ons meter on top of the plan, each with a stated free allowance: extra knowledge bases beyond 2 on Starter, 5 on Growth and 15 on Scale at ₹799 per KB per month; knowledge-base live retrieval ₹1/min with "No free tier — charged per use"; Agent Memory ₹2/min, published as available on Scale and Enterprise. Their page says the last two "stack on base per-min rate" (their pricing page, 26 Jul 2026). |
| GST treatment | All prices. | Their pricing page states "All prices exclude 18% GST" and "GST invoice provided (ITC-claimable)" with "INR billing". Same treatment as ours, so both sides compare like for like on tax, and they say the ITC point out loud. |
| Channels beyond the phone call | Seven agents from one brain on one credit balance: Receptionist, Leads (ad leads called back in about 60 seconds, lead sheet auto-filled), Sales campaigns, WhatsApp on your own number with coexistence and Meta billing your own account at zero markup from us, Instagram DM and comment-to-DM, Booking with slot-locking and reminders, and Payments links sent mid-conversation with no commission on what you collect. | Voice is the product, and it reaches past the call: their pages publish "Appointment booking" with the agent booking, rescheduling or cancelling during the call, and their homepage demo has the agent saying "I'm sending the UPI payment link on WhatsApp". What we did not find on the three pages we read on 26 Jul 2026 is any Instagram automation product (Instagram appears only as their own social link), WhatsApp as a channel you run campaigns on from your own number, or any pricing for a non-voice channel — their rate card meters minutes. |
Pick Dvaarik when
You want the full platform
- Your volume is low or spiky and you do not want to pay a monthly fee for minutes you may not use. There is no plan on our side, so a quiet month adds almost nothing beyond the ₹1,500 phone line.
- You want the advertised rate to apply to you today. Our ₹2/min is charged from the very first minute, with no plan and no minimum volume — and it is our permanent price, not an introductory discount.
- You want voice, WhatsApp and Instagram running as one system rather than a phone line plus separate tools: follow-up on your own WhatsApp number with Meta billing you directly, Instagram DM and comment-to-DM rules, and bookings and deposits handled in the same conversation.
- You run Meta or Google ads and want every new lead called back within about a minute. Speed-to-lead is the workflow Dvaarik is used for most often.
- You want the Indian languages ungated. All 22 scheduled Indian languages and code-mixed Hinglish come with every agent at ₹2/min, rather than starting at a higher tier.
- You would rather have an agent generated from your business data than a prompt console to learn — and the Dvaarik team is reachable directly, not through a ticket queue.
Consider Agni by Ravan.ai when
You need a narrower tool
- You want free usage to start. Their homepage offers "Start building free" with "5 free calls today" and "No credit card required". Dvaarik signup is also self-serve and free, but there are no free credits — the first experiment costs a small top-up with us and nothing with them.
- You genuinely run 10,000+ minutes a month. That is the volume their homepage attaches to the "upto ₹2/min" Enterprise rate. If they will hold that rate for you on a quote, it sits at or below our ₹2/min plus fixed monthly costs, and you should ask them for it rather than assume.
- You need calls answered and appointments booked, and nothing beyond that. Their pages publish "Appointment booking" with the agent booking, rescheduling or cancelling during the call, and their homepage demo shows it sending a UPI payment link — so "they only answer the phone" would be wrong, and if that is the whole job, a ₹2,999/month published plan is a straightforward way to buy it.
- Your finance team wants one predictable number. A plan with included minutes is easier to budget and approve than variable usage drawn from credits, even when the variable option works out lower.
- You want knowledge bases as a modular, self-serve product. They publish a free allowance of 2 to 15 knowledge bases by tier, extra ones at ₹799 per KB per month and live retrieval at ₹1/min, so you can add and remove them yourself. Dvaarik folds knowledge into the agent's dashboard instead, which is less granular if you want to manage many of them.
- You are evaluating the voice stack itself. Their homepage claims speech-to-speech voice AI, sub-300ms responses, emotion awareness and 100+ accents and dialects. We deliberately do not name or benchmark the technology behind our agents, so if published voice specs are your deciding factor, that is their story to tell and not ours.
Pricing at a glance
Public Dvaarik pricing stays simple.
Dvaarik AI
Direct SaaS
- Setup fee₹0
- AI voicefrom ₹2/min
- Partner Essential₹1.50/min
Partner wholesale, suggested resale, and margin tables are public on the pricing and margins page.
Agni by Ravan.ai
From ₹2,999/month (Starter — 300 minutes included, then ₹8/min overage)
- Free trial₹0
- Starter₹2,999/mo
- Growth₹5,999/mo
- Scale₹12,999/mo
Source: Agni by Ravan.ai's own pricing page (https://www.ravan.ai/pricing), homepage (https://ravan.ai/) and receptionist post (https://www.ravan.ai/blog/ai-receptionist-indian-business-2026), all re-read live on 26 Jul 2026 and cross-checked against COMPETITOR_PRICE_LEDGER_2026-07-21.md. Their page states "All prices exclude 18% GST", "GST invoice provided (ITC-claimable)", "INR billing", "No credit card to start" and "Cancel anytime". No setup or onboarding fee, no minimum contract term, no billing-rounding statement and no pay-as-you-go option are published there, so we make no claim on any of those. Prices change — check their page before you decide.
Frequently asked
Questions about Dvaarik vs Agni by Ravan.ai
Agni advertises ₹2/min and so does Dvaarik. What is the actual difference?
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Does Dvaarik claim to be the cheapest AI voice agent in India?
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Do I have to buy a monthly plan to use Agni?
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Is telephony included in Agni's per-minute rate?
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Which one handles WhatsApp, Instagram, bookings and payments?
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How fast can each one go live, and who does the work?
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What does Dvaarik actually cost in month one?
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