Sarvam AI alternative

On phone calls, fewer errors and less than half the price at volume.

Our speech recognition also finishes the transcript sooner, and every price here counts the phone line.

Sarvam’s numbers checked 4 November 2026.

AI agents: ₹5/min to start · ₹1.50/min all-in at volume.¹

Sarvam AI and Voice Infra at a glance
Sarvam AI Voice Infra
A month of 1 lakh minutes, with the line
₹3,40,000Business, plus its line ₹1,50,000T1, line and insights
Word errors on Hindi phone calls
21.6%Saaras v4 18.3%Mira STT, 499 clips
Final transcript after the caller stops
290 msRealtime API, p80 82 msMira STT, p80
A 40-second call, pay as you go
₹3.9060-second pulses ₹3.3410-second blocks

Sarvam costs less below about 14,000 minutes a month, covers more languages, and makes fewer errors on clean read speech: 5.8% against our 10.1%.

Every detail, with sources

Side by side

Here is Sarvam beside Voice Infra.

Every price in rupees, from their own pages and ours.²

Choose your plan.

Choose your plan.

Your price · T1

₹1 a minute, ₹1.50 all-in¹

₹1,00,000 / month minimum, covers 66,600 minutes all-in

The minimum is credited to your wallet; your usage counts towards it. Our phone line adds ₹0.30 and call insights ₹0.20 a minute, if you want them. In the chart, beside Sarvam’s volume price.

Your price · T3

₹3 a minute¹

₹50,000 / month minimum, covers 16,600 minutes

The minimum is credited to your wallet; your usage counts towards it. The phone line and call insights are in the rate. In the chart, beside Sarvam’s volume price.

Your price · T5

₹5 a minute¹

₹5,000 for 1,000 minutes

Pay as you go from your wallet. The phone line and call insights are in the rate. In the chart, beside Sarvam’s pay-as-you-go price.

One minute of a call, in rupeesYour plan, beside the price it pairs with
One minute of a call, Sarvam AI and Voice Infra, in rupees
OptionBar₹ a minute
Pay as you goSarvam pay as you go, against our T5
Sarvam Voice Agents on Sarvam's own line ₹3.90
Voice Infra T5 pay as you go, no commitment ₹5all-in
On a monthly planSarvam's plans against our T3 and T1
Sarvam Pro ₹3.65
Sarvam Growth ₹3.55
Sarvam Business ₹3.40
Voice Infra T3 ₹50,000/month commitment ₹3all-in
Voice Infra T1 ₹1,00,000/month commitment + ₹0.30 phone line and ₹0.20 insights, if you want them ₹1₹1.50 with both
How we read these numbers

Each bar is one minute as Sarvam’s own pages price it, layer by layer, beside ours from our price list. A hatched end is a part of the call their price leaves out and publishes no number for, so it has no length.

  • Sarvam Voice Agents: speech, model, voice and platform ₹3.50; phone line ₹0.40 (₹0.20 per 30-second pulse)
  • Sarvam Pro: agent ₹3.25; phone line ₹0.40 (₹0.20 per 30-second pulse)
  • Sarvam Growth: agent ₹3.15; phone line ₹0.40 (₹0.20 per 30-second pulse)
  • Sarvam Business: agent ₹3; phone line ₹0.40 (₹0.20 per 30-second pulse)

Sarvam bills agent minutes in 60-second pulses and its own line in 30-second pulses, so a full minute on its line is two pulses, ₹0.40. With your own carrier, Sarvam adds nothing for the line and the carrier bills you. Its two pricing pages give different monthly fees for the same plans.

From sarvam.ai/products/voice-agents/pricing, checked . Ours from our price list.

The chart shows the plan you choose above beside the price it pairs with: our T1 and T3 beside Sarvam’s volume price, our T5 beside its pay-as-you-go price. Without that choice, every bar is listed.

What a minute costs, Sarvam AI and Voice Infra, in their words
DetailSarvam AIVoice Infra
Voice agents, published price per minute Sarvam Voice Agents ₹3.50 pay as you go, ₹3.25 Pro (₹9,999 a month), ₹3.15 Growth (₹49,999), ₹3.00 Business (₹1,99,999), in 60-second pulses sarvam.ai T1 ₹1/min with ₹1,00,000/month T3 ₹3/min with ₹50,000/month; T5 ₹5/min pay as you go, phone line and insights included
The agent's phone line Extra: Sarvam telephony (Vobiz) ₹0.20 per 30-second pulse, numbers ₹59 per 30 days, or your own carrier at no Sarvam charge one docs page says telephony is included sarvam.ai Included on T5 and T3 ₹0.30/min on T1; your own Plivo number carries no Mirai telco charge

What an agent costs at your volume

Both of us price in rupees, so the comparison is simple. Here is a month of calls on each company’s own line, before GST, on the plan each of us would put you on.

Minutes a month Sarvam, agent + its line Voice Infra
1,000 ₹3,500 + ₹400 = ₹3,900 (pay as you go) ₹5,000 (T5, line included)
10,000 ₹32,500 + ₹4,000 = ₹36,500 (Pro) ₹50,000 (T5 or T3)
50,000 ₹1,57,500 + ₹20,000 = ₹1,77,500 (Growth) ₹1,00,000 (T1, with ₹25,000 left as credit)
1,00,000 ₹3,00,000 + ₹40,000 = ₹3,40,000 (Business) ₹1,50,000 (T1 + line + insights)

Sarvam’s line is ₹0.20 per 30-second pulse, so ₹0.40 for a full minute. Small volumes cost less on Sarvam. From about 14,000 minutes a month, ours costs less, and at 1 lakh minutes it’s less than half.

Short calls tip it further. Sarvam rounds each call up to a whole minute; we bill in 10-second blocks. A 40-second order confirmation is ₹3.90 on Sarvam’s pay as you go and ₹3.34 on ours.

Who runs each part of the call

Like us, Sarvam runs its own speech, model and voice, with an agent platform on top. The difference is the minute: Sarvam's pricing page bills the phone line on top, and ours includes it.

Who runs each part of the call, Sarvam AI and Voice Infra
DetailSarvam AIVoice Infra
Phone line Theirs Sarvam's, or yours sarvam.ai Ours Mirai phone line, +91 numbers
Platform Theirs Sarvam Voice Agents sarvam.ai Ours Our orchestration
Speech recognition Theirs Saaras v4 docs.sarvam.ai Ours Mira STT
Language model Theirs Sarvam 105B docs.sarvam.ai Ours Gemma 4 26B, on our GPUs
Voice Theirs Bulbul v3 and v4 docs.sarvam.ai Ours Mira TTS

Models: price

Text to speech, pay as you go, ₹ per 10 lakh characters
Text to speech, pay as you go, Sarvam AI and Voice Infra, in rupees per 10 lakh characters
OptionBar₹ per 10 lakh characters
Bulbul V4 Flash ₹2,000
Bulbul V3 ₹3,000
Mira TTS every plan, from the first character ₹1,800
How we read these numbers
  • Bulbul V4 Flash: “₹2.00”, sarvam.ai
  • Bulbul V3: “₹3.00”, sarvam.ai
  • Mira TTS: 1.80 rupees per 1,000 characters, on every plan, from our price list.

On Growth and Business, V4 Flash is ₹1,700 and V3 ₹2,700 per 10 lakh characters. Ours stays ₹1,800.

From sarvam.ai/api-pricing, checked . Ours from our price list.

Speech to text, ₹ per hour of audio
Speech to text, Sarvam AI and Voice Infra, in rupees per hour of audio
OptionBar₹ per hour of audio
Sarvam, pay as you go real-time or batch ₹29.40
Mira Transcribe recorded calls, speaker labels included ₹15
How we read these numbers
  • Sarvam, pay as you go: “₹0.49/min”, sarvam.ai
  • Mira Transcribe: 15 rupees an hour of recorded audio, speaker labels included, from our price list.

₹0.49 a minute × 60. Sarvam's docs pricing page lists ₹30 an hour instead.

From sarvam.ai/api-pricing, checked . Ours from our price list.

What speech costs, Sarvam AI and Voice Infra, in their words
DetailSarvam AIVoice Infra
Text to speech, pay as you go, per 1,000 characters Bulbul V4 Flash ₹2.00 Bulbul V3 ₹3.00 sarvam.ai Mira TTS ₹1.80 (GST extra)
Text to speech on a plan, per 1,000 characters Bulbul V4 Flash ₹1.70 and Bulbul V3 ₹2.70 on Growth and Business ₹1.85 and ₹2.85 on Pro sarvam.ai ₹1.80 on Business (₹50,000/month), the same rate as pay as you go
Speech to text ₹0.49/min real-time or batch, pay as you go, on the pricing page the docs pricing page lists ₹30 an hour sarvam.ai Recorded calls ₹15 an hour of audio, speaker labels included live recognition ₹0.30 a minute of audio over HTTP or a WebSocket

What speech costs

For 10 lakh characters of speech, Mira TTS costs ₹1,800. Bulbul V4 Flash costs ₹2,000 pay as you go, or ₹1,700 on Sarvam’s monthly plans, which is a little below us. Bulbul V3 costs ₹3,000.

Languages

Languages and voices, Sarvam AI and Voice Infra
DetailSarvam AIVoice Infra
Languages Agents: 11 Indian languages and English Bulbul V4 Flash covers Hindi, English, English–Hindi and seven more Indian languages; Saaras transcribes 23 docs.sarvam.ai Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam, plus Hinglish, in speech recognition and voice

API shape

Getting started, Sarvam AI and Voice Infra
DetailSarvam AIVoice Infra
API shape Sarvam's own REST, HTTP streaming and WebSocket APIs, with Python and JavaScript SDKs docs.sarvam.ai OpenAI's POST /v1/audio/speech protocol, a WebSocket endpoint and a Pipecat integration

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Why switch

Why people switch to Voice Infra.

Everything a phone call in India needs, from one team, priced in rupees.

Mira TTS

₹1.80 per 1,000 characters.

And ₹15 an hour to transcribe a recorded call. Both from one rupee wallet.

Eight Indian languages, live.

Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. And the Hinglish in between, mid-sentence.

Speech recognition and the model run on our own GPUs in India.

The listening and the thinking: Mira STT and Gemma 4 26B. Mira TTS speaks.

Ready for the phone line.

Ask for 8 kHz μ-law or A-law and send it straight down the line. Or take 48 kHz PCM for everything else.

Phone agents, on the same key.

When you want the whole call, the same key and wallet run our voice agents.

Hear it before you decide.

Real lines from Mira TTS, one request each, unedited. Pick a language and press play.

Hear it

Two different bets

Here is how Sarvam and Voice Infra differ.

Sarvam is a strong choice if you need many Indian languages today. For phone calls, we give you more for the rupee. On Hindi phone recordings our speech recognition made fewer errors than Sarvam's Saaras v4 and finished each transcript about three times sooner. From about 14,000 minutes a month our agents also cost less than Sarvam's with the phone line counted, and at 1 lakh minutes, less than half.

Sarvam is going wide: speech, text and documents across 22 Indian languages, plus its own voice-agent platform.

We’re going deep on the call: Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam, and the mix in between, on a phone line, at a price that works for a business making thousands of calls a day. Speech recognition and the language model run on our own GPUs in India, and the phone line is in the price.

How well it hears a phone call

An agent is only as good as what it hears. On 20 October 2026 we ran Mira STT and Sarvam’s Saaras v4 on the same public recordings, through each company’s own API, and scored them the same way.

Test (word error rate, lower is better) Mira STT Saaras v4
Hindi phone calls, 8 kHz (Gramvaani, 499 clips) 18.3% 21.6%
Tamil conversation (IndicVoices, 100 clips) 25.4% 28.5%
Hindi read aloud, clean (Kathbath, 100 clips) 10.1% 5.8%

On phone audio we make fewer mistakes, and the gap is outside the test’s noise. On clean read speech Sarvam is clearly better, so if your audio is studio-quality, test both.

Speed matters as much. On 158 Hindi phone clips sent from India at real-time pace, Mira STT returned its final transcript 82 ms after the caller stopped (80th percentile). Sarvam’s Realtime API took 290 ms. That’s time your agent spends listening instead of answering.

Hear it.

Real lines from Mira TTS. Pick one, press play.

Text149 characters

Hi, मैं नेहा बोल रही हूँ Acme Store से। आपका order dispatch हो गया है और Friday तक deliver हो जाएगा। Address में कोई change करना हो तो अभी बता दीजिए।

48 kHz · MonoReady when you are

0:00 / 0:09

voice
Neha
language
Hinglish
speech
0:09
characters
149

Mira TTS, voice neha, rendered 16 Oct 2026. One request, not edited.

Text119 characters

नमस्ते, मैं श्रुति बोल रही हूँ, दाँतों के क्लिनिक से। कल सुबह डॉक्टर साहब से आपका मिलना तय है। क्या आप समय पर आ पाएँगे?

48 kHz · MonoReady when you are

0:00 / 0:08

voice
Shruti
language
Hindi
speech
0:08
characters
119

Mira TTS, voice shruti, rendered 16 Oct 2026. One request, not edited.

Text117 characters

નમસ્તે, હું આશુ બોલું છું. તમારી લોનનો હપ્તો આવતા અઠવાડિયે ભરવાનો છે. તમે કહો તો હું અત્યારે જ ભરવાની રીત સમજાવી દઉં.

48 kHz · MonoReady when you are

0:00 / 0:08

voice
Ashu
language
Gujarati
speech
0:08
characters
117

Mira TTS, voice ashu, rendered 17 Oct 2026. One request, not edited.

Text167 characters

வணக்கம், நான் நேஹா பேசுகிறேன். உங்கள் பார்சல் நாளை மாலைக்குள் வந்து சேரும். அந்த நேரத்தில் நீங்கள் வீட்டில் இல்லையென்றால் சொல்லுங்கள், வேறு நாளுக்கு மாற்றி விடுகிறோம்.

48 kHz · MonoReady when you are

0:00 / 0:10

voice
Neha
language
Tamil
speech
0:10
characters
167

Mira TTS, voice neha, rendered 17 Oct 2026. One request, not edited.

Text114 characters

నమస్కారం, నేను సమీర్ మాట్లాడుతున్నాను. నిన్న మీరు మా కొత్త ఇళ్ళ గురించి అడిగారు. ఇప్పుడు కొంచెం సేపు మాట్లాడవచ్చా?

48 kHz · MonoReady when you are

0:00 / 0:08

voice
Sameer
language
Telugu
speech
0:08
characters
114

Mira TTS, voice sameer, rendered 17 Oct 2026. One request, not edited.

Which to pick

Which is right for you?

Sometimes it's them. We'll say so.

Choose Sarvam if…

  • You need Odia or Punjabi today. Bulbul speaks 11 languages and Saaras transcribes 23.
  • You want a huge voice catalogue. Bulbul V4 Flash has 200+ voices.
  • Your agent volume is small. Sarvam's pay-as-you-go minute costs less than our T5.
  • You want translation and document APIs from the same supplier.

Choose Voice Infra if…

  • You want the phone line inside the agent's rate, not on top of it.
  • Your callers are on the phone. On Hindi phone audio our speech recognition makes fewer errors and finishes sooner.
  • You make a lot of calls. From about 14,000 minutes a month we cost less, and at 1 lakh minutes, less than half.
  • Your code already uses OpenAI's speech API. Switching is a new base URL and a model name.
  • You want speech, transcription and full phone agents from one team, on one key.

Moving

Moving your code across is easy.

Your code stays. Three values change.

  1. Step 1

    Start free.

    Look around with no sign-up. We ask for an email only when you test a call, and the workspace gets its credit then.

  2. Step 2

    Bring your prompt.

    Paste the prompt you already wrote into Agent Studio, and pick a voice and a language.

  3. Step 3

    Talk to it. Go live.

    Test it in your browser or on your own phone, then go live the same day.

Switching takes an afternoon

Mira TTS speaks OpenAI’s speech API. Point your client at our URL, change the model name, pick a voice and you’re done. Ask for 8 kHz μ-law and the audio is ready for a phone line. The OpenAI-compatible TTS guide walks through the first request.

Before you switch, take twenty lines from your own calls, with names, rupee amounts and English words dropped in. Play both voices to people who speak the language every day, without saying which is which. Then decide.

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=os.environ["MIRA_API_KEY"],
    base_url="https://sandbox.voice.miraiminds.co/v1",  # 1. our URL
)

with client.audio.speech.with_streaming_response.create(
    model="mira-tts",       # 2. our model
    voice="ashu",           # 3. one of our voices
    response_format="pcm",  # always send it
    input="चलिए, आपका order कल deliver होगा।",
) as response:
    for chunk in response.iter_bytes():
        ...  # raw 16-bit mono PCM at 48 kHz, playable as it arrives

Questions

Here is what people ask before switching from Sarvam.

Which voice sounds better, Mira TTS or Bulbul?

Listen to both on your own lines. Take twenty sentences from your calls, with names, rupee amounts and English words in them, and play both voices to people who speak the language every day, without saying which is which. We don't quote a leaderboard score for Mira TTS today.

Is Mira TTS priced like the agents?

No. A whole phone agent on our volume plan is ₹1.50 a minute with our phone line and call insights, ₹1 before them. The voice on its own is ₹1.80 per 1,000 characters.

Is Sarvam's agent cheaper than yours?

Below about 14,000 minutes a month, yes. Sarvam's pay as you go is ₹3.50 a minute plus ₹0.40 for a full minute on its line, against our ₹5 with the line included. From about 14,000 minutes a month we cost less, and at 1 lakh minutes Sarvam is about ₹3,40,000 with its line, against ₹1,50,000 on our T1 with our line and call insights. On short calls the billing unit matters too: a 40-second call is ₹3.90 on Sarvam's pay as you go and ₹3.34 on ours.

Which one is faster?

On speech recognition, ours. In our test on 20 October 2026, on 158 Hindi phone recordings sent from India at real-time pace, Mira STT returned its final transcript 82 ms after the caller stopped (80th percentile). Sarvam's Realtime API took 290 ms. We haven't timed Bulbul's voice, so we make no claim about it.

Is Voice Infra better value than Sarvam?

For phone calls at volume, yes. On Hindi phone audio our speech recognition made fewer errors (18.3% word error rate against 21.6%) and finished sooner, and from about 14,000 minutes a month our rate with the line is lower. Sarvam is better on clean read speech, covers more languages, and is cheaper for small volumes.

Do you speak Tamil, Telugu or Bengali?

Tamil and Telugu, yes, and Bengali, Marathi, Kannada and Malayalam too. Our agents call in all eight with Hindi and Gujarati, and the Hinglish in between, in our speech recognition and our voice. Sarvam covers a few more, Odia and Punjabi among them.

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Finding a time for us…

  1. AI agents: T5 is ₹5 a minute, pay as you go, with our phone line and call insights included. At volume, T1 is ₹1 a minute on ₹1,00,000 a month, and ₹1.50 with our phone line (₹0.30) and call insights (₹0.20). Prices exclude GST.

  2. Sarvam AI’s figures are from its own pages, linked beside each one and listed under Sources, checked . Ours are from our price list and docs.

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