A Vapi alternative for sales teams that don’t want to build
Vapi is a strong platform for developers building voice agents: you choose the transcriber, the model, the voice and the phone provider, and build the call flow. Pitaya is the finished product for one job, sales calls: describe what you sell, upload a list, and start calling today.
- No code, no providers to wire up
- $0.15 a minute, all in
- Sales-call behaviour built in
Hold queue: "Please hold while I try and connect your call."
Prospect Northgate Alarm, how may I help you?
Agent (AI) Hello, this is Alex Rivera. I'm an AI assistant calling for Dragonfruit AI. Could I get your name, and ask if you handle new product lines or partnerships there?
Prospect Uh, my name's Mike, and possibly. It depends what we're trying to do.
Agent (AI) Hi Mike. We help alarm dealers add video AI on their customers’ existing cameras, so you can offer intrusion and shoplifting detection as a service. Do you handle partnerships like that?
Prospect Yeah, it's me.
Agent (AI) Great. Are you the right person to send a one-page partner overview to?
Prospect It'd be me.
Agent (AI) What's the best email for you?
From Dragonfruit AI’s own outreach on Pitaya. Names, companies and emails changed; lightly trimmed.
What your prospects hear
A recreated example call in Pitaya’s own agent voice: a quote request, called back and booked. Sound on.
Or have the agent call you
Pick a scenario, enter your mobile, and a Pitaya agent calls in seconds.
Calling you now…
Pick up and play along: ask questions, push back, say you’re busy.
That’s a Pitaya call.
Your own agent sounds like that, calling your prospects about what you sell.
The live demo calls US and Canadian mobiles. Elsewhere, sign up and talk to your agent in your browser: the first 15 minutes are free.
What you would otherwise build
The prompt and the call flow
Pitaya writes the campaign from a sentence about your business, and you edit it in plain English.
Front desks, menus and voicemail
Built in: asking by role, “operator” at phone menus, waiting on hold, leaving voicemail after the beep.
Calling rules
AI disclosure, line-type checks, do-not-call lists and calling windows in each contact’s time zone.
Numbers and reputation
Local US numbers in the app, daily limits per number, verified caller ID.
Results
Recording, transcript, summary, captured fields and a warm-lead list for every campaign, plus a webhook for your CRM.
Vapi and Pitaya
| Vapi | Pitaya | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A platform for building voice agents | A finished AI calling product for sales |
| Setup | You (or a developer) configure the transcriber, model, voice, phone provider and call flow | Describe what you sell, upload a list, press start |
| Price | $0.05 a minute Vapi hosting, plus transcriber, model, voice and telephony at provider cost. Vapi’s own example: $82–129 for 1,000 minutes | $0.15 a minute, all in, billed per second; unanswered calls free |
| Monthly fee | None to start; support packages from $29 a month | None |
| Sales-call handling | Yours to design | Built in: front desks, phone menus, hold, voicemail, retries, calling hours |
| Compliance | Yours to design | AI disclosure, line-type checks, do-not-call list, calling windows |
Vapi facts from vapi.ai/pricing on October 11, 2026; check there for current rates. Vapi is a trademark of its owner, and Pitaya is not affiliated with it.
When Vapi is the better choice
You are building a voice product of your own, need full control over models, voices and call logic, or need something Pitaya doesn’t do, such as HIPAA support.
When Pitaya is
You want sales calls running this week, without engineering time.
What you would set up
Pitaya writes a campaign like this from a sentence about your business. You can change any line in plain English.
- Goal
- Reach whoever looks after IT at small offices and book a free 30-minute assessment.
- Opening line
- “Hi, this is Sam calling for Northwind IT. We look after IT for small offices around Phoenix. Who handles IT there?”
- Instructions
- Ask by role for whoever handles IT, then their name.
- Ask who they call when something breaks.
- Offer a free 30-minute assessment and two times.
An example with a made-up company. The agent adds the AI disclosure itself.
Pay as you go, billed per second
One price per minute covers the voice, the model, transcription and the phone call.
Add credit, and calls draw it down. Switch on auto top-up and campaigns never pause.
- Talk time, inbound and outbound
- $0.15 a minute, billed per second
- Each answered call
- At least 30 seconds ($0.075)
- Calls that ring out, are busy or fail
- Free
- Local US phone numbers
- $2 a month each
- Monthly fee, seats, contract
- None
New accounts get $1 of credit, and your agent calls your own phone three times free. A card is needed only when you add credit.
- ✓Mobile and do-not-call checks before every dial
- ✓Calling hours in each lead’s time zone
- ✓Voicemail drop, recordings and transcripts
- ✓Meeting booking and live transfer
- ✓CRM webhook (Zapier, Make, n8n)
- ✓Unlimited teammates and brands
On a typical day of our own cold calls, 500 dials came to about $45: most answered calls are short voicemails and front desks.
How Pitaya keeps your calls within the rules
- The agent says it is an AI at the start of every call (in its opening line or its first reply), and that the call is recorded. If anyone asks, it says so again.
- Every number’s line type is checked before the first call: business lines and landlines are called; mobiles only when the contact’s consent is on file.
- “Don’t call me again” goes on your workspace’s do-not-call list at once, for every campaign.
- Calls go out only inside the hours and days you set, in each contact’s own time zone.
- Your part: consent where it is needed, and checking residential numbers against the National Do Not Call Registry. Pitaya is for calling businesses; it is not for calling consumers without consent.
More in our trust and compliance page. This is not legal advice; check the rules that apply to your calls.
Questions
Is Pitaya built on Vapi? +
No. Pitaya runs its own calling stack, and is not affiliated with Vapi.
Can a developer still use an API? +
Yes. Pitaya has an API and works from AI assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and Cursor, so campaigns can be built and run without the app.
Is Pitaya cheaper than Vapi? +
Not always per minute: Vapi’s own example works out to about 8–13 cents a minute before your build time. Pitaya is 15 cents, all in, with the sales-call behaviour and compliance already built.
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Skip the build
Have a campaign calling in about ten minutes. $1 of credit to start.