What is Agora?
Platform for building voice AI agents, avatars, and real-time communication (voice, video, chat). Provides conversational AI infrastructure with <200ms global latency, serving 450,000 developers across 3+ billion devices.
Agora pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Usage-based pricing from $0.10/minute (Conversational AI) to $3.99/1000 minutes (Video). Free tier includes 10,000 minutes/month on core products.
Conversational AI Engine
- free_minutes
- 300/month
Video Calling
- free_minutes
- 10,000/month
Voice Calling
- free_minutes
- 10,000/month
Interactive Live Streaming
- free_minutes
- 10,000/month
Convo AI Device Kit
- free_minutes
- 10,000/month
Agent Studio
Contact salesWhat Agora does
The capabilities that matter for communication apis, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- SMS
- -
- Voice
- ✓
- -
- RCS
- -
- Transactional email
- -
- Video / real-time
- ✓
- In-app chat
- ✓
- Verify / OTP / 2FA
- -
- Two-way messaging
- ✓
- Geographic coverage
- Global
- Email deliverability tools
- -
- Published per-unit pricing
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- iOS
- macOS
- Web
- Android
- Windows
- Cloud / SaaS
Agora alternatives
Other communication apis we track, ranked by the same independent score.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Agora, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 100 | 30.00 | 2998.5 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 55 | 22.00 | 1210.0 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 12.00 | 1200.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 75 | 12.00 | 896.7 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 8.00 | 640.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 16.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"chat":true,"video":true,"voice":true,"two_way":true,"global_coverage":"global","usage_pricing_transparent":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |