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Pricing · pay-as-you-go wallet

One balance. One blended rate.
No surprise bills.

Fund a wallet. Build a V-Rep. Pay per minute, per message, per webhook. That's it.

Start for $10, get $20 in credit* Talk to ATHENA
$10 minimum●No contracts●No seats●Auto-recharge optional

*Optional launch promotion. Fund your wallet with the $10 minimum and opt into the $20 promotional credit to start with a $30 spendable balance. Promotional credit applies to platform usage. Subject to the Terms of Use.

In one answer

How much does ATHENA cost?

From $0.079/min on a wallet model. Four voice tiers: $0.079 (high-volume, Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite), $0.099 (balanced default, GPT 4.1 Mini), $0.129 (full GPT 4.1), $0.149 (full GPT 5.4). Email $0.04 / reply. Chat $0.03 / session. $10 minimum wallet load to start. No contracts. No per-seat fees. No platform fee.

How the wallet works

Three steps. Live in minutes.

STEP 01

Fund the wallet.

Drop in $10 to start. Stripe-backed, PCI-reduced scope, no payment details ever stored in ATHENA.

$10 minimum · auto-recharge optional
STEP 02

Build a V-Rep.

Voice, Email, or Chat. Tabs, sliders, toggles. No code. Pick your LLM, your voice, your knowledge base.

9 / 10 / 6 tabs · minutes to live
STEP 03

Pay per use.

Every minute, every message, every webhook delivery is metered against one wallet. One blended rate. One ledger.

unified billing · full transaction history
The actual rates

Numbers. Not adjectives.

Voice, email, chat. Webhook delivery included. No hidden line items. No add-on tiers. No platform fee.

Voice V-Rep
From $0.079/ min
4 tiers, $0.079 to $0.149. Tier 2 default. Bundles LLM, STT, TTS, telephony.
Bundled in the rate
  • LLM tokens (OpenRouter, GPT-5.1)
  • Speech-to-text (Deepgram nova-3)
  • Text-to-speech (5 provider choice)
  • Telephony (Vonage / Telnyx / SIP)
Chat V-Rep
$0.03/ session
Per session, not per message. Embed once, run anywhere.
Bundled in the rate
  • Embeddable widget · agent SDK
  • Session memory
  • Same KB as Voice + Email V-Reps
  • Voice handoff supported
Webhook delivery
Included
Every event. Every delivery report. No extra meter.
What ships with every webhook
  • Total / success / failed counts
  • Per-attempt HTTP status
  • Auto-retry on failure
  • Full audit trail · CSV export
Line by line, what they charge
Vapi Retell AI Bland AI ATHENA
Voice rate (all-in) $0.13 – 0.33 / min $0.07 – 0.31 / min ~$0.09 – 0.12 / min $0.099 / min blended
LLM metered separately Yes ($0.003 – 0.345/min) Yes Yes No · bundled
TTS metered separately Yes Yes Yes No · 5 providers bundled
Telephony metered separately Yes Yes Yes No · Vonage / Telnyx / SIP
Platform fee $0.05 / min n/a Custom enterprise None
HIPAA $2,000 / month add-on Add-on tier Custom Included
Email channel No No No (SMS only) Yes · $0.04 / reply
Annual contract Optional Optional Required (enterprise) No
Number of invoices 4 – 6 vendors 2 – 4 vendors 1 (enterprise) 1 wallet · 1 ledger
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Competitor rates reflect each provider's publicly listed pay-as-you-go pricing as of June 2026 and represent platform plus typical add-on components (LLM, STT, TTS, telephony) where billed separately. Pricing changes frequently; verify current rates on each provider's site. Vapi, Retell AI, and Bland AI are trademarks of their respective owners.

The math

What it actually costs at your volume.

Monthly voice minutes
10,000min
Small operator · single V-Rep
ATHENA monthly
$990/ mo
ATHENA
$0.099/min
Vapi (mid)
$0.23/min
Retell (mid)
$0.19/min
Bland (typical)
$0.12/min
At 10,000 min/mo on Tier 2, ATHENA saves you $1,310/mo vs Vapi, $910/mo vs Retell, $210/mo vs Bland.
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Inside the wallet

Every minute, every message, every webhook. In one ledger.

Wallet · IR Desk
$1,247.00
$0.099 / min blended · last 7 days
Auto-recharge on
Top up to $500 when balance < $50
Recent activity2026-05-14 · 14:32 EST
14:32Callv-rep.jeeves · 01:14−$0.11$1,247.00
14:28Emailv-rep.penelope · 1 reply−$0.04$1,247.11
14:21Chatv-rep.iris · session 2:11−$0.03$1,247.15
13:55Auto-rechargethreshold $50 → $500+$500.00$1,247.18
13:48Callv-rep.jeeves · 04:02−$0.36$747.18
12:57Callv-rep.jeeves · 00:54−$0.08$747.54
12:14Emailv-rep.penelope · 4 replies−$0.16$747.62
Frequently asked

Questions. Answered.

What does "blended rate" mean exactly?+
One per-minute price covers everything that competitors meter separately: the LLM tokens, the speech-to-text engine, the text-to-speech voice (any of five providers), and the telephony carrier. You see one rate. You get one charge per minute. There are no surprise components added at month-end.
Is the $10 minimum a deposit or a fee?+
A deposit. The full $10 funds your wallet and is metered against your actual usage. You can also opt into a $20 credit promotion when you start, which doubles your initial spendable balance to $30.
What happens if my wallet runs out mid-call?+
If auto-recharge is on (default for production tenants), the wallet tops up automatically when it crosses a configurable threshold (default $50 → $500). If auto-recharge is off, in-flight calls and emails complete using a reserved buffer, but new sessions are blocked until you fund the wallet.
Can I bring my own LLM or TTS provider?+
Yes. ATHENA defaults to OpenRouter (GPT-5.1) and one of five TTS providers (Cartesia, ElevenLabs, OpenAI, Rime, Deepgram). You can override per V-Rep with your own LLM endpoint or voice. The blended rate adjusts accordingly.
Are HIPAA and PII handling included?+
Yes. PII redaction runs at ingestion on every Voice and Email V-Rep. PHI masking is part of the standard pipeline. HIPAA-aligned posture is included in the wallet rate. Unlike competitors that charge $2,000/month for HIPAA tiers, ATHENA does not gate compliance behind a paywall.
Can I export my ledger?+
Yes. Every transaction is exportable as CSV. The same export endpoint covers wallet activity, call history, email history, and webhook delivery logs. Pipe it into your BI tool or accounting system.

Start for $10.
No contracts.

Fund a wallet. Build a V-Rep. Go live in minutes.
Cancel any time.

Start for $10, get $20 in credit* Talk to ATHENA

*Optional launch promotion. Fund your wallet with the $10 minimum and opt into the $20 promotional credit to start with a $30 spendable balance. Promotional credit applies to platform usage. Subject to the Terms of Use.