The one comparison where the honest answer is: they’re cheaper or level.
Telnyx owns its own carrier network end to end, and it shows in the price and the compliance paperwork. We’re not going to pretend otherwise.
Base voice rate
2¢ Lite, 5¢ Standard, 9¢ Pro
vs $0.05/min + LLM tokens + telephony
Compliance
None
vs SOC 2, HIPAA (single BAA), PCI DSS, ISO 27001, GDPR
Carrier network
Third-party (Twilio)
vs Own Tier-1 network
Point by point.
Where Telnyx is ahead of us, or simply doing something different, we’ve said so.
Pricing
Base rate
GapUs: 2¢/min Lite, 5¢/min Standard, or 9¢/min Pro; bring your own carrier on every plan, or add phone numbers from us
Telnyx: $0.05/min for the voice engine (STT + TTS + orchestration), plus LLM tokens (~$0.006/min on their hosted model) and telephony (~$0.0032–$0.005/min) separately — their own stated realistic all-in cost is about $0.056–$0.06/min
This is the one competitor on this list where we’re genuinely not the cheaper option once their stack is added up: our Standard rate plus a carrier bill is level with or above their stated all-in figure, and Lite is not available yet.
Languages
Coverage
GapUs: 49 languages, each verified on a real call
Telnyx: 80+ languages claimed, with sub-200ms latency and in-house TTS voices
Their count is a larger published number; ours is real-call-verified rather than catalog capability — a different bar, but theirs is still the bigger number.
Telephony
Network & SIP
GapUs: Bring your own number or carrier, or buy a Telnyx or Twilio number from us
Telnyx: Owns its own Tier-1 SIP/PSTN network; SIP trunking with a 99.999% uptime SLA; number porting available in 50+ countries
This is their core structural advantage — one vendor for voice, model, and telephony instead of three.
Compliance
Certifications
GapUs: None
Telnyx: SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA-eligible infrastructure under a single BAA covering the full stack, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, and GDPR with EU-region data locality
Building the agent
Builder
HaveUs: Node-based flow builder: 17 node types (extraction, knowledge-base lookup, payment, MCP call, subflow, agent handoff) built and shipped.
Telnyx: Not deeply documented publicly in what we could verify
We’re not claiming an edge here — we just couldn’t confirm enough about their builder to compare it fairly.
Telnyx publishes some of the most specific, first-party-sourced pricing and compliance detail of anyone on this list. We’re showing it straight rather than downplaying it — if carrier-grade infrastructure and a single BAA matter more to you than a flexible flow builder, that’s a real reason to pick them.
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