Features, pricing, and fit
Compare Cognigy.AI and Realtime API on voice capabilities, pricing, and fit.
Compare Cognigy.AI and OpenAI Realtime for AI phone agents, then match channels, workflows, and deployment models to your call flow.
Conversational AI platform with Webchat, SIP Voice Gateway, Voice Copilot, REST, Socket, Webhook, and MCP endpoints.
Teams that need one flow reachable through phone, web, API, and custom endpoint surfaces.
Explore its buying criteria: AI phone agents · Contact-center AI · Conversation builders.
Model-level realtime API for text and audio input/output over WebRTC, WebSocket, or SIP, with function calling.
Product and engineering teams building a spoken application around a realtime model instead of a packaged contact-center product.
Explore its buying criteria: AI phone agents · Voice AI platforms.
Both profiles checked 2026-09-04.
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Cognigy.AI: Not publicly documented OpenAI Realtime: Token-based API pricing for text, audio, and image modalities; audio input/output rates are published per million tokens. Ask both vendors to quote the same expected workload, required channels, and implementation scope. Include required subscriptions and usage charges before comparing the total; the listed starting prices alone may cover different work.
The recorded knowledge and data sources for Cognigy.AI include Not publicly documented. For OpenAI Realtime, they include Not publicly documented. Ask each provider to demonstrate access for the exact systems you use, with permissions, freshness, and failure behavior. A source missing from this directory is not proof that a provider cannot support it.
Use the same representative calls, approved instructions, and escalation rules in both pilots. How does it handle interruption and uncertainty? Which actions can it complete, and which require approval? What context reaches a human during transfer? Record conversation quality, completed tasks, human handoffs, and total cost in the buyer worksheet. Check these specific cautions before launch: Cognigy.AI: Confirm current architecture, availability, call controls, data handling, language coverage, and complete cost in a scoped pilot. OpenAI Realtime: Not a turnkey contact center. Implement telephony operations, identity, tools, monitoring, evaluation, retention, and escalation.
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| Criterion | Cognigy.AI | Realtime API |
|---|---|---|
| Provider type | Enterprise conversational AI platform | Native realtime multimodal model API |
| Best fit | Teams that need one flow reachable through phone, web, API, and custom endpoint surfaces. | Product and engineering teams building a spoken application around a realtime model instead of a packaged contact-center product. |
| Key capabilities | visual flows; Voice Gateway; agent assist; analytics; tools | audio-to-audio conversation; WebRTC; WebSocket; SIP; tools |
| Team sizes | enterprise; contact centers | startup; mid-market; enterprise; developer |
| Call surfaces | phone / PSTN; API / SDK | WebRTC; WebSocket; SIP; API / SDK |
| Voice stack | Cascaded pipeline with configurable STT and TTS vendors | Native audio input/output with tool calling |
| Telephony | SIP; contact-center integrations; Voice Gateway | SIP connection; carrier integration remains buyer responsibility |
| Call controls | Not publicly documented | Not publicly documented |
| Languages | Not publicly documented | Not publicly documented |
| Integrations | Not publicly documented | Not publicly documented |
| Knowledge and data | Not publicly documented | Not publicly documented |
| Pricing model | Not publicly documented | Token-based API pricing for text, audio, and image modalities; audio input/output rates are published per million tokens. |
| Pricing signal | Not publicly documented. | GPT-Realtime audio $32 per million input audio tokens and $64 per million output audio tokens. |
| Free plan or trial | Not publicly documented | Not publicly documented |
| What stands out | Cognigy separates endpoint choice from speech-provider choice: Voice Gateway connects SIP, while its reference lists cloud and on-prem STT/TTS vendors plus custom providers. | GPT-Realtime accepts and returns audio directly, while the Agents SDK supplies transport helpers plus tools, guardrails, handoffs, and session history. |
| Considerations | Confirm current architecture, availability, call controls, data handling, language coverage, and complete cost in a scoped pilot. | Not a turnkey contact center. Implement telephony operations, identity, tools, monitoring, evaluation, retention, and escalation. |
Teams that need one flow reachable through phone, web, API, and custom endpoint surfaces.
Cognigy separates endpoint choice from speech-provider choice: Voice Gateway connects SIP, while its reference lists cloud and on-prem STT/TTS vendors plus custom providers.
Product and engineering teams building a spoken application around a realtime model instead of a packaged contact-center product.
GPT-Realtime accepts and returns audio directly, while the Agents SDK supplies transport helpers plus tools, guardrails, handoffs, and session history.
Verify current pricing, limits, security, and required integrations directly with each provider before purchasing.
Test recognition, speech quality, interruptions, language switching, tool use, and human transfer with your own calls in the required language. Availability can vary by model, plan, and phone route.
DocsBot documents multilingual voice workflows and Japanese support. Verify the exact voice, phone path, and transfer behavior in your pilot. Review DocsBot language information ↗
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