AI Voice Agents in India: Which Languages Each One Speaks

Bolna (₹5.52 a minute for the AI, telephony extra) and Ringg AI (₹6 a connected minute, telephony included) are the Indian voice-agent platforms that show both a rupee price and the Indian languages they speak. Sarvam, SquadStack and Gnani.ai name more Indian languages but quote prices only on request.

A language count on a homepage tells you little about your own calls. This page lists the Indian languages each vendor names, what 1,000 minutes a month costs on each, and the check that catches most gaps before you pay.

Quick picks:

• Hindi and Hinglish with a rupee rate: Bolna, ₹5.52 a minute for the AI plus telephony, with $5 of free credit to test.
• South Indian languages, self-serve: Ringg AI names Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam, at ₹6 a connected minute with telephony included.
• Longest named list of Indian languages: Sarvam and Gnani.ai, nine each, both on quotes.
• Someone else runs it: SquadStack for high-volume sales campaigns (90-day pilot), or telecaller.ai for small teams at ₹19,999 a month.
• Already on Exotel or MyOperator: ask for their voicebot first; both name Hindi and Hinglish.

Which Indian languages each AI voice agent names

"20+ languages" or "100+ languages" is a count, not a list. The table shows only the Indian languages each vendor names on its own site.

How we compared: languages and prices from each provider's official page, checked in September 2026. Prices exclude 18% GST unless stated.

Four more names come up in Indian searches. Haptik claims 100+ languages and prices on request, and Superfone says its AI receptionist "speaks in 10 languages" without naming them.

Skit.ai now sells debt-collection software, and Awaz.ai bills in USD ($0.40 a minute on its $29 Starter plan) without naming an Indian language.

Why a listed language can still fail on your calls

A voice agent needs two engines for every language: one to understand the caller and one to speak back. Retell's documentation says each language must be supported by both a voice provider and a speech-recognition provider. Its table has rows for Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Marathi and Urdu, and none for Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati, Malayalam or Punjabi.

Plans can cap languages too. telecaller.ai, a managed service, includes 2 languages on its ₹19,999 Starter plan and 3 on its ₹39,999 Growth plan.

Mixed speech is a separate problem. Vapi's provider table marks the Azure and OpenAI Whisper recognisers as single-language, while Gladia and AssemblyAI's universal-3-5-pro model handle code-switching. If your callers say "order cancel kar do", read how speech recognition handles Hindi-English switching before you pick.

Which AI voice agent to shortlist for your callers

Match the shortlist to the language most of your callers use, then test the top two.

If you only need Hindi and English, a smaller platform with a rupee rate on its site is usually enough. Enterprise vendors such as Gnani.ai and SquadStack make sense once you run lakhs of calls across several states.

What 1,000 minutes a month costs

Take 1,000 minutes a month, which is about 500 calls of 2 minutes. Here is the bill on five products, before GST; the arithmetic is ours, from each vendor's rates.

1. Bolna: 1,000 × ₹5.52 = ₹5,520 for the AI alone. Bolna's docs bill telephony and a platform fee on top of this flat rate without a rupee figure, and an Indian number bought through Bolna costs $5 a month. Treat ₹5,520 as the floor.
2. Ringg AI: 1,000 × ₹6 = ₹6,000, plus ₹499 for the number = ₹6,499, with telephony included. Ringg also sets a monthly minimum commitment.
3. Superfone AI Sales Agent, quarterly plan: ₹12,500 buys a pool of 2,100 minutes a quarter, about ₹4,167 and 700 minutes a month. Add 300 minutes at its ₹5 top-up rate (₹1,500) for ₹5,667, plus a one-time ₹1,500 setup. Its agent follows Superfone's pre-set sales flow, not your own script.
4. telecaller.ai Starter: ₹19,999 a month for one agent and up to 1,500 minutes, plus a ₹15,000 one-time setup fee and a 3-month minimum. The vendor builds and runs the agent for you.
5. Retell AI: 1,000 × $0.07 to $0.31 = $70 to $310, billed in USD. Telephony is extra: Retell's rate table lists India calls through Twilio at $0.15 a minute, another $150, unless you connect your own SIP line.

Ringg's ₹6,499 and Superfone's ₹5,667 are the firmest figures, since both include calling. The managed service costs 3 to 3.5 times as much because someone else writes, tests and fixes the agent; our managed vs self-serve cost comparison works out when that is worth it.

A 5-minute language check before you pay

Call the vendor's demo number from an ordinary mobile, in a noisy room, and do four things:

• read out your 10-digit mobile number the way your customers do, mixing Hindi and English digits;
• name a local area and a landmark, such as "Koramangala, Forum Mall ke paas";
• switch language halfway through a sentence;
• say "mujhe kisi insaan se baat karni hai" (I want to speak to a person).

Then read the transcript. If the number, the place or the handover is wrong, the agent is not ready for your customers. For a fuller check, use our 10-call Hinglish test.

Six questions for the demo call

Ask these on the sales call and write the answers down. They separate a language that works on your plan from one that works in the vendor's demo.

1. Which of my languages work on the plan I am buying? Not the enterprise plan, and not "on request".
2. Which speech recogniser and which voice run each language? A language needs both.
3. Is telephony inside the per-minute rate, and do unanswered calls cost anything? Ringg includes telephony and bills connected minutes; SquadStack bills only live-call minutes; Bolna bills telephony separately.
4. Can you give me an Indian number, and what KYC do you need? Ringg rents numbers at ₹499 a month and Bolna at $5; Sarvam rents numbers with KYC or lets you bring your own provider.
5. How does the agent hand a caller to a person? Bolna, for example, says it can "transfer call to a human agent instantly when needed". Ask whether your team member also gets the caller's details.
6. How many calls can run at once? Bolna's pilot plan allows up to 25; a campaign to 2,000 leads needs more than a handful.

The TRAI rule for AI calls you place

TRAI's spam rules deal with calls a business places, so they matter when your AI calls people. The TCCCPR (Third Amendment) Regulations 2026, notified on 18 September 2026, define any call started by software, including one using an "artificial voice", as an A2P call.

The business must declare A2P calls and the calling number ranges to its telecom operator in advance, or the calls are treated as spam (TRAI press release 119/2026). This part takes effect 60 days after the amendment is published in the Gazette. Promotional calls also need a 140-series number (TRAI press release 91/2026); our AI calling agent guide for leads covers the consent window.

Where TalkEasy by GrowEasy fits

TalkEasy by GrowEasy is a business-calling app, not a voice-AI platform. Its AI receptionist answers calls after hours, at weekends and on holidays, works out why the customer called, captures lead details and then transfers the call or books a callback. The same app gives your team a shared business number, call recording and AI call summaries.

Its product pages do not name the languages the receptionist speaks. If most of your callers speak Tamil, Bengali or another regional language, pick a vendor from the table above. For what the receptionist does and costs across providers, see our AI receptionist guide for India.

TalkEasy Pro costs ₹999 + GST a month with unlimited users; the receptionist is not on the public price list.

See how TalkEasy's AI receptionist answers your calls

Last reviewed 24 September 2026.