AI voice agents · RankedVapi
Vapi is a developer platform for building AI voice agents · vapi.ai ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Retell AI is first at 15%.
CloudTalk is first at 25%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Synthflow is first at 19%.
Why models recommend it
“Choose Vapi or Retell AI if you are a developer or team building a scalable, customized phone agent”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comparative question · first choice
“Vapi offers the most flexibility—you can swap speech-to-text, LLM, and TTS providers”MiniMax M2.5 · Comparative question · first choice
“Often cited as having the most flexible infrastructure... Choose Retell AI or Vapi”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Comparative question · first choice
“Top Pick: Vapi ... It offers a free plan to start. You only pay for what you use.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Multiple AI model reviews flag Vapi with a high negative share (43% negative labels in one analysis).”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
“Vapi - 43% of labels are negative, and 8 out of 14 models have negative sentiments.”Llama 4 Maverick · Negative question · warning
“Vapi, if you want a turnkey, low-maintenance setup or maximum control over the whole stack. Its docs say recordings, logging, and transcription are enabled by default”GPT-6 Luna · Negative question · warning
“Do not rely solely on "SOC 2 Type 2" marketing claims... can require substantial engineering, testing, monitoring, and ongoing maintenance”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Vapi, over the 135 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 120 | 26 | Compare → | |
| 88 | 1 | View → | |
| 76 | 15 | Compare → | |
| 40 | 6 | Compare → | |
| 35 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 33 | 12 | Compare → | |
| 26 | 1 | View → | |
| 23 | 4 | View → | |
| 18 | 0 | View → | |
| 16 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Vapi →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 132 of the 135 answers that named Vapi and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
365 of the 365 domain citations in answers naming Vapi came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 171 | 11 | 2026-09-23 | ||
| Template or tool | 37 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 34 | 1 | 2026-08-25 | ||
| Case study | 11 | 0 | 2026-05-07 | ||
| Report or ebook | 10 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 6 | 0 | 2025-06-09 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 5 | 2 | 2026-09-24 | ||
| Conference or event | 3 | 1 | 2026-09-16 | ||
| Podcast or video | 2 | 0 | 2025-05-23 | ||
| News or press | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-24Behind the features webinar qa webinar or virtual event
- 2026-09-23Early experiment with jev blog
- 2026-09-16The Frontier Voice AI summit is back. Here's who's coming. - Vapi AI Blog conference or event
- 2026-09-03GPT-Live is coming to Vapi: private beta and public waitlist - Vapi AI Blog blog
- 2026-08-31Campaigns, rebuilt: scale outbound calling with Vapi - Vapi AI Blog blog
- 2026-08-25Build vs. buy: what you're really deciding with voice agents - Vapi AI Blog comparison
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page vapi.ai exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.