Tuvoz vs AgentPhone: phone numbers for AI agents compared
AgentPhone gives your agent its own number for calls, texts and inbound. Tuvoz calls US businesses for your agent and asks it mid-call. Prices and trade-offs, checked Oct 8, 2026.
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AgentPhone gives an AI agent its own phone number for calls and texts, inbound and outbound, from $3 a number per month plus 13¢ a minute when your agent runs the conversation. Tuvoz doesn’t give your agent a number: it places outbound calls to US businesses for the agent you already use, asks that agent when a question comes up, and calls you if it can’t answer.
At a glance
| AgentPhone | Tuvoz | |
|---|---|---|
| Voice price | 13¢/min with your own agent (webhook), 22¢/min with its hosted agent (pricing) | $0.12 a minute, billed per second, with a 30-second minimum per answered call leg, including calls to your own phone |
| Phone number | $3 per number per month | No number of your own. “Dedicated phone number: coming soon” |
| Texts | SMS 2¢ a segment, MMS 3¢, iMessage lines from $150/mo | No |
| Inbound calls | Yes | No |
| Starting balance | $5 of credit | 15 free minutes. Free plan includes training on your calls. |
| Countries | US and Canadian numbers (home page) | US numbers only |
| How agents connect | MCP server (OAuth or API key), Python and Node SDKs, REST, a Claude Code skill (npx skills.sh install agentphone) (GitHub) |
A skill plus a REST API. No MCP server yet |
| Agents named | Claude Code, Cursor, OpenClaw, Windsurf, any MCP client | Claude Code, Codex, claude.ai, Meta Muse, OpenClaw |
| Who talks on the call | Your agent through a webhook (it writes every reply), or AgentPhone’s hosted agent | Tuvoz’s voice agent runs the call and asks your agent only when it needs something |
What AgentPhone does well
- A real number for your agent. People can call and text it back. That’s the core of AgentPhone, and Tuvoz doesn’t offer it.
- Texts and messaging. SMS, MMS, RCS and iMessage lines, all in one webhook format.
- Full control in webhook mode. Your own server receives the live transcript and writes every reply. If you want your agent to decide each sentence, this gives you more control than Tuvoz does.
- MCP. An MCP server with 28 tools, OAuth sign-in, and SDKs. Tuvoz has no MCP server at launch.
- Canada. US and Canadian numbers.
Where Tuvoz is different
- No server to run. Tuvoz’s voice agent carries the conversation, so your agent doesn’t need a webhook that answers in real time. Claude Code, Codex or claude.ai just write a brief and watch.
- It checks with your agent, then you. The voice agent asks your agent up to 3 questions per call. If your agent doesn’t answer in time, Tuvoz phones you and relays your answer. See how the backchannel works.
- Disclosure and consent are fixed. Every call says who’s calling and why, then asks before recording. If they say no, the call ends and Tuvoz keeps nothing they said. Our AI voice provider processes their words live to run the call and may keep them for a limited time for abuse monitoring, as our Privacy Policy explains. AgentPhone’s home page doesn’t describe what its calls say about being an AI.
- Destination checks. Tuvoz checks that a number is a listed business landline (or your own phone, or a contact you confirm agreed to AI calls), blocks emergency and crisis lines, and calls businesses and contacts only between 9 am and 8 pm local time (calls to your own phone aren’t limited to those hours).
Where Tuvoz is weaker
- No number, no texts, no inbound calls, no Canada.
- Your agent can’t script each reply. It writes the brief and answers questions; the voice agent does the talking.
- Fewer destinations: no toll-free numbers, no mobile numbers unless you add them as contacts who agreed to AI calls, five states blocked (IN, LA, MN, MT, NE), North Dakota limited to listed businesses, and Texas not yet (pending a state permit).
- No MCP server or SDKs yet.
What a typical call costs
A 4-minute call to ask a hardware store whether a part is in stock:
| Cost | |
|---|---|
| Tuvoz | 240 s × $0.002 = $0.48 |
| AgentPhone, hosted agent | 4 × 22¢ = $0.88, plus $3/mo for the number |
| AgentPhone, your agent via webhook | 4 × 13¢ = $0.52, plus your model costs and $3/mo for the number |
Which should you pick?
Pick AgentPhone if your agent needs its own number, texts, or inbound calls, or if you want your code to write every reply.
Pick Tuvoz if you want Claude Code, Codex, claude.ai or Muse to get calls to US businesses done without running a server, with a person (you) as the fallback when your agent doesn’t know the answer.
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