Five telephone handsets in a row. Four tan handsets each have a speech bubble containing a closed padlock; the fifth, outlined in terracotta, has a speech bubble showing visible price lines — the four healthcare voice AI vendors that quote privately beside the one that publishes its rate.

What Healthcare Voice AI Actually Costs (2026 Comparison)

Every major healthcare voice AI vendor gates pricing behind a custom quote. We compared what each one publishes — and published our own per-minute rate — so you can budget before you book a demo.

Prasad ThammineniHealthcare
6 min read

Every major healthcare voice AI vendor gates pricing behind a custom quote. We checked all of them, then published ours.

The short answer

As of August 2026, Agentman is the only healthcare voice AI vendor of the five compared here that publishes a rate: $10 per hour, billed by the minute, with no minimum and no monthly commitment. Prosper AI, Infinitus, SuperDial, and Assort Health each require a custom quote before a practice can learn what a call costs. At $10 per hour, a 12-minute payer call costs about $2.00 and a 3-minute patient scheduling call costs about $0.50 — arithmetic you can do before talking to anyone.

Key facts

  • 0 of 4 competing voice vendors publish a per-call or per-minute rate (Infinitus, SuperDial, Assort Health, and Prosper AI, checked 2026-08-06)
  • Infinitus's pricing page describes "annual platform and license fees combined with usage (i.e. per task or minute)" with discounts tied to "multi-year contracts and monthly minimums" — but no figure
  • A manual eligibility verification costs a provider $7.97 per transaction, versus $2.18 fully electronic (2023 CAQH Index, Average Cost per Transaction by Mode, Medical)
  • Agentman publishes $10/hour pay-as-you-go or $1,500/provider/month flat for unlimited calls

Voice AI pricing comparison

VendorPricing published?What they publishPrimary buyer
Agentman (Medman)Yes$10/hour billed by the minute, no minimum; or $1,500/provider/mo unlimitedIndependent and specialty practices
Prosper AINoUsage-based, custom quotePractices and outpatient groups
InfinitusNoPlatform + license fees plus per-task or per-minute usage; multi-year minimums for discountsPayers, pharma, large provider orgs
SuperDialNoDemo required for pricingRCM companies, health systems, payers
Assort HealthNoDemo required; third-party reviews report ~$1,500/mo entry, $10,000+/mo at scalePractices, specialty groups, health systems, FQHCs

Each competitor row reflects that vendor's own public pages as of 2026-08-06. "Not published" is a statement about what a buyer can find on the website — not a claim about whether a vendor is expensive.

The gap between what a vendor publishes and what a buyer is actually quoted can be wide. Here is a concrete example from our own inbox.

In July 2026 we made a sales inquiry to Assort Health. The reply stated that a $75,000 annual commitment would be required before they would schedule an initial call. Meanwhile, third-party reviews of Assort report entry pricing around $1,500 per month — roughly $18,000 a year (OhMD, updated August 2026).

Both figures can be accurate. Quotes in this category vary by practice size, specialty, site count, and how a vendor qualifies an inbound lead, and a quote to one prospect is not a rate card. That is exactly the problem: a buyer cannot tell which number applies to them until they are already in a sales process. We are reporting one email we received, not Assort's pricing policy — and the fact that we have to say that at all is the argument for publishing rates.

Why voice pricing is usage-based (the legitimate reason)

Voice cost is dominated by time on the phone, and payer hold times are unpredictable. A benefits call answered in two minutes and the same call that waits twenty minutes on hold consume very different amounts of compute and telephony. Quoting one flat per-call price would mean either overcharging for fast calls or losing money on slow ones.

That is a real constraint, and it is why our own pay-as-you-go rate is per hour and billed by the minute rather than per call. You pay for the time the agent actually spends.

What the constraint does not require is secrecy. A per-minute rate handles variable call length perfectly well while still letting a practice budget. The reason most vendors publish nothing is commercial, not technical.

What to actually ask on a pricing call

The published rate matters less than what the contract counts as billable. Four questions separate a real quote from a headline number:

  1. Is hold time billed, or only connected time? On payer calls this is most of the cost.
  2. Is there a monthly minimum or annual platform fee on top of usage? Infinitus states discounts are tied to monthly minimums; assume others have them until told otherwise.
  3. What happens on a failed call? A call that reaches a dead end still consumed minutes. Ask whether it is billed.
  4. Is there a setup or onboarding fee? Portal vendors in this category publish onboarding fees in the hundreds of dollars; voice vendors rarely mention them upfront.

Ask every vendor to quote the same concrete scenario — say, 200 benefit verification calls a month at your typical hold times, all fees included. That converts four incomparable pricing models into one number.

Voice is one agent, not the whole back office

Here is the part most voice comparisons miss: a large share of practice back-office work is not a phone problem at all.

Eligibility verification runs over EDI — no call, no hold time, a fraction of the cost. Prior authorization is a submission-and-tracking workflow. Inbox triage is about faxes, voicemails, and portal messages piling up in a queue. A voice-only vendor cannot touch any of it, which means a practice buying voice alone still owns the rest.

Medman ships voice alongside three agents that do the non-voice work, each with a published price:

AgentWhat it doesStarting at
EligibilityEDI insurance verification, copay and deductible extraction$0.50/check
Prior AuthorizationPA submission, status tracking, follow-up across payers$25/submission
Inbox TriageRoutes faxes, voicemails, and portal messages automatically$225/provider/mo
AI VoiceAnswers and places patient calls, 24/7$10/hour

Use the cheap channel for the routine work and voice for what genuinely needs a phone call. Running an eligibility check as a voice call because voice is the only tool you bought is how automation gets expensive.

The honest caveats

  • This compares pricing disclosure, not quality. A vendor that quotes privately may be excellent and may quote you less than our published rate. We are comparing what a buyer can find out before a sales call.
  • Published rates change. Every competitor claim here was read from that vendor's own pages on 2026-08-06 and is linked so you can check it.
  • Our own numbers are list prices, not the outcome of a negotiation.
  • We have not run head-to-head benchmarks on call quality or containment rate. When we do, we will publish the methodology with the result.

What to do next

If you are evaluating voice AI, get the four questions above answered in writing by every vendor on your list, including us. If you want to see what a published rate looks like in practice, our pricing page shows every agent's rate without a form.

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