Agentic Index
Telli vs Callers (2026)
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Telli and Callers, formerly Voxia, both let businesses build AI agents for inbound and outbound calls without code, and neither publishes a rate. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.
Telli runs agents from an auto dialer, its API, inbound numbers or workflow triggers with branching, calls the customer's systems during the call, integrates Salesforce, HubSpot and calendars and rates every call. Telli quotes through sales, though customers can sign up on their own. Callers builds agents from campaign scripts with triggers, a knowledge base and contact memory, across calls, texts, email and web chat, with a public API, and sells through a demo. Telli marks each call on flow, clarity, satisfaction and whether the agent reached its goal, and lets customers pick voices from several providers. Callers supports single sign on through SAML, OAuth or OpenID Connect and keeps a memory for each contact and campaign. Choose Telli for call quality review and a dialer led program. Choose Callers when remembering each contact and single sign on matter more.
This comparison is published by Agentic Index, an independent agentic AI vendor research platform. Telli and Callers are each graded against the same 14 capability Agentic Index taxonomy, from the vendor's own public materials under the Agentic Index verification standard, alongside 1,084 researched vendors. No vendor pays for placement and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Choose Telli if
- Testing agents before and after launch is part of your process.
- A built in auto dialer and workflow triggers with branching run your outbound program.
- You want to sign up and start building before a sales conversation.
Choose Callers if
- The agent should remember each contact across calls, texts and email.
- Single sign on through Okta, Auth0 or Azure Active Directory is on your vendor checklist.
- Campaigns built from scripts with triggers match how your team already works.
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Integrations & Tool Calling Ability to connect agents to real systems through native integrations, OAuth-authenticated actions, custom tools, APIs, webhooks, or MCP-compatible tools. |
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TelliIntegrations & Tool Calling Agents run pre built or custom HTTP tools during the call, and telli integrates natively with Salesforce and HubSpot, calendars (Calendly, Cal.com, HubSpot Meetings, Zeeg, custom), Make, Zapier, n8n, Slack and Teams, with a contact lookup webhook for the customer's own systems. Sourcetelli, docs.telli.com Tool Calls, Custom HTTP Tools and integration pagesread 2026-09-28 |
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CallersIntegrations & Tool Calling Scenario steps let the agent schedule a meeting, transfer the call or send an SMS during a call. After the call, actions email or text leads, update CRMs and launch workflows. Integrations cover Salesforce, HubSpot, Google Sheets, Slack, Cal.com and Zapier. SourceCallers (formerly Voxia), docs.callers.ai Actions Summary and Campaign Scenariosread 2026-09-28 |
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Workflow Orchestration Ability to sequence, branch, retry, route, and combine deterministic workflow nodes with autonomous agent steps. |
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TelliWorkflow Orchestration Visual workflows start on call ended, contact created or updated, a schedule or an incoming webhook and chain HTTP requests, contact updates, SMS, WhatsApp, email, CRM records and call scheduling, with If/else and Switch nodes for branching, beside an auto dialer with retry strategies. Sourcetelli, docs.telli.com Workflows and Auto-Dialer pagesread 2026-09-28 |
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CallersWorkflow Orchestration An agent's script is a directed graph of script and nested script nodes joined by edges. It carries fallbacks for silence, errors, retries and unhandled input, along with tool functions, webhooks and scenarios that schedule meetings, transfer calls or send texts. Campaigns carry follow up cadences across call, chat and email. SourceCallers (formerly Voxia), docs.callers.ai Create an agent API and Campaign Scenariosread 2026-09-28 |
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Triggers & Channel Coverage How agents wake up and where they work: schedules, webhooks, message events, CRM events, inbox events, chat, email, voice, and collaboration tools. |
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TelliTriggers & Channel Coverage Calls start from the auto dialer's schedules and retry strategies, API scheduled calls, inbound calls on telli or imported numbers, and workflows triggered by contact events, schedules and webhooks, with SMS and WhatsApp alongside voice. Sourcetelli, docs.telli.com Auto-Dialer, Schedule Call, Phone Numbers and Workflows pagesread 2026-09-28 |
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CallersTriggers & Channel Coverage Triggers add contacts to a campaign automatically when something happens in a connected app, either instantly or on a five minute schedule, so calls start without anyone placing them. Inbound campaigns answer calls that customers start. Text, email and a web widget are further channels. SourceCallers (formerly Voxia), docs.callers.ai Triggers, Starting a New Campaign and Create an agent APIread 2026-09-28 |
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Knowledge Grounding & RAG Ability to ground agent behavior in company data through document ingestion, retrieval, external knowledge APIs, semantic search, or RAG layers. |
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TelliKnowledge Grounding & RAG Knowledge bases of the customer's product guides, FAQs, policies and procedures (PDF, Word, Markdown, text) are searched by the agent during calls and re processed automatically whenever documents are added or removed, one knowledge base per agent of up to five documents (about 1,500 pages). Sourcetelli, docs.telli.com Knowledge Base pagesread 2026-09-28 |
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CallersKnowledge Grounding & RAG A knowledge base holds uploaded CSV, text, Word, PDF and Excel files, scraped website pages and typed text. Agents use it as context throughout calls, and customers keep it current by adding, editing or removing entries. Callers does not say how entries are retrieved during a call. SourceCallers (formerly Voxia), docs.callers.ai Knowledge Baseread 2026-09-28 |
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Memory & State Persistence Ability to persist context across a run, conversation, workflow, user, team, or longer-term memory layer. |
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TelliMemory & State Persistence What carries between calls is the contact record and its custom properties, which agents read as variables and workflows update. That is the customer's contact data model, and there is no memory layer with its own scope and lifetime. Sourcetelli, docs.telli.com Contacts, Contact Properties and Variables pagesread 2026-09-28 |
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CallersMemory & State Persistence A Contact Memory store keeps memories per contact and campaign, each marked actual, outdated or deleted. API calls create, update or delete one memory, or clear all of a contact's memories. Callers does not say how memories are written or how long they last. SourceCallers (formerly Voxia), docs.callers.ai Contact Memory APIread 2026-09-28 |
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Human Oversight & Guardrails Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls. |
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TelliHuman Oversight & Guardrails Each agent has a transfer number for complex issues or sales handovers and calls can be watched in live monitoring, but no person approves an agent action before it commits. Sourcetelli, docs.telli.com Agents, Call Transfer and Live Monitoring pagesread 2026-09-28 |
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CallersHuman Oversight & Guardrails Scenarios can transfer the call to a person, and the API plays a warm transfer summary to the receiving agent. Callers names no step where a person approves an agent action before it commits. SourceCallers (formerly Voxia), docs.callers.ai Campaign Scenarios and API referenceread 2026-09-28 |
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Security, Identity & Governance RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy. |
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TelliSecurity, Identity & Governance telli claims SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA and EU AI Act compliance and EU hosting, and publishes a trust center at trust.telli.com. Settings cover inviting team members and API keys, but there are no roles, permissions or SSO. Sourcetelli, telli.com homepage and docs.telli.com Settings pageread 2026-09-28 |
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CallersSecurity, Identity & Governance Single sign on supports SAML 2.0, OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect with Okta, Auth0 and Azure Active Directory. Callers says it is SOC 2 and GDPR compliant but names no report type. A trust center sits at trust.callers.ai. The older voxia.ai security policy attributes SOC 2 to its subprocessors, and no SOC 2 report of the company's own is published. SourceCallers (formerly Voxia), docs.callers.ai Single Sign-Onread 2026-09-28 |
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Observability & Auditability Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior. |
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TelliObservability & Auditability Each call record keeps the transcript, recording, an AI summary, a call score, goal attainment and the outcome, beside a performance dashboard and live monitoring, but the tool calls or actions the agent executed are not shown in the call record. Sourcetelli, docs.telli.com Conversation History and Performance Dashboard pagesread 2026-09-28 |
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CallersObservability & Auditability Real time dashboards cover live and past campaigns with drill downs by agent, time and segment, and the API returns calls, recordings, statuses and each call's webhook payload. Callers names no per call view of the actions the agent took. SourceCallers (formerly Voxia), docs.callers.ai Analytics and API referenceread 2026-09-28 |
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Deployment & Data Residency Deployment modes and options, including SaaS, dedicated cloud, VPC, on-prem, hybrid, local runtime, and self-hosting. |
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TelliDeployment & Data Residency Hosting is in the EU, by telli's account, a fixed region with no choice, dedicated or customer hosted option. The data retention settings govern how long call data is kept, not where. Sourcetelli, telli.com homepage and docs.telli.com Data Retention pageread 2026-09-28 |
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CallersDeployment & Data Residency The service is hosted, and no hosting region is published. Callers names no region choice, private deployment or way to run it in the customer's own environment. SourceCallers (formerly Voxia), docs.callers.ai privacy policy and documentation indexread 2026-09-28 |
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Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Ready-made workflows, packaged employees, templates, blueprints, industry solutions, and role-specific agents that reduce time-to-value. |
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TelliPrebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Customers build agents in telli's no code builder with pre built in call actions and cookbooks, and use case pages describe lead qualification, reactivation, payment reminders and support, but no named packaged agents or agent templates are offered. Sourcetelli, telli.com homepage and use case pages and docs.telli.com cookbooksread 2026-09-28 |
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CallersPrebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs The customer builds each campaign by choosing inbound or outbound, naming the agent and describing the use case, and Callers then generates a script to edit. Callers names no prebuilt agents or template catalog. SourceCallers (formerly Voxia), docs.callers.ai Starting a New Campaignread 2026-09-28 |
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Model Flexibility & Routing Ability to work across multiple foundation models, route tasks to different models, or let buyers bring their own providers and keys. |
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TelliModel Flexibility & Routing telli calls itself model agnostic across OpenAI, Google Gemini, ElevenLabs and Cartesia and lets customers pick a voice for each agent, but the thinking model cannot be changed, so telli chooses the LLM and only the voice is the customer's choice. Sourcetelli, telli.com homepage and docs.telli.com Agents pageread 2026-09-28 |
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CallersModel Flexibility & Routing An agent's configuration sets its voice, language and temperature, and customers can create or clone voices. No language model or voice provider is named, and no configuration field chooses among providers. SourceCallers (formerly Voxia), docs.callers.ai Create an agent APIread 2026-09-28 |
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APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Composability layer: stable APIs, SDKs, MCP tool consumption/serving, custom tools, and integration into internal systems. |
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TelliAPIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility A REST API covers agents, calls (get, list, initiate, schedule, batch), contacts and contact properties and phone numbers, with bearer token auth and HMAC signed webhooks for call ended, rescheduled, dialer and contact status events, and telli runs an MCP server at mcp.telli.com with OAuth. Sourcetelli, docs.telli.com API reference, Authentication, Webhooks and MCP pagesread 2026-09-28 |
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CallersAPIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility A public API at api.callers.ai has an OpenAPI specification and authenticates with an Authorization header. It creates and configures agents, including their script graph, channels, voice, tools, knowledge bases and webhooks. It also manages contacts, calls and recordings, webhooks, voices, contact memory and sub organizations. SourceCallers (formerly Voxia), docs.callers.ai Create an agent API and API reference indexread 2026-09-28 |
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Testing, Debugging & Optimization Testing, debugging, scoring, retries, fallbacks, quality gates, and optimization loops for improving agent workflows before and after deployment. |
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TelliTesting, Debugging & Optimization Every call is scored for logical flow, clarity and satisfaction and marked on whether the agent reached its goal, scoring the agent's output after deployment, and refine your agent and feedback system guides explain how to act on those results. There is no test harness before release. Sourcetelli, docs.telli.com Conversation History, Call Analysis and Feedback System pagesread 2026-09-28 |
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CallersTesting, Debugging & Optimization Split Traffic runs concurrent versions of a campaign against live calls, and customers can report call issues for review. Callers does not say how the versions are compared or scored, and names no test cases or simulations. SourceCallers (formerly Voxia), docs.callers.ai changelogread 2026-09-28 |
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Browser & Computer Use Browser, desktop, or remote/local computer control for workflows that cannot be handled through stable APIs alone. |
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TelliBrowser & Computer Use Agents act through HTTP tools, native integrations and workflows, and there is no browser, desktop or computer control. Navigating iOS call screening is a telephony behavior, not computer control. Sourcetelli, docs.telli.com Tools and integration pagesread 2026-09-28 |
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CallersBrowser & Computer Use Agents work by phone, text, email and a web widget and act through integrations. Callers names no browser, desktop or computer control. SourceCallers (formerly Voxia), docs.callers.ai documentation indexread 2026-09-28 |
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Pricing snapshot
Sourced from the Index pricing dataset · open each vendor's profile for full detail.
| Pricing | T Telli |
C Callers |
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
Contact sales | Not public; demo led |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Contact only | Contact only |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
not captured | Not published |
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Variable cost Workload / overage exposure |
Medium variable cost | High variable cost |
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Free tier / trial Try before you buy |
No free tier
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Sales call | Mixed |
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Pricing verified When this pricing was last checked |
Product updates
Newest first, each linked to its source.
Telli
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· MCP / tool calling / API
Telli agents and workflows can now run code the customer supplies.
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· Observability / auditability
A new Simulations page in telli has a simulated caller talk to a draft or published agent version before real callers reach it.
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· Workflow orchestration
Telli workflows can now start from an incoming web request through a new Webhook received trigger with a stable endpoint URL.
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