Loman AI vs Vapi (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Loman AI if

• Fits if you run a restaurant that misses phone orders at the rush
• Works for groups on Toast, Square, SpotOn or Clover who want one menu across stores

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you want a price before talking to anyone, as none is published
• Not for you if you want to try it yourself, since setup is done with the vendor's team
• Watch out: ordering, reservations and payments are listed on Premium only, not Starter
• Too light for anything outside restaurants, as it is built only for them

Pick Vapi if

• Fits if you are a developer who wants to choose each voice and model provider
• Makes sense if you want to pay for minutes as you use them

Look elsewhere if

• Pricey if you want one price, as model, voice and call charges sit on top of the $0.05 hosting
• Watch out: HIPAA-eligible handling is a $2,000 a month add-on
• Pricey if you grow, since Pro has a $999 a month minimum
• Watch out: extra lines cost $10 each and extra organisations $20 each a month

Loman AI

• No prices are published; the pricing page shows two plans, Starter and Premium, and asks visitors to request pricing.
• Ordering, reservations, payments and upsell features are listed on Premium, not on Starter.
• The vendor says it charges no per-minute fees; what it charges instead is not stated on the page.
• Setup is done with the vendor's team, which connects the POS and forwards the restaurant's phone number.

Vapi

• Without a success package, hosting is $0.05 per minute, pre-paid, and Deepgram, model and voice costs are added on top; the page's 1,000-minute estimate is $82 to $129 a month.
• HIPAA-eligible data handling is a $2,000 per month add-on.
• Extra concurrent lines cost $10 per line per month and extra organizations $20 per organization per month.
• Twilio, Vonage and Telnyx call charges are billed by those providers, such as $0.008 per minute for Twilio inbound.

Loman AI

Phone ordering

Takes pickup and delivery orders by phone and sends them to the restaurant's POS, with card payment taken over the call on the Premium plan.

Reservations

Books reservations by phone and connects to reservation systems such as OpenTable and Resy; listed on the Premium plan.

POS integrations

Lists Toast, SpotOn, Clover, Square, Shift4, Aloha by NCR and Olo among its integrations.

Multilingual calls

Takes orders in 55 supported languages, detects the caller's language and sends the ticket to the POS in English.

Dashboard

Shows live calls, transcripts, orders and outcomes, and lets staff update the menu, hours and business information.

Vapi

Voice agent orchestration

Configure voice, conversation flow, telephony and integrations for an agent, then deploy it behind a phone number or an API.

Choice of providers

The pricing calculator lets you pick the transcriber, language model and voice, for example Deepgram, OpenAI and ElevenLabs. Models are passed through at cost.

Testing and simulation

Calls can be simulated before they reach customers, and monitoring flags issues in live calls.

Telephony options

Vapi telephony and SIP, WebSockets and Daily WebRTC are listed as free transport; Twilio, Vonage and Telnyx are charged by those providers.

Enterprise controls

The site lists SSO, OAuth, RBAC and AI guardrails, and says SOC 2, HIPAA and PCI compliance are supported.

Loman AI

Pricing could not be confirmed. See loman.ai.

Vapi

• Core$29

  per month, pre-paid, auto-renew

  2 organizations, 5 included phone numbers, 10 concurrent calls, 30 days of raw data retention and email support.

• Pro$999

  per month minimum, 10% of the hosting fee

  10 organizations, 30 concurrent calls, 180 days retention, RBAC, a dedicated Slack channel and a 99% uptime SLA.

• PremierCustom

  Direct sales only: higher limits, named support team, 99.9% uptime SLA, SSO and dedicated SIP.