# Rime review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Voice models for phone agents: text to speech and speech to speech Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Rime sells voice models for businesses that run conversations over the phone. Its Mist v3 and Coda v2 text-to-speech models and its Prism speech-to-speech model are metered by the minute, with real-time streaming over WebSockets and 8 kHz telephony audio. The pricing page lists a monthly free allowance, a pay-as-you-go tier, a flat Scale plan and custom enterprise deals. - **Category:** AI Voices & Text to Speech - **Made by:** Rime Labs - **Website:** https://www.rime.ai - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want a text box for voiceovers, because this is built for agents. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Rime has a free plan, and paid plans start at $100 per month, with $100 of usage credit. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** $50 of usage every month, renewing monthly, across Prism, Mist v3, Coda v2 and Rime speech to text. No card required. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | $50 of usage each month on all models, no card required; email support and community docs. | | Scale | $100 per month, billed monthly to your card | $100 of credit a month that rolls over up to $200, with every rate 20% lower than Flex. Usage past the credit is billed at the same rates. | | Enterprise | Custom | Volume rates billed annually, cloud, VPC or on-prem deployment, SLAs, custom voices, a HIPAA BAA and a SOC 2 Type II report. Sold through sales. | Read from https://www.rime.ai/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Rime before buying. ## Key features - **Mist v3 text to speech:** Positioned as the lowest-latency model, with 78 voices in English, French, German and Spanish and a listed 37 ms median time to first audio. - **Coda v2 text to speech:** Positioned as the most natural model, with 313 voices across 10 languages including Japanese, Arabic and Hindi, and custom pronunciation lexicons. - **Prism speech to speech:** A model that hears the call, reasons over it and speaks; text is generated before audio so guardrails can check it, and it supports tool calls mid-call. - **Real-time streaming and telephony:** WebSocket streaming and 8 kHz phone audio are on every plan, with LiveKit, Pipecat and other agent-platform integrations. - **Custom voices and self-hosting:** Custom voice cloning and fine-tuning on your own calls are Enterprise features. The text-to-speech models can be self-hosted with Docker Compose or Kubernetes. ## Good for - Teams building phone and call-center voice agents - Developers who want per-minute pricing with no monthly fee - Companies that need to run voice models in their own cloud ## Worth knowing - Flex has no monthly fee and bills usage by the minute: Mist v3 text to speech at $0.030, Coda v2 at $0.050 and Prism speech to speech at $0.080 a minute. - Scale rates are 20% lower than Flex: $0.024 a minute for Mist v3, $0.040 for Coda v2 and $0.064 for Prism. - Custom voices, a HIPAA BAA and the SOC 2 Type II report are limited to Enterprise. - Rime's speech-to-text model is listed as free until Nov 19. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Rime sells voice models for phone and call-center agents: text to speech and speech to speech, billed by the minute. The Free plan gives $50 of usage a month with no card. But the paid Scale plan is $100 a month, custom voices, a HIPAA BAA and a SOC 2 report are Enterprise only, and it is a developer product. - **Value for money: C.** Flex has no monthly fee: Mist v3 at $0.030 a minute, Coda v2 $0.050, Prism $0.080. Scale is $100 a month with rates 20% lower. The one paid plan is far above the category's middle. - **Free plan and trial: B.** $50 of usage every month on all models, no card. For testing an agent that is a lot of minutes. - **Features: C.** Speech, speech to speech and speech to text, with cloud, VPC and on-prem options on Enterprise. Custom voices and compliance reports sit there too. - **Ease of use: D.** No store rating on record. It is an API for developers building agents. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web and an API, with LiveKit, Pipecat and Twilio listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Rime Labs's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among AI voice generators - Rime's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 18 of the 43 other AI voice generators we grade, and level with 9. - It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 39 of 43) and worst on ease of use (D, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $100 a month, against a middle price of $10 for the category: 33 of the 33 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 24 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-voices ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Rime you would be making a voice model, which you can rent by the minute but not make. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $1,200 a year. - You could not: A voice model, which you can rent by the minute but not make. - You could not: A voice model trained on your recordings. - You could not: An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. - You could not: Speech turned into text you can trust. - You could not: It plugs into other products, LiveKit, Pipecat and Twilio among them, and has an API. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with LiveKit, Pipecat, Twilio **Tags:** Text to speech, Voice cloning, AI agents, Transcription, Public API ## Alternatives - [Cartesia](https://toolgpa.com/tools/cartesia): Low-latency speech models and voice agents for developers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cartesia-vs-rime) - [ElevenLabs](https://toolgpa.com/tools/elevenlabs): AI voice platform for speech, voice cloning, dubbing and voice agents. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/elevenlabs-vs-rime) - [Smallest AI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/smallest-ai): Voice AI models and agents: text to speech, speech to text, calls. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/rime-vs-smallest-ai) - [Inworld AI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/inworld-ai): Text-to-speech, speech-to-text and LLM API with monthly credit plans. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/inworld-ai-vs-rime) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.rime.ai/pricing - https://www.rime.ai Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/rime Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).