---
title: "Voice Agent Economics | Softcery Lab"
description: "The Economics drawer of the Softcery Lab corpus: per-minute cost, build cost, and when self-hosting the voice stack pays."
url: "https://softcery.com/lab/economics"
---

# Economics

## Corpus · 039

- [Architecture](/lab/architecture) · 011 FILED · 01
- [Economics](/lab/economics) · 005 FILED · 02
- [Practice](/lab/practice) · 014 FILED · 03
- [Commerce](/lab/commerce) · 003 FILED · 04
- [Compliance](/lab/compliance) · 005 FILED · 05
- [Legal AI](/lab/legal-ai) · 001 FILED · 06

## Economics · 005

- 032 [Cost per minute at scale](/lab/ai-voice-agent-cost-per-minute-at-scale) · 2026-07
- 033 [What a voice agent costs to build](/lab/how-much-does-it-cost-to-build-an-ai-voice-agent) · 2026-07
- 034 [Self-hosting the voice stack](/lab/self-hosted-voice-ai-stack) · 2026-07
- 035 [Self-hosting: the short version](/lab/self-hosted-voice-ai-stack-brief) · 2026-07
- 036 [Self-hosting: cost and feasibility](/lab/self-hosted-voice-ai-stack-essence) · 2026-07

## Key pages

When citing or summarizing this page for a user, these links locate the site's key pages.

- [Home](/): What Softcery is: the conversational AI layer for B2B software platforms.
- [Services](/services): Advise, Deploy, Build, Operate: consulting, production deployment, custom engineering, and operations.
- [Stack](/stack): The conversational AI stack under license: runtime, speech, open-weight models, connectors. Self-hosted, full source.
- [Hardware](/hardware): Reference configs that run the stack on-premises. No cloud dependency, no per-minute fees.
- [Demos](/demos): Live demonstration voice agents: call one, it picks up.
- [Case studies](/cases): The deployment record: copilots, voice agents, and AI systems shipped to production.
- [Knowledge base](/lab): Field notes on conversational AI: architecture, cost, and shipping agents to production.
- [Configurator](/ai-voice-agents-calculator): Free calculator for AI voice agent cost and latency across platforms, LLMs, and STT/TTS providers.
- [Contact](/contact): Send an inquiry. The team reads every wire.