Sarvam alternative
Crackle vs Sarvam Voice Agents.
Sarvam Voice Agents runs on Sarvam’s own models, hosted in India, in 11 Indian languages and English, from ₹3.50 a minute with telephony and numbers extra, on phone, web and WhatsApp. Crackle can use Sarvam’s Bulbul voices and Saaras transcription inside its own agents, alongside Cartesia and OpenAI, in 44 languages. Choose Sarvam for Indian phone lines and India-hosted models; choose Crackle for a choice of engines and callers beyond India.
Sarvam Voice Agents’s facts are from its own pages, checked on 14 October 2026. Prices change; the sources are at the foot of the table.
Side by side.
| What | Crackle | Sarvam Voice Agents |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.07 a minute | ₹3.50 a minute pay as you go; ₹3.25 on Pro (₹9,999 a month), ₹3.15 on Growth (₹49,999 a month); GST extra |
| What the price covers | Voice, transcription and model, whichever you choose | Speech recognition, model and voice; telephony, numbers and test runs extra |
| To start | Free plan with sign-up credit; plans from $29 a month include call credit | Pay as you go, prepaid |
| Calls at once | 2 on the free plan; 5, 20, 75 on paid plans | Not stated on their pricing page |
| Billed by | The second; a call nobody joins costs nothing | Whole minutes: each call is rounded up |
| Phone numbers | Not yet | Yes: numbers at ₹59 for 30 days, or your own telephony |
| Web and mobile apps | Web, iOS, Android and React Native, through LiveKit | An API and SDKs |
| Talk button for a website | Yes: one line of HTML | Yes, a voice or chat widget |
| Languages | 44, with voices recorded in Hindi, Hinglish, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati and Punjabi | 11 Indian languages and English, with code-mixed speech |
| Answers from documents | Yes: PDF, Word and text, up to 500 documents | Yes |
| Calls your APIs | Yes: your HTTP endpoints, during a call or before it | Yes |
| How an agent is built | A studio: write instructions, pick a voice, press Test agent; or the API | Prompts, tools, knowledge and variables; workflows and WhatsApp on Enterprise |
Sources: Sarvam Voice Agents pricing, Sarvam Voice Agents overview, read on 14 October 2026. Crackle’s figures are from its live price list.
When Sarvam Voice Agents is the better choice.
- You need phone numbers in India and campaigns today.
- You need Malayalam, Odia or Assamese voices, or WhatsApp.
- You want every model hosted by one company in India.
When Crackle is the better choice.
- You want Sarvam’s voices and transcription and the choice of Cartesia and OpenAI in the same studio.
- Your callers are in India and beyond: 44 languages in all.
- You want calls billed by the second rather than rounded up to the minute.
Moving from Sarvam Voice Agents.
Most of an agent carries straight across. Their names for things, and Crackle’s.
- Agent
- Agent: choose Sarvam Bulbul as the voice engine to keep the same voices
- System prompt
- Instructions: paste it in and keep it as it is
- Custom functions or tools
- Tools: the same HTTP endpoints, described in plain words
- Knowledge base files
- Knowledge: upload the same PDFs, Word and text files
- Web widget
- The talk button: one line of HTML
Other comparisons.
Try Crackle on your own agent.
Paste in the instructions you already have, pick a voice and talk to it. Sign-up credit is there for your first test calls.