The Itemised Receipt: Why Your AI Phone Bill Is Lying to You

Podcast: Phony.ai · Phony.ai

Opublikowano: 2026-09-15

Most teams building with AI voice agents never stop to ask which specific layer of a call is driving the cost. They see a total, maybe a per-minute rate, and move on. This episode of Phony.ai digs into the case for itemised AI voice billing — and what happens to your optimisation strategy when that receipt tells the whole story versus a convenient, flattened single number. Here's what the episode covers: The model-cost assumption is usually wrong. Teams instinctively treat the language model as the big-ticket item, but on a typical short call, it's the clock-billed la...