Gandr · price list
every number below is the number
No quote gate, no “contact sales” veil — the numbers below are the numbers, and the calculator shows exactly where flat beats a meter and where it doesn’t.
01 · the shape of the bill
the market's unit vs ours
A conversation should not be billed by the letter. A line is one concurrent call: $150 a month on an annual plan, or $180 month-to-month, for any number of lines. Minutes, characters, voices, seats: unlimited. Everywhere else concurrency is a cap on your plan; here it is the only thing you buy.
the market's way — per 1M characters
$720 a day, every day
total — 30 entries · 432M chars × $50/M
$5,060
our way — per line
flat on day 1, flat on day 30
no further entries
total — one entry
$3,000
A flat line does not move when your minutes do.
drawn for 20 lines at half-time speech on a $50/M meter — the calculator below runs your numbers
02 · the ledger
the month, in four voices
without — on a meter
with — on lines
founder · 2:14 AM
“We closed our biggest customer and our voice bill doubled.”
Flat per line. A whale moves your revenue, not your cost of goods.
eng lead · sprint planning
“Can the agent answer shorter? Every sentence is money.”
Characters are unmetered. The long answer is free.
on-call · 3 AM
“Their status page says green. Every live call is dead air.”
Standby lines fail over on their own. Their incident stays their incident.
finance · quarter close
“I can’t put ‘depends how much people talk’ in a board deck.”
Lines × rate. The forecast is one cell.
03 · the unit
concurrency, not consumption
A line is capacity, not consumption. While one caller talks, the line is busy; the moment they hang up, the next call takes it. You size lines to your busiest minute — never to your monthly minutes, because nothing on a line is counted.
And when a day outruns the fleet, calls spill to burst lines at $10 a line-day instead of ringing busy — the spill is a line on the invoice, not an outage in the log.
three lines, one afternoon
calls pack the lanes — the clock is never billed
2:14 pm — every line is busy; the 4th call spills to burst.
$10 a line-day — no busy signals to your callers
the capacity arithmetic — what one line holds, priced both ways
24 h × 30 days
43,200
line-minutes a month
~1,000 chars ≈ 1 min
43.2M
characters a line-month
that month on a $50/M meter
$2,160
for one line, talking around the clock
that month on a Gandr line
$150
the same figure at any volume
04 · your own numbers
honest in both directions
01 · your fleet
one line = one live call at a time
02 · how busy
≈ 4,320 hours of speech a month
half of every hour is speech
03 · your meter today
how the whole market bills — the rate on your invoice, not ours
conversion: ~1,000 characters ≈ one spoken minute
the market's way — per 1M characters
our way — per line
$12,960
$1,800
259.2M chars × $50/M — grows with every sentence
12 lines × $150 — characters unmetered, the same next month
Flat saves you $11,160 a month at this volume. Per-character pricing only wins while your fleet speaks less than 36M characters a month — about 7% talk time.
Note — The whole market bills per million characters; we bill per concurrent line. Put the per-million-character rate from your own invoice in — the calculator prices the same month both ways and shows exactly where the two cross, so you decide on numbers, not a pitch.
05 · two ways in
the pilot pays for its own proof
Pilot
20 lines · 30 days · no contract
Route real traffic through 20 lines for a month. The $1,000 credits toward your first annual invoice; if the numbers do not hold, turn it off and keep the data.
Production
annual · $180 month-to-month
Any number of lines — no minimum, no ceiling. Every line is unlimited minutes, unmetered characters, unlimited seats.
06 · the whole price list
three mechanics, no meter
Volume
Lines 1–50 at $150 · 51–250 at $135 · 251+ talk to us
$150 → $135
Burst
Traffic past your lines spills to burst lines at $10 a line-day — no busy signals to your callers, and you can cap it in the dashboard
$10 / line-day
Failover
Standby lines beside your current provider: $20 a month each, billed at the burst rate only on the days they activate
$20 / month
what every line ships with
the datasheet, restated as value
Request cap
A full agent turn fits in one request.
2,000 characters per request
Surfaces
All three streaming surfaces, on every line — pick per call, not per plan.
WebSocket · SSE · one-shot bytes
Output
Telephony-ready audio at whatever rate your trunk wants. No transcode step.
PCM or WAV · any sample rate
Auth
Keys that fit whichever header your gateway already sends.
x-api-key or Authorization: Bearer
Cold start
The one ugly number, published — with the automatic retry that absorbs it.
~23 s measured, one automatic retry rides the boot
questions with published answers
One line item: your concurrent lines. $150 a line per month on an annual plan, $180 month-to-month — minutes, characters, voices and seats never appear on the invoice because they are never counted.
Below roughly 3M spoken characters a line-month — about 7% talk time against a $50/M meter — the meter is still cheaper, and the calculator above says so to your face. Flat is for fleets that actually talk.
Calls spill to burst lines at $10 a line-day instead of failing. The arithmetic stays small: a 20-line fleet that spills 5 extra lines for 3 peak days adds 5 × 3 × $10 = $150 — one line-month, not a re-plan. You can cap the spill in the dashboard.
A standby line beside your current provider is $20 a month. It bills the $10 burst rate only on days it actually activates — a standby that catches a two-day outage costs $20 + 2 × $10 = $40 that month.
The $1,000 credits toward your first annual invoice — on a 20-line fleet that is a third of your first month. If the numbers do not hold, you turn it off and keep the data.
On an annual plan, yes — $180 month-to-month. From line 51 the published tier takes over at $135 a line, and past 250 lines the number comes from a conversation, not this page.
No meter to audit. One number to budget.
Price out your fleet