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      "summary": "Pipecat PhoneLLM is Daily's open-weight text model for the language step of phone voice agents, with tool calling. Alpha 2, released 15 October 2026, comes as Mini (30B, on Workers AI) and Max (120B, weights and dedicated endpoints).",
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      "license": "BSD-2-Clause for PhoneLLM Mini, with the NVIDIA Nemotron Open Model License kept for its base model. OpenMDW-1.1 for PhoneLLM Max, the licence of its base model. Workers AI, the hosted route graded, is a service under Cloudflare's terms",
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      "pricingNotes": "PhoneLLM Mini costs $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens on Workers AI (5,455 and 21,818 neurons), with no cached-input price listed. Workers AI includes 10,000 neurons a day on the Free and Paid Workers plans (https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/pricing/, read 17 October 2026). Max has no per-token route. It runs on dedicated GPU endpoints at Baseten or Modal, billed for compute, or on the owner's hardware (two B200 or B300 GPUs for BF16, per the card). The weights are free to download.",
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        "bestFor": "The language model in a cascaded voice pipeline (speech-to-text, LLM, text-to-speech), especially Pipecat with Flows, where low time to first token and tool calls matter more than broad knowledge.",
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          "Mini is on Workers AI at $0.06 per million input and $0.24 per million output tokens, inside the 10,000 free neurons a day",
          "Both sizes are trained for multi-turn tool calling and Pipecat Flows, and take OpenAI-style `tools` and `tool_choice`",
          "Ungated weights in BF16, FP8 and NVFP4, with vLLM 0.30 recipes measured on B200 GPUs in each card",
          "Mini is BSD-2-Clause and Max OpenMDW-1.1, both free to run, fine-tune and redistribute with the notices kept",
          "Mini answers with thinking off by default, so replies carry no reasoning tokens"
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          "Labelled Alpha 2 by Daily, with no deprecation policy, support period or changelog of its own",
          "Max has no per-token hosted route, only dedicated GPU endpoints or two B200 or B300 GPUs of the owner's",
          "No limitations section, safety evaluation or prompt-injection guidance, for a model that acts on a caller's speech",
          "Workers AI's published input schema requires `prompt` and has no `messages` property, while every example sends `messages`",
          "Three Alpha 1 discussions, one on tool calls and one on vLLM prefix caching, have no reply from the maintainers"
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          "Send `temperature: 0` on every call. The repositories' generation_config.json samples by default, and Max's sets temperature 1.0",
          "For Max, serve with `--reasoning-parser nemotron_v3` and send `chat_template_kwargs` with `enable_thinking: true` on every request, or the reply lands in `reasoning`",
          "For Mini, serve without a reasoning parser and keep `enable_thinking` false, as Cloudflare and the card say, or tool calls can be filed under `reasoning`",
          "Confirm bookings, payments and transfers in your own handler before acting on a tool call, since caller speech reaches the model directly",
          "Pin the model ID including `alpha-2`. Daily states no notice period, and a later alpha may replace it"
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          "item": "PhoneLLM Mini Alpha 2 input on Workers AI",
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          "The weights are published by the pipecat-ai organisation on Hugging Face, and Mini's LICENSE reads 'Copyright (c) 2026, Daily'. Legal entity, domain date, terms, privacy and security.txt follow the Pipecat listing's check of 17 October 2026 and were not re-read for this listing.",
          "The graded hosted route is Cloudflare's, at api.cloudflare.com, so the status page is Cloudflare's. Daily runs no endpoint of its own for PhoneLLM.",
          "No changelog of PhoneLLM's own was found. Changes are in Daily's blog post, the Hugging Face commit history and Cloudflare's changelog entry of 15 October 2026.",
          "Pages were read with curl after each host's robots.txt (www.daily.co, huggingface.co, developers.cloudflare.com, www.cloudflarestatus.com, www.pipecat.ai, modal.com)."
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/synthflow.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/synthflow.json\n- Best conversational voice-agent APIs: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/voice-agents/index.md\n- All 184 voice agents comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/voice-agents/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Pipecat PhoneLLM (C)\n\nGood for: The language model in a cascaded voice pipeline (speech-to-text, LLM, text-to-speech), especially Pipecat with Flows, where low time to first token and tool calls matter more than broad knowledge.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 53 against 45\n- Agent ergonomics, 61 against 45\n- Security \u0026 auth, 66 against 51\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 0\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.8 against 2.0 out of 5\n\nWatch for: Labelled Alpha 2 by Daily, with no deprecation policy, support period or changelog of its own\n\n### Synthflow API + MCP (D)\n\nGood for: Contact centres buying a managed voice-agent platform with SIP connectors to their existing PBX and EU data residency.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 87 against 72\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 68 against 58\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 66 against 56\n\nWatch for: Sales-led only, contracts from $30,000 a year, no free tier\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Pipecat PhoneLLM | Synthflow API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 53 | 45 | Pipecat PhoneLLM +8 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 72 | 87 | Synthflow API + MCP +15 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 61 | 45 | Pipecat PhoneLLM +16 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 66 | 51 | Pipecat PhoneLLM +15 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 0 | Pipecat PhoneLLM +40 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 58 | 68 | Synthflow API + MCP +10 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 66 | Synthflow API + MCP +10 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **58.7 · C** | **51.1 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Pipecat PhoneLLM | Synthflow API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Daily | Synthflow |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai/run/@cf/daily-co/phonellm-mini-alpha-2` | `https://api.synthflow.ai/v2` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | BSD-2-Clause for PhoneLLM Mini, with the NVIDIA Nemotron Open Model License kept for its base model. OpenMDW-1.1 for PhoneLLM Max, the licence of its base model. Workers AI, the hosted route graded, is a service under Cloudflare's terms | none |\n| Tools exposed | none | 60 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2026-10-01 |\n| Terms last updated |  | 2026-05-13 |\n| Privacy policy last updated |  | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |\n| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 2/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Pipecat PhoneLLM.** PhoneLLM Mini is callable per token on Workers AI at $0.06 input and $0.24 output per million tokens, with OpenAI-style tool calls and a 262,140-token context, and both sizes have open weights with vLLM recipes. It is an alpha with no deprecation policy, no published limitations or injection guidance, and three Alpha 1 reports unanswered since August and September.\n\n**Synthflow API + MCP.** Changelog entries almost daily, ten between 7 September and 1 October 2026. Sales-led only, contracts from $30,000 a year, no free tier.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Pipecat PhoneLLM\n\n1. Send `temperature: 0` on every call. The repositories' generation_config.json samples by default, and Max's sets temperature 1.0\n2. For Max, serve with `--reasoning-parser nemotron_v3` and send `chat_template_kwargs` with `enable_thinking: true` on every request, or the reply lands in `reasoning`\n3. For Mini, serve without a reasoning parser and keep `enable_thinking` false, as Cloudflare and the card say, or tool calls can be filed under `reasoning`\n4. Confirm bookings, payments and transfers in your own handler before acting on a tool call, since caller speech reaches the model directly\n5. Pin the model ID including `alpha-2`. Daily states no notice period, and a later alpha may replace it\n\n### Synthflow API + MCP\n\n1. Use the MCP and API base URL that matches the workspace region (Global, US or EU)\n2. Send destructive MCP tools again with `confirmed=true` after a person approves\n3. Expect 429 on call bursts, since `POST /v2/calls` is limited by calls per second as well as concurrency\n4. Read the transfer failure reason on a failed transfer before retrying it\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Pipecat PhoneLLM or Synthflow API + MCP?\n\nPipecat PhoneLLM scores 58.7 (C) on agent readiness against Synthflow API + MCP's 51.1 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Synthflow API + MCP leads on schema \u0026 documentation, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do Pipecat PhoneLLM and Synthflow API + MCP need an API key?\n\nPipecat PhoneLLM needs an API key. Synthflow API + MCP takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Pipecat PhoneLLM and Synthflow API + MCP without installing anything?\n\nYes. Pipecat PhoneLLM has a hosted endpoint at https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai/run/@cf/daily-co/phonellm-mini-alpha-2 and Synthflow API + MCP at https://api.synthflow.ai/v2.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipecat-phonellm-vs-synthflow.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipecat-phonellm-vs-synthflow.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"pipecat-phonellm\", \"b\": \"synthflow\"}`. 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