{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "pipecat-phonellm", "name": "Pipecat PhoneLLM", "vendor": "Daily", "vendorUrl": "https://www.daily.co/blog/phonellm-alpha-2/", "kind": "model", "category": "voice-agents", "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).", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipecat-phonellm", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipecat-phonellm.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipecat-phonellm.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pipecat-phonellm.json", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/pipecat-ai/phonellm-mini-alpha-2", "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", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai/run/@cf/daily-co/phonellm-mini-alpha-2", "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "On Workers AI, a Cloudflare API token with Workers AI permission on one account, sent as a Bearer header. Inside a Worker the `AI` binding needs no token. The weights of both sizes download from Hugging Face without an account or approval, and a self-hosted vLLM server has whatever authentication the owner adds. Baseten, Modal and AWS SageMaker each need their own account.", "pricing": "freemium", "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.", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Cloudflare's Machine Payments beta takes x402 on `POST /ai/run` for four models, and PhoneLLM Mini isn't one of them (https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway/features/machine-payments/, read 17 October 2026). No x402, MPP or L402 on the Daily post or the model cards.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-17" }, "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/pipecat-ai/phonellm-mini-alpha-2", "llmsTxt": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "voice.pipeline", "voice.tools", "inference.llm", "inference.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "model", "open-weights", "hosted", "alpha", "new", "free-tier", "no-card", "usage-priced", "llms-txt", "openai-compatible", "telephony", "gpu" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-15", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 58.7, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 629, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1133, "categoryRank": 12, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 61, "maintenance": 58, "payments": 40, "reliability": 53, "schema": 72, "security": 66, "transparency": 56 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-17" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "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.", "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.", "strengths": [ "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" ], "weaknesses": [ "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" ], "agentNotes": [ "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" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2.8, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 58.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 61, "maintenance": 58, "payments": 40, "reliability": 53, "schema": 72, "security": 66, "transparency": 55 }, "provenanceScore": 57 }, "connect": { "install": "vllm serve pipecat-ai/phonellm-mini-alpha-2 \\\n --served-model-name phonellm-mini-alpha-2 \\\n --trust-remote-code \\\n --dtype bfloat16 \\\n --max-model-len 32768 \\\n --max-num-seqs 256 \\\n --enable-prefix-caching \\\n --async-scheduling \\\n --mamba-ssm-cache-dtype float32 \\\n --enable-auto-tool-choice \\\n --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder", "http": "curl https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/$CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID/ai/run/@cf/daily-co/phonellm-mini-alpha-2 \\\n -X POST \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $CLOUDFLARE_AUTH_TOKEN\" \\\n -d '{ \"messages\": [{ \"role\": \"system\", \"content\": \"You are a friendly assistant\" }, { \"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Why is pizza so good\" }], \"temperature\": 0, \"chat_template_kwargs\": { \"enable_thinking\": false } }'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/voice.pipeline", "tool": "https://letme.dev/pipecat-phonellm" }, "sameCompany": [ "pipecat" ], "area": "voice", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "PhoneLLM Mini Alpha 2 input on Workers AI", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0.06, "note": "5,455 neurons. No cached-input price listed" }, { "item": "PhoneLLM Mini Alpha 2 output on Workers AI", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0.24, "note": "21,818 neurons" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Daily", "domain": "pipecat.ai", "domainRegistered": "2024-05-01", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "https://www.daily.co/legal/terms-of-service/", "privacy": "https://www.daily.co/legal/privacy/", "statusPage": "https://www.cloudflarestatus.com", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-17", "notes": [ "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)." ], "score": 57 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipecat-phonellm.json", "live": { "slug": "pipecat-phonellm", "probe": { "target": "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai/run/@cf/daily-co/phonellm-mini-alpha-2", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-18T00:31:02.859659504Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 17, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 17, "p95ms24h": 31, "samples24h": 27, "samples30d": 27, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-17", "probes": 21, "ok": 21 }, { "date": "2026-10-18", "probes": 6, "ok": 6 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://www.cloudflarestatus.com", "indicator": "major", "summary": "Partial System Outage", "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T00:21:07.855354178Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.daily.co/legal/privacy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:14:52.9950864Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "0100275d4e6b" }, { "url": "https://www.daily.co/legal/terms-of-service/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:14:55.805751581Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "c64f8e3a735a" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-18T00:31:02.859659504Z" } }, "answer": "Pipecat PhoneLLM scores 58.7 (C) on agent readiness against Vogent API's 47.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Vogent API leads on reliability.", "b": { "slug": "vogent", "name": "Vogent API", "vendor": "Vogent", "vendorUrl": "https://www.vogent.ai", "kind": "http-api", "category": "voice-agents", "summary": "Phone voice-agent platform with its own conversational LLM, voices and IVR-navigation models alongside GPT.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vogent", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vogent.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vogent.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/vogent.json", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.vogent.ai/api", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@vogent/vogent-web-client" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Bearer API key created per user in the dashboard. Keys stop working when that user leaves the workspace. Webhooks are signed with HMAC-SHA256 in the `X-Elto-Signature` header.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Pay as you go, metered by the second. $0.09 a minute ($0.0015 a second) with standard voices and $0.14 a minute ($0.0023 a second) with premium voices. The docs don't say whether telephony is included or whether there's free credit. Enterprise plans add volume discounts from about 5,000 to 10,000 calls a month (https://docs.vogent.ai/platform-overview/billing).", "priceSummary": "Pay per use", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 support in the docs or OpenAPI spec (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 899, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.vogent.ai", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.vogent.ai/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.vogent.ai/api-reference/openapi.yaml", "capabilities": [ "voice.agent", "voice.pipeline", "voice.tools", "voice.telephony" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "openapi", "llms-txt", "typescript", "webhooks", "pipeline", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-01-23", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 47.1, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 948, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1133, "categoryRank": 20, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 57, "maintenance": 11, "payments": 15, "reliability": 62, "schema": 73, "security": 40, "transparency": 43 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "IVR detection and navigation models for outbound calls. No public changelog and no release found since January 2026.", "bestFor": "Outbound calling that has to navigate IVRs in English or Spanish, in the US, Canada and the UK.", "strengths": [ "IVR detection and navigation models for outbound calls", "Idempotent dial creation with `idempotencyKey` and a 409 on reuse", "OpenAPI 3.0.3 and AsyncAPI files", "HMAC-SHA256 signed webhooks", "Per-second billing, $0.09 a minute on standard voices" ], "weaknesses": [ "No public changelog and no release found since January 2026", "No published rate limits or 429 handling", "No free tier or trial stated", "Terms date from March 2024, with no retention, subprocessor or certification statements", "No MCP server" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send an `idempotencyKey` on `POST /dials`, a reused key returns 409", "Create a call with `callAgentId`, plus `toNumber` and `fromNumberId` for phone calls", "Tell the model when to emit `\u003c|transfer|\u003e`, since transfers fire on that tag", "Verify webhooks with the HMAC in `X-Elto-Signature`", "Expect new dials to fail at the workspace's concurrent dial limit until calls end" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 2, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 47.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 57, "maintenance": 11, "payments": 15, "reliability": 62, "schema": 73, "security": 40, "transparency": 20 }, "provenanceScore": 66 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST https://api.vogent.ai/api/dials -H \"Authorization: Bearer $VOGENT_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"callAgentId\":\"\u003cagent-id\u003e\",\"toNumber\":\"+11234567890\",\"fromNumberId\":\"\u003cnumber-id\u003e\"}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/voice.agent", "tool": "https://letme.dev/vogent" }, "area": "voice", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Standard voices", "unit": "call-minute", "usd": 0.09, "note": "billed per second, docs don't say if telephony is included" }, { "item": "Premium voices", "unit": "call-minute", "usd": 0.14, "note": "billed per second" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Monoid, Inc.", "domain": "vogent.ai", "domainRegistered": "2024-08-28", "domainNote": "Vogent traded as Elto before, and recording URLs still sit on api.getelto.com.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.vogent.ai/terms", "privacy": "https://www.vogent.ai/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.vogent.ai", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "The terms and privacy notice name Monoid, Inc., doing business as Vogent, and were last updated 2024-03-03. 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Vogent API leads on reliability.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Pipecat PhoneLLM or Vogent API?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do Pipecat PhoneLLM and Vogent API need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. 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 Vogent API at https://api.vogent.ai/api.", "question": "Can an agent call Pipecat PhoneLLM and Vogent API without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 66 against 40", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 15", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 58 against 11", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 56 against 43" ], "also": [ "Free to start without a card", "Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.8 against 2.0 out of 5" ], "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "pipecat-phonellm", "watchFor": "Labelled Alpha 2 by Daily, with no deprecation policy, support period or changelog of its own" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 62 against 53" ], 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PhoneLLM scores 58.7 (C) on agent readiness against Vogent API's 47.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. 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No public changelog and no release found since January 2026." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipecat-phonellm-vs-vogent", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipecat-phonellm-vs-vogent.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipecat-phonellm-vs-vogent.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipecat-phonellm-vs-vogent.min.md" }, "markdown": "Pipecat PhoneLLM scores 58.7 (C) on agent readiness against Vogent API's 47.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Vogent API leads on reliability. Both do voice pipeline.\n\n- Pipecat PhoneLLM: grade C, 58.7/100, rank #629 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipecat-phonellm.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pipecat-phonellm.json\n- Vogent API: grade D, 47.1/100, rank #948 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vogent.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/vogent.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- Security \u0026 auth, 66 against 40\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 15\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 58 against 11\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 56 against 43\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### Vogent API (D)\n\nGood for: Outbound calling that has to navigate IVRs in English or Spanish, in the US, Canada and the UK.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 62 against 53\n\nWatch for: No public changelog and no release found since January 2026\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Pipecat PhoneLLM | Vogent API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 53 | 62 | Vogent API +9 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 72 | 73 | Vogent API +1 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 61 | 57 | Pipecat PhoneLLM +4 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 66 | 40 | Pipecat PhoneLLM +26 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 15 | Pipecat PhoneLLM +25 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 58 | 11 | Pipecat PhoneLLM +47 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 43 | Pipecat PhoneLLM +13 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **58.7 · C** | **47.1 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Pipecat PhoneLLM | Vogent API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Daily | Vogent |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai/run/@cf/daily-co/phonellm-mini-alpha-2` | `https://api.vogent.ai/api` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |\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| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2026-01-23 |\n| Terms last updated | | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | couldn't be read |\n| Popularity | none | 899 npm/wk |\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**Vogent API.** IVR detection and navigation models for outbound calls. No public changelog and no release found since January 2026.\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### Vogent API\n\n1. Send an `idempotencyKey` on `POST /dials`, a reused key returns 409\n2. Create a call with `callAgentId`, plus `toNumber` and `fromNumberId` for phone calls\n3. Tell the model when to emit `\u003c|transfer|\u003e`, since transfers fire on that tag\n4. Verify webhooks with the HMAC in `X-Elto-Signature`\n5. Expect new dials to fail at the workspace's concurrent dial limit until calls end\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Pipecat PhoneLLM or Vogent API?\n\nPipecat PhoneLLM scores 58.7 (C) on agent readiness against Vogent API's 47.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Vogent API leads on reliability.\n\n### Do Pipecat PhoneLLM and Vogent API need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Pipecat PhoneLLM and Vogent API 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 Vogent API at https://api.vogent.ai/api.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipecat-phonellm-vs-vogent.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipecat-phonellm-vs-vogent.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"pipecat-phonellm\", \"b\": \"vogent\"}`. 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