# xAI launches Voice Agent Builder, no-code platform for production voice agents at $0.05/minute

> xAI has opened a beta of Voice Agent Builder, a no-code tool that lets people stand up a production voice agent in under two minutes without writing any code. Instead of stitching together separate speech-to-text, language and text-to-speech APIs, it runs on a single speech-to-speech model, which xAI says delivers sub-second latency and more natural back-and-forth. Pricing is bundled at 5 cents a minute covering the model, voices, retrieval, tools, guardrails and observability, and it ships supporting more than 25 languages with live language switching. The pitch is aimed squarely at companies that want to automate phone calls and support lines without a specialist team. By folding compliance features like SOC 2, HIPAA eligibility and GDPR into the launch, xAI is signaling it wants enterprise buyers, not hobbyists. Voice has quietly become one of the hottest fronts in applied AI, and packaging the whole stack behind a simple builder is a bet that ease of setup, not raw model quality, is what wins this market.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: xAI · Published Saturday, July 18, 2026_

## Wortins' read

xAI has opened a beta of Voice Agent Builder, a no-code tool that lets people stand up a production voice agent in under two minutes without writing any code. Instead of stitching together separate speech-to-text, language and text-to-speech APIs, it runs on a single speech-to-speech model, which xAI says delivers sub-second latency and more natural back-and-forth. Pricing is bundled at 5 cents a minute covering the model, voices, retrieval, tools, guardrails and observability, and it ships supporting more than 25 languages with live language switching. The pitch is aimed squarely at companies that want to automate phone calls and support lines without a specialist team. By folding compliance features like SOC 2, HIPAA eligibility and GDPR into the launch, xAI is signaling it wants enterprise buyers, not hobbyists. Voice has quietly become one of the hottest fronts in applied AI, and packaging the whole stack behind a simple builder is a bet that ease of setup, not raw model quality, is what wins this market.

## Source

[Read the full story at xAI](https://x.ai/news/grok-voice-agent-builder)

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