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Know when self-hosting your voice agent starts to pay
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Know when self-hosting your voice agent starts to pay
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Answer three questions about your calls: minutes a month, platform, and whether a customer has asked where call audio lives. Get your stage on a five-step ladder and your next three steps, emailed as a PDF. The full course behind it is free, no sign-up.
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Hi everyone, I'm Mahimai. I build and run voice agents for teams in Canada.
The question I get most: should our voice agent move off Retell or Vapi onto our own servers?
The honest answer depends on one number, your call minutes a month.
Below about 35,000 minutes, a hosted platform costs less than your own servers. Moving early is a real mistake.
Above it, your own servers cost less, and the gap grows every month.
On LiveKit Cloud the line sits near 130,000.
If a customer asks where your call audio is stored, compliance can move the line to zero.
The stage finder asks three questions and tells you where you sit:
Your roadmap comes as a PDF by email. If you'd rather not leave an email, the full course is free with no sign-up: mahimai.ca/education/selfhost
Each stage has one table: platform, telephony, media, agent, model, action, operations and cost. Tick what you've done. What's left is your plan.
Prices come from public pricing pages, checked in November 2026. If your numbers say something different, tell me. I'd like to hear where the math breaks.
Which stage did you land on?