US termination at a penny, flat. Lower than wholesale's effective cost.
Wholesale vendors advertise US interstate under $0.009/min. We publish $0.01/min flat across every US call type. On a realistic dialer mix — intrastate premium, ported-to-wireless surcharges, rural LEC pass-throughs — wholesale's effective cost runs higher than our flat. And the flat is the one you can actually forecast.
Not all SIP termination is the same thing.
Three kinds of vendor sell voice minutes in this market. They're priced differently because they deliver different calls. Understanding which tier you're actually shopping clears up most of the 'why so expensive?' confusion.
Wholesale tier
Bulk US termination via least-cost routing. Headline rate sits just under a penny — but only on pure interstate. Intrastate premium, ported-to-wireless surcharge, and rural LEC pass-throughs land on the monthly invoice and push effective cost past the headline. You buy minutes; reconciliation and route quality are your problem.
- •US interstate headline around $0.009/min on wholesale LCR
- •Intrastate premium, ported-to-wireless surcharge, and rural LEC pass-throughs billed on top
- •Per-CPS and per-channel fees charged separately from minutes
- •No managed A-attestation — usually B-level or gateway
- •Route switching and surcharge reconciliation are your NOC's job
CPaaS tier
API-first voice vendors. US outbound published around $0.0115/min — priced for developer ergonomics, not for high-volume dialers. CLI is generally delivered, but top-tier attestation and number-level trust scoring typically carry paid upgrades. At dialer volume, metered pricing + surcharges compound fast.
- •US outbound roughly $0.0115/min on published rate cards
- •Per-CPS fees ($0.50–$1/CPS/mo) and burst surcharges billed on top
- •CLI generally delivered but not contractually guaranteed
- •A-attestation and trust-score upgrades usually paid add-ons
- •Metered pricing scales against you at tens of millions of minutes a month
Managed-carrier tier
Flat $0.01/min US termination. Every call type, every jurisdiction, one rate. We do LRN lookups on every call, steer to the right terminating carrier, and absorb the interstate / intrastate / wireless / rural variance. On a realistic dialer mix the flat lands below wholesale's effective cost and well below any CPaaS — with A-level STIR/SHAKEN included.
- •$0.01/min flat — every US call type, every jurisdiction, no surcharges
- •No CPS fees, no per-channel fees, no burst surcharges — ever
- •LRN dip on every call — routes to the actual underlying carrier, not the NPA/NXX owner
- •A-level STIR/SHAKEN attestation on every eligible US/CA call — included
- •NOC watches terminating-carrier CDRs and fixes breakage end-to-end
- •Over two decades of carrier voice operating history behind every call
Everything that usually hides under "plus surcharges".
Our $0.01/min flat isn't a headline with asterisks. It's direct interconnects, LRN-optimized routing, managed attestation, 24/7 NOC monitoring, CLI integrity, and an operating record long enough to mean something — all bundled into one number.
Direct carrier termination
Our outbound traffic goes over direct interconnects with the terminating carrier in each country — not through a daisy-chain of grey-route brokers. Fewer hops, higher answer rate, cleaner signaling.
A-level STIR/SHAKEN — included
Every eligible US/Canada outbound call signed at A-attestation. No upsell, no surcharge, no opt-in form. Downstream carriers see the call as verified and are less likely to drop it into spam folders or block it outright.
NOC watches your delivery
Real engineers on shift 24/7 looking at ASR, PDD, and CLI behavior on every terminating carrier. When a hop changes behavior, we fix it — usually before you notice. Your NOC does not need to be our route-audit team.
Guaranteed CLI integrity
Every DID you buy from us is delivered as CLI — exactly as purchased. No rewrite, no masking, no substitution. Applies across every country in our DID footprint, not a hand-picked tier-1 subset.
One carrier, one invoice
Outbound termination, inbound DIDs, toll-free, STIR/SHAKEN, emergency registration — all on one network with one accountability chain. No finger-pointing when routing changes and you can't tell which vendor broke something.
Published numbers, not adjectives
ASR 67%+ on US domestic, PDD under 2 seconds, 120,000 concurrent US ports. Numbers most carriers won't publish because they can't sustain them. Rolling averages on our production traffic — visible in the portal, verifiable on your CDRs.
We do the LRN dip. You get one number.
Every US outbound call on our network gets an LRN lookup before it egresses. The dip tells us which carrier actually owns the number after porting — not the NPA/NXX owner on paper. That's how we route to the right terminating carrier instead of guessing based on the dialed digits and eating a ported-to-wireless surcharge.
Our wholesale LCR looks like anyone else's under the hood: interstate, intrastate, wireless-ported, and rural LEC rates vary by call. The difference is we absorb that variance. You see one flat per-minute rate on the invoice and one number in your forecast spreadsheet. No mid-month surprise when your traffic mix shifts toward intrastate, or when a regulator reclassifies a rate center, or when a carrier moves rural LEC exposure onto a pass-through line item.
It's the routing sophistication of a wholesale operator packaged as the simplicity of a flat-rate card. That's the trade we're making on your behalf.
- Interstate vs intrastate split. No IJ/OJ blending games, no jurisdiction reclassification surprises.
- Ported-to-wireless surcharge. LRN dip catches the port; we route accordingly and swallow the cost delta.
- Rural LEC pass-throughs. No $0.02+/min line items buried in the monthly reconciliation.
- A-level STIR/SHAKEN. Every eligible call signed. No attestation surcharge, no opt-in.
- Mix drift. If your traffic shifts from 60/40 to 40/60 interstate/intrastate, your rate doesn't move.
Outbound CLI must be a number hosted with VICICarrier.
Every outbound call on our network must present a CLI that belongs to a DID you purchased from us or ported into our service. Third-party CLIs — numbers hosted with another carrier, spoofed numbers, borrowed CLIs — are blocked at the edge. This is a hard policy, not a feature flag.
A-level STIR/SHAKEN requires a verifiable ownership relationship between the signing carrier and the CLI, and "just let me send this CLI" is the single most common vector for spoofing fraud, regulatory takedowns, and downstream carrier blocks. Our operating record depends on not being that vector. If you want to use an existing number as CLI, port it to us first — porting is free and typically completes in 3–10 business days.
FULL CLI POLICY AND ANTI-FRAUD CONTROLS →At dialer volume, flat is the cheap rate.
Concrete example — a US outbound dialer running 2,000 concurrent connected calls, 10 hours a day, 5 days a week, with a 75-second ACD. That's roughly 26 million billable minutes a month at a realistic dialer mix (55% interstate, 30% intrastate, 15% ported-to-wireless, routine rural LEC exposure). Same traffic, three tiers.
| Tier | Headline rate | Effective blended* | 26M min/mo | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wholesale tier | $0.0090/min | $0.0105/min | $273,000 | LCR routing; intrastate, wireless, and rural surcharges reconciled monthly; attestation not guaranteed |
| CPaaS tier | $0.0115/min | $0.0115/min | $299,000 | API-first; attestation and trust-score upgrades priced on top |
| VICICarrier (managed, flat) | $0.0100/min | $0.0100/min | $260,000 | LRN-routed, flat rate covers every US call type, A-attestation included, NOC-monitored |
*Effective blended = headline rate + typical wholesale surcharges on the mix above (intrastate premium ~$0.002–0.003/min, ported-to-wireless surcharge ~$0.001–0.002/min, occasional rural LEC pass-through at $0.02+/min amortized). Numbers drawn from invoice samples our NOC sees during rate-gap audits; your actual wholesale bill varies with call mix.
On this mix the flat rate lands roughly $13,000/mo under wholesale's effective cost and $39,000/mo under the CPaaS tier — and those numbers are per-minute only. Wholesale and CPaaS also charge for CPS, per-channel, and burst capacity on top (common $0.50–$1 per CPS per month, a few thousand dollars a month for a 1,500-CPS predictive dialer). We don't — no CPS metering, ever. The flat is the one number you can take to a forecast — no surcharge reconciliation, no mid-month rate drift when your call mix shifts toward intrastate or picks up more wireless ports.
When wholesale is still the right call.
Flat isn't always the answer. We'd rather tell you than watch you pay for something you don't need.
- •Near-pure interstate traffic with minimal intrastate, wireless, or rural LEC exposure — the headline rate actually holds.
- •In-house NOC willing to reconcile surcharges, monitor route quality, and chase CLI issues every month.
- •Price-elastic traffic where CLI rewrite is acceptable — voice broadcasts, silent delivery, survey.
- •Comfortable with calls occasionally flagged "Spam Likely" or "Scam Likely" by downstream filters.
When managed flat is the obvious call.
Most B2B dialing, every regulated vertical, any operation where the NOC exists to run your business — not audit vendor routes.
- •Mixed US traffic — interstate, intrastate, wireless, occasional rural — where surcharge exposure is real.
- •Forecastable per-minute cost matters — you're pricing downstream service, reporting to a parent, or sizing a campaign budget.
- •Every call needs to reach the intended party with the CLI you sent, and A-attestation isn't optional.
- •You'd rather have one flat rate and one accountability chain than a spreadsheet of route codes and a finger-pointing chain when something breaks.
Send us your CDR. We'll tell you honestly which tier fits.
Share your last month of outbound and your current carrier's rate sheet. If wholesale is the right answer for your traffic, we'll say so — and point you at who to talk to. If managed routing pays for itself on your volumes, the math will prove it.