Inworld AI vs Convai
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Inworld AI
Real-time voice AI stack — TTS, STT, and an LLM router
Visit
|
Convai
Voice-first AI NPC SDKs for Unity and Unreal, from ex-NVIDIA devs
Visit
|
|
|---|---|---|
| RECATOOLS Score | 7.6 / 10 | 7 / 10 |
| Capability | — | — |
| Value for money | — | — |
| Ease of use | — | — |
| ASEAN readiness | — | — |
| API quality | — | — |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Free tier | Agent Runtime orchestration is free; pay only for model/API consumption | Indie Dev tier ~$14/month (10,000 interactions) |
| Paid from | TTS-1.5 Mini $5/million characters; Realtime streaming from $0.10/hr | ~$22/month (higher interaction caps, premium models); Enterprise custom |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | 2021 | 2022 |
| Maker | Ilya Gelfenbeyn, Kylan Gibbs, Michael Ermolenko | Purnendu Mukherjee, Prashant Mishra |
| Verdict | Inworld has moved on from its original AI-NPC framing into real-time voice infrastructure, and the reinvention holds up. Its TTS-2 sits at the top of the Artificial Analysis Speech Arena, latency runs sub-200ms, and a cl... |
Convai is the platform game developers reach for when they want talking NPCs working in-engine fast — several report going from nothing to a pathfinding, conversing character in an afternoon inside Unreal or Unity. The s... |
| Full review → | Full review → |
← Back to AI Directory
Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.