Synthflow
No-code voice-AI platform — drag-and-drop call-flow builder targeted at non-developers. Berlin-based; raised $7.4M Series A Sep-2024 (Singular). Distinguishes itself from Vapi/Retell with visual call-flow builder rather than code-first SDK.
Active · Verified 2026-10-27 · fresh as of 2026-10-27 · 42 cited facts, 0 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- No-code voice-agent builder (telephony) vendor fix
- Tier
- T2
- Section
- Voice agent platforms
- Created
- 2023 (founded) vendor fix
- Latest release
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- License
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
- Pricing
- Enterprise contracts from $30,000/yr, scoped by call volume, concurrency, telephony and integrations vendor fix
- Funding
- $20M Series A (2025-06-25) led by Accel with Atlantic Labs and Singular; $30M total vendor fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-27 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial vendor fix
- Protocols
- mcp-client, mcp-server vendor fix
- Compliance
- gdpr, hipaa, pci-dss vendor fix
When to use
Optimised for: SMB voice agents via visual builder; EU residency
Anti-fit: No-code-first → less flexible than Vapi/Retell for complex programmatic use cases
Pros & cons
Pros
No-code builder; EU data residency; SOC 2 + GDPR; SMB-friendly pricing.
Cons
Smaller / EU-centric; less programmatic than Vapi; vendor-pipeline (not vertically integrated).
Claims & capabilities
$7.4M Series A Sep-2024 (Singular); no-code visual builder; EU residency option
Technical surface
- API surface
- REST API + dashboard + Zapier integration
- Backend storage
- Call state in Synthflow-managed DB
- Deployment
- Cloud-managed (EU + US regions)
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- Multi-tenant cloud
- MCP
- yes — Synthflow MCP server for managing agents, calls and knowledge bases from MCP clients
- A2A
- searched not found
- OpenTelemetry
- searched not found
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Similar systems
Other voice agent platforms in the catalog, ranked by inbound references.
- Cartesia Sonic T1
Cartesia's Sonic TTS — state-space-model-based voice generation, lowest published TTS latency (~40ms). Cartesia raised $64M Series A Q1 2025 (Index + Lightspeed); founded by Mamba authors. Agent platform layer ('Cartesia Line') wraps Sonic with telephony + LLM.
- LiveKit Agents T1
LiveKit Agents — agent framework built on LiveKit's open-source WebRTC media server. LiveKit raised $45M Series B Sep-2024 ($300M val). Powers OpenAI Realtime API's WebRTC transport (LiveKit is the substrate OpenAI chose). Agents framework formally launched 2024.
- ElevenLabs Conversational AI (now ElevenAgents) T1
ElevenLabs launched Conversational AI Nov-2024 — STT + LLM + their own market-leading TTS in one pipeline. Combines vendor's voice cloning + multilingual TTS strengths with hosted call orchestration. ElevenLabs raised $180M Series C Jan-2025 at $3.3B val. As of 2026-10 ElevenLabs markets the platform as ElevenAgents.
- OpenAI Realtime API T1
OpenAI's Realtime API for native speech-to-speech multimodal interaction with GPT-4o — launched Oct 2024 (DevDay). Skips the STT → LLM → TTS pipeline by passing speech directly to GPT-4o. The platform substrate that Vapi/Retell/Bland integrate as one of their LLM choices.
- Pipecat (Daily) T1
Open-source Python framework for real-time voice + multimodal AI agents, maintained by Daily.co. Pipeline-style architecture (STT → context → LLM → TTS) wired over WebRTC. The OSS substrate that many of the voice platforms build on or compose with.
- Hume EVI T1
Hume's Empathic Voice Interface (EVI) — voice agent platform with vocal-affect understanding, using Hume's proprietary speech-prosody models. Hume will shut down the EVI and TTS APIs on 2026-11-13 (announced in its docs). Hume raised $50M Series B Mar-2024 (EQT).
Sources (41 cited facts, 0 third-party)
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- What it is No-code voice-agent builder (telephony) vendor
- What it does & what's distinct No-code voice-AI platform — drag-and-drop call-flow builder targeted at non-developers. … vendor
- Claims / benefits $7.4M Series A Sep-2024 (Singular); no-code visual builder; EU residency option vendor
- Modalities voice (PSTN + WebRTC) + text vendor
- Created 2023 (founded) vendor
- Mindshare European voice-AI category; medium HN mindshare vendor
- Funding $20M Series A (2025-06-25) led by Accel with Atlantic Labs and Singular; $30M total vendor
- Customers / scale 1000+ SMB customers; case studies in real estate + hospitality vendor
- Pricing Enterprise contracts from $30,000/yr, scoped by call volume, concurrency, telephony and … vendor
- Compliance SOC 2; GDPR; EU data residency vendor
- Data handling EU + US residency; GDPR-aligned vendor
- Deployment Cloud-managed (EU + US regions) vendor
- HQ Germany (Berlin) vendor
- Founders / pedigree Albert Astabatsyan + Hakob Astabatsyan (co-founders) vendor
- API surface REST API + dashboard + Zapier integration vendor
- Backend storage Call state in Synthflow-managed DB vendor
- Multi-tenancy Multi-tenant cloud vendor
- Encryption TLS + AES-256 vendor
- SSO / RBAC SSO on Business / Enterprise vendor
- Versioning Agent versions in dashboard vendor
- Tombstoning User-delete; GDPR-aligned vendor
- Namespace primitives per-workspace vendor
- Forgetting policy Configurable retention vendor
- MCP support yes — Synthflow MCP server for managing agents, calls and knowledge bases from MCP clients vendor
- Webhooks / events Webhooks for call events vendor
- Import / export Agent flow JSON-exportable vendor
- Validated verticals real estate, hospitality, healthcare (EU) vendor
- Time to running <30min (no-code builder) vendor
- Anti-fit No-code-first → less flexible than Vapi/Retell for complex programmatic use cases vendor
- Optimised for SMB voice agents via visual builder; EU residency vendor
- Adjacent infrastructure Twilio; Deepgram; ElevenLabs; OpenAI / Anthropic vendor
- Pros No-code builder; EU data residency; SOC 2 + GDPR; SMB-friendly pricing. vendor
- Cons Smaller / EU-centric; less programmatic than Vapi; vendor-pipeline (not vertically integ… vendor
- Project & sources synthflow.ai; docs.synthflow.ai vendor
- architecture-deployment-locus cloud vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product platform vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
- compliance-certifications gdpr,hipaa,pci-dss vendor
- sdk-languages rest vendor
- protocol-support mcp-client,mcp-server vendor
What changed
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- 2026-10-27
- Pricing “Tiered: Starter $29/mo + per-minute; Pro $450/mo” → “Enterprise contracts from $30,000/yr, scoped by call volume, concurrency, telephony and integrations” source
- Funding / ownership “$7.4M Series A Sep-2024 (Singular lead)” → “$20M Series A (2025-06-25) led by Accel with Atlantic Labs and Singular; $30M total” source
- MCP support first recorded as “yes — Synthflow MCP server for managing agents, calls and knowledge bases from MCP clients” source
Related systems
References (2)
- Anthropic Claude (foundation models) depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: Twilio; Deepgram; ElevenLabs; OpenAI / Anthropic
- OpenAI GPT family (GPT-5 / GPT-4o / o3 / o4) depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: Twilio; Deepgram; ElevenLabs; OpenAI / Anthropic