Tuvoz vs call-me: should Claude call you, or call for you?

call-me is an open-source Claude Code plugin with one job: let Claude phone you when it finishes a task or needs a decision, using your own Twilio or Telnyx number. Tuvoz does a different job: it calls businesses (and your own phone) for your agent, and phones you only when the call hits a question your agent can’t answer. If you want Claude to call you, call-me is the lighter tool.

As of Oct 8, 2026, the call-me repository has 2,644 stars, and its last code push was on Apr 7, 2026.

At a glance

	call-me	Tuvoz
Who gets called	Only you: the number in CALLME_USER_PHONE_NUMBER	Listed businesses, your own phone, and people you confirm agreed to AI calls (US only)
Who talks	Claude, through speech-to-text and text-to-speech	Tuvoz’s voice agent (Gemini Live); your agent answers its questions
What you set up	A Twilio or Telnyx account and number, an OpenAI API key, an ngrok account; optional Docker for local text-to-speech	Paste one line into your agent, sign in with Google, verify your mobile number
Cost	About $0.03 to $0.04 a minute with OpenAI text-to-speech, or $0.01 to $0.02 with local Kokoro, per its README, plus your number	$0.12 a minute, billed per second, with a 30-second minimum per answered call leg, including calls to your own phone
Agents	Claude Code (plugin)	Claude Code, Codex, claude.ai, Meta Muse, OpenClaw
Install	/plugin marketplace add ZeframLou/call-me then /plugin install callme@callme	Set up Tuvoz: https://tuvoz.io/agents
License	MIT (per its README)	The voice bridge is MIT; the hosted service is closed
Where your data goes	Your own phone and OpenAI accounts	Tuvoz, Twilio and Google Gemini (paid API), and your agent’s provider; calls may also be used to train AI, and other AI companies may get de-identified transcripts (how we use call data)

What call-me does well

• Cheap and private. Everything runs on accounts you own. A 10-minute call costs about $0.30 to $0.40 in provider fees.
• Claude is the one talking. With the tools initiate_call, continue_call, speak_to_user and end_call, Claude speaks with its full session context, and you can talk a problem through.
• Small and readable. One plugin, easy to audit and change.

Where Tuvoz is different

• It calls other people. call-me only reaches the number you configured. Tuvoz calls restaurants, offices and shops for you, says it’s an AI assistant calling for you, and asks before recording.
• No accounts to wire up. No Twilio console, API keys or tunnels. Sign in once, and the skill handles the rest.
• It calls you only when it must. During a call to a business, Tuvoz asks your agent first. It phones you only if your agent doesn’t answer, and the call opens with “Hi Jane, it’s your Tuvoz AI assistant, with a quick question about your call with Luigi’s Trattoria.”
• More than Claude Code. Codex, claude.ai, Muse and OpenClaw can use it too.

Where Tuvoz is weaker

• It costs more per minute than running call-me on your own accounts.
• Your agent doesn’t speak on the call; Tuvoz’s voice agent does, and passes questions back.
• Your calls go through Tuvoz, Twilio and Gemini. Read how we use call data.
• It doesn’t have a “call me when you’re done” mode. A test call to your own phone is the closest.

A note on “Call Me” (getcallme.app)

A separate product, Call Me, also has your assistant phone you when a task is done or stuck. It lists plans at $6/mo (up to 100 calls) and $9/mo (up to 500 calls) after a 7-day trial, for Claude and ChatGPT. Its site doesn’t say it’s related to the open-source call-me plugin.

Which should you pick?

Pick call-me if you want Claude Code to phone you, and you’re comfortable setting up Twilio or Telnyx, OpenAI and ngrok.

Pick Tuvoz if you want your agent to make calls to other people for you, with you as the fallback when it gets stuck.

Next: set up Tuvoz in Claude Code, or compare with PlaceCall.