Pick Bland if
ops and support teams who want a pathway-built phone agent and one all-in minute rate.
Read the Bland pageBland vs Retell
Our take
Pick Bland if ops and support teams who want a pathway-built phone agent and one all-in minute rate. Pick Retell if teams that want a voice agent today and will pay minutes + add-ons, without an annual commit. Skip Bland if developers who want to swap Deepgram / ElevenLabs themselves (Vapi). Skip Retell if buyers who want one all-in minute that already includes the LLM (Bland).
Best for
Bland An inbound or outbound phone agent with LLM/STT/TTS in one number
Retell A phone or chat agent billed by the minute
Free plan
Bland $0 · platform. $0.14/min talk time; $0.05/min transfer. No card. 2 credits + inbound number. 10 concurrent; 100 calls/day; 10 knowledge bases; 1 voice. 99.9% uptime SLA
Retell $0 · to start. Retell Voice Infra $0.055/min. Platform voices / Minimax / Fish / Cartesia / OpenAI / Inworld TTS $0.015/min. ElevenLabs Flash $0.040/min (higher ElevenLabs rows on the same table). LLM rows are per-minute (example GPT 4.1 $0.045/min). 20 concurrent included
Lowest paid
Bland Build $299/mo
Retell Telephony $0.015
Next step up
Bland
Retell Monthly add-ons $2/mo
Coding agent
Bland Knowledge
Retell Simulation testing
Watch out
Bland Start is 100 calls/day and 10 concurrent
Retell Infra is not the all-in rate
Last checked
Bland 2026-10-22 · bland.ai/pricing
Retell 2026-10-22 · retellai.com/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Retell if
teams that want a voice agent today and will pay minutes + add-ons, without an annual commit.
Read the Retell page