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 Ultravox
Our take
Pick Bland if you're on a ops and support team who want a pathway-built phone agent and one all-in minute rate. Pick Ultravox if you're a builder who will burn 30 free minutes, then $0.05 / min, and may clone the MIT model. Skip Bland if you're a developer who want to swap Deepgram / ElevenLabs themselves (Vapi). Skip Ultravox if you're on a team that want one all-in talk-time rate with LLM/STT/TTS bundled (Bland).
Best for
Bland An inbound or outbound phone agent with LLM/STT/TTS in one number
Ultravox A realtime voice agent with a public per-minute card
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
Ultravox $0 · / month. 30 free minutes; then $0.05 / min. No surge. Unlimited playground. 5 concurrent. SIP 0.5¢ / min. Threads tokens $2 / 1M input, $15 / 1M output (uncached)
Lowest paid
Bland Build $299/mo
Ultravox Pro $100
Coding agent
Bland Knowledge
Ultravox Agents desk
Runs where
Bland
Ultravox Hosted
Watch out
Bland Start is 100 calls/day and 10 concurrent
Ultravox $0.05 / min is not the SIP / token bill
Last checked
Bland 2026-10-22 · bland.ai/pricing
Ultravox 2026-10-28 · ultravox.ai/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Ultravox if
builders who will burn 30 free minutes, then $0.05 / min, and may clone the MIT model.
Read the Ultravox page