Pick Bland if
voice teams who will start on $0.14/min or pay Build $299 — not Vapi first unless they want to assemble their own LLM/STT/TTS stack.
Read the Bland pageBland vs Retell
Our take
Pick Bland if you're on a voice team who will start on $0.14/min or pay Build $299 — not Vapi first unless they want to assemble their own LLM/STT/TTS stack. Pick Retell if you're on a team that want a voice agent today and will pay minutes + add-ons, without an annual commit. Skip Retell if you're buyers who want one all-in minute that already includes the LLM (Bland).
Best for
Bland A phone agent with an all-in per-minute $
Retell A phone or chat agent billed by the minute
Free plan
Bland $0 · platform. $0.14/min talk; $0.05/min transfer. 10 concurrent; 100 calls/day
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 Agent Phone $14.99/mo
Retell Telephony $0.015
Next step up
Bland Build $299/mo
Retell Monthly add-ons $2/mo
Coding agent
Bland Agent Phone
Retell Simulation testing
Watch out
Bland Start is 100 calls/day
Retell Infra is not the all-in rate
Last checked
Bland 2026-10-26 · 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