Bland
Bland is a voice-agent pathway studio: you draw a Conversational Pathway, test it in chat, and Deploy a phone agent.
OUR TAKE
Pick Bland for 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. Start is 100 calls/day.
Good fit
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.
Poor fit
Start · Build $299/mo · Scale $499/mo
USD, before tax · Checked 2026-10-26 · bland.ai/pricing
Compare:
OUR TAKE
Pick Bland for 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. Start is 100 calls/day. Burst needs Build.
Good fit
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.
Poor fit
Start · Build $299/mo · Scale $499/mo
USD, before tax · Checked 2026-10-26 · bland.ai/pricing
Compare:
What it costs
USD, before tax · Checked 2026-10-26 · bland.ai/pricing
Start
platform. /min talk; /min transfer. 10 concurrent; 100 calls/day
$0
Build
+ /min ( transfer). 50 concurrent; 2,000 calls/day
$299/mo
Scale
+ /min ( transfer) on the billing doc
$499/mo
Agent Phone
first month, then (docs)
Lowest paid
$14.99/mo
Enterprise
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The product is not OSS.
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Checked 2026-10-26·bland.ai/pricing
Before you pay
Good fit
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.
Watch out
Start is 100 calls/day. Burst needs Build.
Instead, try
Vapi if assemble the voice stack; hosting $0.05/min plus your models; Retell if PAYG voice studio; infra $0.055/min
Compare Bland with
Limits, in full
- 01
Start is 100 calls/day. Burst needs Build.
- 02
Transfer minutes extra. on Bland numbers; BYO Twilio transfer is $0 (docs).
- 03
Not Vapi à-la-carte. The printed $/min already includes model+speech.
If Bland isn't it
Why: assemble the voice stack; hosting $0.05/min plus your models.
Paid only$5
Hosting is $0.05/min plus providersChecked 2026-10-22·vapi.ai/pricing
vs Bland
Why: PAYG voice studio; infra $0.055/min.
Free· paid from$0.015
Infra is not the all-in rateChecked 2026-10-22·retellai.com/pricing
vs Bland
Why: voices/TTS first, not a full pathway caller.
Free· paid from$6/mo
Credits are not minutesChecked 2026-10-19·elevenlabs.io/pricing
vs BlandLimits & alternatives3 limits · Vapi, Retell, ElevenLabs instead
Limits, in full
- 01
Start is 100 calls/day. Burst needs Build.
- 02
Transfer minutes extra. on Bland numbers; BYO Twilio transfer is $0 (docs).
- 03
Not Vapi à-la-carte. The printed $/min already includes model+speech.
If Bland isn't it
Why: assemble the voice stack; hosting $0.05/min plus your models.
Paid only$5
Hosting is $0.05/min plus providersChecked 2026-10-22·vapi.ai/pricing
vs BlandWhy: PAYG voice studio; infra $0.055/min.
Free· paid from$0.015
Infra is not the all-in rateChecked 2026-10-22·retellai.com/pricing
vs BlandWhy: voices/TTS first, not a full pathway caller.
Free· paid from$6/mo
Credits are not minutesChecked 2026-10-19·elevenlabs.io/pricing
vs Bland
