Bland AI alternative
Bland AI pricing, plan by plan, and a Bland AI alternative.
Bland AI sells voice agents at one per-minute rate that covers the language model, speech-to-text and voices. As of Nov 2026 that is $0.14 a minute on the Start plan and $0.12 on Build, which adds a $299 monthly platform fee. Telephony is billed separately, on your own carrier or on Bland’s at pass-through cost.
A single rate is easy to budget. Teams searching for a Bland AI alternative usually want the opposite trade: choose each model and voice themselves and pay those providers directly, run the same agent on more than phone calls, or sell agents under their own brand. That is how VocalLabs works.
Dashboard · Copilot · API and MCP · Bring your own keys · Twilio, Plivo, Exotel or Vobiz · Voice, video and text
- AI agent00:00
Hi Marco, this is Brightline Solar. You asked for a quote on our website a few minutes ago. Is now a good time?
- Caller00:06
Sure, go ahead.
- AI agent00:08
Do you own the home, and roughly how much is your monthly electricity bill?
- Caller00:12
We own it. About 180 a month.
- AI agent00:15
Thanks. An adviser can visit on Thursday at ten or Friday at two. Which suits you?
- Caller00:20
Friday at two.
- System00:22
MCP · Calendly booking created · HubSpot contact updated
Bland AI pricing, as of Nov 2026.
Bland charges for talk time and, at a lower rate, for time after a call is transferred. The plans differ mainly in the per-minute rate, the platform fee and how many calls you can run.
| Start | Build | Enterprise | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Talk time | $0.14/min | $0.12/min | Custom, contracted to your volume |
| Transfer time | $0.05/min | $0.04/min | Custom |
| Platform fee | $0 | $299/month | Custom |
| Concurrent calls | 10 | 50 | Sized to your volume |
| Calls per day | 100 | 2,000 | Unlimited |
| Calls per hour | 100 | 1,000 | Unlimited |
| Voices | 1 | 5 | Unlimited |
| Uptime SLA | 99.9% | 99.9% | 99.9% |
From bland.ai/pricing as of Nov 2026, in US dollars. The per-minute rate covers the LLM, speech-to-text and voices. Telephony is billed separately, on your own carrier or Bland’s at pass-through cost, and teams on their own telephony pay no transfer fees. On-prem or VPC deployment is listed for Enterprise. · Source: Bland AI pricing
Bland AI vs VocalLabs, side by side.
| Bland AI | VocalLabs | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Voice AI agents, built, monitored and improved in Bland | A no-code studio for voice, video and text agents |
| Models and voices | Bundled into one per-minute rate, with no token charges | Your own provider accounts, billed to you directly; VocalLabs never resells tokens or minutes |
| Platform charge | $0.12–$0.14/min including models; $299/month on Build | Quoted on request |
| Telephony | Your own Twilio account or SIP trunk, or Bland’s telephony at pass-through cost | Your Twilio, Plivo, Exotel or Vobiz account; PSTN billing stays with the carrier |
| How you build | An agent builder, plus SDKs, MCP and API references | Dashboard, Copilot (an AI builder that edits the agent and shows what it changed), or every action over the API and MCP |
| Text channels | SMS, web chat and iMessage, listed on Enterprise | WhatsApp, Telegram, a web widget or the API, on the same agent and tools |
| Hosting options | On-prem or VPC deployment on Enterprise | Host your own LLM, TTS or ASR on VocalLabs infrastructure, next to the telephony |
| Compliance | SOC 2 Type I and II, HIPAA with a BAA, GDPR with a DPA | VAPT, GDPR, CERT-In, AICPA SOC, ISO 27001:2022, HIPAA and CCPA; published DPA |
Bland column from bland.ai/pricing and docs.bland.ai as of Nov 2026. VocalLabs column describes the agent builder and the VocalLabs platform. To keep a Bland agent and change only its telephony, see VocalStack Voice below. · Source: Bland AI pricing
Who should switch from Bland, and who should stay.
Bland’s bundle is a deliberate choice, and for some teams it is the right one.
- 01Stay
One number to budget
Bland’s rate covers the model, speech-to-text and voice, with no token charges. If predictability matters more than choosing providers, stay.
- 02Stay
Regulated and at scale
Bland’s Enterprise plan lists on-prem or VPC deployment, a dedicated orchestration server and forward-deployed engineers. If you need those on contract, stay.
- 03Switch
You want to choose the models
Pick the speech-to-text, LLM and voice for each agent, or a single realtime model, and pay each provider directly at your own rates.
- 04Switch
One agent, every channel
The same prompt and tools on a phone number, in the browser, on WhatsApp and Telegram, and as a video avatar.
- 05Switch
You resell agents
The VocalLabs white-label programme puts your logo, domain and reports on the console, at partner rates and your own price.
- 06Keep Bland
Keep Bland, change the carrier
VocalStack Voice lists Bland among the voice agent platforms it works with, with Twilio, Exotel, Ozonetel, Airtel IQ, Plivo, Kaleyra and SIP trunks as carriers.
Keep Bland. Change what carries the call.
Bland already lets you bring your own telephony, and VocalStack Voice, the VocalLabs telephony layer for voice AI, lists Bland among the platforms it works with. It is carrier-agnostic and measured end to end.
Moving a voice agent from Bland to VocalLabs.
- 01
Map the pathway
Write down the agent’s instructions, the knowledge it answers from, every integration it calls and where transfers go. Those become the prompt, the FAQs and the tools.
- 02
Choose your models
Connect your own accounts with OpenAI, Gemini, Deepgram, ElevenLabs, Sarvam or the other supported providers, and pick a speech pipeline or a single realtime model.
- 03
Rebuild the tools
Integrations become operation trees: HTTP requests, conditions, MCP servers such as Calendly or HubSpot, handoffs to a person or another agent, and webhooks.
- 04
Test before publishing
Run browser voice and text sessions and read the transcript, tool calls, captured fields and provider usage for each one.
- 05
Move the calls
Connect your Twilio, Plivo, Exotel or Vobiz account and import your DIDs. Point inbound at the published agent, and place outbound calls one at a time or as a scheduled batch.
Questions buyers ask first.
Pick the models. Pay them directly.
Tell us what you run on Bland today: the agent, your carrier, your plan and your monthly minutes. We will show you the same agent on VocalLabs, or connect your Bland agent to VocalStack Voice, so you can compare on your own calls.
