Bland AI
Phone agents, in a cloned or chosen voice, that handle inbound and outbound business calls without a human on the line.
What it costs
| Tier | Price | For | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start | $0.14/minute, no platform fee | Testing the product with light call volume. | 2 free credits plus an inbound number ($15/mo value), 10 concurrent calls, 100 calls/day, 10 knowledge bases. |
| Build | $0.12/minute plus a $299/month platform fee | A business running phone calls as a real channel. | 50 concurrent calls, 2,000 calls/day, 50 knowledge bases, a lower per-transfer rate than Start. |
| Enterprise | Custom pricing, contact sales | Regulated or high-volume phone operations. | Custom concurrency, on-premises/VPC deployment options, dedicated engineer support, BAA/SSO/data-residency compliance features. |
Read from Bland AI's own pricing page on 25 Sep 2026. Vendors change prices without notice.
Where it breaks
The per-minute rate only drops on Build once you're already paying the $299/month platform fee — Build is cheaper than Start solely at high call volume, so it's worth estimating your monthly minutes before upgrading.
Browser dashboard and API. Every tier is billed per minute of call time, on top of any monthly platform fee.
First entry in this reference. There is no previous check to compare it against.
Bland AI answers and makes phone calls end to end — greeting, conversation, objection handling, transfer or booking — in a voice you choose or clone, with no human listening in real time. The work runs unwatched, and what you review afterward is the call recording or transcript, not a step-by-step approval queue.
The pricing model is unusual for this directory in a useful way: everything is metered per minute rather than per seat or per task, which means the real monthly cost scales directly with how much you actually use the phone as a channel rather than with headcount or plan tier.
What the platform fee buys on Build
Start has no monthly fee at all — you pay $0.14 a minute and nothing else, which is the right choice for testing whether AI phone calls work for your business before committing to anything. Build adds a flat $299/month fee in exchange for a lower per-minute rate and much higher concurrency and daily call limits; the breakeven point is roughly 15,000 minutes a month, below which Start is still cheaper.
The honest limitation
Nothing about the pricing page addresses call quality, compliance in regulated industries, or how naturally the voice holds a conversation under pressure — those are usage questions this page can’t answer, and they matter more for a phone agent than for almost any other category in this directory, because a bad call is heard by a real customer in real time.
Get Bland AI
Buying the tool is not the hard part.
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