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Bland AI vs Retell AI

Bland AI publishes its pricing; Retell AI does not.

Both pages checked by August 19, 2026
Bland AIAI only
$0/mo
Start plan
Developer and enterprise voice AI platform that owns its own telephony, speech-to-text, LLM, text-to-speech and pathway orchestration stack and sells it on a per-minute rate plus a monthly platform fee, so buyers build and operate their own phone agents rather than buying a packaged receptionist.
Retell AIAI only
Pricing not published
no published plan
Developer-oriented platform to build, test, deploy and monitor AI voice and chat agents, billed a la carte per minute: a Retell voice-infrastructure rate plus a separately priced text-to-speech voice, a separately priced LLM and separately priced telephony.

The differences that matter

  • Bland AI publishes prices. Retell AI makes you ask.

Feature by feature

CapabilityBland AIRetell AI
Live transferYesYes
Books appointmentsYesYes
Text follow-upYesYes
Outbound callsYesYes
SpanishYesYes
Human backupNoNo
Call recordingsYesYes
TranscriptsYesYes
Spam screeningunstatedunstated
Custom voiceYesYes
APIYesYes

"unstated" means the vendor doesn't claim it in their own documentation. It is not the same as no — it means nobody will put it in writing.

Bland AI plans

PlanPublished priceIncludesOver that
Start$0.14 /min — $0 platform fee. No card required.——
Build$0.12 /min — $299/month platform fee——
Scale$0.11 /min — $499/month platform fee——
EnterpriseCustom — Contracted to your volume.(annual billing)——

Retell AI plans

PlanPublished priceIncludesOver that
Pay-as-you-go$0.07-$0.31/min for AI Voice Agents——
EnterpriseCustom Pricing for AI Voice Agents——

Bland AI sources

Retell AI sources