Bland AI vs Simple Phones
Bland AI starts $97/mo cheaper than Simple Phones.
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.
- Simple PhonesAI only
- $97/mo
- Basic plan
- Turnkey AI phone answering service for small businesses: Simple Phones generates a starter agent from your business details, assigns a number you forward missed calls to, and their team makes ongoing agent customizations on request rather than you building the agent yourself.
Feature by feature
| Capability | Bland AI | Simple Phones |
|---|---|---|
| Live transfer | Yes | Yes |
| Books appointments | Yes | Yes |
| Text follow-up | Yes | Yes |
| Outbound calls | Yes | Yes |
| Spanish | Yes | Yes |
| Human backup | No | No |
| Call recordings | Yes | unstated |
| Transcripts | Yes | Yes |
| Spam screening | unstated | unstated |
| Custom voice | Yes | unstated |
| API | Yes | Yes |
"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
| Plan | Published price | Includes | Over 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 | — | — |
| Enterprise | Custom — Contracted to your volume.(annual billing) | — | — |
Simple Phones plans
| Plan | Published price | Includes | Over that |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | Simple Phones starts at $97/mo for 100 calls/mo. | 100 calls | If you cancel your plan, or you exceed the number of calls per month for your tier, your phone numbers will be released. |
| Advanced | not published | 500 calls | If you cancel your plan, or you exceed the number of calls per month for your tier, your phone numbers will be released. |
| Premium | not published | 2500 calls | If you cancel your plan, or you exceed the number of calls per month for your tier, your phone numbers will be released. |
| Pay As You Go | $0.19/min | — | — |
Bland AI sources
- Pricing page (plan cards, full plan comparison table, pricing FAQ)bland.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Docs: Billing & Plans (rate table, plan tiers, voice billing, warm transfer billing, per-second proration)docs.bland.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Docs: SMS (Enterprise gating, $0.02 per message)docs.bland.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Docs: Warm Transfer (enterprise requirement, live translation)docs.bland.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Docs: Integration Tools (Cal.com booking tool)docs.bland.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Docs: SIP Integration (trunks, number porting, BYO carrier)docs.bland.ai · read August 19, 2026
- API reference: Send Call (full supported-language list)docs.bland.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Docs index (recordings, corrected transcripts, blocked numbers, custom Twilio, $15/mo number purchase)docs.bland.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Integrations page (19 listed connectors: Salesforce, HubSpot, Cal.com, Calendly, Twilio, SIP, Genesys, Five9, NICE CXone, Amazon Connect, Talkdesk, Slack, Notion, Zapier, Make, Pipedream, Custom API, SMS & RCS, iMessage)bland.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Site llms.txt (40+ languages, full-stack claim, compliance certifications)bland.ai · read August 19, 2026
- About page (~100 people in San Francisco, 611M+ calls handled to date)bland.ai · read August 19, 2026
Simple Phones sources
- Pricing / features / FAQ page (renders the site's pricing and FAQ sections: $97 for 100 calls, 14-day free trial, no commitment, overage = numbers released, country list, language list, forwarding, CRM/Zapier, transfer to a team member)simplephones.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Homepage (inbound, outbound, logging, customization, routing, voices, crawling)simplephones.ai · read August 19, 2026
- In-app billing screen (tier names "Basic Subscription - 100 calls/month", "Advanced Subscription - 500 calls/month", "Premium Subscription - 2,500 calls/month"; Pay As You Go $0.19/min and its 250 minutes/month minimum; >2,500 calls or >20 agents triggers Pay As You Go; whitelabel answer)app.simplephones.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Help centre: Creating an agent (one agent on the Basic plan)help.simplephones.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Help centre: Inbound Callshelp.simplephones.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Help centre: Outbound Calls (1 call per number per 24h, callback-only unless BYO Twilio)help.simplephones.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Help centre: Routing (transfer to any number, time-of-day rules, email/text/webhook alerts)help.simplephones.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Help centre: Crawling (website/FAQ knowledge base)help.simplephones.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Help centre / API: Call Details & Transcript (response fields: minutesUsed, start/end time, transcript; no recording URL)help.simplephones.ai · read August 19, 2026
- Help centre documentation indexhelp.simplephones.ai · read August 19, 2026