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Bland AI vs Vapi

Bland AI publishes its pricing; Vapi 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.
VapiAI only
Pricing not published
no published plan
Developer platform for building voice AI agents: Vapi hosts the orchestration layer and charges a per-minute hosting fee, while you pick and pay for your own speech-to-text, LLM, text-to-speech and telephony providers and write the assistant, tools and server hooks yourself.

The differences that matter

  • Bland AI offers a trial (Sign up on the Start plan and you get two credits plus an inbound number valued at $15/month, with no credit card required.); Vapi advertises none.
  • Bland AI publishes prices. Vapi makes you ask.

Feature by feature

CapabilityBland AIVapi
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)——

Vapi plans

PlanPublished priceIncludesOver that
Build$0.05 / min——
ScaleFixed Platform fee and committed volume(annual billing)——

Bland AI sources

Vapi sources