All-in-one phone agent platform billing a single $0.14/min talk-time rate that covers LLM, speech-to-text and TTS, with telephony passed through at cost.
Operations and business teams that want one line item instead of a stack, since the pricing page states the per-minute rate includes the LLM with no token charges, real-time speech-to-text and premium TTS voices. It suits inbound and outbound phone work inside existing systems, with the integrations page naming Twilio, SIP, Genesys, Five9, NICE CXone, Amazon Connect and Talkdesk alongside Salesforce, HubSpot, Cal.com, Calendly, Zapier, Make and Pipedream. The 99.9% uptime SLA is stated on all plans, not just enterprise.
Latency-critical buyers should note Bland publishes no end-to-end or time-to-first-byte latency figure anywhere on its pricing page or homepage; the only performance number it offers is a self-reported Audio Realism Bench score of 0.91 against 0.99 for human speech. The Start plan is tightly capped at 10 concurrent calls, 100 calls a day, 100 calls an hour, 1 voice and 10 knowledge bases, so any real campaign needs the $299 a month Build plan. That platform fee buys only a 2 cent per minute discount, so on Bland's own published rates it does not pay for itself until roughly 14,950 minutes a month.
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No. The pricing page states the per-minute rate covers the LLM with no token charges, real-time speech-to-text and premium TTS voices in one number: $0.14 a minute on Start or $0.12 on Build. Two things sit outside that rate: transfer time, at $0.05 or $0.04 a minute, and telephony, billed on your own carrier or through Bland's built-in Twilio at pass-through cost.
No. Neither the pricing page nor the homepage gives an end-to-end latency, time-to-first-byte or turn-taking number, which matters because latency is usually the deciding factor for voice. The only performance figure Bland publishes is a self-reported Audio Realism Bench score of 0.91, compared with 0.99 for human speech, which measures voice realism rather than response speed.
Build cuts talk time from $0.14 to $0.12 a minute, a saving of 2 cents, so the $299 monthly platform fee needs roughly 14,950 minutes a month before it breaks even on rate alone. The other reason to upgrade is capacity: Build raises concurrency from 10 to 50 calls, daily volume from 100 to 2,000 calls, voices from 1 to 5, and knowledge bases from 10 to 50.
Bland states 40 or more languages are supported natively, with real-time translation available in 23 of them, and says custom voice clones can be trained per language. It does not publish the full list of languages on the homepage. One published deployment, a BPO case study, covers only English and Spanish, so breadth of coverage is worth confirming for your specific locales.
Facts sourced from the vendor’s own site, last verified 2026-10-10.
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