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RBland AI vs Plivo
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose Bland AI if…
- you want a free plan to start with
- you work on Self-hosted
- you're in its core audience: healthcare providers, insurance companies
P
Choose Plivo if…
- you work on macOS
- you're in its core audience: developers building voice agents, customer support teams
Side by side
Feature Bland AI Plivo
Pricing modelFreemiumFree trial
Starting price$299/mo—
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
PlatformsWeb, API, Self-hostedWeb, API, macOS
CompanyBlandPlivo Inc.
Full feature lists
B Bland AI
- Inbound and outbound AI phone agents
- In-house STT, LLM and TTS models
- Conversational Pathways agent builder
- Text to Speech API with voice cloning from about 10 seconds of audio
- 40+ languages, real-time translation in 23
- Agent decision observability and version testing
- CLI and MCP server for coding agents
- Bring your own Twilio or SIP telephony
P Plivo
- No-code AI agent studio built from plain-English prompts
- SDKs for Python, Node and Go, plus REST API
- SIP trunking and bidirectional audio streaming
- LiveKit and Pipecat integrations
- Turn detection, barge-in handling and AI noise cancellation
- Simulation testing and transfer to a human
- CLI to test streams and diagnose failed calls
- US, EU or APAC data residency
Their home pages
What each vendor shows first: the pitch, the plans and the sign-up.
Bland AI · bland.ai
Plivo · plivo.comWhat you'd pay
The cheapest plan that fits, per month, billed yearly where the plan offers it.
Work it out for your team
All plans and prices
Bland AI
Start$0.14/min
Build$299/mo + $0.12/min
EnterpriseCustom
Plivo
Pay as you goUsage-based ($10 free credits)
EnterpriseFrom $1,000/mo
Strengths and limitations
Bland AI
- Per-minute rate includes LLM, STT and TTS with no token charges
- Start plan has no platform fee and needs no card
- Compliance coverage includes HIPAA, SOC 2 Type II and FedRAMP
- On-prem / VPC deployment available on Enterprise
- Build plan carries a $299/month platform fee on top of minutes
- Telephony is billed separately
- Start plan is capped at 100 calls/day and 1 voice
- SMS, web chat, warm transfers and SSO are not on the Start plan
Plivo
- $10 in free credits with no credit card required
- Per-minute pricing with no lock-in
- Choice of no-code builder or SDKs, API and CLI
- HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2 and PCI DSS compliance listed
- SMS, WhatsApp and Verify require the $1,000/month Enterprise plan
- Pay-as-you-go coverage limited to the US and India
- Agent fee of $0.03/min excludes telephony, which is billed separately
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