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RBland AI vs Vapi
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose Bland AI if…
- you work on Self-hosted
- you're in its core audience: healthcare providers, insurance companies
V
Choose Vapi if…
- you want the lower entry price ($29/mo vs $299/mo)
- you're in its core audience: developers, startups building voice products
Side by side
Feature Bland AI Vapi
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starting price$299/mo$29/mo
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
PlatformsWeb, API, Self-hostedWeb, API
CompanyBlandVapi, 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
V Vapi
- Configurable voice, conversation flow and telephony
- Choice of transcriber, LLM and voice providers
- Model costs passed through without markup
- Call testing and simulation before going live
- Real-time call monitoring and observability
- Conversation guardrails to reduce hallucinations
- Built-in Vapi telephony, SIP, WebSockets and WebRTC
- SOC 2, HIPAA and PCI compliance
Their home pages
What each vendor shows first: the pitch, the plans and the sign-up.
Bland AI · bland.ai
Vapi · vapi.aiWhat 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
Vapi
No Success Package$0 to start, $0.05/min hosting
Core$29
Pro10% of hosting fee, $999/mo minimum
PremierCustom
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
Vapi
- $5 free credits and no minimum minutes
- Model provider costs passed through without markup
- Unlimited agents on every plan
- SOC 2, HIPAA and PCI compliance
- Total per-minute cost stacks hosting, model, voice and transport fees
- HIPAA add-on costs $2,000/month
- Pro package has a $999/month minimum
- Free tier is limited to 4 concurrent calls
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Facts from each vendor's public pages, prices checked Nov 14, 2026. Editorial policy