Bland AI

Bland AI is a developer-first platform for building AI voice agents that make and receive phone calls, bundling the LLM, speech, and telephony into a per-minute service. Aimed at developers and enterprises automating high call volumes, it offers conversation-flow tools, integrations, custom voices, and enterprise security. It has handled well over a hundred million calls, raised more than $100M in funding, and competes with Synthflow, Vapi, and Retell.

Bland AI provides infrastructure for building AI phone agents: programmable voice assistants that place and answer calls for sales, support, scheduling, and operations. Its pitch is an all-in-one, developer-first stack, combining the LLM, speech, and telephony so teams don't have to wire together separate providers, and pricing on a simple per-minute basis. The platform is aimed at developers and businesses automating high call volumes, with tools for building conversation flows ("pathways"), integrations, custom voices, and enterprise features like security and dedicated infrastructure. Bland reports having handled well over a hundred million AI phone calls and serving hundreds of enterprise customers. Bland has raised substantial venture funding and is positioned toward complex, high-stakes conversations at enterprise scale, though it also serves self-service developers. Pricing starts near a low per-minute base rate, with add-ons (custom voices, knowledge-base lookups, recording) increasing the effective cost. It competes with Synthflow, Vapi, Retell, and similar voice-agent platforms.