Best Bland alternatives

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Vapi

Free

Voice & speech

Voice agents for builders

No-cost entry tier with $5 free credits and $0.05/min Vapi hosting (usage-based, models at cost). Core plan at $29/month. Pro at $999/month minimum (10% of Vapi hosting fee). Premier is custom/contact sales. Add-ons include HIPAA compliance ($2,000/month), additional concurrency ($10/line/month), and additional organizations ($20/org/month).

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Retell AI

Free

Voice & speech

#1 AI Voice Agent Platform for Automating Phone Calls

$0.07–$0.31/min for AI Voice Agents; $0.002+/msg for AI Chat Agents. $10 free credits at signup, no annual contract. Enterprise plan available with custom pricing.

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Speechmatics

Free

Voice & speech

Low-latency speech-to-text APIs powering multilingual, multi-speaker Voice AI

Free tier: $100 in credits, no card required. Pro: credit packs from $25 or monthly subscriptions. Transcription from $0.12/hr (Melia general purpose) to $0.38/hr (Enhanced). Medical model (Oak) at $0.15/hr. TTS at $0.011 per 1,000 characters (first 1M characters free). Volume discounts up to 25% off. Enterprise: custom pricing.

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telli

Voice & speech

Every customer call, handled by AI.

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AssemblyAI

Free

Voice & speech

Voice AI infrastructure for builders — industry-leading speech-to-text and voice agent APIs

Free tier available · Enterprise pricing on request

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HappyRobot

Voice & speech

The platform to build and scale AI agents.

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WellSaid Labs

Free

Voice & speech

Human-quality AI voice generator built for modern teams and real workflows

Free trial (3 min/month, no commercial rights); Starter at $10/mo (billed annually, 240 min/year); Pro at $33/mo (billed annually, 2,160 min/year); Business at $160/mo/user (billed annually, 2,880 min/year/user); Enterprise plan also available.

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Rev AI

Free

Voice & speech

The world's most accurate speech-to-text API for developers, built for speed and global scale.

Pay-as-you-go with free credits (5 hours of Reverb ASR). Reverb Transcription: $0.20/hr (English); Reverb Foreign Language: $0.30/hr (57+ languages); Whisper Large: $0.005/min; Human Transcription: $1.99/min; Forced Alignment: $0.003/min; Language ID: $0.003/min; Translation: $0.002–$0.025/min; Sentiment Analysis: $0.0008/10 words; Summarization: $0.002–$0.025/min; Topic Extraction: $0.0008/10 words. Enterprise: volume-based pricing.

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Deepgram

Free

Voice & speech

The most accurate and cost-effective real-time APIs for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and voice agents

Free tier includes $200 credit then pay-as-you-go. Growth plan starts at $4K+/year with pre-paid credits (save up to 20%). Enterprise pricing available via sales. STT streaming from $0.0048/min (Nova-3), TTS and Voice Agent API usage-based.

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Symbl.ai

Free

Voice & speech

LLM-powered real-time conversation intelligence for voice, video, and chat at enterprise scale