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Bland AI

All-in-one per-minute pricing bundles LLM+STT+TTS with no separate token pass-through charges

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What Bland AI does

  • All-in-one per-minute pricing bundles LLM+STT+TTS with no separate token pass-through charges
  • Free start with call credits plus an inbound number included
  • Tiered platform fees (Build/Scale) unlock lower per-minute rates for high volume

Bland AI — straight answers

What is Bland AI?

Bland AI is listed under Real-Time Voice Agents, in the AI Agents & Automation category on Flocci AI Tools. All-in-one per-minute pricing bundles LLM+STT+TTS with no separate token pass-through charges. It is freemium — a usable free tier with paid plans above it, and it lives at bland.ai.

Is Bland AI free?

Bland AI is freemium: there is a free tier you can work in and paid plans above it. It is one of 391 freemium tools in the catalog, all labelled the same way so you are never surprised by a paywall.

What can Bland AI do?

Bland AI does 3 things the catalog singles out: All-in-one per-minute pricing bundles llm+stt+tts with no separate token pass-through charges; free start with call credits plus an inbound number included; tiered platform fees (build/scale) unlock lower per-minute rates for high volume.

What is the best free alternative to Bland AI?

LiveKit Agents is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same Real-Time Voice Agents sub-category and is free. Pipecat, Retell AI and Ultravox also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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Vapi

Real-Time Voice Agents
freemium
  • Orchestrates STT/LLM/TTS providers of choice into one low-latency voice-agent pipeline
  • Usage-based per-minute pricing with free trial minutes included
  • SOC 2/HIPAA/PCI compliance add-ons for regulated call-center deployments
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Retell AI

Real-Time Voice Agents
freemium
  • Free starting credit with no contract required
  • Supports swapping GPT, Claude or Gemini as the reasoning layer per agent
  • Batch calling campaigns plus live AI-to-human call transfer built in
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LiveKit Agents

Real-Time Voice Agents
free
  • Apache-2.0 open-source framework, fully self-hostable on your own servers
  • Native WebRTC client support across web/mobile/telephony out of the box
  • Native Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for tool-using voice agents
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Pipecat

Real-Time Voice Agents
free
  • BSD-2-Clause open-source Python framework for real-time voice/multimodal agents
  • Supports distributed multi-agent systems with handoffs over a shared bus
  • Maintained by Daily with an active plugin ecosystem for STT/LLM/TTS providers
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Ultravox

Real-Time Voice Agents
freemium
  • Speech-native processing skips the STT-to-text bottleneck, preserving tone/cadence/pitch
  • Free tier: 5¢/min including TTS for up to 5 concurrent calls
  • Open-weight models (fixie-ai) published on Hugging Face for research use
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Manus

General Autonomous Agents
freemium
  • Fully autonomous agent in a cloud sandbox
  • Breaks goals into steps and executes them
  • Web research, code execution and file output
  • 'My Computer' desktop environment
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