Bland AI alternative

Switching from Bland is easy.

The simple per-minute price you like, in rupees, with the phone line included on pay as you go.

Bland’s numbers checked 17 October 2026.

AI agents from ₹1 a minute.¹

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The Frequency console: Agent Studio with four agents in Hinglish, Hindi, Tamil and Gujarati, and a test call in the browser.

Why switch

Why people switch to Frequency.

Everything a phone call in India needs, from one team, priced in rupees.

AI agents

AI agents from ₹1 a minute.¹

Speech recognition, the model and the voice, in one rupee rate. Billed in 10-second blocks, so short calls stay cheap.

Choose your plan

Five languages, live.

Hindi, English, Gujarati, Tamil and Telugu. And the Hinglish in between, mid-sentence.

Every call runs on our own GPUs in India.

The listening, the thinking and the voice are ours: Fourier STT, Gemma 4 26B and Fourier TTS.

One bill, in rupees.

The phone line, the platform, speech recognition, the model and the voice all come from us.

Live the same day.

Build in the sandbox, press Go live, and call today. Every company starts on pay as you go, with no monthly commitment.

Hear it before you decide.

Real lines from Fourier TTS, one request each, unedited. Pick a language and press play.

Hear it

Two simple prices

Here is how Bland and Frequency differ.

Bland AI keeps pricing simple: one rate a minute, no token charges. We like that too. The difference is where you're calling. For calls to India, in Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu or English, our rate is in rupees, and the phone line is included on pay as you go.

Bland and we agree on one thing: a minute should have one price. Bland’s covers the model, speech recognition and the voice, on its own models, with no token charges. It’s ₹13.29 ($0.14) a minute on Start, or ₹11.40 ($0.12) on Build with a monthly fee.

Ours covers the same three, all our own, running on our GPUs in India. The model is the open Gemma 4 26B, served by us. On pay as you go, our rate also covers the phone line and call insights. That’s ₹5 a minute with the line included, or ₹1 on the volume plan.

Hear it.

Real lines from Fourier TTS. Pick one, press play.

Text149 characters

Hi, मैं नेहा बोल रही हूँ Acme Store से। आपका order dispatch हो गया है और Friday तक deliver हो जाएगा। Address में कोई change करना हो तो अभी बता दीजिए।

48 kHz · MonoReady when you are

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voice
Neha
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Hinglish
speech
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Fourier TTS, voice neha, rendered 16 Oct 2026. One request, not edited.

Text119 characters

नमस्ते, मैं श्रुति बोल रही हूँ, दाँतों के क्लिनिक से। कल सुबह डॉक्टर साहब से आपका मिलना तय है। क्या आप समय पर आ पाएँगे?

48 kHz · MonoReady when you are

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voice
Shruti
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Hindi
speech
0:08
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Fourier TTS, voice shruti, rendered 16 Oct 2026. One request, not edited.

Text117 characters

નમસ્તે, હું આશુ બોલું છું. તમારી લોનનો હપ્તો આવતા અઠવાડિયે ભરવાનો છે. તમે કહો તો હું અત્યારે જ ભરવાની રીત સમજાવી દઉં.

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voice
Ashu
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Gujarati
speech
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Fourier TTS, voice ashu, rendered 17 Oct 2026. One request, not edited.

Text167 characters

வணக்கம், நான் நேஹா பேசுகிறேன். உங்கள் பார்சல் நாளை மாலைக்குள் வந்து சேரும். அந்த நேரத்தில் நீங்கள் வீட்டில் இல்லையென்றால் சொல்லுங்கள், வேறு நாளுக்கு மாற்றி விடுகிறோம்.

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Neha
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Tamil
speech
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Fourier TTS, voice neha, rendered 17 Oct 2026. One request, not edited.

Text114 characters

నమస్కారం, నేను సమీర్ మాట్లాడుతున్నాను. నిన్న మీరు మా కొత్త ఇళ్ళ గురించి అడిగారు. ఇప్పుడు కొంచెం సేపు మాట్లాడవచ్చా?

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voice
Sameer
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Telugu
speech
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Fourier TTS, voice sameer, rendered 17 Oct 2026. One request, not edited.

Side by side

Here is Bland beside Frequency.

Every price in rupees², from their own pages and ours.³

Choose your plan.

Choose your plan.

Your price · T1

₹1 a minute¹

₹1,000 for 1,000 minutes

₹1,00,000 / month minimum, credited to your wallet; your usage counts towards it. Our phone line adds ₹0.30 and call insights ₹0.20 a minute, if you want them. In the chart, beside Bland’s volume price.

Your price · T3

₹3 a minute¹

₹3,000 for 1,000 minutes

₹50,000 / month minimum, credited to your wallet; your usage counts towards it. The phone line and call insights are in the rate. In the chart, beside Bland’s volume price.

Your price · T5

₹5 a minute¹

₹5,000 for 1,000 minutes

Pay as you go from your wallet. The phone line and call insights are in the rate. In the chart, beside Bland’s pay-as-you-go price.

One minute of a call, in rupeesYour plan, beside the price it pairs with
One minute of a call, Bland AI and Frequency, in rupees
OptionBar₹ a minute
Pay as you goBland's Start plan, no platform fee, against our T5
Bland Start speech, model and voice + the phone line, if it's billed separately (Bland's pages disagree) ₹13.29$0.14
Frequency T5 pay as you go, no commitment ₹5all-in
At volumeBuild adds a $299 monthly platform fee; our T3 and T1 commitments are credited to your wallet
Bland Build + ₹28,393 ($299) a month platform fee + the phone line, if it's billed separately ₹11.40$0.12
Frequency T3 ₹50,000/month commitment ₹3all-in
Frequency T1 ₹1,00,000/month commitment + ₹0.30 phone line and ₹0.20 insights, if you want them ₹1₹1.50 with both
How we read these numbers

Dollar prices converted at ₹94.96, the ECB reference rate on 16 October 2026. The rate.

Each bar is one minute as Bland’s own pages price it, layer by layer, beside ours from our price list. A hatched end is a part of the call their price leaves out and publishes no number for, so it has no length.

  • Bland Start: speech, model and voice ₹13.29 ($0.14/min)
  • Bland Build: speech, model and voice ₹11.40 ($0.12/min)

From bland.ai/pricing, checked . Ours from our price list.

The chart shows the plan you choose above beside the price it pairs with: our T1 and T3 beside Bland’s volume price, our T5 beside its pay-as-you-go price. Without that choice, every bar is listed.

What a minute costs, Bland AI and Frequency, in their words
DetailBland AIFrequency
Published price per minute Start $0.14/min with no platform fee Build $0.12/min with a $299/month platform fee bland.ai T1 ₹1/min with ₹1,00,000/month T3 ₹3/min with ₹50,000/month; T5 ₹5/min pay as you go, phone line and insights included (GST extra)
What the rate covers LLM, STT and TTS, on Bland's own models. Pages differ on telephony: the pricing page says "Telephony is billed separately" the home page and the docs say one rate covers telephony bland.ai Speech, model, voice, Mirai phone calling and call insights on T5 and T3 on T1, phone calling (₹0.30/min) and insights (₹0.20/min) are optional

What a month costs

At 1,000 minutes, Bland’s Start plan is ₹13,294, plus telephony if it’s billed separately. Build is ₹11,395 plus the ₹28,393 monthly fee. Build saves 2 cents a minute, so the fee pays for itself only after 14,950 minutes a month ($299 ÷ $0.02).

On our pay-as-you-go plan, 1,000 minutes cost ₹5,000, line included, with no monthly fee. On the volume plan it’s ₹1 a minute. We bill in 10-second blocks, and calls nobody picks up are free. The pricing guide has a worked month.

Who runs each part of the call

Bland sells speech, model and voice as one rate on its own models, as we do. Its own pages disagree on whether the phone line is inside that rate.

Who runs each part of the call, Bland AI and Frequency
DetailBland AIFrequency
Phone line Their pages disagree Bland's Twilio, yours or SIP bland.ai Ours Mirai phone line, +91 numbers
Platform Theirs Bland bland.ai Ours Our orchestration
Speech recognition Theirs Bland's own model bland.ai Ours Fourier STT
Language model Theirs Bland's own model bland.ai Ours Gemma 4 26B, on our GPUs
Voice Theirs Bland's own voices bland.ai Ours Fourier TTS

Languages

Languages and voices, Bland AI and Frequency
DetailBland AIFrequency
Languages Hindi and Hindi (Latin script) in the send-call language list the home page says 40+ languages docs.bland.ai Hindi, Gujarati, English, Tamil and Telugu, plus Hinglish, in speech recognition and voice Bengali, Marathi and Kannada are coming

Where it runs

Where it runs, Bland AI and Frequency
DetailBland AIFrequency
Where it runs SIP edges in the United States, Canada, Asia-Pacific and Europe on-prem or VPC on Enterprise; no India region named docs.bland.ai Every call runs on our own GPUs in India

Your own telephony

Phone numbers, Bland AI and Frequency
DetailBland AIFrequency
Your own telephony Your Twilio account, SIP trunks from any provider, or Bland's built-in Twilio at pass-through cost bland.ai Your own Plivo number in India, or a dedicated +91 number bought through us

Time to go live, as stated

Getting started, Bland AI and Frequency
DetailBland AIFrequency
Time to go live, as stated Pages differ: a first agent "within a day" on self-serve (pricing page) production agents in "two to six weeks" (home page) bland.ai Same day: complete Go live in the console and call today

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Which to pick

Which is right for you?

Sometimes it's them. We'll say so.

Choose Bland if…

  • You want one dollar rate with no token charges, and calls outside India.
  • You need to transfer calls to a person today.
  • You need on-prem or VPC deployment, a BAA or SSO.
  • You want Bland's engineers to build your first agent with you.

Choose Frequency if…

  • You call India, in Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu or English.
  • You want the phone line in the price, with no monthly fee.
  • You call at volume. Our agents cost ₹1 a minute on the volume plan.
  • You want to go live yourself, today.

Where Bland’s pages disagree

We read Bland’s site closely, and two answers change from page to page. On the phone line, the pricing page says “Telephony is billed separately”, while the home page says one rate “covers … telephony”. On timing, the pricing page says most teams deploy a first agent “within a day on the self-serve plans”. The home page says production agents “go live in two to six weeks”. They may be talking about different customers. If either matters to you, ask Bland in writing.

What we can’t do yet

We can’t transfer a call to a person. Bland can, and it prices transfer minutes on its self-serve plans. A new workspace also starts with 5 calls at a time with us, where Bland’s Start plan allows 10. We raise ours when you ask.

Moving

Moving your agent across is easy.

Bring the agent you have. Most of it carries across.

  1. Step 1

    Open the sandbox.

    Look around with no sign-up. We ask for an email only when you test a call.

  2. Step 2

    Bring your prompt.

    Paste the prompt you already wrote into Agent Studio, and pick a voice and a language.

  3. Step 3

    Talk to it. Go live.

    Test it in your browser or on your own phone, then go live the same day.

Open the sandbox

Moving a pathway

A Bland pathway becomes a node-based agent, and a simple one can be a single prompt. Agent Studio can draft a node-based agent from a description or from your call recordings. Calls go out with POST /v2/calls, results come back as signed webhooks, and campaigns dial a list inside the hours you set. The quickstart gets you to a real call in five minutes.

Then call your own phone on both, and listen to the Hindi.

Questions

Here is what people ask before switching from Bland.

Does Bland's rate include the phone line?

Bland's own pages disagree. The pricing page says telephony is billed separately, and the home page says the rate covers it. Ask Bland which applies to your plan. On our pay-as-you-go plan, the line is included.

What do 1,000 minutes cost?

On Bland's Start plan, ₹13,294 ($140), plus telephony if it's billed separately for you. On Build, ₹11,395 ($120) plus the ₹28,393 ($299) monthly fee. On our pay-as-you-go plan, ₹5,000 with the line included.

How fast can I go live?

The same day. Every company starts on pay as you go, and going live is self-serve in the console. The quickstart gets you to a real phone call in five minutes.

Can I use my own carrier?

Yes, if it's Plivo and the number is Indian. Calls on it carry no phone charge from us. Without a carrier account, buy a +91 number from us.

Still deciding? Ask us.

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  1. AI agents from ₹1 a minute: on our volume plan, ₹1,00,000 a month. Pay as you go is ₹5 a minute. Prices exclude GST.

  2. Dollar prices converted at ₹94.96, the ECB reference rate on 16 October 2026. The rate.

  3. Bland AI’s figures are from its own pages, linked beside each one and listed under Sources, checked . Ours are from our price list and docs.