AI Call Studio vs Bland AI
Compiled from public pages on 6 Nov 2026, with where each may suit you better.
The honest summary
Bland calls itself an enterprise voice AI platform for regulated companies, with self-hosted options and published per-minute rates in US dollars. Phone lines are billed on top. AI Call Studio is built for call teams in India: Hinglish and Indian languages, rupee prices, and your own telecallers in the same product. If you need self-hosting, or you run regulated calling outside India, Bland may suit you better.
We work in India only. If you need other countries, look elsewhere.
At a glance
Side by side.
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| What to compare | AI Call Studio | Bland AI |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | AI calling and your own telecallers in one product, built for India. | “Bland is an enterprise voice AI platform.”1 |
| Who it speaks to | Indian teams that make or take business calls, such as sales, support, collections and admissions. | “230+ regulated companies”, with healthcare, insurance, financial services and utilities shown.1 |
| How you buy | Start online with a free trial of 50 calls or 50 minutes, with no card. Then a monthly plan. | Start with no platform fee and no card, a Build plan at a monthly fee, or an Enterprise contract.2 |
| Published price | Plans from ₹999 a month with included minutes, then from ₹3.5 a minute. GST extra. | $0.14 a minute with no platform fee. $0.12 a minute with a $299 a month platform fee. Enterprise is custom.2 |
| Phone line | Included in the per-minute rate. Your own number is ₹600 a month, and you can start on our shared numbers. | “Telephony is billed separately, on your own carrier or Bland's at pass-through cost.”2 |
| Languages | English, Hinglish and 16 Indian languages, each with a status label. What you can use depends on the voice. | “40+ languages natively, with real-time translation available in 23 of them.”1 |
| Indian languages named | Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Odia, Urdu, Assamese, Nepali, Sindhi, Maithili, Konkani. | Their API docs list Hindi, Hindi in Latin script, and English (India).4 |
| Hand-over to a person | From Professional: a person hears a private brief, then joins the same live call. Lower plans can hand over to one number. | “Complex edge cases route to humans with full context.” Transfer minutes are priced on their own.12 |
| Your own staff on it | From Professional: Workspace and desks, where staff dial and take hand-overs. Staff calls are ₹1.5 a minute. | Not listed on their public page as of 6 Nov 2026 |
| Call grading | From Professional: Call QA grades the calls you choose against your scorecard, and flags which a person should hear. | Docs describe evaluations that “score an agent before it ships”.5 |
| Testing before live | From Professional: the Simulation Lab rehearses an agent against AI-played customers. No number is dialled. | “Test every change safely, then measure the difference it makes.” Docs describe test scenarios.15 |
| Where it works | India only. If you need other countries, look elsewhere. | No country list. They mention customers in the EU.1 |
| Indian calling rules | Your Do-Not-Call list, a 9am to 9pm IST limit, a spoken notice on recorded calls unless you turn it off, and agents that never claim to be human. Consent, national registry checks and your sector's rules stay your job. | Not listed on their public page as of 6 Nov 2026 |
| Certificates listed | None listed on our site. A DPA is available, and our security page says what we do and do not promise. | SOC 2 Type I and Type II reports, HIPAA, and self-attested PCI DSS.1 |
| API | From Growth, with webhooks. | “SDKs, MCP, and API references.”3 |
Words in quotes are theirs. “Not stated publicly” and “not listed” mean we did not find it on the pages in the sources below on 6 Nov 2026. It may exist elsewhere, so ask them. Numbers point to the sources.
Pricing shape
How each one charges.
We do not convert dollar prices. Your rupee total depends on the exchange rate, tax and your carrier.
AI Call Studio
- Monthly plan: Starter ₹999, Growth ₹2,999, Professional ₹7,999, Enterprise ₹28,000, with included minutes.
- Per minute, by voice: Standard ₹3.5, Premium ₹4, Ultra ₹7.25, Ultra Premium ₹8.5.
- That one rate covers the phone line, the voice and the AI. Calls by your own staff are ₹1.5 a minute.
- Extra: ₹0.88 a dial nobody answers, ₹600 a month for your own number, ₹0.25 a minute on calls that use a knowledge base, and ₹0.53 per call analysed.
- Calls at once: from 3 to 100, by plan.
- Prices exclude GST.
Bland AI
Their published price as of 6 Nov 2026
- Start: $0.14 a minute talk, $0.05 a transfer minute, $0 platform fee. 10 calls at once, 100 calls a day.2
- Build: $0.12 a minute talk, $0.04 a transfer minute, $299 a month. 50 calls at once, 2,000 calls a day.2
- Enterprise: “Contracted to your volume”.2
- The minute rate includes model, transcription and voice. “Telephony is billed separately.”2
Languages and India fit
Which calls each one is for.
AI Call Studio
- English, Hinglish and 16 Indian languages: 13 established, 3 early and 2 in beta.
- Not every voice speaks every language, and the voice sets the rate. The languages page shows which is which.
- India only. We do not sell or support calling outside India.
- We do not promise that all processing stays in India. Some speech and AI services we use run outside India.
Where they may fit you better
Bland AI may suit you if
Where we may fit you better
AI Call Studio may suit you if you want
- AI and your people on one floor. From Professional, your telecallers work in the same product as the AI. They dial from the Workspace, sit on desks, and a supervisor can listen, coach privately or take over. You do not need a second tool for staff calls.
- A hand-over that keeps the call. From Professional, a person hears a private brief, then joins the same live call, so the customer does not start again.
- English, Hinglish and 16 Indian languages, labelled. Hinglish is a language in its own right here. Each language shows its status: 13 established, 3 early, waiting on a real-call and native-speaker check, and 2 in beta. Listen before you decide.
- One rate per minute. One rate covers the phone line, the voice and the AI, by the voice you pick, from ₹3.5 to ₹8.5. Ringing is not charged. A dial nobody answers has a fee of ₹0.88.
- Built for India, and only India. Rupee prices, IST calling hours and Indian languages. We do not sell outside India, so this is all we work on.
Bland also lists evaluations, test scenarios and hand-over with full context, so test those side by side.51
On a trial
Questions to ask, of both of us.
- What does the phone line cost on an Indian number, on top of the talk rate?
- Try a real Hinglish call in Latin-script Hindi. Does it follow a caller who mixes languages?
- Make a Hinglish call on a poor line, then interrupt the agent. Does it stop and follow you?
- Make the agent hand over to a person. Does the person know what was said before they speak?
- Who checks numbers against the national Do-Not-Call registry: you or the product?
- What is charged on a call nobody answers, and on a voicemail?
- Where are recordings and transcripts processed, and how long are they kept?
Questions
AI Call Studio and Bland AI, answered.
Who wrote this comparison of AI Call Studio and Bland AI?
We did, so read it knowing that. Everything about Bland AI comes from its own public pages on 6 Nov 2026, listed at the foot of this page. Pages change, so check them yourself.
Is AI Call Studio cheaper than Bland AI?
It depends on your minutes, your voice and your calling. We do not claim a winner. Add up a full month on each, with phone line, numbers, extras and tax, using your own volume.
Is the phone line included in Bland's rate?
Their pricing page says telephony is billed separately, on your own carrier or theirs at pass-through cost. The minute rate includes the model, transcription and voice.
Do you work outside India?
No. We sell and support AI Call Studio in India, in English, Hinglish and Indian languages. If you need other countries, look elsewhere.
Can I test before I pay?
Yes. The free trial is 50 calls or 50 minutes, with no card. Agents speak on a real call, so judge it in your own language.
Sources
Where the Bland AI facts come from.
- Bland home pagechecked 6 Nov 2026
- Bland pricingchecked 6 Nov 2026
- Bland documentationchecked 6 Nov 2026
- Bland docs, Send Callchecked 6 Nov 2026
- Bland docs indexchecked 6 Nov 2026
Compiled from public pages on 6 Nov 2026. They may have changed since. If something here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it. The name Bland AI belongs to its owner, which has not reviewed or endorsed this page, and we are not connected to it.
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