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See what an agent can do with Bland before you ever sign up. Pick a story: recorded sessions replay real probe-harness transcripts; sandboxed self-drive sessions are designed and gated (docs/TRY-IT.md).

$npx -y bland-cli --versionrecorded session — replayed, not live
recorded 2026-09-05 · exit 0 · captured verbatim by our probe harness, secrets redacted

Verified integrations

No integration evidence found in our corpus for this product yet — that means none was found, never that it doesn’t integrate.

By theme — the product's score on each story themeBy theme

Agent building — building agents — abstractions, tool wiring, control flowAgent buildingevidence →

Building agents — abstractions, tool wiring, control flow

46.9/100

Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticnessevidence →

How well agents can access and operate the product

47.5/100

Automation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depthevidence →

How much of the product can run unattended

48.3/100

Compliance trust — stories about compliance trust in this arenaCompliance trustevidence →

Stories about compliance trust in this arena

0.0/100

Deployment scale — stories about deployment scale in this arenaDeployment scaleevidence →

Stories about deployment scale in this arena

7.2/100

Latency turntaking — stories about latency turntaking in this arenaLatency turntakingevidence →

Stories about latency turntaking in this arena

0.0/100

Openness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpennessevidence →

Open source, data portability, and self-hosting stories

14.0/100

Pricing plans — plan structure and value — what each tier costs and what it unlocksPricing plansevidence →

Plan structure and value — what each tier costs and what it unlocks

0.0/100

Privacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy postureevidence →

Data-handling and privacy stories

0.0/100

Telephony — stories about telephony in this arenaTelephonyevidence →

Stories about telephony in this arena

56.0/100

Testing analytics — stories about testing analytics in this arenaTesting analyticsevidence →

Stories about testing analytics in this arena

45.1/100

Tools function calling — stories about tools function calling in this arenaTools function callingevidence →

Stories about tools function calling in this arena

25.7/100

Transcription recording — stories about transcription recording in this arenaTranscription recordingevidence →

Stories about transcription recording in this arena

0.0/100

Voices tts — stories about voices tts in this arenaVoices ttsevidence →

Stories about voices tts in this arena

21.0/100

Story verdicts — every judged story with its evidenceStory verdicts

What’s free: 3 free · 2 paid · 0 enterprise · 29 not stated in evidence

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Sorted by importance (agentic first) (high → low) · 61/61 stories · click a row’s chevron for the rationale and evidence

Drive the product through a documented public API G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3full9/10T

Connect an agent via an official MCP server G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3full8/10T

Delegate tasks to a built-in AI assistant inside the product G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3full±8/10C

Plug MCP servers into this product so it can use their tools G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3none0/10

Use an official CLI G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2full9/10T

Operate the product with natural-language commands G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2full8/10T

Point an agent at llms.txt or agent-oriented docs G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2full8/10T

Run the product headlessly / in CI for automation G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2full8/10T

Build against official SDKs G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2partial6/10T

Set up automations that run autonomously in the background G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2partial±6/10C

Subscribe to events via webhooks G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2partial±6/10C

Get AI-generated insights and suggestions from my data inside the product G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2partial4/10C

Rely on versioned APIs with a documented deprecation policy G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2partial±4/10T

Download a machine-readable API spec (OpenAPI or equivalent) G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2none0/10

Explore an interactive API reference with runnable examples G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2none0/10

Issue scoped/least-privilege API credentials for an agent G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2none0/10

Test against a sandbox environment without touching production data G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness1partial±6/10C

Build a working phone voice agent — prompt, voice, and phone number — and take my first live call within an hour C

Build

developerAgent building — building agents — abstractions, tool wiring, control flowAgent building3fullfree8/10T

My coding agent can provision a complete voice agent end to end — create the agent, attach a number, and place a call — through the API, CLI, or MCP without touching the dashboard C

Agent ops

ai-native userAgent building — building agents — abstractions, tool wiring, control flowAgent building3fullfree8/10T

Provision phone numbers and run both inbound and outbound calls through the platform's API C

Numbers

developerTelephony — stories about telephony in this arenaTelephony3fullfree8/10T

Define rules that trigger actions automatically on events G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth3full7/10C

My agent can call external APIs and custom functions mid-conversation and speak the result without awkward dead air C

Tools

developerTools function calling — stories about tools function calling in this arenaTools function calling3partial6/10C

Self-host the core product G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness3none0/10

Self-host the voice agent runtime from open-source code on my own infrastructure C

Self host

platform-engineerDeployment scale — stories about deployment scale in this arenaDeployment scale3none0/10

Export all of my data in open formats and leave G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness3noneuntestednone yet

Prevent my data from being used to train AI models G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture3noneuntestednone yet

Rely on the agent to handle interruptions (barge-in) gracefully — stopping speech, updating context, and recovering the turn C

Turn taking

developerLatency turntaking — stories about latency turntaking in this arenaLatency turntaking3noneuntestednone yet

See documented end-to-end voice latency numbers or tuning guidance backing the platform's speed claims C

Latency

platform-engineerLatency turntaking — stories about latency turntaking in this arenaLatency turntaking3noneuntestednone yet

Connect my own carrier or PBX via SIP trunking (or import Twilio/Telnyx numbers) instead of being locked to bundled telephony C

Sip

platform-engineerTelephony — stories about telephony in this arenaTelephony2full8/10C

Run batch outbound call campaigns with scheduling and throughput controls C

Campaigns

founderTelephony — stories about telephony in this arenaTelephony2fullpaid8/10C

Test agents with simulated conversations or evals before putting them on real phone calls C

Testing

developerTesting analytics — stories about testing analytics in this arenaTesting analytics2full8/10C

Design multi-step conversation flows in a visual builder with branching, states, and handoffs without writing code C

Build

founderAgent building — building agents — abstractions, tool wiring, control flowAgent building2full7/10C

Do everything through the API that I can do in the UI G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness2full7/10T

Perform bulk operations across many items at once G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth2fullpaid7/10T

The platform's AI reviews my calls for me — scoring quality, flagging failures, and analyzing resolution automatically C

Analytics

ai-native userTesting analytics — stories about testing analytics in this arenaTesting analytics2partial7/10C

Extract structured data from every call — outcomes, entities, dispositions — delivered via API or webhook after the call C

Post call

developerTools function calling — stories about tools function calling in this arenaTools function calling2partial6/10C

Inject dynamic variables and per-caller context at call time so each conversation is personalized C

Personalization

developerAgent building — building agents — abstractions, tool wiring, control flowAgent building2partial5/10C

Clone a custom brand voice and use it for my agents, with a documented consent process C

Voices

founderVoices tts — stories about voices tts in this arenaVoices tts2partial4/10C

See call analytics — success rates, durations, outcomes, sentiment — in dashboards without building my own C

Analytics

founderTesting analytics — stories about testing analytics in this arenaTesting analytics2partial4/10T

Choose from a broad voice library or plug in multiple TTS providers to get the voice I want C

Voices

developerVoices tts — stories about voices tts in this arenaVoices tts2partial3/10C

See documented concurrency limits and scale to many simultaneous calls without manual capacity begging C

Scale

platform-engineerDeployment scale — stories about deployment scale in this arenaDeployment scale2partial3/10C

My voice agent can plug in MCP servers as tool sources so one integration grants it whole toolsets mid-call C

Tools

ai-native userTools function calling — stories about tools function calling in this arenaTools function calling2none0/10

Read the product's source under an open license G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness2none0/10

Run regulated workloads with HIPAA/BAA support, SOC 2, and data-residency options C

Compliance

platform-engineerCompliance trust — stories about compliance trust in this arenaCompliance trust2none0/10

Schedule recurring jobs or workflows G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth2none0/10

See published per-minute or usage pricing and estimate cost per call before committing G

Pricing

founderPricing plans — plan structure and value — what each tier costs and what it unlocksPricing plans2none0/10

Choose where my data is stored (region/residency) G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture2noneuntestednone yet

Control data retention and deletion G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture2noneuntestednone yet

Escalate a live call to a human with warm or blind transfer, passing context along C

Call control

developerTelephony — stories about telephony in this arenaTelephony2noneuntestednone yet

Get accurate real-time transcription with control over the STT provider, language models, or key terms C

Transcription

developerTranscription recording — stories about transcription recording in this arenaTranscription recording2noneuntestednone yet

Ground the agent on my documents with a built-in knowledge base or RAG so it answers from my content C

Personalization

developerAgent building — building agents — abstractions, tool wiring, control flowAgent building2noneuntestednone yet

Meet call-recording consent and disclosure obligations with per-call recording controls and configurable data retention C

Compliance

founderCompliance trust — stories about compliance trust in this arenaCompliance trust2noneuntestednone yet

Opt out of telemetry and usage tracking G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture2noneuntestednone yet

Retrieve full call recordings and transcripts programmatically for every call C

Recording

platform-engineerTranscription recording — stories about transcription recording in this arenaTranscription recording2noneuntestednone yet

Run conversations in multiple languages, including detecting and switching language mid-call C

Build

developerAgent building — building agents — abstractions, tool wiring, control flowAgent building2noneuntestednone yet

Use model-based end-of-turn detection beyond simple VAD silence timeouts so the agent doesn't talk over slow speakers C

Turn taking

developerLatency turntaking — stories about latency turntaking in this arenaLatency turntaking2noneuntestednone yet

Version, review, and roll back my automations G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth1partial6/10C

Monitor live calls in production and get alerts when agents misbehave or error rates spike C

Monitoring

platform-engineerTesting analytics — stories about testing analytics in this arenaTesting analytics1partial4/10C

The platform's own AI helps me author agents — generating or improving prompts, flows, and test cases from a description C

Agent ops

ai-native userAgent building — building agents — abstractions, tool wiring, control flowAgent building1partial4/10C

Enable noise suppression or audio filtering so the agent stays coherent on noisy real-world calls C

Turn taking

developerLatency turntaking — stories about latency turntaking in this arenaLatency turntaking1noneuntestednone yet

My agent can send DTMF keypresses, navigate IVR menus, and detect or leave voicemail C

Call control

developerTelephony — stories about telephony in this arenaTelephony1noneuntestednone yet

Opportunities — the stories that would move this product's scores, from its own judged verdictsOpportunitiestop 8 of 44 stories with headroom

What would move Bland’s scores — derived from its own judged verdicts, biggest headroom first. Each line quotes what the judge found missing; shipping it (or evidencing it publicly) is the fix.

  1. Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productPlug MCP servers into this product so it can use their tools

    nonemoves agent-readyimpact 45

    Bland's evidence only documents it exposing an outbound MCP server so that external AI coding agents can call Bland's own tools (docs-11, docs-20, docs-27, probe-rt-2) — the reverse direction of this story.

  2. Latency turntaking — stories about latency turntaking in this arenaRely on the agent to handle interruptions (barge-in) gracefully — stopping speech, updating context, and recovering the turn

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30

    Missing: any documentation or claim about detecting user interruptions, halting agent speech, updating context after a barge-in, and resuming/recovering the conversational turn.

  3. Latency turntaking — stories about latency turntaking in this arenaSee documented end-to-end voice latency numbers or tuning guidance backing the platform's speed claims

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30

    No evidence pack items mention latency numbers, benchmarks, or tuning guidance for end-to-end voice response time; documentation covers pathways, SIP, MCP, CLI, and enterprise features but nothing about speed/latency metrics or optimization guidance.

  4. Openness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesExport all of my data in open formats and leave

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30

    No evidence of a data export feature or open-format export of account data (pathways, call logs, memories, etc.); the docs cover CLI, MCP, and SDK integrations but nothing about exporting user data for portability/exit.

  5. Openness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesSelf-host the core product

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30

    Bland is documented as a hosted enterprise voice AI platform (call dispatch, pathways, SIP, MCP, CLI) with no mention of an on-prem/self-hosted deployment option; 'enterprise' release controls (docs-14, docs-29, docs-31) only govern version adoption timing on Bland's own infrastructure, not customer self-hosting.

  6. Privacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrevent my data from being used to train AI models

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30

    No evidence in the pack addresses data-training opt-out or AI-training privacy policies for Bland; nothing about training-data usage or opt-out controls is mentioned across any of the docs or probes.

  7. Deployment scale — stories about deployment scale in this arenaSelf-host the voice agent runtime from open-source code on my own infrastructure

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30

    Bland is presented throughout as a hosted enterprise SaaS platform (managed infrastructure, release adoption controls, canary deployments on Bland's own containers) with no mention of open-source code or a self-hostable runtime; a community post even shows a user asking for an open-source alternative because Bland itself isn't one.

  8. Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productIssue scoped/least-privilege API credentials for an agent

    nonemoves agent-readyimpact 30

    Missing: documentation of scoped API key creation, permission levels, or per-agent credential restriction.

Showing the top 8 of 44 — every none/partial verdict in the story verdicts table is headroom.

Think a verdict is wrong? Every verdicts-table row has a Flag link — see the methodology.

Coverage map — which docs area, API section, or community source covers which judged storiesCoverage map8 surfaces · 34 covered stories

Where the cited evidence behind each covered verdict came from — the same citations the verdicts table shows, no extra judging.

Tutorials docs27 stories

Probe proofs — replayable recordings from the probe harnessProbe proofs

Replayable recordings from our probe harness — see the Prove-It protocol to submit one.

$npx -y bland-cli --versionreproduced
$ npx -y bland-cli --version
\|/0.6.2
\
proves: Use an official CLIrecorded 2026-09-05
$curl -si -X POST https://api.bland.ai/v1/mcp -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '<jsonrpc initialize>'reproduced
$ curl -si -X POST https://api.bland.ai/v1/mcp -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '<jsonrpc initialize>'
HTTP/2 401

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vary: Origin, Accept-Encoding

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access-control-allow-methods: GET,POST,PATCH,DELETE,OPTIONS,PUT

access-control-expose-headers: Set-Cookie, Accept-Ranges, Content-Range, Content-Length

x-content-type-options: nosniff

x-bland-mod: kors

x-envoy-upstream-service-time: 2

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Claims vs evidence — vendor claims reconciled against independent verdictsClaims vs evidence

7 of 18 testable claims verified · 0 contradictedintegrity 39/100

24 distinct capability claims found in Bland’s own claimed-docs/GitHub materials, reconciled against our judge’s independent verdicts.

7

Verified

11

Unverified

0

Contradicted

16

Undersold

Verified (8)
Unverified (17)
Undersold (16)
Claims outside our story set (1)

Real capability claims found in Bland’s own materials, but no story in this arena’s taxonomy covers them yet — that’s feedback on the taxonomy, not a mark against the product.

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Pricing signals

  • $0.14per minutepay-as-you-goStart plan talk-time (per-minute) rate, the cheapest pay-as-you-go tiersource ↗as of 2026-09-07
  • freeper minutefree tierStart plan has $0 platform fee, no card required, plus 2 credits and a free inbound number ($15/mo value)source ↗as of 2026-09-07
  • $299per month (entry plan)entry planBuild plan monthly platform fee; includes $0.12/min talk-time ratesource ↗as of 2026-09-07

Extracted verbatim from the vendor’s own pricing page — hover a figure for the exact quote.

Business model

usage-basedenterprise-custom

Pay-as-you-go per-minute call pricing billed to a credit balance; enterprise adds dedicated infrastructure, custom dialing rates, and compliance contracts.

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Score trend

How this product’s scores have moved as evidence and verdicts are re-derived — a point per change, not per day.

PA Scoretracked since Sep 5 '26 — no movement recorded yet
Agent-readytracked since Sep 5 '26 — no movement recorded yet

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Data

Agent surface uptime MCP 100% · llms.txt 100% (30d, checked every 6h since Sep 8 '26)