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Bland AI vs ElevenLabs
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
B
Choose Bland AI if…
- you work on Self-hosted
- you're in its core audience: enterprise contact centers, healthcare providers
E
Choose ElevenLabs if…
- you want the lower entry price ($6/mo vs $299/mo)
- you need an API to build on
- you're in its core audience: content creators, developers
Side by side
Feature Bland AI ElevenLabs
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starting price$299/mo$6/mo
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
Data retention—Kept as long as needed, e.g. while you have an account; then deleted or de-identified
Security and compliance—HIPAA
PlatformsWeb, Self-hostedWeb, API
CategoryVoice AgentsText to Speech
CompanyBlandEleven Labs Inc. · United States
Full feature lists
B Bland AI
- Inbound and outbound AI phone agents
- Deployment across phone, SMS and web
- In-house speech-to-text, LLM and text-to-speech models
- 40+ languages, real-time translation in 23
- Custom voice clones
- Decision-level observability for agent calls
- Testing changes without affecting live calls
- Conversational pathways, knowledge bases and automations
E ElevenLabs
- Text to speech in 90+ languages
- Library of 17,500+ voices plus voice design from prompts
- Instant and professional voice cloning
- Automatic dubbing and Dubbing Studio
- Speech to text with speaker diarization
- Music and sound effect generation
- Voice and chat agents with testing and guardrails
- APIs and SDKs for TTS, STT, music and agents
Their home pages
What each vendor shows first: the pitch, the plans and the sign-up.
Bland AI · bland.ai
ElevenLabs · elevenlabs.ioWhat you'd pay
The cheapest plan that fits, per month, billed yearly where the plan offers it.
| Team size | Bland AI | ElevenLabs |
|---|---|---|
| 1 person | $299 Build | $5 Starter |
| 5 people | $299 Build | $825 Business |
| 20 people | $299 Build | no published plan |
Work it out for your team
- ElevenLabsStarter$5/mo
- Bland AIBuild$299/mo
The cheapest paid plan with a published price that fits. Custom and sales-quoted plans aren't included.
What the free plans include
Bland AI
Free plan limits aren't published.
ElevenLabs
- 10k credits per month
- 3 Projects in Studio
- Credits do not roll over on Free plan
All plans and prices
Bland AI
Start$0.14/min
Build$299/mo + $0.12/min
EnterpriseCustom
ElevenLabs
Free$0
Starter$6/mo ($5/mo billed yearly)
Creator$22/mo ($11 first month; $18.33/mo billed yearly)
Pro$99/mo ($82.50/mo billed yearly)
Scale$299/mo ($249.17/mo billed yearly)
Business$990/mo ($825/mo billed yearly)
EnterpriseCustom
Price changes we've recorded
We re-read each pricing page every month and log what changed.
Bland AI
- Nov 8, 2026Start: $0.14 → $0
ElevenLabs
No changes since we started tracking.
Strengths and limitations
Bland AI
- $0 platform fee Start plan with no card required
- Per-minute rate includes LLM, STT and TTS with no token charges
- SOC 2 Type I/II, HIPAA and on-prem deployment options
- Runs on its own models and infrastructure
- Telephony billed separately from talk-time rate
- Start plan limited to 100 calls per day and 1 voice
- SSO, BAA and SMS/web chat reserved for Enterprise
ElevenLabs
- Free plan includes 10k credits per month
- One credit pool covers every product
- Unused paid credits roll over for up to two months
- Annual billing gives two months free
- Free plan has no commercial license
- Professional Voice Cloning starts on the $22 Creator plan
- Dubbing without a watermark uses many more credits per minute
- Rollover does not apply to the Free plan
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Facts from each vendor's public pages, prices checked Oct 26, 2026. Editorial policy