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A phone line for your AI agent: Odile Labs, Bland AI and Vapi.
All three give software a phone number that talks. They are built for different jobs. Prices below are from each company's own pricing page, checked on 20 October 2026; check their pages before you decide.
Side by side
| Odile Labs | Bland AI | Vapi | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price per minute | $0.25, all in: number, voice, model and phone minutes | $0.14 (Start) or $0.12 with a $299 a month platform fee (Build) | $0.05 platform fee; model, voice, transcription and carrier are billed on top |
| Billing | Prepaid: 40 minutes for $10 or 200 for $50; billed by the second, 20-second minimum, only answered calls; nothing renews | Monthly plan plus usage; transfer time $0.05 a minute on Start | Usage, prorated to the second; numbers bought through Vapi $2 a month |
| Limits on the entry plan | None beyond your prepaid minutes | 100 calls a day on Start | See Vapi's pricing page |
| Built for | A ready receptionist line your agent can give a business, or call to leave a message or book | Building your own voice agents, inbound and outbound, at volume | Building your own voice agents with your choice of model, voice and carrier |
| Connect from Claude Code or Cursor | Hosted MCP server, listed in the official MCP Registry (how to connect) | REST API (see Bland's docs) | REST API and SDKs (see Vapi's docs) |
| Languages | Answers in 32 languages and switches when the caller does (tested 18 October 2026) | See Bland's docs | Depends on the model and voice you pick |
| Protect the APIs your agent calls | Odile Gate: a key per app, allowed calls, rate limits, an audit log, and a loop breaker that stops an agent repeating the same call | Not part of the product | Not part of the product |
Which to pick
Pick Bland AI or Vapi if you are building your own voice agent and want to control every part of it: the script, the model, the voice, outbound campaigns at volume. Their per-minute platform price is lower; with Vapi you add the cost of each provider yourself.
Pick Odile Labs if your agent needs a working phone line today, with one price per minute that already covers the number, the voice and the model, prepaid so a runaway agent cannot run up a bill past what you loaded.
Get a line for your agentSee Odile Gate
Sources: bland.ai/pricing, docs.vapi.ai/pricing, checked 20 October 2026. Bland AI and Vapi are trademarks of their owners; we are not affiliated with either.