Bland AI alternatives.
From self-serve tools to on-premise platforms.

1. 1

   Kallix

   Best for indian teams that want to build and test agents themselves

   Price: ₹4.80 a minute plus GST, billed in 30-second pulses, covering voice, speech recognition, the language model and Indian call minutes. Two concurrent calls included, then ₹999 a month each. Numbers from ₹499 a month. ₹500 in free credits.

   Kallix is a self-serve voice AI platform for India's phone-first businesses. Your team builds the agent in the studio, tests it against written scenarios and launches campaigns or an inbound line on Indian numbers. Every call comes back with a recording, transcript, outcome and extracted fields.

   Good

   • Self-serve: build, test and launch from the dashboard
   • One rupee rate covering voice, speech recognition, the model and Indian call minutes
   • DND (NCPR) checks before dialling, and call data stored and processed in India

   Watch for

   • No on-premise or VPC deployment, and no SOC 2, HIPAA or ISO 27001 certification
   • No bring-your-own carrier or SIP trunk: numbers come through Vobiz
   • Languages named only as Hindi, English, Hinglish and more

2. 2

   Retell AI

   Best for teams that want a self-serve platform with strong developer tools

   Price: $0.07 to $0.31 a minute for voice agents on pay as you go, depending on model and voice. $10 in free credits. 20 concurrent calls free, then $8 a month each. Enterprise pricing on request.

   Website

   Retell offers a drag-and-drop canvas for call flows, APIs and SDKs, and tools that simulate scenarios and turn real calls into regression tests. It states HIPAA, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR and ISO 27001 compliance and connects to existing phone systems over SIP trunking.

   Good

   • Pay as you go with $10 in free credits
   • 20 concurrent calls included
   • A compliance list close to Bland's, including HIPAA and ISO 27001

   Watch for

   • Cost varies with the model and voice you choose
   • Billed in US dollars
   • Indian languages not named on the pages we checked

3. 3

   Vapi

   Best for engineering teams that want to assemble their own stack

   Price: $0.05 a minute hosting fee, with speech, model, voice and telephony providers billed at cost. Vapi's own estimate for 1,000 minutes is $82 to $129 a month. $5 in free credits. Extra lines $10 a month each.

   Website

   Vapi is an API-native platform where you pick the speech, model, voice and telephony providers yourself, from names such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Twilio and Telnyx. It hosts the agent and passes provider costs through at cost.

   Good

   • Full choice of providers at each layer
   • No markup on provider costs
   • States SOC 2, HIPAA and PCI compliance

   Watch for

   • Several provider bills behind one call
   • HIPAA is a $2,000-a-month add-on
   • No on-premise option mentioned on the pages we checked

4. 4

   ElevenLabs

   Best for teams that want premium voices and a wide language range

   Price: Plans from free (15 call minutes) to $990 a month (12,375 minutes); Pro is $99 a month with 1,238 minutes. Extra minutes $0.08. Language model usage billed at cost. Telephony included.

   Website

   ElevenLabs Agents builds voice, chat and email agents on ElevenLabs' speech technology. You can build without code or through SDKs and APIs, bring your own language model and test with simulations. Its agents page lists 90+ languages, regional data residency and on-premise options.

   Good

   • 90+ languages, with switching mid-conversation
   • Data residency in the US, EU or India
   • Lists SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA and PCI DSS Level 1

   Watch for

   • Concurrency set by plan, with burst calls billed at double the rate
   • Language model usage billed separately
   • Indian languages aren't named on its agents page

5. 5

   Ringg AI

   Best for indian enterprises that want rupee pricing and an on-premise path

   Price: Pay as you go: ₹6 for each connected minute, with speech, voice, the language model, telephony and basic analytics included. Numbers ₹499 a month. Free credits for new accounts; enterprise rates on request.

   Website

   Ringg is an Indian platform for voice, chat, WhatsApp and web agents. Its self-serve plan bills per connected minute in rupees with telephony included, and its enterprise plan adds on-premise or private-cloud deployment and forward deployed engineering support.

   Good

   • Rupee rate with telephony included
   • On-premise or private cloud on Enterprise
   • SOC 2 Type II audited and ISO 27001 certified, per its security page

   Watch for

   • Concurrency and enterprise rates on request
   • Its security FAQ says data may be processed outside India

6. 6

   Gnani.ai

   Best for indian banks and insurers that need air-gapped or on-premise deployment

   Price: Not published on the pages we checked. Pricing on request.

   Website

   Gnani builds its own speech and language models and sells agents for collections, KYC, customer service and HR. It names BFSI, insurance, healthcare and telecom among its sectors, and deploys in the cloud, a private cloud, on-premise or air-gapped.

   Good

   • In-house speech and language models, as with Bland
   • Cloud, private cloud, on-premise or air-gapped
   • 40+ languages and dialects, with nine Indian languages named

   Watch for

   • No public price to compare
   • Positioned for enterprise buyers

Want the detail on one pair? Kallix vs Bland AI, row by row.