A Bland AI alternative built for sales teams
Bland AI is a voice agent platform, with a free developer plan and paid plans for higher volumes. Pitaya is made for one job, outbound sales calls, and runs at one price with no monthly fee, whether you make 50 calls or 5,000.
- No monthly fee at any volume
- Sales-call behaviour built in
- Written for you from a sentence
Prospect Hello, Dan with Endpoint Systems.
Agent (AI) Hi Dan, thanks for taking my call. Who looks after new product lines or partnerships on your side?
Prospect Uh, that'll be myself. Are you a distributor, or…
Agent (AI) Not a distributor. We're the manufacturer. Our software adds shoplifting and suspicious-activity detection to the cameras your team already installs, and we partner with integrators as referral or reseller.
Agent (AI) Would it make sense if I sent a short partner overview and set up a quick call?
Prospect You know, how about we just start with the information, and then we'll decide if it makes sense to hop on a call.
Agent (AI) Sure, that works. What's the best direct email for the partner overview? I'll send that over and you can decide from there.
From Dragonfruit AI’s own outreach on Pitaya. Names, companies and emails changed; lightly trimmed.
What your prospects hear
A recreated example call in Pitaya’s own agent voice: a quote request, called back and booked. Sound on.
Or have the agent call you
Pick a scenario, enter your mobile, and a Pitaya agent calls in seconds.
Calling you now…
Pick up and play along: ask questions, push back, say you’re busy.
That’s a Pitaya call.
Your own agent sounds like that, calling your prospects about what you sell.
The live demo calls US and Canadian mobiles. Elsewhere, sign up and talk to your agent in your browser: the first 15 minutes are free.
Made for sales calls
Written for you
Describe what you sell; Pitaya writes the opening, questions, voicemail and the fields to capture.
Front desks and phone menus
Asks for the decision maker by role, says “operator” at menus, waits on hold, leaves voicemail after the beep.
Warm leads, not just logs
Every call summarised, with the next step and the details captured, and a list of who to follow up.
One price
$0.15 a minute, billed per second. No platform fee as you grow.
Bland AI and Pitaya
| Bland AI | Pitaya | |
|---|---|---|
| Per minute | $0.14 talk time on the free Start plan; $0.12 on Build | $0.15, billed per second; unanswered calls free |
| Monthly fee | $0 on Start; $299 a month on Build | None, at any volume |
| Transfers | $0.05 or $0.04 a minute of transfer time | No separate transfer rate |
| Daily calls | 100 a day on Start; 2,000 on Build | Up to 50 a day until caller ID is verified; then set by your numbers’ daily limits |
| Who it’s for | Start is labelled “for developers”; Build “for teams” | Sales teams, founders and agencies |
| Setup | You design the agent | Written for you from a sentence; edit in plain English |
Bland AI facts from bland.ai/pricing on October 11, 2026; check there for current rates. Bland AI is a trademark of its owner, and Pitaya is not affiliated with it.
When Bland AI is the better choice
You need very high volumes on an enterprise contract, voice cloning, on-premise deployment or a BAA, or you are building a voice product on an API.
When Pitaya is
You want sales calls running this week, with front desks, voicemail and calling rules handled, and no monthly fee.
What you would set up
Pitaya writes a campaign like this from a sentence about your business. You can change any line in plain English.
- Goal
- Reach the operations or HR manager at warehouses and book a 15-minute call about temp staff.
- Opening line
- “Hi, this is Sam calling for Summit Staffing. We supply warehouse temps around Houston, often within a day. Who handles staffing there?”
- Instructions
- Ask by role for operations or HR, then their name.
- Ask how they cover peaks today.
- Offer two times for a 15-minute call; get a direct email.
An example with a made-up company. The agent adds the AI disclosure itself.
Pay as you go, billed per second
Bland’s free plan is a cent a minute cheaper; past 100 calls a day it adds $299 a month. Pitaya stays at one price with no monthly fee.
Add credit, and calls draw it down. Switch on auto top-up and campaigns never pause.
- Talk time, inbound and outbound
- $0.15 a minute, billed per second
- Each answered call
- At least 30 seconds ($0.075)
- Calls that ring out, are busy or fail
- Free
- Local US phone numbers
- $2 a month each
- Monthly fee, seats, contract
- None
New accounts get $1 of credit, and your agent calls your own phone three times free. A card is needed only when you add credit.
- ✓Mobile and do-not-call checks before every dial
- ✓Calling hours in each lead’s time zone
- ✓Voicemail drop, recordings and transcripts
- ✓Meeting booking and live transfer
- ✓CRM webhook (Zapier, Make, n8n)
- ✓Unlimited teammates and brands
On a typical day of our own cold calls, 500 dials came to about $45: most answered calls are short voicemails and front desks.
How Pitaya keeps your calls within the rules
- The agent says it is an AI at the start of every call (in its opening line or its first reply), and that the call is recorded. If anyone asks, it says so again.
- Every number’s line type is checked before the first call: business lines and landlines are called; mobiles only when the contact’s consent is on file.
- “Don’t call me again” goes on your workspace’s do-not-call list at once, for every campaign.
- Calls go out only inside the hours and days you set, in each contact’s own time zone.
- Your part: consent where it is needed, and checking residential numbers against the National Do Not Call Registry. Pitaya is for calling businesses; it is not for calling consumers without consent.
More in our trust and compliance page. This is not legal advice; check the rules that apply to your calls.
Questions
Is Pitaya cheaper than Bland AI? +
Per minute, Bland’s free plan is $0.14 and Pitaya is $0.15. Once you need more than Bland’s free limits, its Build plan adds $299 a month; Pitaya has no monthly fee at any volume.
Is Pitaya affiliated with Bland AI? +
No. Bland AI is a trademark of its owner. Prices here are from Bland’s pricing page on the date shown.
Can I try it without a developer? +
Yes. Try the live demo, or sign up and have the agent call your own phone three times free.
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Try it on your own phone
Set up a campaign in ten minutes and hear it call you. $1 of credit to start.