Tuvoz vs Bland: which phone line should your AI agent use?
Bland is a voice AI platform with an Agent Phone plan for personal agents. Tuvoz asks your agent mid-call and calls you if it can't answer. Prices, limits and trade-offs, checked Oct 8, 2026.
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Bland is a voice AI platform for businesses that also sells an Agent Phone plan for personal agents: $29.99 a month for one dedicated number with calls and texts to the US and Canada. Tuvoz is narrower: a US phone line for the agent you already use, where the voice agent asks your agent mid-call and phones you if your agent can’t answer.
At a glance
| Bland | Tuvoz | |
|---|---|---|
| Per-minute price | $0.14/min on the Start plan, $0.12/min on Build ($299/mo platform fee) (pricing) | $0.12 a minute, billed per second, with a 30-second minimum per answered call leg, including calls to your own phone |
| Flat plan for one agent | Agent Phone: $29.99/mo ($14.99 the first month), voice minutes and texts to the US and Canada, 1 call at a time, 50 calls a day, 1,000 minutes a day (docs) | None. Top up from $5 ($10 is the default) |
| Your own number | Yes, with the Agent Phone plan. Without it, calls use a shared Bland number (docs) | No. One shared Tuvoz caller ID. “Dedicated phone number: coming soon” |
| Texts (SMS) | Yes, with the Agent Phone plan | No |
| Where it calls | US and Canada | US only: listed businesses, your own phone, and people you confirm agreed to AI calls (unlisted landlines not yet) |
| How agents connect | MCP server (API key or OAuth), REST API, and an agent sign-up flow with a link and code (docs) | A skill plus a REST API, with the same link-and-code sign-in. No MCP server yet |
| Agents named in the docs | Meta Muse, OpenClaw, Instinct, Poke, Grok, Claude Code, Cursor | Claude Code, Codex, claude.ai, Meta Muse, OpenClaw |
| Mid-call questions to your agent | Bland’s personal-agent docs describe calls that return the transcript and summary when they end. Its main platform supports tools and webhooks that you build | Built in: up to 3 questions per call; if nobody answers, Tuvoz calls your phone |
| Recording consent on the call | Not described in the pages we checked | Asked on every call. A “no” ends the call and Tuvoz keeps nothing they said (our AI voice provider processes the call live and may keep it for a limited time for abuse monitoring) |
What Bland does well
- One price for heavy use. The Agent Phone plan covers voice minutes and texts for a flat $29.99 a month, up to 1,000 minutes a day. If your agent makes long calls every day, that beats any per-minute price, including Tuvoz’s.
- A number that’s yours. People can call or text your agent back on the same number. Tuvoz has no inbound calls and no texts.
- Canada. Bland calls US and Canadian numbers. Tuvoz calls US numbers only.
- More ways in. Bland has an MCP server with OAuth (
claude mcp addthenclaude mcp login blandin Claude Code), a REST API, and docs for five personal agents. Tuvoz is a skill and a REST API at launch. - A full platform when you outgrow one agent. Pathways, knowledge bases, transfers, and up to 50 calls at once on the Build plan (pricing).
Where Tuvoz is different
- It asks your agent during the call. When the person on the phone asks something the brief doesn’t cover (“Is 7:45 okay instead?”), Tuvoz’s voice agent sends the question to your agent and keeps the line warm for up to 45 seconds. If your agent isn’t watching, Tuvoz calls your phone after 3 seconds. Read how the mid-call backchannel works.
- The opener is fixed in code. Every call starts with “Hi! I’m Jane Doe’s AI assistant, calling through Tuvoz about a dinner reservation.” Then it asks: “Just so you know, Tuvoz records this call, and it may be used to train AI. Other AI companies may get a transcript with names and numbers removed. Is that okay with you?” Your agent can’t turn this off.
- Destinations are checked before dialing. Tuvoz looks up whether a number is a listed business landline (it can’t call unlisted home landlines yet), blocks emergency and crisis lines, and keeps calls to businesses and contacts to 9 am to 8 pm in the called number’s time zone (calls to your own phone aren’t limited to those hours).
- The voice bridge is open source (MIT). You can read the call flow or run it yourself with your own Twilio and Gemini accounts. See self-host vs hosted.
Where Tuvoz is weaker
- No number of your own, no texts, no inbound calls.
- US only, and fewer destinations: no toll-free numbers, no mobile numbers unless the owner agreed and you added them, no calls to numbers in Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Montana or Nebraska, North Dakota numbers only for listed businesses, and no Texas numbers yet (pending a state permit).
- The consent question costs you calls: if the person says no, the call ends.
- No MCP server at launch, so agents that only speak MCP can’t use it yet.
- Lower limits: 10 minutes per call and 1 call at a time until your first top-up; 55 minutes per call and 3 at a time after.
- Tuvoz is new: it launched in 2026.
What a typical call costs
A 3-minute call to book a table:
| Cost | |
|---|---|
| Tuvoz | 180 s × $0.002 = $0.36 |
| Bland Start plan | 3 min × $0.14 = $0.42 |
| Bland Agent Phone plan | Included in $29.99/mo, within its daily limits |
Tuvoz gives you 15 free minutes to start. Free plan includes training on your calls. Once you top up, you can turn off training for new calls.
Which should you pick?
Pick Bland if you want a number people can call and text back, calls to Canada, or a flat monthly price for a lot of calling.
Pick Tuvoz if you make occasional calls to US businesses, want your agent (or you) asked when the call hits a question, and want the disclosure and consent handled the same way on every call.
Next: set up Tuvoz in your agent, or compare with AgentPhone and PlaceCall.