14x
cheaper telephony per minute
$499
platform fees avoided monthly
~$1,400
saved per 10k minutes
The math: Bland charges $0.11–0.14/min plus up to $499/mo in platform fees. Kadeno charges $0.010/min with $0 platform fee. Add your own AI at ~$0.02/min and your total is $0.030/min — less than a quarter of Bland's cheapest rate.
Pricing
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Kadeno | Bland AI |
|---|
| Per-minute rate | $0.010/min | $0.11–0.14/min |
| Platform fee | $0 | $0–$499/mo |
| STT + LLM + TTS | Bring your own | Bundled in rate |
| Model choice | Any model, any provider | Bland's selection |
| Phone number | $1.00/mo | Not published separately |
Cost at Scale
10,000 Minutes/Month
| Kadeno + Own AI | Bland AI (Build plan) |
|---|
| Per-minute charges | $100 | $1,100–1,400 |
| Platform fee | $0 | $299/mo |
| AI (your own pipeline) | ~$200 | Included in rate |
| Total | ~$300 | $1,399–1,699 |
When Kadeno Wins
Choose Kadeno when
- You already have an AI pipeline — OpenAI Realtime, Deepgram, ElevenLabs, or your own models? Kadeno gives you the phone line without bundling AI you don't need.
- You need model flexibility — Switch STT, LLM, or TTS providers any time. Kadeno doesn't touch your AI layer.
- Cost at scale matters — At 10,000 minutes/month, Kadeno is 4–5x cheaper than Bland's Build plan, even including your own AI costs.
- No platform lock-in — Your call logic lives in your code, not in a vendor's agent abstraction layer.
Choose Bland AI when
- Speed to market — Bland gets you a working voice agent in minutes with no AI infrastructure to configure.
- You don't have an AI engine — If you're starting from zero, Bland's bundled stack is faster to launch.
- Built-in agent tooling — Pathways, knowledge bases, call analysis, and custom voices are included.
Already have an AI engine? Stop paying for one you don't need.
$0.010/min · $1.00/mo numbers · $0 platform fee