1 category · RankedBland AI
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI voice agents | Customer | 3% | 5 of 103 | 18% | 34 | accepted challenger |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Bland AI across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Shortlist 3-5: From recent reviews—Bland AI (scalable/high-volume)” Grok 4.1 Fast · AI voice agents · scale prompt · first choice
“Need maximum security/compliance? → Bland AI” Kimi K2 · AI voice agents · comparative prompt · first choice
“I'd start with Bland for the cheapest test” GPT-5.4 mini · AI voice agents · budget prompt · first choice
“Bland AI vertically integrates its own stack, offering flat-rate pricing ... specializes in high-volume calling infrastructure.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · AI voice agents · comparative prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Avoid Bland AI if you're not a developer, need reliable support, or care about natural voice quality — the complaints are numerous and consistent.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · AI voice agents · negative prompt · hard negative
“Bland AI — Caution Advised - Billing complaints are the dominant theme in reviews” Kimi K2 · AI voice agents · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid Bland AI unless you have dedicated engineering resources” Kimi K2 · AI voice agents · direct prompt · hard negative
“No public pricing and clear enterprise focus can be a barrier for mid market or smaller teams” Claude Haiku 4.5 · AI voice agents · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Bland AI, over the 105 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Bland AI was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 102 of the 105 answers that named Bland AI and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
342 of the 389 domain citations in answers naming Bland AI came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
bland.ai is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Bland AI takes 3% of first choices and Retell AI takes 27%.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 5,400 a month (“bland ai”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 115 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 11,867 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 1,554 · 129 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 3,161
- Paid Google search
- 8 searches its ads show for, about 54 clicks and $880 a month (estimate)
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 7 across its categories
- Named in
- 105 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 102 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHide| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 350 | 46 | 2026-10-03 | AI voice agents, CRM | |
| Comparison | 106 | 19 | 2026-09-16 | AI voice agents | |
| Case study | 13 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 9 | 1 | 2026-08-11 | ||
| Template or tool | 3 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 1 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-10-03Fastest voice ai to set up for a support team blog
- 2026-09-30Which ai voice agent holds up best in production over time blog
- 2026-09-30Bland twilio partnership blog
- 2026-09-29Most reliable voice ai for production at scale blog
- 2026-09-2714 Ways How Much Does a Voice AI Platform Cost in 2026 blog
- 2026-09-27No code ai phone agent for non technical teams blog
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Every page bland.ai exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.
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- where Bland AI is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Bland AI, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.