# Sista AI vs Bland AI

*AI Voice and Phone*

Sistava vs Bland AI

Bland AI is an API-first platform for automating enterprise phone calls with conversational AI. Voice latency, batch dialing, and call analytics are the product. Honest concession: if your only job is high-volume outbound or inbound voice and you have engineers to wire it in, Bland AIs voice stack will outperform a generalist on raw call quality. Sistava plays a different game: voice is one channel of a real worker, alongside chat, email, browser, Slack, and thousands of apps, with persistent memory across all of them.

## Profile

- **Pricing:** $299/mo + $0.12/min (Build), $499/mo + $0.11/min (Scale). Pay-as-you-go from $0.14/min.
- **Founded:** 2023, San Francisco
- **Funding:** $65M raised ($40M Series B led by Emergence Capital, Jan 2025)
- **Focus:** Enterprise AI phone call automation platform via API

## Why Sista AI

If you only need a phone dialer with great latency, Bland AI is the right tool. Sistava is the right tool when you want voice as one of several channels a single employee uses.,Bland AI is API-first. You wire calls into your stack and own the workflow. Sistava is hire-first: you brief an employee in plain language and the same worker handles voice, email, CRM updates, and follow-ups.,Sistava connects to thousands of apps and custom MCP servers, so a sales call can update Salesforce, post to Slack, and book a follow-up on Google Calendar in one continuous run. Bland AI hands off via webhooks for everything off the phone line.,Sistava offers flat monthly pricing ($79-$799/mo). Bland AI charges per-minute on top of platform fees, which scales with call volume.,Sistava retains memory across calls (the same employee remembers what last weeks call covered). Bland AI keeps per-call context only.

## Feature Comparison

| Feature | Bland AI | Sista AI |
|---|---|---|
|  | Phone call API | Full AI workforce |
|  | Core product | Deepgram STT/TTS |
|  | Voice calls only | Voice, chat, browser, email, thousands of apps |
|  | ✗ | ✓ |
|  | Requires API integration | ✓ |
|  | ✗ | ✓ |
|  | Per-call context only | Persistent (same employee remembers last call) |
|  | ✗ | ✓ |
|  | ✗ | ✓ |
|  | Webhooks + custom API | Thousands of native + MCP |
|  | Basic call monitoring | ✓ |
|  | ✗ | ✓ |
|  | ✗ | ✓ |
|  | $0.11-$0.14/min + platform fee | Flat $79-$799/mo |