Sistava 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 Sistava
- 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 ($49-$399/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 | Sistava |
|---|---|---|
| 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 $49-$399/mo |