What is the difference between Bland and Miss Blue?

Bland supports 46 of the 77 features compared here, and Miss Blue supports 47. Bland adds animated text effects, stickers, WhatsApp, TypeScript SDK and self-hosting. Miss Blue adds group chats, group management, group name and photo, threaded replies and edit and unsend.

How much do Bland and Miss Blue cost?

Bland: Voice plans are Start (free, $0.14 a minute), Build ($299 a month) and Scale ($499 a month); SMS is $0.02 per message; the Agent Phone Plan is $29.99 a month for one number; iMessage, RCS and WhatsApp need a custom Enterprise contract. Miss Blue: A free sandbox for testing, then $99 per dedicated number per month at the launch price (normally $198), with the usual $479 setup fee waived until October 31; FaceTime Audio ($250), phone calls ($75) or both ($300) are optional add-ons per line, and Enterprise is custom.

Does Miss Blue support animated text effects?

Miss Blue does not support animated text effects.

Does Miss Blue support stickers?

Miss Blue does not list stickers on its site or in its docs.

Does Miss Blue support WhatsApp?

Miss Blue does not support WhatsApp.

Bland vs Miss Blue

Compare Bland and Miss Blue side by side: iMessage features, channels, developer tools, pricing and compliance, checked on each provider's own site.

Bland

Voice AI platform with SMS, RCS and branded iMessage agents

Starting price: Custom (iMessage is Enterprise only); SMS from $29.99/month on the Agent Phone Plan
Free plan: Start plan: free, with credits and an inbound number, for voice

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Miss Blue

Dedicated iMessage line with API, team inbox and calling

Starting price: $99/month per number (launch price)
Free plan: Free sandbox; 30-minute live demo line

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Bland supports 46 of the 77 features compared here, and Miss Blue supports 47.

Where Bland is ahead

and 1 more in the table below.

Where Miss Blue is ahead

and 2 more in the table below.

Feature comparison

Feature	Bland	Miss Blue
iMessage messaging
iMessage	PartialEnterprise plans only; Bland provisions an iMessage-capable number on request	Supported
Group chats	Not listed	SupportedSend into an existing group by its chat_id and read group threads.
Group management	Not listed	SupportedCreate groups of 2 to 32 and add or remove members; leaving a group is not supported yet.
Group name and photo	Not listed	SupportedRename a group and set or remove its photo.
Mentions	Not listed	Not listed
Tapbacks	SupportedSend and receive, per the iMessage guide; no API field, the agent decides	SupportedAdd or remove the six tapbacks; tapbacks from customers appear on the message.
Threaded replies	Not listed	SupportedQuoted replies with reply_to_message_id.
Typing indicators	SupportedListed in the iMessage guide	SupportedSend typing, optional auto-typing on inbound iMessage, and contact typing via webhook.
Read receipts	Supported	SupportedExplicit read receipts by API; outbound messages report read.
Edit and unsend	Not listedAPI deletes stored messages from a conversation; unsend on the device is not mentioned	PartialUnsend within Apple's 2-minute window. An edit endpoint is documented, but the FAQ says editing is not supported yet.
Message effects	Not listed	Not supportedThe errors page says effects are not a supported API operation yet.
Animated text effects	SupportedGuide lists text effects; which effects and how they are set is not documented	Not supportedThe errors page says expressive text styles and effects are not supported yet.
Stickers	SupportedLive Stickers, per the iMessage guide	Not listed
Formatted text	Not listed	Not listed
Attachments	SupportedPhotos, videos, PDFs and spreadsheets both ways; agents can generate files to send	SupportedImages, video, PDFs, Office files and more up to 100 MiB, one per send, or carousels of 2 to 20 images.
Live Photos	Not listed	Not listed
Rich link previews	Not listed	Not listed
Voice messages	SupportedSend and receive voice memos; inbound memos are transcribed	SupportedAudio-only sends use the native voice-note bubble by default.
Contact cards	Not listed	Not listed
Polls	Not listed	Not listed
Chat backgrounds	Not listed	Not listed
Location sharing	Not listed	SupportedSend Find My requests, read the sharing state and watch live fixes over Server-Sent Events.
iMessage apps	Not listed	Not listed
Live app cards	Not listed	Not listed
Sender name and photo	SupportedBranded contact with your company name and profile image	SupportedSet and verify the number's Name and Photo Sharing profile by API.
FaceTime calls	Not listed	PartialFaceTime Audio only, as a $250/month add-on per line.
Delivery status	SupportedGuide lists delivery status; messages carry sent, delivered, read or failed	Supportedpending, sent, delivered, read and failed with a reason, by webhook or per-message callback.
iMessage availability check	Not listed	SupportedLive iMessage and FaceTime registration lookup; a separate lookup reads your own past traffic.
Focus and Notify Anyway	Not listed	Not listed
Numbers and delivery
Managed lines	SupportedBland provisions iMessage-capable numbers for Enterprise accounts	SupportedEach number runs on a Mac that Miss Blue operates; staff provision numbers within about 48 to 72 hours.
Dedicated numbers	SupportedAgent Phone Plan includes one dedicated US number; Enterprise numbers by request	Supported$99/month per number at the launch price (normally $198).
Shared numbers	PartialFree credits call from a shared Bland number; texting needs your own number	SupportedShared-pool numbers are offered as a separate, labelled option.
Bring your own number	PartialYour own Twilio numbers or SIP trunks for voice and SMS; not documented for iMessage	SupportedTransfer an existing number in; staff complete it in about 1 to 2 weeks.
Line pooling	PartialCustom Dialing picks numbers from a pool for outbound calls only	SupportedAuto round robin spreads new contacts across a project's dedicated numbers, then keeps each on one.
SMS fallback	SupportedUses the richest channel the recipient supports and falls back to SMS	SupportedFalls back to RCS, or to SMS where RCS is unavailable, from the same number.
RCS fallback	Not listedDocs say Bland picks the richest channel; an iMessage to RCS order is not stated	SupportedFalls back to RCS where the carrier and recipient support it.
Outbound-first messaging	SupportedSend SMS creates or resumes a conversation on any channel	SupportedNew contacts are paced: 50 per number per day by default and 150 messages a day in total.
Calls on the iMessage number	Not listed	SupportedFaceTime Audio and phone calls from the number customers already message.
Other channels
SMS	SupportedEnterprise plans and the Agent Phone Plan; US numbers need A2P registration	SupportedAs fallback from the iMessage number; the docs also describe Twilio SMS lines.
RCS	PartialEnterprise only, enabled by your account executive	SupportedAs fallback when the carrier and recipient support it.
WhatsApp	PartialEnterprise only; a channel value on the Messaging API, no setup guide in the docs	Not supportedNot offered
Telegram	Not supportedNot offered	Not supported
Slack	Not supportedNot a messaging channel; Slack is listed only as a tool integration	Not supportedNot offered as a channel; the Slack page is an integration guide.
Email	Not supportedNot offered as a messaging channel	Not supportedNot offered as a channel; iMessage can be sent to Apple ID email addresses.
Phone calls	SupportedCore product: inbound and outbound AI phone calls, plus SIP	PartialBrowser phone calls as a $75/month add-on; API keys cannot place regular phone calls.
Apple Messages for Business	Not listedProduct page says Bland handles Apple Business Messaging registration; docs describe numbers	Not supportedNot offered
Unified channel API	PartialSMS, RCS, WhatsApp and iMessage share the /v1/sms endpoints; calls use a separate API	SupportediMessage with RCS and SMS fallback, groups and calls share one API and webhook stream.
Developer tools
REST API	Supported	Supported113 endpoints across 13 resources, with an OpenAPI file.
TypeScript SDK	PartialDocs list a Web Agent SDK for browser voice and a TTS library; no messaging SDK	Not listedThe API is plain HTTP; no SDK package was found.
Python SDK	Not listed	Not listed
Other SDKs	Not listed	Not listed
CLI	Supportedbland-cli on npm	Supportedmb, with installers for macOS, Linux and Windows.
Webhooks	SupportedMessage and status webhooks per number or per request, with a channel field	Supported
Signed webhooks	SupportedHMAC-SHA256 in X-Webhook-Signature; asymmetric JWT signing on Enterprise	SupportedHex HMAC-SHA256 over timestamp and raw body; per-message callbacks are unsigned.
MCP server	SupportedHosted MCP server; personal agents connected to it can place calls and send texts	Supportedmb mcp serves the CLI commands as MCP tools for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others.
Open source	Not supportedClosed platform	Not supportedThe CLI repo holds builds and installers without a license; the service is closed.
Self-hosting	PartialEnterprise: your own VPC, on-premises or air-gapped deployments	Not listed
Local testing	SupportedPathway Chat API and Testbed run agent conversations without a phone	Supportedmb_sandbox_ keys simulate outcomes and signed webhooks on a virtual number, with no phone.
Custom channel providers	PartialBring your own Twilio account or SIP carrier for telephony	Not listed
Event replay	PartialAutomatic webhook retries; resend endpoint for call webhooks; SMS delivery log readable	PartialPer-endpoint delivery log and history sync; docs say to poll GET /v1/messages to repair missed events.
OpenTelemetry	Not listed	Not listed
No-code integrations	SupportedZapier, Make and Pipedream on the integrations page	BetaGoHighLevel connector is in beta; the Zapier, Make and n8n pages are setup guides.
CRM integrations	SupportedHubSpot and Salesforce	BetaGoHighLevel connector in beta; HubSpot and Salesforce pages describe API builds set up in onboarding.
Built for AI agents
Agent framework	SupportedPathways, personas and versioned agents drive voice and every messaging channel	PartialNo agent SDK; offers a managed conversational AI add-on and multi-step automations.
Agent framework integrations	PartialMCP guides for OpenClaw, Poke, Meta Muse and coding agents; no LangChain or Vercel AI SDK	PartialGuide pages for Vercel AI SDK, Chat SDK, LangChain and Claude Agent SDK; no adapter package found.
Streaming replies	Not listed	Not listed
Agent group chats	Not listed	Not listed
Human handoff	SupportedHand a thread to a human and resume the agent, by API or a pathway node	SupportedShared Message Center for human takeover, with internal notes and resolving.
Audit logs	PartialEnterprise feature, not yet available for all accounts	Not listed
Message history API	SupportedList and read conversations with messages and delivery status	SupportedThread history by API and a conversation sync from the line's Mac.
Plans and compliance
Free plan	PartialFree Start plan with credits is for voice; messaging needs Agent Phone Plan or Enterprise	SupportedFree sandbox with simulated sends, plus a 30-minute live demo line by texting DEMO.
Public pricing	PartialVoice plans and SMS rates are public; iMessage, RCS and WhatsApp prices are not	Supported
No per-message fees	PartialSMS costs $0.02 per message; the Agent Phone Plan is flat with a 100 texts a day cap	Supported
Uptime SLA	SupportedPricing page lists a 99.9% uptime SLA on every plan	PartialEnterprise only: contracted service terms; no uptime figure published.
Isolated infrastructure	PartialEnterprise customers run on their own isolated infrastructure	SupportedDedicated numbers run on hardware assigned to you; Enterprise adds dedicated equipment.
SOC 2 Type II	SupportedSOC 2 Type II, independently audited	Not listed
GDPR	SupportedGDPR compliant, with a DPA in enterprise contracts	Not listed

Feature

Bland

Miss Blue

iMessage messaging

iMessage

PartialEnterprise plans only; Bland provisions an iMessage-capable number on request

Group chats

Not listed

Send into an existing group by its chat_id and read group threads.

Group management

Not listed

Create groups of 2 to 32 and add or remove members; leaving a group is not supported yet.

Group name and photo

Not listed

Rename a group and set or remove its photo.

Mentions

Not listed

Tapbacks

Send and receive, per the iMessage guide; no API field, the agent decides

Add or remove the six tapbacks; tapbacks from customers appear on the message.

Threaded replies

Not listed

Quoted replies with reply_to_message_id.

Typing indicators

Listed in the iMessage guide

Send typing, optional auto-typing on inbound iMessage, and contact typing via webhook.

Read receipts

Explicit read receipts by API; outbound messages report read.

Edit and unsend

Not listedAPI deletes stored messages from a conversation; unsend on the device is not mentioned

PartialUnsend within Apple's 2-minute window. An edit endpoint is documented, but the FAQ says editing is not supported yet.

Message effects

Not listed

Not supportedThe errors page says effects are not a supported API operation yet.

Animated text effects

Guide lists text effects; which effects and how they are set is not documented

Not supportedThe errors page says expressive text styles and effects are not supported yet.

Stickers

Live Stickers, per the iMessage guide

Not listed

Formatted text

Not listed

Attachments

Photos, videos, PDFs and spreadsheets both ways; agents can generate files to send

Images, video, PDFs, Office files and more up to 100 MiB, one per send, or carousels of 2 to 20 images.

Live Photos

Not listed

Rich link previews

Not listed

Voice messages

Send and receive voice memos; inbound memos are transcribed

Audio-only sends use the native voice-note bubble by default.

Not listed

Not listed

Not listed

Not listed

Send Find My requests, read the sharing state and watch live fixes over Server-Sent Events.

iMessage apps

Not listed

Live app cards

Not listed

Sender name and photo

Branded contact with your company name and profile image

Set and verify the number's Name and Photo Sharing profile by API.

FaceTime calls

Not listed

PartialFaceTime Audio only, as a $250/month add-on per line.

Delivery status

Guide lists delivery status; messages carry sent, delivered, read or failed

pending, sent, delivered, read and failed with a reason, by webhook or per-message callback.

iMessage availability check

Not listed

Live iMessage and FaceTime registration lookup; a separate lookup reads your own past traffic.

Focus and Notify Anyway

Not listed

Numbers and delivery

Managed lines

Bland provisions iMessage-capable numbers for Enterprise accounts

Each number runs on a Mac that Miss Blue operates; staff provision numbers within about 48 to 72 hours.

Dedicated numbers

Agent Phone Plan includes one dedicated US number; Enterprise numbers by request

$99/month per number at the launch price (normally $198).

Shared numbers

PartialFree credits call from a shared Bland number; texting needs your own number

Shared-pool numbers are offered as a separate, labelled option.

Bring your own number

PartialYour own Twilio numbers or SIP trunks for voice and SMS; not documented for iMessage

Transfer an existing number in; staff complete it in about 1 to 2 weeks.

Line pooling

PartialCustom Dialing picks numbers from a pool for outbound calls only

Auto round robin spreads new contacts across a project's dedicated numbers, then keeps each on one.

SMS fallback

Uses the richest channel the recipient supports and falls back to SMS

Falls back to RCS, or to SMS where RCS is unavailable, from the same number.

RCS fallback

Not listedDocs say Bland picks the richest channel; an iMessage to RCS order is not stated

Falls back to RCS where the carrier and recipient support it.

Outbound-first messaging

Send SMS creates or resumes a conversation on any channel

New contacts are paced: 50 per number per day by default and 150 messages a day in total.

Calls on the iMessage number

Not listed

FaceTime Audio and phone calls from the number customers already message.

Other channels

SMS

Enterprise plans and the Agent Phone Plan; US numbers need A2P registration

As fallback from the iMessage number; the docs also describe Twilio SMS lines.

RCS

PartialEnterprise only, enabled by your account executive

As fallback when the carrier and recipient support it.

PartialEnterprise only; a channel value on the Messaging API, no setup guide in the docs

Not supportedNot offered

Not supported

Slack

Not supportedNot a messaging channel; Slack is listed only as a tool integration

Not supportedNot offered as a channel; the Slack page is an integration guide.

Not supportedNot offered as a messaging channel

Not supportedNot offered as a channel; iMessage can be sent to Apple ID email addresses.

Phone calls

Core product: inbound and outbound AI phone calls, plus SIP

PartialBrowser phone calls as a $75/month add-on; API keys cannot place regular phone calls.

Apple Messages for Business

Not listedProduct page says Bland handles Apple Business Messaging registration; docs describe numbers

Not supportedNot offered

Unified channel API

PartialSMS, RCS, WhatsApp and iMessage share the /v1/sms endpoints; calls use a separate API

iMessage with RCS and SMS fallback, groups and calls share one API and webhook stream.

Developer tools

REST API

113 endpoints across 13 resources, with an OpenAPI file.

TypeScript SDK

PartialDocs list a Web Agent SDK for browser voice and a TTS library; no messaging SDK

Not listedThe API is plain HTTP; no SDK package was found.

Python SDK

Not listed

Other SDKs

Not listed

CLI

bland-cli on npm

mb, with installers for macOS, Linux and Windows.

Webhooks

Message and status webhooks per number or per request, with a channel field

Signed webhooks

HMAC-SHA256 in X-Webhook-Signature; asymmetric JWT signing on Enterprise

Hex HMAC-SHA256 over timestamp and raw body; per-message callbacks are unsigned.

MCP server

Hosted MCP server; personal agents connected to it can place calls and send texts

mb mcp serves the CLI commands as MCP tools for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others.

Open source

Not supportedClosed platform

Not supportedThe CLI repo holds builds and installers without a license; the service is closed.

Self-hosting

PartialEnterprise: your own VPC, on-premises or air-gapped deployments

Not listed

Local testing

Pathway Chat API and Testbed run agent conversations without a phone

mb_sandbox_ keys simulate outcomes and signed webhooks on a virtual number, with no phone.

Custom channel providers

PartialBring your own Twilio account or SIP carrier for telephony

Not listed

Event replay

PartialAutomatic webhook retries; resend endpoint for call webhooks; SMS delivery log readable

PartialPer-endpoint delivery log and history sync; docs say to poll GET /v1/messages to repair missed events.

OpenTelemetry

Not listed

No-code integrations

Zapier, Make and Pipedream on the integrations page

BetaGoHighLevel connector is in beta; the Zapier, Make and n8n pages are setup guides.

CRM integrations

HubSpot and Salesforce

BetaGoHighLevel connector in beta; HubSpot and Salesforce pages describe API builds set up in onboarding.

Built for AI agents

Agent framework

Pathways, personas and versioned agents drive voice and every messaging channel

PartialNo agent SDK; offers a managed conversational AI add-on and multi-step automations.

Agent framework integrations

PartialMCP guides for OpenClaw, Poke, Meta Muse and coding agents; no LangChain or Vercel AI SDK

PartialGuide pages for Vercel AI SDK, Chat SDK, LangChain and Claude Agent SDK; no adapter package found.

Streaming replies

Not listed

Agent group chats

Not listed

Human handoff

Hand a thread to a human and resume the agent, by API or a pathway node

Shared Message Center for human takeover, with internal notes and resolving.

Audit logs

PartialEnterprise feature, not yet available for all accounts

Not listed

Message history API

List and read conversations with messages and delivery status

Thread history by API and a conversation sync from the line's Mac.

Plans and compliance

Free plan

PartialFree Start plan with credits is for voice; messaging needs Agent Phone Plan or Enterprise

Free sandbox with simulated sends, plus a 30-minute live demo line by texting DEMO.

Public pricing

PartialVoice plans and SMS rates are public; iMessage, RCS and WhatsApp prices are not

No per-message fees

PartialSMS costs $0.02 per message; the Agent Phone Plan is flat with a 100 texts a day cap

Uptime SLA

Pricing page lists a 99.9% uptime SLA on every plan

PartialEnterprise only: contracted service terms; no uptime figure published.

Isolated infrastructure

PartialEnterprise customers run on their own isolated infrastructure

Dedicated numbers run on hardware assigned to you; Enterprise adds dedicated equipment.

SOC 2 Type II

SOC 2 Type II, independently audited

Not listed

GDPR

GDPR compliant, with a DPA in enterprise contracts

Not listed

Checked on each provider's own site and docs on 2026-10-25. “Not listed” means the provider does not mention it.

Pricing

Bland

Voice plans are Start (free, $0.14 a minute), Build ($299 a month) and Scale ($499 a month); SMS is $0.02 per message; the Agent Phone Plan is $29.99 a month for one number; iMessage, RCS and WhatsApp need a custom Enterprise contract.

Pricing model: per-minute voice, per-message SMS, custom Enterprise contracts

Source

Miss Blue

A free sandbox for testing, then $99 per dedicated number per month at the launch price (normally $198), with the usual $479 setup fee waived until October 31; FaceTime Audio ($250), phone calls ($75) or both ($300) are optional add-ons per line, and Enterprise is custom.

Pricing model: flat per line

Source