# Bolna review (2026): is it worth paying for? > Voice AI agents for phone calls in Indian languages Checked Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Bolna is a platform for building voice agents that make and answer phone calls, with a focus on Indian languages such as Hindi, Tamil and Telugu. Agents are set up in a no-code dashboard or through an API, and calls are billed per minute from prepaid credits. - **Category:** AI Agents - **Made by:** Whismurwave Inc. - **Website:** https://www.bolna.ai - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Watch out: telephony and a platform fee are added to the 6 cent per minute rate. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Bolna is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $10 minimum credit purchase, used as you go (from 6¢ per minute). - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** $5 in free credits when you sign up. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Pay-as-you-go | $10 minimum credit top-up, used as you go | Credits from $10 to $5,000, billed by usage. Standard rate starts at 6¢ per minute and falls to about 4.5¢ at larger top-ups. | | Pilots | $300 one-time, for 6,500 minutes | Fixed per-minute rate (about 4.6¢), up to 25 concurrent calls, WhatsApp support and four 1:1 calls. A $500 tier gives 12,000 minutes. | | Enterprise | Custom | Custom volume pricing, customised integrations and deployment, priority support and a dedicated account manager. | Read from https://www.bolna.ai/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Bolna before buying. ## Key features - **No-code agent builder and API:** Agents are built from a template or from scratch in a dashboard, and calls can also be triggered through a REST API with Python, JavaScript or cURL examples. - **Indian-language voice:** The site says agents work across 10+ vernacular Indian languages including Hinglish, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu, and lists 20+ languages overall. - **Bulk campaigns:** Outbound campaigns can run thousands of AI calls at once, for uses such as reminders, lead qualification and announcements. - **Live API calls and human handoff:** An agent can call external APIs mid-conversation and transfer the call to a human agent when needed. - **Model choice:** The site lists 20+ speech-to-text, language and text-to-speech models, and says you can bring your own API keys to cut costs. ## Good for - Businesses in India automating reminders, collections and lead calls - Developers who want a voice-agent API with their own phone provider - Teams that need Hindi or other regional-language calling ## Worth knowing - Pay-as-you-go lists 6¢ per minute with bundled models; telephony and a platform fee are added per minute, and the Pilot plan has fixed minutes. - Agents stop making calls when credits run out unless automatic top-ups are set. - Pilot plan rates hold only until the purchased minutes are used, then the account reverts to standard pricing. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Bolna builds phone agents without code and supports Indian languages, billed per minute from 6 cents with bundled models. Telephony and a platform fee are added on top. Calls stop when credits run out unless you set automatic top-ups. - **Value for money: C.** $0.06 a minute on pay-as-you-go with bundled models, from a $10 credit purchase. Telephony and a platform fee are added per minute, so the real rate is higher. - **Free plan and trial: C.** $5 in free credits on sign-up. No card is mentioned, but it is only a few minutes of calls. - **Features: C.** No-code builder and API, Indian-language voice, bulk campaigns, live API calls and human handoff. Pilot rates hold only until the purchased minutes run out. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You build the agent, pick models and connect a phone provider such as Twilio. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web dashboard and API, with n8n, Make, Zapier, Twilio and Plivo listed. No desktop or phone app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Bolna's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among AI agents - Bolna's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 81 of the 178 other AI agents we grade, and level with 41. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 47 of 178) and worst on features (C, above 2). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-agents ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Bolna you would be making an AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. - You could not: An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. - You could not: Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. - You could not: A builder that other people can use without writing code. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with n8n, Make, Zapier, Twilio, Plivo, Vobiz **Tags:** AI agents, Public API, Workflow automation, No-code ## Alternatives - [Vapi](https://toolgpa.com/tools/vapi): Developer platform for building and running voice AI agents. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bolna-vs-vapi) - [Retell AI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/retell-ai): Pay-per-minute platform for AI phone and chat agents. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bolna-vs-retell-ai) - [Bland AI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/bland-ai): AI phone agents with one all-in per-minute rate. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bland-ai-vs-bolna) - [Synthflow](https://toolgpa.com/tools/synthflow): Enterprise AI voice agents sold on annual contracts. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bolna-vs-synthflow) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.bolna.ai/pricing - https://www.bolna.ai Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/bolna Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).