How to give your AI agent a number that can send texts

Bland’s Agent Phone Plan provides AI assistants such as Claude with a dedicated US phone number for calls and SMS, enabling them to initiate text conversations and use Bland’s texting AI to handle replies toward a specified goal. Setup involves connecting an agent to Bland through a custom connector, activating the plan, and configuring the number’s texting instructions; developers can also send messages through an API using a recipient number, agent number, initial message, and optional objective. The plan costs $9.99 for the first month per account owner and $19.99 monthly afterward, with limits of 20 outgoing texts per hour and 100 per day, including automated replies, and it supports texting only US and Canadian numbers. Bland requires one-to-one conversations with people who have consented to receive messages and prohibits bulk marketing or spam, while allowing conversations to be handed off to a human when needed. Compared with AgentLine’s similarly priced plan, Bland emphasizes flat monthly pricing within its daily and hourly caps rather than per-text overage charges.

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