Agent Phone Plan / Codex
Add Bland's hosted MCP server to Codex and it can place calls and send texts for you.
Then $29.99/month. US and Canada. Fair use applies.
Open Billing & Plans in your Bland dashboard and choose the Agent Phone Plan. A dedicated US local number is added to your account automatically.
Add the Bland entry to ~/.codex/config.toml and set BLAND_API_KEY to your key. Restart Codex so it loads the server.
Ask Codex to call your own cell number, say it's a test, then end the call. Approve the call when Codex asks, and check that it reports back how the call went.
[mcp_servers.bland]
url = "https://api.bland.ai/v1/mcp"
bearer_token_env_var = "BLAND_API_KEY"export BLAND_API_KEY="org_..."
codexAdd Bland's hosted MCP server at https://api.bland.ai/v1/mcp to ~/.codex/config.toml. Codex reads your API key from BLAND_API_KEY. Phone call MCP server.
Bland sign-in isn't available for Codex yet. Sign in with Bland will apply once dynamic client registration is available. Until then, Codex uses an API key. See the other client configs.
Codex can place a call or send a text, then come back with the result. The plan is built for 1 task at a time. AI phone call assistant.
$14.99 for the first month (50% off), then $29.99/month. The first-month price applies once per account owner. No trial. Your card is charged when you approve, and you can cancel from the billing page. 1 dedicated US local number, with unlimited calling and texting to US and Canada numbers, subject to fair use: 1 call at a time (counted across your account, inbound and outbound), 20 calls an hour, 50 calls a day, 1,000 call minutes a day, 60 minutes max per outbound call, 20 texts an hour, and 100 texts a day. Calls and texts to numbers outside the US and Canada are blocked on this plan. Cancel in Billing and Plans. Cancellation takes effect immediately. See AI phone number cost.
Read the plan detailsThen $29.99/month. First month price applies once per account owner.
Unlimited means fair use: one call at a time, 20 calls/hour, 50/day, 1,000 call minutes/day, 60 minutes max per outbound call, 20 texts/hour, 100/day, US and Canada only. See plan limits.
Charged when you approve. There is no trial. Cancel in Billing and Plans. Cancellation takes effect immediately.
The Agent Phone Plan ($14.99 for the first month, then $29.99/month) gives your AI a dedicated US local number to make and receive calls and send and receive texts, with unlimited US and Canada calling and texting, subject to fair use: 1 call at a time (counted across your account, inbound and outbound), 20 calls an hour, 50 calls a day, 1,000 call minutes a day, 60 minutes max per outbound call, 20 texts an hour, and 100 texts a day. You can try it for free. That try covers outbound calls only, from a shared Bland number: no dedicated number, no texting, no incoming calls.
Not yet. Bland sign-in isn't available for Codex yet. Sign in with Bland will apply once dynamic client registration is available. Until then, Codex uses an API key read from the BLAND_API_KEY environment variable.
The config.toml entry is the same. For the CLI, export BLAND_API_KEY in the terminal before you run codex. For the desktop app or IDE extension, the app's process must receive the variable too.
Bland's docs point to the mcp-remote stdio bridge on the Any client page as a fallback. It needs Node.js 22+.
$29.99/month. The $14.99 first-month price applies once per account owner. There's no trial, and your card is charged when you approve.
The plan allows 1 call at a time across your account, inbound and outbound. If a call is already live, a new incoming call hears a busy message, and a new outbound call is rejected until the first one ends.
No. Bland isn't affiliated with OpenAI; it connects through Codex's supported MCP settings.
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