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LiveKit

End-to-end real-time multimodal WebRTC infrastructure powering sub-200ms voice AI agents.

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LiveKit is an autonomous voice AI and telephony agent platform starting at Free tier available starting at $0/month. It achieves an Autonomous Execution Score of 72/100 and integrates natively with SIP, Deepgram, OpenAI. Its key operational strength is industry standard for ultra-low latency multimodal streaming, while primary tradeoffs include pure developer platform requiring software engineers.

Autonomy
72/100
Core 87 · -15 setup
Value
7.52
From
$0/mo
Pricing
freemium
Updated
Nov 2026

Strengths

  • Industry standard for ultra-low latency multimodal streaming
  • Open-source core with managed cloud option
  • Native telephony SIP dispatch and room orchestration

Tradeoffs

  • Pure developer platform requiring software engineers
  • Requires building your own agent state logic and prompts

Integrations

  • SIP
  • Deepgram
  • OpenAI
  • Cartesia
  • Twilio
Engineering Setup Required: Requires WebRTC infrastructure deployment and custom agent runtime (-15 points deducted from runtime autonomy).

Estimate your monthly cost

$50/mo

On the Ship plan. Agent session minutes deployed on LiveKit Cloud. Overages beyond plan allotments billed at $0.01 per minute.

How this score is built

Autonomy base
(100 − 10 human effort) × 0.8
Integrations
+15
Setup friction
−15
Value inputs
30 features, 4.9 rating

Human effort, feature count and rating are editorial estimates, not test results.

Evidence

Price checked Nov 2026. View source

Vendor states: SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA (Scale / Enterprise).

Pricing tiers

Build
$0 /month
  • 1,000 agent session minutes included
  • 5,000 WebRTC minutes included
  • 1 free US local phone number (50 inbound mins included)
  • Agent deployment, observability, and simulations
  • Global edge network & community support
Ship
$50 /month
  • 5,000 agent session minutes included (then $0.01/min)
  • 150,000 WebRTC minutes included (then $0.0005/min)
  • Team collaboration
  • Custom voices
  • Instant rollback to a previous agent deployment
  • Email support
Scale
$500 /month
  • 50,000 agent session minutes included (then $0.01/min)
  • 1.5M WebRTC minutes included (then $0.0004/min)
  • Role-based access
  • Metrics export APIs & region pinning
  • Private links
  • Security reports (SOC 2 Type II) & HIPAA compliance
  • Inference discounts
Enterprise
Custom /custom
  • Volume pricing, including inference
  • Shared Slack channel
  • SSO
  • Support SLA

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