LiveKit Agents vs Vapi

LiveKit Agents9.2Visit Vapi8.9Visit

Higher score LiveKit Agents #3 in AI Voice Agents 9.2/10 Free plan Free plan✓ 4 of 4 features Visit LiveKit

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Vapi #6 in AI Voice Agents 8.9/10 Paid ✓ 4 of 4 features Visit Vapi

• LiveKit Agents fits best

  Developers building realtime voice agents

• Vapi fits best

  Teams building and operating phone agents via API

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Side by side

Feature	LiveKit Agents 9.2/10 Visit ↗	Vapi 8.9/10 Visit ↗
At a glance
Editor score	9.2	8.9
Ranking	#3 in AI Voice Agents	#6 in AI Voice Agents
Best for	Developers building realtime voice agents	Teams building and operating phone agents via API
Pricing model	Free plan + paid	Paid
Starting price	$50/mo	$29/mo (best)
Free plan	✓ (best)	—
Free trial	—	—
Deployment	Self-hosted	Cloud, Mobile
Integrations	11 integrations	20 integrations
Features LiveKit Agents 4/4 · Vapi 4/4
Inbound calls	✓	✓
Outbound calls	✓	✓
Human handoff	✓	✓
Custom phone numbers	✓	✓
Specs
Supported languages	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Concurrent calls	20 calls (best)	10 calls
Our review
Pros	Connects pluggable LLM, STT, TTS, and realtime model providers Supports inbound and outbound telephony, transfers, and agent handoffs Includes testing, recordings, transcripts, traces, and logs	Supports inbound, outbound, and web voice calls with live handoffs. Lets teams configure speech, language-model, and text-to-speech providers. Includes simulations, concurrency controls, monitoring, APIs, and SDKs.
Cons	Building with the framework requires developer-led implementation Ship starts at $50/month; Scale is $500/month The listed feature set may be broader than needed for simple voice bots	Usage-based billing can include provider and telephony costs. Core limits included phone numbers and concurrent calls compared with Pro. Pro starts at $999 per month; Premier pricing is custom.
Our verdict	LiveKit Agents is an open-source framework for building programmable, realtime voice and multimodal AI agents. It is aimed at developers and teams creating conversational voice applications or other realtime AI experiences. Agents can run… Read the review →	Vapi is a developer platform for building, deploying, and monitoring voice AI agents across phone and web calls. Its API and SDK access, configurable speech and language-model providers, and call controls suit teams creating… Read the review →

Strengths and trade-offs

• LiveKit Agents — where it wins

  • Connects pluggable LLM, STT, TTS, and realtime model providers
  • Supports inbound and outbound telephony, transfers, and agent handoffs
  • Includes testing, recordings, transcripts, traces, and logs

  Where it doesn't

  • Building with the framework requires developer-led implementation
  • Ship starts at $50/month; Scale is $500/month
  • The listed feature set may be broader than needed for simple voice bots

• Vapi — where it wins

  • Supports inbound, outbound, and web voice calls with live handoffs.
  • Lets teams configure speech, language-model, and text-to-speech providers.
  • Includes simulations, concurrency controls, monitoring, APIs, and SDKs.

  Where it doesn't

  • Usage-based billing can include provider and telephony costs.
  • Core limits included phone numbers and concurrent calls compared with Pro.
  • Pro starts at $999 per month; Premier pricing is custom.

• LiveKit Agents9.2/10 · Free plan

  An open framework for building realtime voice agents, with optional managed cloud plans.

  Visit LiveKitFull verdict →
• Vapi8.9/10 · Paid

  An API-driven platform for building and operating phone and web voice agents.

  Visit VapiFull verdict →