LiveKit Agents vs Vapi
LiveKit Agents is listed under Realtime frameworks, Vapi under Voice agent platforms. Shared focus: voice-agents. Each name links to the product's own site.
| Category | Realtime frameworks | Voice agent platforms |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Open source | Paid |
| Public code | Yes | No |
| Tags | realtime, webrtc, python, voice-agents | voice-agents, api, phone-calls, orchestration |
| Website | github.com | vapi.ai |
What LiveKit Agents does
LiveKit Agents is an open-source framework for building realtime voice and video AI agents in Python and Node.js. Agents join a LiveKit room and connect speech, language model and text-to-speech plugins.
What Vapi does
Vapi is a developer platform for building voice agents that handle phone calls. You choose the speech-to-text, language model and text-to-speech providers, and Vapi manages the call flow and telephony.
Other options
See all Realtime frameworks, or alternatives to LiveKit Agents and Vapi.