LiveKit Agents
Build voice and multimodal agents that participate in LiveKit rooms.
Sources and review
Checked against public documentation on . Suitability guidance is our editorial judgment; this is not a performance benchmark or an endorsement.
Developers building custom voice or multimodal agents around LiveKit rooms and their own application logic.
You need a finished phone-support product without building and testing agent behavior. This entry covers the framework, not every LiveKit Cloud product.
About LiveKit Agents
LiveKit Agents is an open-source framework for connecting agent code to real-time voice, video and text sessions. The Python repository provides model integrations, turn handling and agent dispatch. A separate Node.js SDK is also available. Agents can run in LiveKit Cloud or a custom environment; model, transport and hosting costs depend on the deployment.
LiveKit Agents is an open-source project written primarily in Python, with 14k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in September 2026.
LiveKit Agents vs. the alternatives
All 30 alternatives →| Record | Stars | Pricing | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LiveKit Agentsthis listing | 14k | Python | Apache-2.0 | Open source |
| Pipecat | 16k | Python | BSD-2-Clause | Open source |
| xiaozhi-esp32-server | 11k | JavaScript | MIT | Open source |
| ten-vad | 2.3k | C | — | Open source |
| bailing | 1.8k | Python | MIT | Open source |
| CyberVerse | 1.6k | Python | GPL-3.0 | Open source |
