What is the best alternative to ten-vad?

It depends on whether you'd rather self-host or buy a managed product. Patter is the most widely-adopted open-source alternative (1.1k GitHub stars); Bland AI is one of the commercial options. Compare the full list above on adoption, license, and pricing.

Is there a free or open-source alternative to ten-vad?

Yes. Patter, Deepgram Python SDK, and xybrid are open-source voice agents you can self-host for free — you still pay for the infrastructure you run them on and any model or API usage. See the ranked open-source list above.

How are these ten-vad alternatives ranked?

Every product in the voice agents category is a candidate. Open-source alternatives are ranked by maintained adoption — GitHub stars plus recent commit activity — so you see what's genuinely used, not abandoned. Commercial products are listed separately and alphabetically, because stars don't measure commercial adoption. Sponsored placement is always labeled and never affects the ranking.

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ten-vad alternatives

Looking for an alternative to ten-vad? Below are the voice agents in our index that do a similar job — open-source options are ranked by real maintained adoption (GitHub stars and recent commit activity), never by sponsorship. ten-vad is open source, so the list below includes both other self-hostable projects and commercial products.

the 10 closest of 32 · all voice agents · how we rank

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ten-vadSDK / libraryVoice Agents

Voice Activity Detector (VAD): low-latency, high-performance and lightweight

Open source · 2.3k stars · C · updated Feb 2026

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ten-vad's own profile notes it may not be the right fit if you need a complete voice agent; this is a detection component rather than a conversational system. If that's you, the options below are worth comparing.

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Commercial alternatives to ten-vad

Listed alphabetically — GitHub stars don't measure commercial adoption.

Bland AIPlatformEnterprise platform for AI phone calls that sound human.Paid productVerified

vs ten-vad — Bland AI is a commercial product; ten-vad is open-source and self-hostable.

Cartesia SonicInfrastructureStreaming text-to-speech models with pronunciation and voice controls.FreemiumVerified

vs ten-vad — Cartesia Sonic is a commercial product; ten-vad is open-source and self-hostable.

Deepgram Voice Agent APIPlatformA unified API for speech recognition, model orchestration and speech synthesis.Paid productVerified

vs ten-vad — Deepgram Voice Agent API is a commercial product; ten-vad is open-source and self-hostable.

ElevenLabs AgentsPlatformConversational voice agents powered by ElevenLabs' leading speech models.FreemiumVerified

vs ten-vad — ElevenLabs Agents is a commercial product; ten-vad is open-source and self-hostable.

Open-source alternatives to ten-vad

Ranked by maintained adoption — self-hostable and free to run.

PatterSDK / libraryOpen-source voice-AI SDK. The Vapi/Retell alternative for builders who want to own the stack.Open sourcePython · MITVerified · Active 1.1kGitHub stars

vs ten-vad — ten-vad is written primarily in C; Patter in Python.

Deepgram Python SDKSDK / libraryPython client library for Deepgram APIs; hosted service usage is separate.Open sourcePython · MITVerified · Active 468GitHub stars

vs ten-vad — ten-vad is written primarily in C; Deepgram Python SDK in Python.

xybridSDK / libraryBuild apps powered by on-device AIOpen sourceRust · Apache-2.0Verified · Active 460GitHub stars

vs ten-vad — ten-vad is written primarily in C; xybrid in Rust.

LLMVoXSDK / libraryLLMVoX: Autoregressive Streaming Text-to-Speech Model for Any LLMOpen sourcePythonVerified 312GitHub stars

vs ten-vad — ten-vad is written primarily in C; LLMVoX in Python.

Deepgram JavaScript SDKSDK / libraryJavaScript client library for Deepgram APIs; hosted service usage is separate.Open sourceTypeScript · MITVerified · Active 274GitHub stars

vs ten-vad — ten-vad is written primarily in C; Deepgram JavaScript SDK in TypeScript.

PipecatFrameworkCompose voice and multimodal agents with Python processing pipelines.Open sourcePython · BSD-2-ClauseVerified · Active 16kGitHub stars

vs ten-vad — ten-vad is written primarily in C; Pipecat in Python.

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Frequently asked

What is the best alternative to ten-vad?: It depends on whether you'd rather self-host or buy a managed product. Patter is the most widely-adopted open-source alternative (1.1k GitHub stars); Bland AI is one of the commercial options. Compare the full list above on adoption, license, and pricing.
Is there a free or open-source alternative to ten-vad?: Yes. Patter, Deepgram Python SDK, and xybrid are open-source voice agents you can self-host for free — you still pay for the infrastructure you run them on and any model or API usage. See the ranked open-source list above.
How are these ten-vad alternatives ranked?: Every product in the voice agents category is a candidate. Open-source alternatives are ranked by maintained adoption — GitHub stars plus recent commit activity — so you see what's genuinely used, not abandoned. Commercial products are listed separately and alphabetically, because stars don't measure commercial adoption. Sponsored placement is always labeled and never affects the ranking.