LiveKit Agents Review
OSSRealtime infra + agents (OSS + cloud)
Among the 23 voice ai tools we track, LiveKit Agents has the 3rd-cheapest per-minute rate - a fit for cost-sensitive, high-volume work.
From $0.01/min
What we know about LiveKit Agents
This is our verified profile of LiveKit Agents, a voice ai platform - realtime infra + agents (OSS + cloud). Every fact about LiveKit Agents below carries the source it came from and the day we checked it.
On pricing, LiveKit Agents starts at $0.01 per minute for its entry tier. That is the sticker rate: real production cost usually runs higher once you add a language model, a voice provider, and telephony minutes, and we model LiveKit Agents closer to 0.0435-0.3135 USD/min all-in.
New LiveKit Agents accounts get 1,000 free agent session minutes monthly, no credit card to test with before a card is required, which is enough to run a handful of real calls and judge latency and voice quality for your own script rather than a demo.
On capabilities, LiveKit Agents covers llm/tts costs passed through at cost?, native sip trunking, bring-your-own llm, bring-your-own tts voice, built-in knowledge base, and buy/port numbers in-platform, and does not offer native outbound campaigns and no-code agent builder. Each of those is verified against LiveKit Agents's own docs or dashboard, not marketing copy.
On performance, LiveKit Agents reports 5 concurrent agent sessions concurrent calls on the base plan. Latency figures are vendor claims until we measure them ourselves, and they are labeled that way on the LiveKit Agents fact sheet, so treat them as a starting point rather than a guarantee.
For compliance, with LiveKit Agents: HIPAA is paid_addon on the plans we checked and SOC 2 Type II is in place. If you are in a regulated space, confirm the current posture with LiveKit Agents before you commit, since these change plan by plan.
LiveKit Agents ranks the 3rd-cheapest per-minute rate of the 23 voice ai tools we track, but only 9th of 23 for base concurrency, so where it lands for you depends on which of those matters more.
In total we track 21 verified facts for LiveKit Agents today, each linking the primary source it came from so you can check our work - and vendor claims we have not measured ourselves are labeled as such on the LiveKit Agents fact sheet below.
Reviewed by vsref Editorialfacts verified Jul 15, 2026Methodology →
LiveKit Agents pricing
≈ $0.18 per minute all-in (est.), verified Jul 15, 2026 (source).
| Monthly volume | All-in monthly bill |
|---|---|
| 1K min/moSolo builder | $179 |
| 10K min/moAgency | $1,785 |
| 100K min/moCall center | $17,850 |
All-in monthly: platform fee + per-minute + telephony. Assumes GPT-4o class model, ElevenLabs voice. How we compute costs →
Fact sheet
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TTS in this stack
LiveKit Agents lets you bring your own text-to-speech voice, so the voice engine is a separate pricing and quality decision. Compare the engines builders plug in most: ElevenLabs, Cartesia, OpenAI TTS, or the full text-to-speech comparison →
STT in this stack
A voice agent hears through its speech-to-text engine, and transcription accuracy and streaming latency are priced per audio minute. Compare the engines builders pair with LiveKit Agents: Deepgram, AssemblyAI, GPT-4o Transcribe, or the full speech-to-text comparison →
Avatar video in this stack
A voice agent's conversational interface can get a face too: AI avatar video platforms ship the same live, interactive avatar mode as a layer on top of a voice stack. Compare the avatar platforms builders pair with LiveKit Agents: HeyGen, Synthesia, Hedra, or the full avatar-video comparison →