LiveKit Agents review (2026): is the free plan enough?
Open source framework and cloud for voice and video AI agents
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LiveKit Agents report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Nov 13, 2026
Best for developers building real-time voice agents
LiveKit Agents is a framework and cloud for building voice agents, with a free Build plan of 1,000 session minutes and paid plans from $50 a month. Prices are starting amounts that add per-minute charges for sessions, phone lines and models, and HIPAA reports start at $500.
Who LiveKit Agents is for
- Fits if you are a developer who wants to build and ship a voice agent in one place
- Works for teams that start on the free plan and add phone lines later
Who LiveKit Agents is not for
- Not for you if you want no-code: you build agents in code
- Tight if you leave the free plan: 1,000 minutes, 5 concurrent sessions
- Pricey if you add it up: sessions, phone lines and models are billed per minute on top of the plan
- Watch out: private links, role-based access and HIPAA reports start at Scale, $500 a month
Why LiveKit Agents gets a 2.2
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- CValue for moneyShip is $50 a month, the top of the category's usual range, and it is only a starting price with per-minute charges added.
- CFree plan and trialBuild is free with no card, but 1,000 session minutes and 5 concurrent sessions run out quickly once real callers appear.
- BFeaturesFramework, hosted inference, deployment, phone numbers, observability and simulations. Nothing in the listing is missing from the job of getting a voice agent live.
- DEase of useIt is built with code and the command line, and there is no store rating.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb, with six integrations listed. Developer tools, not apps.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from LiveKit's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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LiveKit Agents's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 81 of the 178 other AI agents we grade, and level with 41.
It stands best on features (B, above 133 of 178) and worst on ease of use (D, above 0).
Its paid plans start at $50 a month, against a middle price of $25 for the category: 73 of the 98 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 31 tools score higher and cost less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 179 AI agents we grade, cut by the letter each got. LiveKit Agents’s own letter is outlined.
- CValue for moneyAbove 28 of 178, level with 106
- CFree plan and trialAbove 64 of 178, level with 79
- BFeaturesAbove 133 of 178, level with 40
- DEase of useAbove 0 of 178, level with 35
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 47 of 178, level with 121
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 109 AI agents. Further left costs less, and higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Point at a dot to see which tool it is.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Keep LiveKit Agents, or make your own?
Keep it
To replace LiveKit Agents you would be making an AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one.
It costs $600 a year. LiveKit Agents is open source, so there is a third way: take its code and run it yourself.
What you could not
- An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it.
- It plugs into other products, OpenAI, Deepgram and AssemblyAI among them, and has an API.
- The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.
What this rests on. LiveKit Agents’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is LiveKit Agents?
LiveKit Agents is an open source framework for building voice, video and physical AI agents, paired with LiveKit Cloud for deploying, scaling and observing them. The cloud includes an inference gateway for speech and language models, phone numbers and session analytics. Plans start free and add usage-based charges.
Worth knowing
- The plan prices are 'starting at' and add per-minute charges for agent sessions, telephony and model use.
- An estimator on the pricing page gives about $0.0479 a minute for one sample phone-call setup; model choice changes it.
- Private links, role-based access and HIPAA reports start at the Scale plan.
Key features
- Agents framework
- An open source framework for building and testing voice agents in Python or Node.js.
- LiveKit Inference
- One API key for speech-to-text, language and text-to-speech models, billed by model per minute.
- Agent deployment
- Hosts agents on LiveKit Cloud with rollback, deployment metrics and a global network.
- Telephony
- Phone numbers and SIP integrations so an agent can take or place calls.
- Observability and simulations
- Session recordings, event logs and text simulations for testing agents.
LiveKit Agents pricing
As of Nov 13, 2026, LiveKit Agents has a free plan, and paid plans start at $50 per month.
- Starts at
- $50 per month
- Free plan
- Build plan: $0, no card; 1,000 agent session minutes, 5 concurrent sessions, 1 free phone number and community support.
- Free trial
- None listed
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Build | $0 | 1,000 agent session minutes, 5 concurrent sessions, $2.50 of inference credits, community support. |
| Ship | $50per month, starting at | 5,000 session minutes then $0.01 a minute, 20 concurrent sessions, team access and email support. |
| Scale | $500per month, starting at | 50,000 session minutes, up to 600 concurrent sessions, roles, region pinning and HIPAA reports. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Volume pricing, SSO, a support SLA and a shared Slack channel. |
Read from livekit.com on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with LiveKit Agents before you buy.
Works with
- OpenAI
- Deepgram
- AssemblyAI
- Cartesia
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- xAI
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Common questions
Does LiveKit Agents have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 13, 2026. LiveKit Agents is listed for Web.
Does LiveKit Agents have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 13, 2026. LiveKit Agents is listed for Web.
Is LiveKit Agents open source?
Yes. LiveKit Agents is open source, according to its own site.
Does LiveKit Agents have an API?
Yes. LiveKit Agents offers a public API, according to its own site.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026.