# LiveKit Agents review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Open source framework and cloud for voice and video AI agents Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. 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. - **Category:** AI Agents - **Made by:** LiveKit - **Website:** https://livekit.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want no-code: you build agents in code. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, LiveKit Agents has a free plan, and paid plans start at $50 per month. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **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 | $50 per month, starting at | 5,000 session minutes then $0.01 a minute, 20 concurrent sessions, team access and email support. | | Scale | $500 per 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 https://livekit.com/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with LiveKit Agents before buying. ## 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. ## Good for - Developers building production voice agents who want hosting and models in one bill - Teams that need phone calls plus web and mobile clients ## 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. 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. - **Value for money: C.** Ship is $50 a month, the top of the category's usual range, and it is only a starting price with per-minute charges added. - **Free plan and trial: C.** Build is free with no card, but 1,000 session minutes and 5 concurrent sessions run out quickly once real callers appear. - **Features: B.** Framework, hosted inference, deployment, phone numbers, observability and simulations. Nothing in the listing is missing from the job of getting a voice agent live. - **Ease of use: D.** It is built with code and the command line, and there is no store rating. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, with six integrations listed. Developer tools, not apps. These are ToolGPA's own grades. 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. ## Where it stands among AI agents - 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. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-agents ## Keep it, 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. - You could not: An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. - You could not: It plugs into other products, OpenAI, Deepgram and AssemblyAI among them, and has an API. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with OpenAI, Deepgram, AssemblyAI, Cartesia, Google Gemini, xAI **Tags:** Open source, AI agents, Public API ## Alternatives - [Pipecat](https://toolgpa.com/tools/pipecat): Open source framework for building voice and multimodal AI agents. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/livekit-agents-vs-pipecat) - [Vapi](https://toolgpa.com/tools/vapi): Developer platform for building and running voice AI agents. 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