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Comparison

Agora vs LiveKit

No clear leader: Agora (71.8) and LiveKit (68.3) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

Agora full profile →LiveKit full profile →
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Agora72
LiveKit68
Score
vioscaleAI score
Agora72 / 100medium · 72%
LiveKit68 / 100medium · 69%
Pricing
Free tier
Agora✓
LiveKit✓
Model
Agorafreemium
LiveKitfreemium
Price level
Agorahigh
LiveKitlow
Starting price
Agora$1,200
LiveKit–
Transparent
Agora✗
LiveKit✗
Integrations
Count
Agora5
LiveKit1
Security
Certifications
Disclosure policy
Agora✓
LiveKit✓
Gdpr
Agora✓
LiveKit✓
Hipaa
Agora✓
LiveKit✓
Iso27001
Agora✓
LiveKit–
Soc2
Agora✓
LiveKit✓
Trust center
Reliability
Sla pct
Agora99.999
LiveKit99.99
Status page
Agora✓
LiveKit✓
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Agora7 items
LiveKit5 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for communication apis. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Channels
SMS
Agora-
LiveKit-
Voice
Agora✓
LiveKit✓
WhatsApp
Agora-
LiveKit-
RCS
Agora-
LiveKit-
Transactional email
Agora-
LiveKit-
Video / real-time
Agora✓
LiveKit✓
In-app chat
Agora✓
LiveKit-
Verify / OTP / 2FA
Agora-
LiveKit-
Messaging
Two-way messaging
Agora✓
LiveKit✓
Reach
Geographic coverage
AgoraGlobal
LiveKitGlobal
Delivery
Email deliverability tools
Agora-
LiveKit-
Commercial
Published per-unit pricing
Agora✓
LiveKit✓

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Agora

A global real-time engagement platform providing APIs and infrastructure for developers to build voice calling, video calling, live streaming, messaging, and conversational AI agent experiences without building the underlying infrastructure.

Independently observed

LiveKit

LiveKit is a platform for developing conversational AI applications with voice and video capabilities. It provides global real-time infrastructure and integrations for telephony, enabling developers to deploy voice agents across web, mobile, and phone interfaces.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Agora

from $1200/moHybridFree tier

Free tier available. Support plans from $1,200–$4,900/month (annual billing).

  • FreeFree
    • Tickets/Emails Support
  • Professional$1200/mo
    • Tickets/Emails Support
    • Reference Apps Access
    • HIPAA Support
    • Guaranteed Response Time P2/P3
    • Analytics Standard
  • Business$2900/mo
    • Tickets/Emails Support
    • Reference Apps Access
    • HIPAA Support
    • Guaranteed Response Time P1/P2/P3
    • Analytics Premium
    • +1 more
  • Enterprise$4900/mo
    • Tickets/Emails Support
    • Reference Apps Access
    • HIPAA Support
    • Guaranteed Response Time P1/P2/P3
    • Analytics Enterprise
    • +3 more
as of verify ↗

LiveKit

from $50/moHybridFree tier

Free tier (Build: $0/mo) or starting at $50/mo (Ship). Usage-based per-minute pricing for agent sessions, telephony, LLM, STT, and TTS.

  • BuildFree
    • Agent deployment
    • Agent observability
    • Inference credits
    • Global edge network
    • Telephony (1 free number)
    • +2 more
  • Ship$50/mo
    • Everything in Build
    • Team collaboration
    • Custom voices
    • Instant rollback to previous deployments
    • Email support
  • Scale$500/mo
    • Everything in Ship
    • Role-based access
    • Metrics export APIs
    • Region pinning
    • Security reports / HIPAA
    • +1 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • Everything in Scale
    • Volume pricing including inference
    • Shared Slack channel
    • SSO Support
    • Support SLA
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Agora✓
LiveKit✓
iOS
Agora✓
LiveKit✗
Android
Agora✓
LiveKit✗
macOS
Agora✓
LiveKit✗
CLI
Agora✓
LiveKit✗
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Agora✓
LiveKit✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

In common (1)
  • OpenAI

Agora

12 total - 11 not shared
  • ActiveFence
  • DeepAR
  • FaceUnity
  • Banuba
  • Palabra
  • DataDog
  • OKTA
  • Unity
  • Unreal Engine
  • React
  • Flutter
Independently observed

LiveKit

2 total - 1 not shared
  • SIP
Independently observed
Still deciding?

Agora or LiveKit: which one depends on you

A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.

Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.