LiveKit
A cloud platform for building real-time voice and video AI applications
- Also known as
- livekit
Available worldwide
What is 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.
LiveKit pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Free tier (Build: $0/mo) or starting at $50/mo (Ship). Usage-based per-minute pricing for agent sessions, telephony, LLM, STT, and TTS.
Build
FreeStart with agent deployment, observability, inference credits, and global edge network
- Agent deployment
- Agent observability
- Inference credits
- Global edge network
- Telephony (1 free number)
- Session metrics and analytics
- Community support
Ship
Everything in Build plus team collaboration and custom voices
- Everything in Build
- Team collaboration
- Custom voices
- Instant rollback to previous deployments
- Email support
Scale
Everything in Ship plus role-based access, metrics export APIs, and security reports
- Everything in Ship
- Role-based access
- Metrics export APIs
- Region pinning
- Security reports / HIPAA
- Inference discounts
Enterprise
Contact sales- Everything in Scale
- Volume pricing including inference
- Shared Slack channel
- SSO Support
- Support SLA
What LiveKit does
The capabilities that matter for communication apis, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- SMS
- -
- Voice
- ✓
- -
- RCS
- -
- Transactional email
- -
- Video / real-time
- ✓
- In-app chat
- -
- Verify / OTP / 2FA
- -
- Two-way messaging
- ✓
- Geographic coverage
- Global
- Email deliverability tools
- -
- Published per-unit pricing
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (2)
Independently observed- OpenAI
- SIP
LiveKit FAQ
Common questions about LiveKit, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is 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. It is indexed under Communication APIs.
Source: https://livekit.io
Is LiveKit free?
LiveKit offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $50 per month. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
Source: https://livekit.io
What platforms does LiveKit support?
We have confirmed browser-based access to LiveKit. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.
Source: https://livekit.io
Can LiveKit be self-hosted?
We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for LiveKit, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.
Source: https://livekit.io
What security certifications does LiveKit have?
We have independently confirmed SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR for LiveKit. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as LiveKit not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Source: https://livekit.io
LiveKit alternatives
Other communication apis we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- NovuOpen-source platform for sending notifications and enabling agent conversations across email, SMS, chat, push, and in-app messagingmedium · 73%
- DailyLow-latency infrastructure for building real-time voice, video, and AI conversationsmedium · 71%
- StreamUnified platform for building real-time communication and community featuresmedium · 74%
- PlivoAI voice agents and omnichannel communications platform with usage-based pricinghigh · 75%
- SinchAPIs for SMS, voice, email, video, and verificationmedium · 72%
- InfobipConnect with customers across multiple messaging and communication platformslow · 48%
Compare LiveKit
Side by side against other communication apis, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for LiveKit, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 100 | 0.16 | 15.6 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 60 | 0.12 | 6.9 | ✓ |
| Price level | 80 | 0.04 | 3.4 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 67 | 0.05 | 3.4 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 45 | 0.06 | 2.8 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 14 | 0.05 | 0.7 | ✓ |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 5 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 58% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Video: Yes · Voice: Yes · Two way: Yes · Global coverage: global · Usage pricing transparent: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-09-07 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 2 | mediumsource · 2026-09-07 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-09-07 · 75% |
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