What is LiveKit?
An open source framework and cloud platform for building, testing, deploying, scaling, and observing voice, video, and physical AI agents in production.
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
LiveKit alternatives
Other communication apis we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- AgoraReal-Time Engagement & Conversational AI Platformlow · 48%
- NovuThe communication infrastructure for agents and productsmedium · 64%
- DailyRealtime voice, video, and AI for developersmedium · 62%
- StreamScalable Chat, Video & Activity Feed APIs and SDKsmedium · 62%
- Plivomedium · 62%
- BirdCommunications infrastructure your AI agents operatelow · 30%
The Vioscale 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 | 50 | 30.00 | 1500.0 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 60 | 22.00 | 1320.0 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 12.00 | 1200.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 67 | 12.00 | 805.4 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 50 | 8.00 | 400.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 16.00 | 0.0 | - |
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.