# LiveKit

> Build voice, video, and physical AI agents

- **Canonical URI:** https://www.vioscale.ai/software/livekit
- **Category:** Communication APIs
- **Homepage:** https://livekit.io
- **Also known as:** livekit
- **Profile claimed by vendor:** no
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-03T14:32:43.185Z

## Vioscale score

**62.2 / 100**, confidence 48% (low).

Composite of weighted, independently-sourced signals (no user reviews, no vendor payment).

| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence present |
|---|--:|--:|--:|:--:|
| price_level | 50 | 8 | 400 | ✓ |
| reliability | 50 | 30 | 1500 | ✓ |
| capabilities | 67.1 | 12 | 805.4 | ✓ |
| integrations | 0 | 16 | 0 | - |
| security_posture | 60 | 22 | 1320 | ✓ |
| pricing_transparency | 100 | 12 | 1200 | ✓ |

## Pricing

_As of 2026-08-03, [verify at source](https://livekit.io). Independently observed._

from $50/mo · Hybrid · Free 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.

| Plan | Price | Free | Commitment |
|---|---|:--:|---|
| Build | Free | ✓ | monthly |
| Ship | $50/mo | - | monthly |
| Scale | $500/mo | - | monthly |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | - | - |

### Build

Start 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

## About

An open source framework and cloud platform for building, testing, deploying, scaling, and observing voice, video, and physical AI agents in production.

_Independently observed._

## Platform & deployment

- **Platforms:** Web
- **Deployment:** Cloud / SaaS

## Capabilities

_The capabilities that matter for Communication APIs. "-" = undocumented, not absent._

| Capability | Supported |
|---|:--:|
| **Channels** | |
| SMS | - |
| Voice | ✓ |
| WhatsApp | - |
| RCS | - |
| Transactional email | - |
| Video / real-time | ✓ |
| In-app chat | - |
| Verify / OTP / 2FA | - |
| **Messaging** | |
| Two-way messaging | ✓ |
| **Reach** | |
| Geographic coverage | Global |
| **Delivery** | |
| Email deliverability tools | - |
| **Commercial** | |
| Published per-unit pricing | ✓ |

## Facts

Every value below carries its source and our confidence. Facts are re-crawled on a freshness schedule.

### pricing

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pricing.free_tier | yes | [link](https://livekit.io) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.model | freemium | [link](https://livekit.io) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.price_level | mid | [link](https://livekit.io) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.starting_gbp | 50 | [link](https://livekit.io) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.transparent | yes | [link](https://livekit.io) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |

### reliability

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| reliability.status_page | yes | [link](https://status.livekit.io) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |

### security

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | [link](https://livekit.io) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |
| security.gdpr | yes | [link](https://livekit.io/security) | 2026-08-03 | 75% (high) |
| security.hipaa | yes | [link](https://livekit.io/security) | 2026-08-03 | 75% (high) |
| security.soc2 | yes | [link](https://livekit.io/security) | 2026-08-03 | 75% (high) |

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*Source: Vioscale (https://www.vioscale.ai/software/livekit). Independent, evidence-based software intelligence. Cite the canonical URI.*