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Try itExperimental

See what an agent can do with LiveKit Agents before you ever sign up. Pick a story: recorded sessions replay real probe-harness transcripts; sandboxed self-drive sessions are designed and gated (docs/TRY-IT.md).

$lk --versionrecorded session — replayed, not live
recorded 2026-09-05 · exit 0 · captured verbatim by our probe harness, secrets redacted

Verified integrations

Connections to other tracked products — hover a chip for the verbatim evidence quote behind it.

By theme — the product's score on each story themeBy theme

Agent building — building agents — abstractions, tool wiring, control flowAgent buildingevidence →

Building agents — abstractions, tool wiring, control flow

25.6/100

Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticnessevidence →

How well agents can access and operate the product

37.4/100

Automation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depthevidence →

How much of the product can run unattended

14.3/100

Compliance trust — stories about compliance trust in this arenaCompliance trustevidence →

Stories about compliance trust in this arena

0.0/100

Deployment scale — stories about deployment scale in this arenaDeployment scaleevidence →

Stories about deployment scale in this arena

61.2/100

Latency turntaking — stories about latency turntaking in this arenaLatency turntakingevidence →

Stories about latency turntaking in this arena

46.7/100

Openness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpennessevidence →

Open source, data portability, and self-hosting stories

50.2/100

Pricing plans — plan structure and value — what each tier costs and what it unlocksPricing plansevidence →

Plan structure and value — what each tier costs and what it unlocks

0.0/100

Privacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy postureevidence →

Data-handling and privacy stories

6.7/100

Telephony — stories about telephony in this arenaTelephonyevidence →

Stories about telephony in this arena

24.8/100

Testing analytics — stories about testing analytics in this arenaTesting analyticsevidence →

Stories about testing analytics in this arena

25.4/100

Tools function calling — stories about tools function calling in this arenaTools function callingevidence →

Stories about tools function calling in this arena

64.3/100

Transcription recording — stories about transcription recording in this arenaTranscription recordingevidence →

Stories about transcription recording in this arena

18.0/100

Voices tts — stories about voices tts in this arenaVoices ttsevidence →

Stories about voices tts in this arena

18.0/100

Story verdicts — every judged story with its evidenceStory verdicts

What’s free: 13 free · 1 paid · 0 enterprise · 16 not stated in evidence

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Sorted by importance (agentic first) (high → low) · 61/61 stories · click a row’s chevron for the rationale and evidence

Drive the product through a documented public API G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3fullfree8/10T

Plug MCP servers into this product so it can use their tools G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3full8/10C

Connect an agent via an official MCP server G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3none±untestednone yet

Delegate tasks to a built-in AI assistant inside the product G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3none±untestednone yet

Build against official SDKs G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2fullfree9/10T

Use an official CLI G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2fullfree9/10T

Point an agent at llms.txt or agent-oriented docs G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2full8/10T

Run the product headlessly / in CI for automation G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2fullfree8/10T

Set up automations that run autonomously in the background G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2fullfree7/10T

Operate the product with natural-language commands G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2partial4/10T

Download a machine-readable API spec (OpenAPI or equivalent) G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2none0/10

Explore an interactive API reference with runnable examples G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2noneuntestednone yet

Get AI-generated insights and suggestions from my data inside the product G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2none±untestednone yet

Issue scoped/least-privilege API credentials for an agent G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2noneuntestednone yet

Rely on versioned APIs with a documented deprecation policy G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2noneuntestednone yet

Subscribe to events via webhooks G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2noneuntestednone yet

Test against a sandbox environment without touching production data G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness1partialfree6/10T

My agent can call external APIs and custom functions mid-conversation and speak the result without awkward dead air C

Tools

developerTools function calling — stories about tools function calling in this arenaTools function calling3fullfree9/10T

Self-host the core product G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness3fullfree9/10T

Self-host the voice agent runtime from open-source code on my own infrastructure C

Self host

platform-engineerDeployment scale — stories about deployment scale in this arenaDeployment scale3fullfree9/10T

Rely on the agent to handle interruptions (barge-in) gracefully — stopping speech, updating context, and recovering the turn C

Turn taking

developerLatency turntaking — stories about latency turntaking in this arenaLatency turntaking3fullfree8/10T

Build a working phone voice agent — prompt, voice, and phone number — and take my first live call within an hour C

Build

developerAgent building — building agents — abstractions, tool wiring, control flowAgent building3fullfree7/10T

Provision phone numbers and run both inbound and outbound calls through the platform's API C

Numbers

developerTelephony — stories about telephony in this arenaTelephony3partial6/10C

Define rules that trigger actions automatically on events G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth3partial5/10C

My coding agent can provision a complete voice agent end to end — create the agent, attach a number, and place a call — through the API, CLI, or MCP without touching the dashboard C

Agent ops

ai-native userAgent building — building agents — abstractions, tool wiring, control flowAgent building3partial5/10T

Export all of my data in open formats and leave G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness3none0/10

See documented end-to-end voice latency numbers or tuning guidance backing the platform's speed claims C

Latency

platform-engineerLatency turntaking — stories about latency turntaking in this arenaLatency turntaking3none0/10

Prevent my data from being used to train AI models G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture3noneuntestednone yet

My voice agent can plug in MCP servers as tool sources so one integration grants it whole toolsets mid-call C

Tools

ai-native userTools function calling — stories about tools function calling in this arenaTools function calling2full9/10C

Use model-based end-of-turn detection beyond simple VAD silence timeouts so the agent doesn't talk over slow speakers C

Turn taking

developerLatency turntaking — stories about latency turntaking in this arenaLatency turntaking2full9/10C

Read the product's source under an open license G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness2fullfree8/10T

Test agents with simulated conversations or evals before putting them on real phone calls C

Testing

developerTesting analytics — stories about testing analytics in this arenaTesting analytics2full8/10C

Connect my own carrier or PBX via SIP trunking (or import Twilio/Telnyx numbers) instead of being locked to bundled telephony C

Sip

platform-engineerTelephony — stories about telephony in this arenaTelephony2full7/10C

Choose from a broad voice library or plug in multiple TTS providers to get the voice I want C

Voices

developerVoices tts — stories about voices tts in this arenaVoices tts2partial6/10C

Do everything through the API that I can do in the UI G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness2partial6/10T

Get accurate real-time transcription with control over the STT provider, language models, or key terms C

Transcription

developerTranscription recording — stories about transcription recording in this arenaTranscription recording2partial6/10C

Choose where my data is stored (region/residency) G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture2partialfree5/10T

Ground the agent on my documents with a built-in knowledge base or RAG so it answers from my content C

Personalization

developerAgent building — building agents — abstractions, tool wiring, control flowAgent building2partial4/10C

Design multi-step conversation flows in a visual builder with branching, states, and handoffs without writing code C

Build

founderAgent building — building agents — abstractions, tool wiring, control flowAgent building2partial3/10C

See documented concurrency limits and scale to many simultaneous calls without manual capacity begging C

Scale

platform-engineerDeployment scale — stories about deployment scale in this arenaDeployment scale2partialpaid3/10X

The platform's AI reviews my calls for me — scoring quality, flagging failures, and analyzing resolution automatically C

Analytics

ai-native userTesting analytics — stories about testing analytics in this arenaTesting analytics2disputed3/10D

Escalate a live call to a human with warm or blind transfer, passing context along C

Call control

developerTelephony — stories about telephony in this arenaTelephony2none0/10

Extract structured data from every call — outcomes, entities, dispositions — delivered via API or webhook after the call C

Post call

developerTools function calling — stories about tools function calling in this arenaTools function calling2none0/10

Run batch outbound call campaigns with scheduling and throughput controls C

Campaigns

founderTelephony — stories about telephony in this arenaTelephony2none0/10

Run regulated workloads with HIPAA/BAA support, SOC 2, and data-residency options C

Compliance

platform-engineerCompliance trust — stories about compliance trust in this arenaCompliance trust2none0/10

See call analytics — success rates, durations, outcomes, sentiment — in dashboards without building my own C

Analytics

founderTesting analytics — stories about testing analytics in this arenaTesting analytics2none0/10

See published per-minute or usage pricing and estimate cost per call before committing G

Pricing

founderPricing plans — plan structure and value — what each tier costs and what it unlocksPricing plans2none0/10

Clone a custom brand voice and use it for my agents, with a documented consent process C

Voices

founderVoices tts — stories about voices tts in this arenaVoices tts2noneuntestednone yet

Control data retention and deletion G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture2noneuntestednone yet

Inject dynamic variables and per-caller context at call time so each conversation is personalized C

Personalization

developerAgent building — building agents — abstractions, tool wiring, control flowAgent building2noneuntestednone yet

Meet call-recording consent and disclosure obligations with per-call recording controls and configurable data retention C

Compliance

founderCompliance trust — stories about compliance trust in this arenaCompliance trust2noneuntestednone yet

Opt out of telemetry and usage tracking G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture2noneuntestednone yet

Perform bulk operations across many items at once G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth2noneuntestednone yet

Retrieve full call recordings and transcripts programmatically for every call C

Recording

platform-engineerTranscription recording — stories about transcription recording in this arenaTranscription recording2noneuntestednone yet

Run conversations in multiple languages, including detecting and switching language mid-call C

Build

developerAgent building — building agents — abstractions, tool wiring, control flowAgent building2noneuntestednone yet

Schedule recurring jobs or workflows G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth2noneuntestednone yet

Version, review, and roll back my automations G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth1partial4/10C

Monitor live calls in production and get alerts when agents misbehave or error rates spike C

Monitoring

platform-engineerTesting analytics — stories about testing analytics in this arenaTesting analytics1none0/10

My agent can send DTMF keypresses, navigate IVR menus, and detect or leave voicemail C

Call control

developerTelephony — stories about telephony in this arenaTelephony1none0/10

The platform's own AI helps me author agents — generating or improving prompts, flows, and test cases from a description C

Agent ops

ai-native userAgent building — building agents — abstractions, tool wiring, control flowAgent building1none0/10

Enable noise suppression or audio filtering so the agent stays coherent on noisy real-world calls C

Turn taking

developerLatency turntaking — stories about latency turntaking in this arenaLatency turntaking1noneuntestednone yet

Opportunities — the stories that would move this product's scores, from its own judged verdictsOpportunitiestop 8 of 43 stories with headroom

What would move LiveKit Agents’s scores — derived from its own judged verdicts, biggest headroom first. Each line quotes what the judge found missing; shipping it (or evidencing it publicly) is the fix.

  1. Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productDelegate tasks to a built-in AI assistant inside the product

    nonemoves Built-in AIimpact 45

    The axis applies to this product kind (peer products hold positive or none verdicts on this story), so lack of evidence for an applicable capability is "none", never "na".

  2. Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productConnect an agent via an official MCP server

    nonemoves agent-readyimpact 45

    The axis applies to this product kind (peer products hold positive or none verdicts on this story), so lack of evidence for an applicable capability is "none", never "na".

  3. Latency turntaking — stories about latency turntaking in this arenaSee documented end-to-end voice latency numbers or tuning guidance backing the platform's speed claims

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30

    The evidence pack contains no documented end-to-end latency benchmarks or explicit tuning guidance for reducing turn-taking latency — only feature descriptions (turn detector, adaptive interruption handling) without numbers or configuration guidance.

  4. Openness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesExport all of my data in open formats and leave

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30

    The evidence pack documents LiveKit Agents' open-source, self-hostable nature (Apache-2.0 server, pip/npm installable framework) but contains no explicit mention of data export tooling, open data formats for conversation/session logs, or a documented exit/migration path for user data.

  5. Privacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrevent my data from being used to train AI models

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30

    No evidence in the pack addresses data usage for AI model training, opt-out policies, or any privacy commitments regarding training data; the evidence pack is entirely about agent framework features (tools, telephony, testing, MCP support).

  6. Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productGet AI-generated insights and suggestions from my data inside the product

    nonemoves Built-in AIimpact 30

    The axis applies to this product kind (peer products hold positive or none verdicts on this story), so lack of evidence for an applicable capability is "none", never "na".

  7. Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productIssue scoped/least-privilege API credentials for an agent

    nonemoves agent-readyimpact 30

    The evidence pack covers voice/agent features, tool-calling, MCP, testing, and telephony, but contains no mention of scoped or least-privilege API key/token issuance for agents (e.g., LiveKit's grant-based access tokens or credential scoping).

  8. Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productSubscribe to events via webhooks

    nonemoves agent-readyimpact 30

    No evidence pack items mention webhooks or an event-subscription mechanism for LiveKit Agents; the docs cover MCP tool integration, telephony, testing, and turn detection, but nothing about webhook-based event notifications.

Showing the top 8 of 43 — every none/partial verdict in the story verdicts table is headroom.

Think a verdict is wrong? Every verdicts-table row has a Flag link — see the methodology.

Coverage map — which docs area, API section, or community source covers which judged storiesCoverage map8 surfaces · 31 covered stories

Where the cited evidence behind each covered verdict came from — the same citations the verdicts table shows, no extra judging.

Agents docs27 stories

GitHub README20 stories

Probe proofs — replayable recordings from the probe harnessProbe proofs

Replayable recordings from our probe harness — see the Prove-It protocol to submit one.

$lk --versionreproduced
$ lk --version
lk version 2.18.6
proves: Use an official CLIrecorded 2026-09-05
$livekit-server --dev # keyless boot, curl :7880, then killreproduced
$ livekit-server --dev  # [redacted]less boot, curl :7880, then kill
HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Vary: Origin

2026-09-04T18:43:51.300-0700	INFO	livekit	server/main.go:210	starting in development mode
2026-09-04T18:43:51.300-0700	INFO	livekit	server/main.go:213	no [redacted]s provided, using placeholder [redacted]s	{"API [redacted]": "dev[redacted]", "API Secret": "secret"}
2026-09-04T18:43:51.302-0700	INFO	livekit	service/server.go:298	starting LiveKit server	{"portHttp": 7880, "nodeID": "ND_ZZ2gPqkrsmsJ", "nodeIP": "192.168.0.239", "version": "1.13.6", "bindAddresses": ["127.0.0.1", "::1"], "rtc.portTCP": 7881, "rtc.portUDP": {"Start":7882,"End":0}}
$uv run --with livekit-agents python3 -c 'import livekit.agents as a; print("PA_PROBE_OK livekit-agents", a.__version__)'reproduced
$ uv run --with livekit-agents python3 -c 'import livekit.agents as a; print("PA_PROBE_OK livekit-agents", a.__version__)'
⠋ Resolving dependencies...                                                     
⠙ Resolving dependencies...                                                     
⠋ Resolving dependencies...                                                     
⠙ Resolving dependencies...                                                     
⠙ livekit-agents==1.8.0                                                         
⠙ json-repair==0.60.1                                                           
⠙ livekit==1.1.17                                                               
⠙ aiofiles==25.1.0                                                              
⠙ aiohttp==3.14.3                                                               
⠙ av==18.1.0                                                                    
⠙ certifi==2026.7.22                                                            
⠙ click==8.5.0                                                                  
⠙ colorama==0.4.6                                                               
⠙ docstring-parser==0.18.0                                                      
⠙ eval-type-backport==0.4.0                                                     
⠙ livekit-api==1.2.1                                                            
⠙ livekit-blingfire==1.1.0                                                      
⠙ livekit-local-inference==0.2.7                                                
⠙ livekit-protocol==1.1.26                                                      
⠙ nest-asyncio==1.6.0                                                           
⠙ numpy==2.5.2                                                                  
⠙ openai==2.54.0                                                                
PA_PROBE_OK livekit-agents 1.8.0

Claims vs evidence — vendor claims reconciled against independent verdictsClaims vs evidence

7 of 18 testable claims verified · 0 contradictedintegrity 39/100

25 distinct capability claims found in LiveKit Agents’s own claimed-docs/GitHub materials, reconciled against our judge’s independent verdicts.

7

Verified

11

Unverified

0

Contradicted

12

Undersold

Verified (9)
Unverified (16)
Undersold (12)
Claims outside our story set (3)

Real capability claims found in LiveKit Agents’s own materials, but no story in this arena’s taxonomy covers them yet — that’s feedback on the taxonomy, not a mark against the product.

  • LiveKit Inference lets you run AI models without needing your own API keys

    source ↗
  • Any code — AI agents, media processors, or custom logic — can join a room as a programmatic participant

    source ↗
  • Includes an embedded, secure TURN server with authentication integrated into the LiveKit stack

    source ↗
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Pricing signals

  • $0.01per minutepay-as-you-goAgent session minutes overage rate (Ship/Scale plans) after included minutes; matches calculator's 'Agent session' ratesource ↗as of 2026-09-07
  • freeper minutefree tierBuild (free) plan includes 1,000 agent session minutes per month before usage billing appliessource ↗as of 2026-09-07
  • $50per month (entry plan)entry planShip plan starting price, cheapest paid tiersource ↗as of 2026-09-07

Extracted verbatim from the vendor’s own pricing page — hover a figure for the exact quote.

Business model

open-sourcefree-tierusage-basedenterprise-custom

Apache-2.0 open-source framework and server you can self-host free; LiveKit Cloud charges usage-based per-minute/bandwidth pricing with a free tier and custom enterprise.

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Score trend

How this product’s scores have moved as evidence and verdicts are re-derived — a point per change, not per day.

PA Score36 (Sep 5 '26)33 (Sep 15 '26)
Agent-ready64 (Sep 5 '26)55 (Sep 15 '26)

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Data

Agent surface uptime llms.txt 100% (30d, checked every 6h since Sep 8 '26)