LiveKit Agents

Best for: Prototypes and side projects - free to start, no sales call; Regulated or enterprise workloads - compliance attestations and an enterprise plan; AI agents and automation - an agent-ready surface (MCP / llms.txt)

Pricing model

Hybrid (base + usage) [2]livekit.com/pricing“Ship - Starting at $50/mo... 5,000 agent session minutes included... Agent sessions: $0.01/minute (overage)... Scale - Starting at $500/mo... 50,000 agent session minutes included.”livekit.com/pricing.md“Agent session rate: $0.01/minute... Included minutes (Build): 1,000 minutes... Included minutes (Ship): 5,000 minutes... Included minutes (Scale): 50,000 minutes”

Published pricing

✓ Yes

Free tier

✓ Yes [3]livekit.com/pricing“Build - Free ($0/mo)... 1,000 agent session minutes included... 5 concurrent agent sessions... 1 free US local phone number... 50 inbound telephony minutes... No credit card required.”livekit.com/pricing.md“Build: $0/month... 1,000 minutes... No credit card required”

Free tier details

Build plan at $0/month (no credit card required): 1,000 agent session minutes/month, 5 concurrent agent sessions, 1 agent deployment, 1 free US local phone number, 50 inbound telephony minutes, 1,000 SIP trunking minutes, 5,000 WebRTC minutes, $2.50 LiveKit Inference credits.

Self-serve signup

✓ Yes [4]livekit.com/pricing“No credit card required; signup is self-serve via cloud.livekit.io.”

Requires sales call

✗ No

Enterprise plan

✓ Yes [5]livekit.com/pricing“Enterprise - Custom pricing... Volume discounts including inference... Dedicated Slack support... SSO and support SLA... Custom concurrency and deployment limits.”

• Built-in telephony
• Outbound calling
• BYO models
• Self-hosted
• No-code builder

Supported actions

realtime_conversation, speech_to_speech, inbound_telephony, outbound_telephony, sip_trunking, call_transfer, function_calling, tool_calling, interruption_handling, byo_llm, byo_voice, batch_calling, call_recording, web_widget, noise_cancellation, turn_detection, multi_agent_handoff, agent_load_balancing, region_pinning, voice_isolation, realtime_metrics, session_replay [6]docs.livekit.io/agents/“streaming audio through an STT-LLM-TTS pipeline... state-of-the-art turn detection... interruption handling... Define tools that are compatible with any LLM, and even forward tool calls to your frontend.”docs.livekit.io/sip/“LiveKit supports both cold transfer (REFER) and warm transfer (agent-assisted transfer), enabling call redirection and handoff scenarios within your applications.”

Regions

United States, Global (multi-region cloud with region pinning available)

Languages

multilingual (via STT provider plugins; Deepgram nova-3 multi-language mode explicitly documented)

Input types

audio stream, PSTN phone call, SIP, WebRTC, text, video

Output types

audio stream, call transcript, webhook events, recording, realtime metrics, structured call summary

Webhooks

✓ Yes

Sandbox / test mode

✗ No

SDK languages

Python, Node.js, Go [7]docs.livekit.io/agents/“LiveKit Agents is described as a realtime framework for voice, video, and physical AI agents. It enables developers to integrate Python or Node.js programs into LiveKit rooms as full realtime participants.”livekit.com/agents“Open-source SDKs in Python and TypeScript with vendor-independent coding.”

MCP server

✓ Yes [8]docs.livekit.io/home/get-started/mcp-server/“claude mcp add --transport http livekit-docs https://docs.livekit.io/mcp”

SOC 2

SOC 2 Type II [9]livekit.com/security“SOC 2 Type II: Independently audited against the AICPA's Trust Services Criteria for security, availability, and confidentiality.”

HIPAA

✓ Yes [10]livekit.com/security“HIPAA: BAAs available for Scale and Enterprise customers handling protected health information.”

GDPR

✓ Yes [11]livekit.com/security“GDPR: Aligned with EU data protection and privacy law. DPA available; sub-processor list maintained publicly.”

ISO 27001

✗ No [12]livekit.com/security“In Progress: ISO 27001, ISO 27018, PCI DSS.”

PCI DSS

✗ No [13]livekit.com/security“In Progress: ISO 27001, ISO 27018, PCI DSS.”

Published SLA

✗ No [14]docs.livekit.io/intro/cloud/“99.99% uptime guarantee with redundant infrastructure”livekit.com/legal/terms-of-service“LiveKit shall use commercially reasonable efforts to make the Services available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except for planned downtime... the service is provided AS IS and AS AVAILABLE with no warranty that use will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or free from error.”

Rate limits

Server API: 1,000 requests/minute. LLM usage: 100 requests/minute, 600,000 tokens/minute (sliding 60-second window). Agent observability: 1,000 events/minute, 5 minutes of audio/minute. Concurrent agent sessions: 5 (Build), 20 (Ship), up to 600 (Scale), custom (Enterprise). Agent session overage: $0.01/minute. Telephony inbound local: 50 min included (Build), 100 min included (Ship), 1,000 min included (Scale); overage $0.01/min. WebRTC: 5,000 min (Build), 150,000 min (Ship), 1.5M min (Scale). [15]docs.livekit.io/deploy/admin/quotas-and-limits/“All projects have a Server API rate limit of 1,000 requests per minute.”livekit.com/pricing“5 concurrent agent sessions [Build]... 20 concurrent agent sessions [Ship]... Up to 600 concurrent agent sessions [Scale]... Agent sessions: $0.01/minute (overage).”

Known restrictions

US phone numbers only for LiveKit-provisioned numbers (local and toll-free US only), HIPAA compliance only available on Scale and Enterprise plans (BAA required), ISO 27001 and PCI DSS are in progress, not yet certified, Agent Builder (no-code) has fewer features than full SDK, Observability data processed and stored in the United States, Self-hosted deployments limited to ~3,000 participants per room, No formal published SLA - ToS provides only 'commercially reasonable efforts' availability commitment [16]docs.livekit.io/sip/“LiveKit Phone Numbers provides access to local and toll-free numbers in the United States.”livekit.com/security“HIPAA: BAAs available for Scale and Enterprise customers handling protected health information.”

• API reference
• llms.txt

Docs rendering: static · llms.txt present

API style

websocket

Base URL

wss://<project>.livekit.cloud

Version

v1

Versioning

none

Stability

ga

Auth methods

api_key, jwt

Webhook signing

jwt_sha256

Rate limit

1000 / minute

SDKs

• Python livekit-agents · repo
• Node.js @livekit/agents · repo
• Python livekit · repo
• Node.js @livekit/rtc-node · repo
• Go github.com/livekit/server-sdk-go · repo

• Auth docs
• Quickstart
• MCP server
• Webhook events

Launched

2023-11-14

GA

2025-04-10

Notable customers

OpenAI, Oracle, Salesforce, Deutsche Telekom, Assort Health

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1. ↑Description: livekit.com
2. ↑Pricing model: livekit.com · livekit.com
3. ↑Free tier: livekit.com · livekit.com
4. ↑Self-serve signup: livekit.com
5. ↑Enterprise plan: livekit.com
6. ↑Supported actions: docs.livekit.io · docs.livekit.io
7. ↑SDK languages: docs.livekit.io · livekit.com
8. ↑MCP server: docs.livekit.io
9. ↑SOC 2: livekit.com
10. ↑HIPAA: livekit.com
11. ↑GDPR: livekit.com
12. ↑ISO 27001: livekit.com
13. ↑PCI DSS: livekit.com
14. ↑Published SLA: docs.livekit.io · livekit.com
15. ↑Rate limits: docs.livekit.io · livekit.com
16. ↑Known restrictions: docs.livekit.io · livekit.com

Every field change, who made it, and when - from our audited data pipeline and editors.

1. 2026-06-21 Capabilities: {} → {"byo_models":true,"self_hosted":true,"no_code_builder":true,"outbound_calling"…
2. 2026-06-21 Summary Md: (none) → LiveKit Agents is a developer platform for building and deploying realtime voic…
3. 2026-06-21 Score Docs Quality: (none) → 30
4. 2026-06-21 Score Procurement Friction: (none) → 100
5. 2026-06-21 Score Trust Readiness: (none) → 55
6. 2026-06-21 Best For: (none) → Prototypes and side projects - free to start, no sales call, Regulated or enter…
7. 2026-06-21 Scoring Methodology: (none) → Scores are computed deterministically from this profile's published, sourced fi…
8. 2026-06-21 Score Pricing Transparency: (none) → 100
9. 2026-06-21 Score Agent Friendliness: (none) → 55
10. 2026-06-21 Score Setup Speed: (none) → 85
11. 2026-06-21 Llms Txt Present: (none) → Yes
12. 2026-06-21 Llms Txt URL: (none) → https://livekit.com/llms.txt
13. 2026-06-21 Rendering: (none) → static
14. 2026-06-21 Has Structured Data: (none) → No
15. 2026-06-21 Robots Allows Agents: (none) → Yes
16. 2026-06-21 API Reference URL: (none) → https://docs.livekit.io/reference/
17. 2026-06-21 MCP Server Available: set to Yes
18. 2026-06-21 Pricing Model: set to hybrid
19. 2026-06-21 Has Published Pricing: set to Yes
20. 2026-06-21 Free Tier Available: set to Yes
21. 2026-06-21 Free Tier Details: set to Build plan at $0/month (no credit card required): 1,000 agent session minutes/m…
22. 2026-06-21 Self Serve Signup: set to Yes
23. 2026-06-21 Requires Sales Call: set to No
24. 2026-06-21 Enterprise Plan Available: set to Yes
25. 2026-06-21 SOC 2: set to type_2
26. 2026-06-21 HIPAA: set to Yes
27. 2026-06-21 GDPR: set to Yes
28. 2026-06-21 ISO 27001: set to No
29. 2026-06-21 PCI DSS: set to No
30. 2026-06-21 SLA Published: set to No
31. 2026-06-21 Data Retention Policy URL: set to https://livekit.com/legal/privacy-policy
32. 2026-06-21 Documented Rate Limits: set to Server API: 1,000 requests/minute. LLM usage: 100 requests/minute, 600,000 toke…
33. 2026-06-21 Rate Limit Requests: set to 1000
34. 2026-06-21 Rate Limit Window: set to minute
35. 2026-06-21 Known Restrictions: set to US phone numbers only for LiveKit-provisioned numbers (local and toll-free US o…
36. 2026-06-21 Auth Methods: set to api_key, jwt
37. 2026-06-21 Auth Docs URL: set to https://docs.livekit.io/realtime/concepts/authentication/
38. 2026-06-21 API Style: set to websocket
39. 2026-06-21 Base URL: set to wss://<project>.livekit.cloud
40. 2026-06-21 API Version: set to v1
41. 2026-06-21 Versioning Scheme: set to none
42. 2026-06-21 Stability: set to ga
43. 2026-06-21 MCP URL: set to https://docs.livekit.io/mcp
44. 2026-06-21 Quickstart URL: set to https://docs.livekit.io/agents/start/voice-ai/
45. 2026-06-21 Webhook Signing: set to jwt_sha256
46. 2026-06-21 Webhook Events URL: set to https://docs.livekit.io/intro/basics/rooms-participants-tracks/webhooks-events/
47. 2026-06-21 Requires Verification: set to No
48. 2026-06-21 Starting Price Usd: set to 0.01
49. 2026-06-21 Price Basis: set to minute
50. 2026-06-21 Free Tier Limit: set to 1,000 agent session minutes/month; no credit card required

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