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Best Voice agents — Open models

4 of 13 researched voice agents have a confirmed yes for Open models. Qualified, negative, and unknown answers stay distinct.

4 of 13 voice agents have a confirmed yes for “Open models”. 3 are qualified or tier-scoped, 4 are confirmed no, and 2 remain not established. Only confirmed yes answers appear in this set; an unknown is never treated as a negative.

How we ranked these

Projected from the live listing datasheets using the tenant’s “Can it run open-weight models?” axis. Membership requires a sourced yes; partial and unknown answers are reported above but excluded from the ranking. Entries retain the directory’s paid-tier ordering, visibly labelled on every promoted card.

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All picks at a glance

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#	Agent	From
1	Deepgram Voice Agent API	$4.50/hr Standard / Standard to Custom (BYO LLM and TTS)
2	ElevenLabs ElevenAgents	$0 / mo
3	LiveKit Agents	$0 / month
4	Vapi	$0.05 / min

Editor’s pick
#1
Deepgram Voice Agent API
One WebSocket API that runs speech-to-text, LLM orchestration and text-to-speech for real-time voice agents.
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#2
ElevenLabs ElevenAgents
Voice and chat agent platform built on ElevenLabs speech models, deployed to web, mobile and telephony.
Visit ElevenLabs ElevenAgents ↗Read the review →Get a quote →from $0 / mo
#3
LiveKit Agents
Open-source framework and hosted realtime infrastructure for building and running production voice agents
Visit LiveKit Agents ↗Read the review →Get a quote →from $0 / month
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#4
Vapi
Developer platform for building, testing and deploying voice AI agents over phone, SIP and the web.
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Feature	Deepgram Voice Agent API	ElevenLabs ElevenAgents	LiveKit Agents	Vapi
Description	One WebSocket API that runs speech-to-text, LLM orchestration and text-to-speech for real-time voice agents.	Voice and chat agent platform built on ElevenLabs speech models, deployed to web, mobile and telephony.	Open-source framework and hosted realtime infrastructure for building and running production voice agents	Developer platform for building, testing and deploying voice AI agents over phone, SIP and the web.
Category	Voice agents	Agent platforms, Voice agents	Voice agents	Voice agents
Pricing	$4.50/hr Standard / Standard to Custom (BYO LLM and TTS)	$0 / mo	$0 / month	$0.05 / min
Tags	APIEnterpriseSelf-hostedGPTClaudeMulti-agentOpen modelsAutonomous	APIFree tierNo-codeAutonomousEnterpriseOpen modelsGPTClaude	Open sourceSelf-hostedFree tierAPIGPTClaudeEnterpriseMulti-agent	APIAutonomousMulti-agentEnterpriseGPTClaude

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