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Closest researched alternatives to LiveKit Agents
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LangGraph
Open-source orchestration framework and runtime for stateful, long-running LLM agents, from LangChain.
$0/seat/monthWhere it improves on LiveKit Agents
- +In your pipeline · YesThe vendor publishes a CI/CD reference pipeline with a companion repository: tests and offline evals on a PR, then quality-gated preview and production deploys via the Control Plane API.Evidence ↗
- +MCP server · YesA deployed agent can be exposed as an MCP server, so another agent can call it; the plan table checks this row on Developer, Plus and Enterprise alike.Evidence ↗
- +Bring your own key · YesYou supply provider keys directly in your own code, and the LLM Gateway's bring-your-own-key row is checked on every plan. Enterprise adds hybrid and self-hosted so inference and data stay in your cloud.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against LiveKit Agents
No disadvantages found in the criteria researched so far.
35/35 researched criteria - 02
Mastra
Open-source TypeScript framework for building AI agents, with a hosted platform for running and observing them.
FreeWhere it improves on LiveKit Agents
- +Done-for-you service · PartialYou run the software, but Mastra sells professional services (Concierge, forward-deployed engineering) and enterprise support covering planning, prototyping and workshops.Evidence ↗
- +Agent permissions · YesTool approval can gate any tool call, per server or by predicate on tool name/arguments; approvals propagate up a subagent delegation chain.Evidence ↗
- +MCP server · YesBoth directions: MCPClient consumes external MCP servers, and MCPServer publishes your agents, tools and workflows to other MCP clients over stdio or HTTP.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against LiveKit Agents
No disadvantages found in the criteria researched so far.
35/35 researched criteria - 03
LangChain
Open source agent frameworks plus LangSmith, the platform for tracing, evaluating and deploying agents.
FreeWhere it improves on LiveKit Agents
- +Done-for-you service · PartialYou run the software; Enterprise adds LangChain engineers, architectural guidance and team trainings, not delivery of the agent.Evidence ↗
- +Agent permissions · YesThree approval modes: Manual asks before every gated action, Auto has a model classify routine ones, YOLO asks nothing.Evidence ↗
- +In your pipeline · Yesdcode runs headless with turn and time budgets and exit code 124 for CI; Engine opens pull requests on a connected GitHub repo.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against LiveKit Agents
- −Self-hosted · PartialPlatform self-hosting and hybrid are Enterprise-only; Developer and Plus are Cloud, while the open source packages run wherever you install them.Evidence ↗
34/35 researched criteria · 1 not established - 04
ElevenLabs Agents
Hosted platform for building voice and chat agents, with telephony, SDKs and a choice of LLM.
$0 / moWhere it improves on LiveKit Agents
- +Done-for-you service · PartialSelf-serve software you run, but enterprises can buy ElevenLabs Forward Deployed Engineers who scope, build and stabilise the deployment; no price is published.Evidence ↗
- +Agent permissions · YesTool use is gated per MCP server and per tool: always ask, fine-grained (auto-approved, requires approval, disabled), or no approval at all.Evidence ↗
- +In your pipeline · YesAgents deploy from CI with an API key in the environment; the unit of change is the agent configuration, not a pull request in your code.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against LiveKit Agents
- −Self-hosted · PartialThe full agent runtime can run in your own VPC or hardware on AWS or GCP, but the documentation is NDA-gated and sold through the account team; Azure is unreleased.Evidence ↗
- −Open source · PartialThe CLI and the client SDKs are public on GitHub and take contributions; the agent platform and the speech models themselves are proprietary and hosted.Evidence ↗
35/35 researched criteria - 05
Agno
Python SDK, open-source AgentOS runtime and hosted control plane for building and operating agents.
FreeWhere it improves on LiveKit Agents
- +MCP server · YesAgentOS can expose registered agents as an MCP server, so another agent can call them; docs also ship as MCP.Evidence ↗
- +Bring your own key · YesYou supply each provider's own API key by environment variable, and the runtime runs on your compute.Evidence ↗
- +Seat model · YesThree seats included on Pro, $30/month per extra seat; no published ceiling.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against LiveKit Agents
- −In your pipeline · NoThe enumerated serving surfaces are REST, MCP in Claude/ChatGPT and chat apps; no pull-request or CI surface appears.Evidence ↗
- −Open source · PartialSDK and AgentOS are Apache 2.0; the control plane is the commercial part and is not published as source.Evidence ↗
35/35 researched criteria - 06
Vapi
Developer platform for building, testing and deploying voice AI agents that make and receive phone calls.
$0.05 / minWhere it improves on LiveKit Agents
- +Done-for-you service · PartialYou build and run the agent yourself; the Scale contract adds an embedded Vapi engineer for the go-live, not a done-for-you build.Evidence ↗
- +MCP server · YesA hosted MCP server exposes assistants, calls and numbers to another agent, and assistants can also call external MCP servers.Evidence ↗
- +Bring your own key · YesProvider keys for transcriber, LLM, voice and storage; with your key the model cost drops out of the Vapi bill entirely.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against LiveKit Agents
- −Self-hosted · PartialSelf-serve is hosted only; on-premise is offered to large enterprises, and the orchestration layer otherwise never leaves Vapi.Evidence ↗
- −Open source · PartialThe CLI and SDKs are MIT-licensed on Vapi's GitHub; the platform and its orchestration models are closed and hosted.Evidence ↗
- −Opt out of training · PartialThe privacy policy reserves call content for model training and names no toggle; the $1,000/month ZDR add-on is the only documented way to stop it being kept at all.Evidence ↗
35/35 researched criteria
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