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ElevenLabs Agents
Hosted platform for building voice and chat agents, with telephony, SDKs and a choice of LLM.
From FreeWhy it's on this listMulti-agent · YesAn orchestrator agent routes a live conversation to specialist agents on natural-language conditions, and transfers can be nested; the transcript carries across.Evidence ↗
Where it improves on OmniDimension
- +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 ↗
- +Claude · YesAnthropic models are natively selectable in agent settings; a few older Claude models drop out in EU data-residency workspaces.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against OmniDimension
- −In your editor · NoThe vendor enumerates its surfaces as web widgets, mobile apps, phone systems and custom integrations; no editor or IDE extension appears in that list.Evidence ↗
35/35 researched criteria - 02
Vapi
Developer platform for building, testing and deploying voice AI agents that make and receive phone calls.
From $0.05/minuteWhy it's on this listMulti-agent · YesSquads route one conversation across several specialised assistants with context-preserving handoffs.Evidence ↗
Where it improves on OmniDimension
- +Claude · YesClaude is selectable as the assistant's LLM, on Vapi's integration or your own Anthropic account.Evidence ↗
- +On the command line · YesThe Vapi CLI covers assistants, numbers, calls, campaigns and logs from the terminal.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against OmniDimension
- −Seat model · NoNothing is priced per seat: the plan table meters call minutes and concurrent lines only, and members are invited with RBAC roles.Evidence ↗
35/35 researched criteria - 03
PolyAI
Enterprise platform for building voice and chat agents that resolve customer calls, priced per minute.
Why it's on this listClaude · YesClaude is one of the third-party models you can run instead of Raven; the model docs list Claude options under the Amazon Bedrock provider tab, selectable per channel.Evidence ↗
Where it improves on OmniDimension
- +In your editor · YesThe ADK edits agent resources as local files in any editor, and Builder MCP plugs the same workflow into Cursor, Claude Code, Claude Desktop and Codex.Evidence ↗
- +On the command line · YesThe poly CLI pulls, branches, validates, pushes and chats against a project from the terminal.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against OmniDimension
- −Multi-agent · NoThe only 'team of agents' feature is assigning several TTS voices to one agent; no coordination between multiple agents on a single task is documented, and the build assistant works one branch at a time.Evidence ↗
- −Open models · PartialThe model catalogue enumerates only Raven, OpenAI and Amazon Bedrock (Claude, Nova) with no open-weight option, but you can attach your own LLM endpoint.Evidence ↗
- −Seat model · NoNo per-seat price is published; billing tracks conversation volume, and team members are added by invitation with role-based permissions.Evidence ↗
35/35 researched criteria - 04
Cartesia
Real-time speech models and a managed runtime for production phone and web voice agents.
From FreeWhy it's on this listClaude · YesAnthropic Claude models are named in the SDK's supported-models table and used in its examples.Evidence ↗
Where it improves on OmniDimension
- +On the command line · YesA `cartesia` CLI creates, deploys and manages agents, and can chat with agent logic locally.Evidence ↗
- +Self-hosted · PartialOn-premise or VPC model deployment is sales-gated; separately, agent reasoning code can run on your own servers with Cartesia connecting to your URL.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against OmniDimension
- −Done-for-you service · NoSelf-serve software: you build and deploy the agent yourself; sales contact exists for Enterprise terms, not for building it for you.Evidence ↗
- −Multi-agent · NoSystem tools enumerate three slots: end call, DTMF, and transfer to an E.164 phone number. An agent therefore hands off to a number, not to another Cartesia agent.Evidence ↗
- −Open models · PartialThe LLM layer routes through LiteLLM to 100+ providers, but the vendor names only Anthropic, OpenAI and Google, and its own speech models are API-only.Evidence ↗
35/35 researched criteria - 05
Retell AI
Pay-as-you-go platform for building, testing and running AI phone, chat and SMS agents.
From $0.07/minuteWhy it's on this listMulti-agent · YesOne call can be handed between several specialised AI agents mid-conversation, with the destination agent inheriting the full transcript, so work is split across agents rather than one monolith.Evidence ↗
Where it improves on OmniDimension
- +Claude · YesClaude models are selectable as the agent's conversation model and priced per minute for voice and per message for chat, alongside GPT and Gemini options.Evidence ↗
- +Getting out · YesFiltered call and chat history exports to CSV including transcripts, and list/get APIs cover the same data; purchased credits never expire but are non-refundable once bought.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against OmniDimension
- −Open models · PartialRetell's own model menu is limited to hosted GPT, Claude and Gemini, but the custom-LLM path lets you put a self-hosted open-weights model behind the agent over a WebSocket you operate.Evidence ↗
- −On the command line · NoThe docs enumerate every way to drive Retell: dashboard, REST API, Node/Python SDKs and MCP server. No command-line tool is among them.Evidence ↗
- −Seat model · NoNothing is charged per user: the published rate card meters minutes, messages and monthly items like phone numbers and concurrency, so team size does not change the bill.Evidence ↗
34/35 researched criteria · 1 not established - 06
LiveKit Agents
Open-source Python and Node.js framework for voice AI agents, with LiveKit Cloud hosting, telephony and observability.
From FreeWhy it's on this listMulti-agent · YesMultiple agents in one session via handoffs, plus a supervisor pattern where one agent keeps control and delegates to scoped tasks.Evidence ↗
Where it improves on OmniDimension
- +Claude · YesAnthropic plugin for Python and Node.js, using your own Anthropic API key. Claude is not among the models served through LiveKit Inference, so it is a plugin-only path.Evidence ↗
- +On the command line · YesThe lk CLI creates projects, deploys agents and manages LiveKit Cloud; agents can also be run and talked to locally in console mode.Evidence ↗
Trade-offs against OmniDimension
- −Done-for-you service · NoYou run the software: an open-source SDK plus a self-serve cloud. Enterprise adds a designated solutions engineer, which is support, not a build-for-you engagement.Evidence ↗
- −MCP server · PartialThe agent is the MCP client: it consumes tools from remote HTTP or local stdio MCP servers, Python only. LiveKit does not expose a running agent as an MCP server for another agent to query.Evidence ↗
- −Seat model · NoNot seat-priced. Plans are per project with usage allowances, and neither the plan cards nor the feature matrix publishes a seat count, floor or ceiling; dashboard users get admin, write or read roles.Evidence ↗
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