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LiveKit Agents vs LiveKit Cloud
LiveKit Agents or LiveKit Cloud? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.
In inglese
In short
- Both: Command line, Choice of models, No code retained, API, Official SDKs, Runs models for you, Traces and evaluates
- Only LiveKit Agents states: Builds agents and workflows
- Only LiveKit Cloud states: Self-hosted
LiveKit Agents
Open-source framework for building, deploying, and observing realtime voice, video, and physical AI agents.
Plans
Build
Free
- Agent deployment
- Agent observability
- Inference credits
- Global edge network
- Telephony (1 free number)
- Session metrics and analytics
Ship
- STARTING AT $50/mo
- Team collaboration
- Custom voices
- Instant rollback to a previous agent deployment
- Email support
Scale
- STARTING AT $500/mo
- Role-based access
- Metrics export APIs
- Region pinning
- Private links
- Security reports / HIPAA
- Inference discounts
Enterprise
Price on request
- Volume pricing, including inference
- Shared Slack channel
- SSO
- Support SLA
Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Command line — “CLI Manage and interact with your application from the command line” source
- Choice of models — “LiveKit Inference supports over 50 AI models out-of-the-box, no API keys or additional configuration required.” source
- No code retained — “LiveKit Cloud is architected to meet the security, compliance, and operational requirements of enterprise teams, including end-to-end encryption, role-based access controls, zero data retention, and support plans.” source
- API — “Simple and Powerful APIs” source
- Official SDKs — “Build agents with our open source SDKs, deploy them across a global network of data centers, and monitor them in production with realtime observability.” source
- Runs models for you — “Inference gateway to access TTS, LLM, and STT models” source
- Builds agents and workflows — “Build voice agents with open source SDKs and complete developer control.” source
- Traces and evaluates — “Gain end-to-end visibility into every conversation. Track latency, quality, and outcomes in real time, then use those insights to continuously improve your agents.” source
Security
- SOC 2 Type II — “SOC 2 Type II” source
- SOC 2 — “SOC 2 Type II” source
- Not: ISO 27001 — “PCI DSS and ISO 27001 are in progress.” source
- GDPR — “DPA available; sub-processor list maintained publicly.” source
- HIPAA — “BAAs available for Scale and Enterprise customers handling protected health information.” source
Latest updates
- livekit-agents@1.8.0 (1.8.0)
Spans, metrics, and logs now follow OTel GenAI semantic conventions, and PII filtering moved in-process.
- @livekit/agents@1.7.0 (1.7.0)
Adds PII redaction for chat history, audio recordings, logs, and traces, plus expressive mode for voice agents.
LiveKit Cloud
LiveKit Cloud hosts AI voice, video, and physical-agent applications with realtime media, telephony, inference, deployment, and observability.
Plans
Build
Free
- Agent deployment
- Agent observability
- Inference credits
- Global edge network
- Telephony (1 free number)
- Session metrics and analytics
Ship
- STARTING AT $50/mo
- Team collaboration
- Custom voices
- Instant rollback to a previous agent deployment
- Email support
Scale
- STARTING AT $500/mo
- Role-based access
- Metrics export APIs
- Region pinning
- Private links
- Security reports / HIPAA
- Inference discounts
Enterprise
Price on request
- Volume pricing, including inference
- Shared Slack channel
- SSO
- Support SLA
Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Command line — “Manage and interact with your application from the command line” source
- Choice of models — “Yes. LiveKit Inference supports over 50 AI models out-of-the-box, no API keys or additional configuration required.” source
- Self-hosted — “The LiveKit Agents framework and LiveKit media server are both completely open source and available to run locally or host on your own infrastructure.” source
- No code retained — “Prompts, audio, and model outputs aren't logged or stored in LiveKit or underlying model providers” source
- API — “Metrics export APIs” source
- Official SDKs — “Build voice agents with open source SDKs and complete developer control.” source
- Runs models for you — “Call popular models with LiveKit's inference service” source
- Traces and evaluates — “Agent observability events” source
Security
- SOC 2 Type II — “SOC 2 Type II” source
- SOC 2 — “SOC 2 Type II” source
- Not: ISO 27001 — “PCI DSS and ISO 27001 are in progress.” source
- GDPR — “DPA available” source
- HIPAA — “BAAs available for Scale and Enterprise customers handling protected health information.” source