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LiveKit Agents vs Vapi
LiveKit Agents or Vapi? 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: Choice of models, No code retained, API, Official SDKs, Builds agents and workflows, Traces and evaluates
- Only LiveKit Agents states: Command line, Runs models for you
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.
Vapi
Vapi is a developer platform for building voice AI agents that make and receive phone calls and connect to APIs.
Plans
No Success Package
- $0.05/min Vapi hosting
- $5 free credits to get you started
- 2 organizations
- 1 included Vapi phone number
- 4 concurrent calls
- 14 days raw data retention
- Full platform access
Core
- $29 / month
- 2 organizations
- 5 included Vapi phone numbers
- 10 concurrent calls
- 30 days raw data retention
- ZDR included
- 2 business day response SLA
Pro
- $999/mo minimum
- 10 organizations
- 10 included Vapi phone numbers
- 30 concurrent calls
- 180 days raw data retention
- RBAC + ZDR
- 99% uptime SLA
Premier
Price on request
- Elevated orgs, concurrency, and data retention
- Custom number of Vapi phone numbers
- Priority support
- Named support team with Agent Strategist, FDE Advisor, and onboarding support
- 1 hour for P0 response SLA
- Custom RBAC + ZDR + SSO
Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Choice of models — “Bring your own model, or choose from our managed list of 200+ models and integrations.” source
- No code retained — “ZDR included” source
- API — “Every capability is accessible via REST API.” source
- Official SDKs — “Client SDK” source
- Builds agents and workflows — “Chain agents or use squads for complex workflows with intelligent handoffs and routing.” source
- Traces and evaluates — “Catch hallucinations before they go live with evals and observability stack support.” source
Security
- SOC 2 Type II — “The full SOC 2 Type II report is available in our Trust Center under NDA.” source
- SOC 2 — “The full SOC 2 Type II report is available in our Trust Center under NDA.” source
- GDPR — “Compliance CCPA GDPR HIPAA SOC 2 PCI DSS v4.0.1 SOC 3” source
- HIPAA — “COMPLIANCE HIPAA” source
- Data kept in the EU — “Soniox is available for customers using our US and EU deployments and may also be used by customers who have enabled the HIPAA mode.” source
Latest updates
- What's New: Week of September 21, 2026
Set serviceTier to fast to request OpenAI’s faster processing tier; call logs include provider request IDs for BYOK models.
- What's New: Week of September 14, 2026
Set a same-provider fallback model for Anthropic Bedrock; Composer can create and run simulations.
- What's New: Week of September 7, 2026
Chat runs your current unsaved configuration; duplicate a simulation suite; receive an email the day before a model is retired.