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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 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.

About LiveKit 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

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