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Clients stream audio and text events both ways over the `InvokeModelWithBidirectionalStream` API, with turn-taking, interruptions, asynchronous tool calls and multilingual voices.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-nova-sonic", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-nova-sonic.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-nova-sonic.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/amazon-nova-sonic.json", "dns": "amazon-nova-sonic.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/aws-samples/amazon-nova-samples", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "aws-sdk-bedrock-runtime" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@aws-sdk/client-bedrock-runtime" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "AWS Signature Version 4 with IAM credentials or a role, scoped per model ARN by IAM policy. The Sonic quickstart signs with environment credentials. Whether Bedrock API keys work on the bidirectional stream wasn't confirmed. Access is self-serve once a person has an AWS account.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Billed per speech and text token on Bedrock on demand. The Nova and Bedrock pricing pages draw their price tables by script, so the figures weren't read on 6 November 2026. No model-specific free tier; new AWS accounts get up to $200 in Free Tier credits.", "priceSummary": "Pay per use", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Nova or Bedrock docs (checked 2026-11-06). 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Sessions cut off at 8 minutes, the Python SDK is pre-alpha, and the event payloads have no schema file. Prices are in a script-drawn table we couldn't read.", "bestFor": "Voice agents on AWS, call centres on Amazon Connect, teams that want IAM and in-account data handling.", "strengths": [ "No Bedrock event on the AWS Health history in the 90 days from 8 August 2026", "IAM scoping per model ARN with SigV4 and temporary credentials", "Bedrock stores no inputs or outputs by default, and Sonic isn't on the list of models kept for abuse review", "Asynchronous tool calls let the model keep speaking while a tool runs", "Telephony guides for Twilio, Vonage and Amazon Connect" ], "weaknesses": [ "Connections end after 8 minutes, so long calls need the session-continuation pattern", "The Python SDK for bidirectional streaming is pre-alpha and needs Python 3.12", "Sonic's event payloads are documented as examples, with no schema file", "20 concurrent sessions per Region, not adjustable through Service Quotas", "The March and May 2026 refreshes changed the model in place under the same ID" ], "agentNotes": [ "Plan a reconnect before 8 minutes and replay chat history (up to 200 KB) at the start of the new session", "Send session, prompt and content start events in order before any audio", "Make tool calls safe to repeat, since a reconnect can replay them", "Back off on `ThrottlingException` and stay within 20 concurrent sessions per Region", "Use the polyglot voices TIFFANY or MATTHEW when callers may switch language" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 67.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 64, "maintenance": 50, "payments": 10, "reliability": 95, "schema": 75, "security": 77, "transparency": 64 }, "provenanceScore": 94, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-06", "maintenance": "2026-11-06", "payments": "2026-11-06", "reliability": "2026-11-06", "schema": "2026-11-06", "security": "2026-11-06", "transparency": "2026-11-06" }, "last": "2026-11-06", "oldest": "2026-11-06", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "pip install aws-sdk-bedrock-runtime" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/voice.agent", "tool": "https://letme.dev/amazon-nova-sonic" }, "sameCompany": [ "amazon-bedrock", "amazon-nova-embeddings", "amazon-bedrock-guardrails", "amazon-transcribe", "amazon-polly", "agentcore-memory", "agentcore-identity", "aws-secrets-manager", "agentcore-web-search", "aws-mcp-servers", "amazon-ses", "amazon-location", "amazon-translate", "amazon-ads-api", "amazon-creators-api" ], "area": "voice", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Amazon Web Services, Inc.", "domain": "amazon.com", "domainRegistered": "1994-11-01", "domainNote": "The endpoint is on amazonaws.com, an AWS domain registered on 2005-08-18. The security.txt on aws.amazon.com expires on 2027-10-16.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/", "privacy": "https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/", "statusPage": "https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status", "changelog": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/nova/latest/nova2-userguide/release-notes.html", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-11-06", "notes": [ "The AWS Service Terms were last updated on 30 October 2026. Section 50.12 covers Amazon Bedrock, and Bedrock is not among the services section 50.3 lists for use of content to improve AWS services.", "RDAP gives 1994-11-01 for amazon.com and 2005-08-18 for amazonaws.com.", "aws.amazon.com/.well-known/security.txt has Contact, Policy and Encryption fields. Its Expires value is 2027-10-16T16:25:03Z, re-read on 2026-11-01.", "docs.aws.amazon.com/robots.txt allows the Nova and Bedrock pages read. The Nova and Bedrock pricing pages draw their tables by script, so Nova 2 Sonic's prices weren't read." ], "score": 94 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-nova-sonic.json", "live": { "slug": "amazon-nova-sonic", "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@aws-sdk/client-bedrock-runtime", "version": "3.1164.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:05:35.366071006Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "aws-sdk-bedrock-runtime", "version": "0.12.0", "released": "2026-10-08", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:05:33.518358123Z" } ], "githubStars": 456, "npmWeekly": 21825916, "pypiWeekly": 112826, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://amazon.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T16:00:18.354437696Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/nova/latest/nova2-userguide/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:31:25.828159373Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/nova/latest/nova2-userguide/release-notes.html", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:05:20.262718007Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "48cb3eb6c070" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T16:00:18.354437696Z" } }, "answer": "Amazon Nova 2 Sonic scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against AssemblyAI Voice Agent API's 56.4 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. AssemblyAI Voice Agent API leads on schema \u0026 documentation, agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "assemblyai-voice-agent", "name": "AssemblyAI Voice Agent API", "vendor": "AssemblyAI, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.assemblyai.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "voice-agents", "summary": "AssemblyAI's Voice Agent API runs a spoken conversation over one WebSocket, combining its own speech-to-text, language model and text-to-speech. Agents are stored through a REST API and reached from a browser, a server or an inbound Twilio SIP number.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/assemblyai-voice-agent", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/assemblyai-voice-agent.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/assemblyai-voice-agent.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/assemblyai-voice-agent.json", "dns": "assemblyai-voice-agent.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/AssemblyAI/voice-agent-starter-python", "license": "Proprietary service under AssemblyAI's Terms of Service. The two starter repositories on GitHub carry no licence file", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "wss://agents.assemblyai.com/v1/ws", "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Self-serve API key from the dashboard, sent in the `Authorization` header on REST calls and on the WebSocket upgrade, with or without a `Bearer` prefix. Keys belong to a project and can be created and deleted in the dashboard (2 on the free plan, 4 on pay as you go, 25 on a contract). No scopes or expiry were found. Browser clients use a one-time token from `GET /v1/token`, redeemable within 1 to 600 seconds and passed as the `token` query parameter.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "No Voice Agent API price was found on AssemblyAI's pricing page or in its billing docs on 2 November 2026. On 9 October both gave $4.50 an hour ($0.075 a minute), billed per second from socket open to session end, covering speech-to-text, the managed model, speech output and recordings. The $50 new-account credit is now listed for speech-to-text, Speech Understanding and Guardrails only. LLM Gateway tokens and Twilio carrier minutes are billed separately (https://www.assemblyai.com/pricing, https://www.assemblyai.com/docs/billing-and-pricing, checked 2026-11-02).", "priceSummary": "Pay per use", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Voice Agent docs, the two API description files, the billing docs or the pricing page. Payment is by card into a prepaid balance (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.assemblyai.com/docs/voice-agents/voice-agent-api", "llmsTxt": "https://www.assemblyai.com/docs/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://www.assemblyai.com/docs/api-reference/specs/voice-agent-api.yaml", "capabilities": [ "voice.agent", "voice.pipeline", "voice.tools", "voice.telephony" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "streaming", "pipeline", "python", "javascript", "status-page", "soc2" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-16", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 56.4, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 822, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1486, "categoryRank": 15, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 72, "maintenance": 64, "payments": 0, "reliability": 65, "schema": 83, "security": 55, "transparency": 68 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-11-02" }, "negative": -3, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-09-01: AssemblyAI's changelog entry \"Fix: Reader Role Permissions Enforced for API Tokens\" says dashboard users with the Reader role could create, edit and delete API tokens, the keys that also open Voice Agent sessions. A released fix of a described flaw with no advisory takes -3, read as assemblyai-stt on the same entry (https://www.assemblyai.com/changelog)" ], "verdict": "The socket has an AsyncAPI file, typed error codes with retry advice and a 30-second resume window, and the status feed shows only partial realtime incidents since August. On 2 November AssemblyAI's pricing page and billing docs no longer listed the API or its rate, no concurrent-session limit is published, and telephony is inbound only.", "bestFor": "A developer who wants one managed pipeline at a flat rate and is content with AssemblyAI's own speech models and voices, with an optional model of their own.", "strengths": [ "AsyncAPI 3.0 file for the socket, an OpenAPI file for the token endpoint, and a Markdown copy of every Voice Agent docs page", "Session errors carry a code, a message and sometimes the offending field, and the docs name the three codes that are safe to retry", "HTTP tool header values are write-only and encrypted at rest, and tool calls are limited to public `https` hosts with redirects refused", "Every session is stored with a stereo recording, a JSON timeline of turns and tool calls, and signed webhooks with a delivery history", "Pre-connect requests (16 September 2026) can look up an inbound caller before the call is answered" ], "weaknesses": [ "No Voice Agent API price on the pricing page or in the billing docs on 2 November 2026, and the free credit no longer names it", "No number is published for the concurrent-session limit that the `concurrency_exceeded` error enforces", "status.assemblyai.com lists the Asynchronous API, Streaming API and LLM Gateway, with no Voice Agent component", "Telephony is inbound only, over a SIP trunk on a Twilio account the customer owns", "API keys have no scopes or expiry, and opting out of model training needs a paid plan" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send `session.end` before closing the socket. Without it the session stays resumable, and billed, for 30 seconds", "Retry only `at_capacity`, `concurrency_exceeded` and `internal_error`, with backoff. Every other session error code is fatal", "Send `tool.result` inside the `reply.done` handler, not straight after `tool.call`", "Mint a one-time token with `GET /v1/token` for browser clients and never ship the API key to a page", "Deduplicate webhooks on `event_id`, and verify `X-AAI-Signature` against the raw body bytes because a 401 is not retried" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 56.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 72, "maintenance": 64, "payments": 0, "reliability": 65, "schema": 83, "security": 55, "transparency": 51 }, "provenanceScore": 84, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-02", "maintenance": "2026-11-02", "payments": "2026-11-02", "reliability": "2026-11-02", "schema": "2026-11-02", "security": "2026-11-02", "transparency": "2026-11-02" }, "last": "2026-11-02", "lastMoved": "2026-11-02", "oldest": "2026-11-02", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "git clone https://github.com/AssemblyAI/voice-agent-starter-python", "http": "curl -X POST https://agents.assemblyai.com/v1/agents \\\n -H \"Authorization: $ASSEMBLYAI_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"name\": \"Support Assistant\", \"system_prompt\": \"You are a friendly support agent.\", \"greeting\": \"Hi, how can I help?\", \"voice\": {\"voice_id\": \"alba\"}}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http --scope user assemblyai-docs https://mcp.assemblyai.com/docs" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/voice.agent", "tool": "https://letme.dev/assemblyai-voice-agent" }, "sameCompany": [ "assemblyai-stt" ], "area": "voice", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "AssemblyAI, Inc.", "domain": "assemblyai.com", "domainRegistered": "2016-12-24", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.assemblyai.com/legal/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://www.assemblyai.com/legal/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.assemblyai.com", "changelog": "https://www.assemblyai.com/changelog", "securityTxt": "unknown", "checked": "2026-11-02", "notes": [ "www.assemblyai.com's robots.txt disallows /.well-known, so security.txt wasn't read and securityTxt stays unknown.", "The subprocessor list at /legal/subprocessors redirects to app.vanta.com, whose robots.txt disallows every path.", "status.assemblyai.com disallows /api/ and /embed/; 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AWS Health Dashboard with per-service, per-Region history (20). The dashboard history file (newest event 30 October 2026) lists no Bedrock event in the 90 days from 8 August, and the 3 September us-west-2 event names STS, Connect and IAM Identity Center, not Bedrock. The public dashboard records broad events only, so 25 of 30, as amazon-nova-embeddings was read. Quotas published, 20 concurrent requests per Region, not adjustable (15). The stream API lists `ThrottlingException` (429), `ServiceUnavailableException` (503), `ModelTimeoutException` (408) and `ModelStreamErrorException` (424), Bedrock's troubleshooting guide advises backoff with jitter, and the 8-minute connection limit comes with a session-continuation sample (15). Bedrock's SLA of 99.9 per cent a month per Region for model APIs, as read for amazon-nova-embeddings on 1 November (10). Generally available since 2 December 2025 (10). 20 + 25 + 15 + 15 + 10 + 10 = 95.", "b": "Scored with the hosted lines. Statuspage at status.assemblyai.com with component history, read from history.atom on 2 November, but its components are the Asynchronous API, Streaming API and LLM Gateway and none is the Voice Agent API (15 of 20). Thirteen incidents from 4 August to 2 November 2026 (14 August to 28 October) and none names the Voice Agent API. Four touch the realtime speech-to-text it runs on, all partial. New EU streaming sessions were refused for 12 minutes on 19 August, with 30 minutes of added latency on the US endpoint on 25 August, two hours of rejected Universal-3.6 Pro Realtime sessions on the US endpoint on 6 October (the EU endpoint unaffected), and some Real-time sessions failing with 502 after a temporary-token change on 28 October until it was rolled back. Whether agent sessions were affected isn't stated. Read as minor incidents touching the product, as assemblyai-stt reads the same feed (20, was 15, which isn't a checklist value). A per-account concurrent-session limit is enforced and no figure is published for it (0 of 15). The events reference (re-read on 2 November) names `at_capacity`, `concurrency_exceeded` and `internal_error` as the only retryable codes and says to reconnect with backoff, and sessions resume for 30 seconds. Webhooks carry a stable `event_id`. No idempotency key on `POST /v1/agents` (10 of 15). A Service Level Agreement of 99.9 per cent a month with credits, written against an Order Form, per the 9 October check (10). No beta label on the Voice Agent pages (10). 15+20+0+10+10+10 = 65." }, "scores": { "a": 95, "b": 65 } }, { "by": 22, "category": "security", "leads": "amazon-nova-sonic", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "SigV4 with IAM roles and temporary credentials scoped per model ARN, as the Sonic quickstart signs (30). Tools run in the client, so side effects are the developer's to approve, and IAM can restrict which models a role invokes, with no approval step in the API (12 of 20). The model listens to callers and acts on tool results, and no prompt-injection guidance was found in the Sonic guide (5 of 15). CloudTrail logs Bedrock API calls, read as amazon-nova-embeddings was (12 of 15). VDP on HackerOne, Bedrock in SOC scope and a valid security.txt on aws.amazon.com, with no paid bounty, as on the other AWS listings (18 of 20). Total 77.", "b": "Plain API keys per project, created and deleted in the dashboard, with no scopes or expiry found (20 of 30). Browser clients pass a token in the `token` query parameter. We took no deduction because the token is one-time and redeemable for at most 600 seconds, which is a judgement call, as for assemblyai-stt. A read-only Reader role exists for dashboard members but not for keys. HTTP tool header values are write-only and encrypted at rest, tool calls go only to public `https` hosts with redirects refused, and the docs show how to gate tools by conversation state. No built-in confirmation step before a tool that writes (10 of 20). Caller speech and tool results reach a model. Tool arguments are drawn only from user turns and tool results since 26 August 2026 and tool responses are capped, but no prompt-injection guidance was found (8 of 15). Sessions keep a timeline with tool calls, webhook deliveries are logged per session, usage is broken down by key, and the dashboard has activity logs (12 of 15). The security page states a SOC 2 Type 2 report (per the 9 October check, not re-read on 2 November), the trust centre is on app.vanta.com, whose robots.txt disallows every path, and no bug bounty, disclosure policy or public advisory was found. www.assemblyai.com's robots.txt closes `/.well-known`, so security.txt is unread. Read as assemblyai-stt on the same evidence, a SOC 2 claim with no disclosure route (5, was 12). 20+10+8+12+5 = 55." }, "scores": { "a": 77, "b": 55 } }, { "by": 14, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "assemblyai-voice-agent", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "Read as a model. The newest dated change is the May 2026 refresh, completed on 28 May, 162 days before this check (10). No Sonic release note or document history entry in the 90 days from 8 August. The pre-alpha Python SDK shipped 0.9.0, 0.10.0, 0.11.0 and 0.12.0 in the window, counted half (10 of 20). Release notes, document history, re:Post and AWS Support (10 of 15). The JavaScript Bedrock runtime client is current at 3.1163.0, while the Python route is pre-alpha (10 of 15). The SDKs ship on AWS's release train; CI not read (10). Total 50.", "b": "The last changelog entry tagged Voice Agent API is Pre-Connect Requests on 16 September 2026 (47 days before 2 November), which the 9 October check didn't count (20). Five tagged entries since 4 August (18 August, three on 26 August, 16 September) (20). A public changelog that records fixes, a support address and a Discord link we did not test (11 of 15 for a closed service). The Python and Node SDKs still have no Voice Agent client (Node 4.42.0 of 26 October added text-to-speech clients), and the two starter repositories were last changed on 16 August 2026 (8 of 15). The starters need no dependencies and have no licence file, tests or CI (5 of 10). 20+20+11+8+5 = 64." }, "scores": { "a": 50, "b": 64 } }, { "by": 11, "category": "transparency", "leads": "amazon-nova-sonic", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "Closed model under the AWS Service Terms, with Apache-2.0 SDKs and samples (15). Bedrock stores no inputs or outputs by default and model providers can't see them, Sonic isn't on the abuse-detection page's list of models whose traffic is stored, and section 50.3 doesn't list Bedrock among services whose content improves AWS services, as read for amazon-nova-embeddings on 1 November (22 of 30). Bedrock's lifecycle policy for models launched before 7 September 2026 promises 12 months and a Legacy period of at least 6 months, but the March and May refreshes changed the model in place under the same ID (15 of 20). Regions are listed, with sub-processors not read (12 of 20). Total 64.", "b": "A closed service with a clear service agreement. The starter repositories have no licence file (15 of 30). The Terms of Service grant a licence to train on Customer Data by default, the opt-out needs a paid plan, and the retention page gives periods for streaming, sync, dictation, asynchronous and LLM Gateway data but none for Voice Agent sessions, which are recorded and stored. A DPA is published and the privacy policy states Data Privacy Framework certification (14 of 30). The changelog dates deprecations ahead of time, such as the 11 July 2026 notice of a change on 7 August, and the terms promise reasonable prior notice of major changes. No written deprecation policy was found (12 of 20). The subprocessor list at /legal/subprocessors redirects to a Vanta trust centre whose robots.txt disallows every path, so it is unread. US and EU endpoints are mentioned, with no EU host named for the Voice Agent API in the pages read (10 of 20). 15+14+12+10 = 51." }, "scores": { "a": 79, "b": 68 } }, { "by": 10, "category": "payments", "leads": "amazon-nova-sonic", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0). The Nova and Bedrock pricing pages carry a speech-to-speech table drawn by script, so the per-token prices weren't read and this line scores absent, which is our reader's limit and not the vendor's (0). New accounts get up to $200 in Free Tier credits, and the Free Tier FAQ says most new customers need no payment method, read as half on the other AWS listings (10). A person signs up for an AWS account in a browser (0). Total 10.", "b": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0 of 40). On 2 November the pricing page lists speech-to-text, dictation, text-to-speech and LLM Gateway prices but no Voice Agent API price, and the billing docs have no Voice Agent section. The $4.50 an hour rate the 9 October check read on both is no longer published, and no other price page was found (0, was 20). The billing docs now say new accounts' $50 of credit applies to pre-recorded and real-time speech-to-text, Speech Understanding and Guardrails, without naming the Voice Agent API, where on 9 October they said it was covered (0, was 20). A person has to sign up in a browser to get the first key, and no key-creation API was found (0). 0+0+0+0 = 0." }, "scores": { "a": 10, "b": 0 } }, { "by": 8, "category": "schema", "leads": "assemblyai-voice-agent", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "The Bedrock service model types `InvokeModelWithBidirectionalStream`, but the Sonic events inside it (session, prompt, content, tool and usage events) are JSON payloads documented only in the guide, with no schema file (12 of 25). llms.txt and Markdown copies of the Nova 2 guide (10). Guides on the event lifecycle, barge-in, turn-taking, async tools and chat history say when and how to use each (16 of 20). Event fields are documented as JSON examples and tables, not typed schemas (10 of 15). Sample repositories in several languages and the API's exceptions with HTTP codes (12 of 15). Release notes and document history, with in-place model refreshes and a versioned model ID (15). Total 75.", "b": "An AsyncAPI 3.0 file describes the socket and an OpenAPI 3.0.3 file the token endpoint. No description file was found for the agents, sessions and webhook REST endpoints, and the AsyncAPI file lacks `language_codes`, `voice_focus`, `transcript.agent.delta` and `is_error`, which the docs added on 23 July 2026 (19 of 25). llms.txt, a Markdown copy of each page and a docs MCP server (10). Operations and fields say what they are for and when to use them, such as when to choose `hold` over `interactive` execution (17 of 20). Enums, ranges and defaults on audio encoding, turn detection and timeouts. Tool `parameters` are a JSON Schema the server does not validate at `session.update` (12 of 15). Examples in cURL, Python and JavaScript, and tables of session error codes with close codes (13 of 15). A dated public changelog tagged by product and a `/v1` path, with no written versioning policy found (12 of 15)." }, "scores": { "a": 75, "b": 83 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Amazon Web Services", "b": "AssemblyAI, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "wss://agents.assemblyai.com/v1/ws", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Pay per use", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "none", "b": "Proprietary service under AssemblyAI's Terms of Service. The two starter repositories on GitHub carry no licence file", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "0", "b": "none", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-05-28", "b": "2026-09-16", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-10-01", "b": "2026-07-01", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-05-18", "b": "2026-05-26", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "yes, with an opt-out", "b": "yes, with an opt-out", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "3.5/5 (4)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Amazon Nova 2 Sonic scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against AssemblyAI Voice Agent API's 56.4 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. AssemblyAI Voice Agent API leads on schema \u0026 documentation, agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Amazon Nova 2 Sonic or AssemblyAI Voice Agent API?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do Amazon Nova 2 Sonic and AssemblyAI Voice Agent API need an API key?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Amazon Nova 2 Sonic. AssemblyAI Voice Agent API has a hosted endpoint at wss://agents.assemblyai.com/v1/ws.", "question": "Can an agent call Amazon Nova 2 Sonic and AssemblyAI Voice Agent API without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 95 against 65", "Security \u0026 auth, 77 against 55", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 10 against 0", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 79 against 68" ], "also": [ "No incidents deducted, where AssemblyAI Voice Agent API loses 3 points for them" ], "goodFor": "Voice agents on AWS, call centres on Amazon Connect, teams that want IAM and in-account data handling.", "slug": "amazon-nova-sonic", "watchFor": "Connections end after 8 minutes, so long calls need the session-continuation pattern" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 83 against 75", "Agent ergonomics, 72 against 64", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 64 against 50" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install" ], "goodFor": "A developer who wants one managed pipeline at a flat rate and is content with AssemblyAI's own speech models and voices, with an optional model of their own.", "slug": "assemblyai-voice-agent", "watchFor": "No Voice Agent API price on the pricing page or in the billing docs on 2 November 2026, and the free credit no longer names it" } ], "history": { "amazon-nova-sonic": null, "assemblyai-voice-agent": [ { "causes": [ "pricing", "correction" ], "date": "2026-11-02", "delta": -8.2, "from": 64.6, "fromGrade": "B", "to": 56.4, "toGrade": "C" }, { "causes": [ "method" ], "date": "2026-10-27", "delta": 0.2, "from": 64.4, "fromGrade": "B", "to": 64.6, "toGrade": "B" } ] }, "job": { "capability": "voice.agent", "name": "Voice agents" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-nova-sonic-vs-bland-ai.json", "title": "Amazon Nova 2 Sonic vs Bland AI API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-nova-sonic-vs-bland-ai" }, { "json": 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"weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "amazon-nova-sonic": 50, "assemblyai-voice-agent": 64, "by": 14, "edge": "assemblyai-voice-agent", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "amazon-nova-sonic": 79, "assemblyai-voice-agent": 68, "by": 11, "edge": "amazon-nova-sonic", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Amazon Nova 2 Sonic scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against AssemblyAI Voice Agent API's 56.4 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. 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AssemblyAI Voice Agent API leads on schema \u0026 documentation, agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do voice agents.\n\n- Amazon Nova 2 Sonic: grade B, 67.6/100, rank #314 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-nova-sonic.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/amazon-nova-sonic.json\n- AssemblyAI Voice Agent API: grade C, 56.4/100, rank #822 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/assemblyai-voice-agent.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/assemblyai-voice-agent.json\n- Best conversational voice-agent APIs: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/voice-agents/index.md\n- All 518 voice agents comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/voice-agents/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Amazon Nova 2 Sonic (B)\n\nGood for: Voice agents on AWS, call centres on Amazon Connect, teams that want IAM and in-account data handling.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 95 against 65\n- Security \u0026 auth, 77 against 55\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 10 against 0\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 79 against 68\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No incidents deducted, where AssemblyAI Voice Agent API loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: Connections end after 8 minutes, so long calls need the session-continuation pattern\n\n### AssemblyAI Voice Agent API (C)\n\nGood for: A developer who wants one managed pipeline at a flat rate and is content with AssemblyAI's own speech models and voices, with an optional model of their own.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 83 against 75\n- Agent ergonomics, 72 against 64\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 64 against 50\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: No Voice Agent API price on the pricing page or in the billing docs on 2 November 2026, and the free credit no longer names it\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Reliability: Amazon Nova 2 Sonic +30\n\n- Amazon Nova 2 Sonic (95): Hosted reading. AWS Health Dashboard with per-service, per-Region history (20). The dashboard history file (newest event 30 October 2026) lists no Bedrock event in the 90 days from 8 August, and the 3 September us-west-2 event names STS, Connect and IAM Identity Center, not Bedrock. The public dashboard records broad events only, so 25 of 30, as amazon-nova-embeddings was read. Quotas published, 20 concurrent requests per Region, not adjustable (15). The stream API lists `ThrottlingException` (429), `ServiceUnavailableException` (503), `ModelTimeoutException` (408) and `ModelStreamErrorException` (424), Bedrock's troubleshooting guide advises backoff with jitter, and the 8-minute connection limit comes with a session-continuation sample (15). Bedrock's SLA of 99.9 per cent a month per Region for model APIs, as read for amazon-nova-embeddings on 1 November (10). Generally available since 2 December 2025 (10). 20 + 25 + 15 + 15 + 10 + 10 = 95.\n- AssemblyAI Voice Agent API (65): Scored with the hosted lines. Statuspage at status.assemblyai.com with component history, read from history.atom on 2 November, but its components are the Asynchronous API, Streaming API and LLM Gateway and none is the Voice Agent API (15 of 20). Thirteen incidents from 4 August to 2 November 2026 (14 August to 28 October) and none names the Voice Agent API. Four touch the realtime speech-to-text it runs on, all partial. New EU streaming sessions were refused for 12 minutes on 19 August, with 30 minutes of added latency on the US endpoint on 25 August, two hours of rejected Universal-3.6 Pro Realtime sessions on the US endpoint on 6 October (the EU endpoint unaffected), and some Real-time sessions failing with 502 after a temporary-token change on 28 October until it was rolled back. Whether agent sessions were affected isn't stated. Read as minor incidents touching the product, as assemblyai-stt reads the same feed (20, was 15, which isn't a checklist value). A per-account concurrent-session limit is enforced and no figure is published for it (0 of 15). The events reference (re-read on 2 November) names `at_capacity`, `concurrency_exceeded` and `internal_error` as the only retryable codes and says to reconnect with backoff, and sessions resume for 30 seconds. Webhooks carry a stable `event_id`. No idempotency key on `POST /v1/agents` (10 of 15). A Service Level Agreement of 99.9 per cent a month with credits, written against an Order Form, per the 9 October check (10). No beta label on the Voice Agent pages (10). 15+20+0+10+10+10 = 65.\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Amazon Nova 2 Sonic +22\n\n- Amazon Nova 2 Sonic (77): SigV4 with IAM roles and temporary credentials scoped per model ARN, as the Sonic quickstart signs (30). Tools run in the client, so side effects are the developer's to approve, and IAM can restrict which models a role invokes, with no approval step in the API (12 of 20). The model listens to callers and acts on tool results, and no prompt-injection guidance was found in the Sonic guide (5 of 15). CloudTrail logs Bedrock API calls, read as amazon-nova-embeddings was (12 of 15). VDP on HackerOne, Bedrock in SOC scope and a valid security.txt on aws.amazon.com, with no paid bounty, as on the other AWS listings (18 of 20). Total 77.\n- AssemblyAI Voice Agent API (55): Plain API keys per project, created and deleted in the dashboard, with no scopes or expiry found (20 of 30). Browser clients pass a token in the `token` query parameter. We took no deduction because the token is one-time and redeemable for at most 600 seconds, which is a judgement call, as for assemblyai-stt. A read-only Reader role exists for dashboard members but not for keys. HTTP tool header values are write-only and encrypted at rest, tool calls go only to public `https` hosts with redirects refused, and the docs show how to gate tools by conversation state. No built-in confirmation step before a tool that writes (10 of 20). Caller speech and tool results reach a model. Tool arguments are drawn only from user turns and tool results since 26 August 2026 and tool responses are capped, but no prompt-injection guidance was found (8 of 15). Sessions keep a timeline with tool calls, webhook deliveries are logged per session, usage is broken down by key, and the dashboard has activity logs (12 of 15). The security page states a SOC 2 Type 2 report (per the 9 October check, not re-read on 2 November), the trust centre is on app.vanta.com, whose robots.txt disallows every path, and no bug bounty, disclosure policy or public advisory was found. www.assemblyai.com's robots.txt closes `/.well-known`, so security.txt is unread. Read as assemblyai-stt on the same evidence, a SOC 2 claim with no disclosure route (5, was 12). 20+10+8+12+5 = 55.\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: AssemblyAI Voice Agent API +14\n\n- Amazon Nova 2 Sonic (50): Read as a model. The newest dated change is the May 2026 refresh, completed on 28 May, 162 days before this check (10). No Sonic release note or document history entry in the 90 days from 8 August. The pre-alpha Python SDK shipped 0.9.0, 0.10.0, 0.11.0 and 0.12.0 in the window, counted half (10 of 20). Release notes, document history, re:Post and AWS Support (10 of 15). The JavaScript Bedrock runtime client is current at 3.1163.0, while the Python route is pre-alpha (10 of 15). The SDKs ship on AWS's release train; CI not read (10). Total 50.\n- AssemblyAI Voice Agent API (64): The last changelog entry tagged Voice Agent API is Pre-Connect Requests on 16 September 2026 (47 days before 2 November), which the 9 October check didn't count (20). Five tagged entries since 4 August (18 August, three on 26 August, 16 September) (20). A public changelog that records fixes, a support address and a Discord link we did not test (11 of 15 for a closed service). The Python and Node SDKs still have no Voice Agent client (Node 4.42.0 of 26 October added text-to-speech clients), and the two starter repositories were last changed on 16 August 2026 (8 of 15). The starters need no dependencies and have no licence file, tests or CI (5 of 10). 20+20+11+8+5 = 64.\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Amazon Nova 2 Sonic +11\n\n- Amazon Nova 2 Sonic (79): Closed model under the AWS Service Terms, with Apache-2.0 SDKs and samples (15). Bedrock stores no inputs or outputs by default and model providers can't see them, Sonic isn't on the abuse-detection page's list of models whose traffic is stored, and section 50.3 doesn't list Bedrock among services whose content improves AWS services, as read for amazon-nova-embeddings on 1 November (22 of 30). Bedrock's lifecycle policy for models launched before 7 September 2026 promises 12 months and a Legacy period of at least 6 months, but the March and May refreshes changed the model in place under the same ID (15 of 20). Regions are listed, with sub-processors not read (12 of 20). Total 64.\n- AssemblyAI Voice Agent API (68): A closed service with a clear service agreement. The starter repositories have no licence file (15 of 30). The Terms of Service grant a licence to train on Customer Data by default, the opt-out needs a paid plan, and the retention page gives periods for streaming, sync, dictation, asynchronous and LLM Gateway data but none for Voice Agent sessions, which are recorded and stored. A DPA is published and the privacy policy states Data Privacy Framework certification (14 of 30). The changelog dates deprecations ahead of time, such as the 11 July 2026 notice of a change on 7 August, and the terms promise reasonable prior notice of major changes. No written deprecation policy was found (12 of 20). The subprocessor list at /legal/subprocessors redirects to a Vanta trust centre whose robots.txt disallows every path, so it is unread. US and EU endpoints are mentioned, with no EU host named for the Voice Agent API in the pages read (10 of 20). 15+14+12+10 = 51.\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: Amazon Nova 2 Sonic +10\n\n- Amazon Nova 2 Sonic (10): No x402, MPP or L402 (0). The Nova and Bedrock pricing pages carry a speech-to-speech table drawn by script, so the per-token prices weren't read and this line scores absent, which is our reader's limit and not the vendor's (0). New accounts get up to $200 in Free Tier credits, and the Free Tier FAQ says most new customers need no payment method, read as half on the other AWS listings (10). A person signs up for an AWS account in a browser (0). Total 10.\n- AssemblyAI Voice Agent API (0): No x402, MPP or L402 (0 of 40). On 2 November the pricing page lists speech-to-text, dictation, text-to-speech and LLM Gateway prices but no Voice Agent API price, and the billing docs have no Voice Agent section. The $4.50 an hour rate the 9 October check read on both is no longer published, and no other price page was found (0, was 20). The billing docs now say new accounts' $50 of credit applies to pre-recorded and real-time speech-to-text, Speech Understanding and Guardrails, without naming the Voice Agent API, where on 9 October they said it was covered (0, was 20). A person has to sign up in a browser to get the first key, and no key-creation API was found (0). 0+0+0+0 = 0.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: AssemblyAI Voice Agent API +8\n\n- Amazon Nova 2 Sonic (75): The Bedrock service model types `InvokeModelWithBidirectionalStream`, but the Sonic events inside it (session, prompt, content, tool and usage events) are JSON payloads documented only in the guide, with no schema file (12 of 25). llms.txt and Markdown copies of the Nova 2 guide (10). Guides on the event lifecycle, barge-in, turn-taking, async tools and chat history say when and how to use each (16 of 20). Event fields are documented as JSON examples and tables, not typed schemas (10 of 15). Sample repositories in several languages and the API's exceptions with HTTP codes (12 of 15). Release notes and document history, with in-place model refreshes and a versioned model ID (15). Total 75.\n- AssemblyAI Voice Agent API (83): An AsyncAPI 3.0 file describes the socket and an OpenAPI 3.0.3 file the token endpoint. No description file was found for the agents, sessions and webhook REST endpoints, and the AsyncAPI file lacks `language_codes`, `voice_focus`, `transcript.agent.delta` and `is_error`, which the docs added on 23 July 2026 (19 of 25). llms.txt, a Markdown copy of each page and a docs MCP server (10). Operations and fields say what they are for and when to use them, such as when to choose `hold` over `interactive` execution (17 of 20). Enums, ranges and defaults on audio encoding, turn detection and timeouts. Tool `parameters` are a JSON Schema the server does not validate at `session.update` (12 of 15). Examples in cURL, Python and JavaScript, and tables of session error codes with close codes (13 of 15). A dated public changelog tagged by product and a `/v1` path, with no written versioning policy found (12 of 15).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Amazon Nova 2 Sonic | AssemblyAI Voice Agent API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 95 | 65 | Amazon Nova 2 Sonic +30 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 75 | 83 | AssemblyAI Voice Agent API +8 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 64 | 72 | AssemblyAI Voice Agent API +8 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 77 | 55 | Amazon Nova 2 Sonic +22 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 10 | 0 | Amazon Nova 2 Sonic +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 50 | 64 | AssemblyAI Voice Agent API +14 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 79 | 68 | Amazon Nova 2 Sonic +11 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **67.6 · B** | **56.4 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Amazon Nova 2 Sonic | AssemblyAI Voice Agent API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | AssemblyAI, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `wss://agents.assemblyai.com/v1/ws` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | Proprietary service under AssemblyAI's Terms of Service. The two starter repositories on GitHub carry no licence file |\n| Tools exposed | 0 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-05-28 | 2026-09-16 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-10-01 | 2026-07-01 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | 2026-05-26 |\n| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | yes, with an opt-out |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (4) |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Amazon Nova 2 Sonic\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n### AssemblyAI Voice Agent API\n\n- -8.2 on 2 November 2026 (B to C): pricing, correction\n- +0.2 on 27 October 2026: checklist\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Amazon Nova 2 Sonic.** Nova 2 Sonic runs speech-to-speech conversations with asynchronous tools on Bedrock, with IAM scoping, no default storage of inputs and a 99.9 per cent SLA. Sessions cut off at 8 minutes, the Python SDK is pre-alpha, and the event payloads have no schema file. Prices are in a script-drawn table we couldn't read.\n\n**AssemblyAI Voice Agent API.** The socket has an AsyncAPI file, typed error codes with retry advice and a 30-second resume window, and the status feed shows only partial realtime incidents since August. On 2 November AssemblyAI's pricing page and billing docs no longer listed the API or its rate, no concurrent-session limit is published, and telephony is inbound only.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Amazon Nova 2 Sonic\n\n1. Plan a reconnect before 8 minutes and replay chat history (up to 200 KB) at the start of the new session\n2. Send session, prompt and content start events in order before any audio\n3. Make tool calls safe to repeat, since a reconnect can replay them\n4. Back off on `ThrottlingException` and stay within 20 concurrent sessions per Region\n5. Use the polyglot voices TIFFANY or MATTHEW when callers may switch language\n\n### AssemblyAI Voice Agent API\n\n1. Send `session.end` before closing the socket. Without it the session stays resumable, and billed, for 30 seconds\n2. Retry only `at_capacity`, `concurrency_exceeded` and `internal_error`, with backoff. Every other session error code is fatal\n3. Send `tool.result` inside the `reply.done` handler, not straight after `tool.call`\n4. Mint a one-time token with `GET /v1/token` for browser clients and never ship the API key to a page\n5. Deduplicate webhooks on `event_id`, and verify `X-AAI-Signature` against the raw body bytes because a 401 is not retried\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Amazon Nova 2 Sonic or AssemblyAI Voice Agent API?\n\nAmazon Nova 2 Sonic scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against AssemblyAI Voice Agent API's 56.4 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. AssemblyAI Voice Agent API leads on schema \u0026 documentation, agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do Amazon Nova 2 Sonic and AssemblyAI Voice Agent API need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Amazon Nova 2 Sonic and AssemblyAI Voice Agent API without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Amazon Nova 2 Sonic. AssemblyAI Voice Agent API has a hosted endpoint at wss://agents.assemblyai.com/v1/ws.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-nova-sonic-vs-assemblyai-voice-agent.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-nova-sonic-vs-assemblyai-voice-agent.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"amazon-nova-sonic\", \"b\": \"assemblyai-voice-agent\"}`. 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