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          "Wait for the `completed` execution status, not `call-disconnected`, before reading cost, recording or extracted data",
          "Send `scheduled_at` with a numeric offset such as `+00:00`, since a `Z` suffix returns 500",
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        "http": "curl -X POST https://api.bolna.ai/call -H \"Authorization: Bearer $BOLNA_API_KEY\" \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{\"agent_id\":\"123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426655440000\",\"recipient_phone_number\":\"+919876543210\"}'",
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        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
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                "-y",
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.bolna.ai/api/mcp",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer ${BOLNA_API_KEY}"
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              "command": "npx"
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        "tool": "https://letme.dev/bolna"
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        "legalEntity": "Voxlabs Private Limited",
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          "The terms name Voxlabs Private Limited, operating as Bolna. The privacy policy (updated 2025-03-28) and the site footer name Whismurwave Inc."
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          "Voice-specific tool controls. `disallow_interruptions()`, four `on_duplicate` modes, and interrupted tools keep their result so the model doesn't call them again",
          "79 provider plugin packages, or LiveKit Inference model strings with one LiveKit key and zero data retention under LiveKit's terms",
          "Runs entirely self-hosted, with the local `v1-mini` turn detector and no LiveKit account"
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          "Pass `inference.TurnDetector(version=\"v1-mini\")` to keep turn detection local, and read `MODEL_LICENSE` before using LiveKit's turn models anywhere but LiveKit Agents",
          "Pass `record=False`, or a dict per category, to `session.start()` if audio, transcripts, traces and logs must not reach LiveKit Cloud",
          "Call `context.disallow_interruptions()` first in tools that write, and set `on_duplicate=\"reject\"` or `\"confirm\"`. Duplicates are matched by tool name only, not arguments",
          "Wrap MCP servers in `mcp.MCPToolset` with `allowed_tools` (Python only). The `mcp_servers` parameter is deprecated"
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          "schema": 81,
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      "connect": {
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        {
          "item": "LiveKit Cloud agent session recording",
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          "note": "past the Ship or Scale allowance"
        },
        {
          "item": "LiveKit Cloud Ship plan",
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          "note": "starting price"
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        {
          "item": "LiveKit Cloud Scale plan",
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          "usd": 500,
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        "privacy": "https://livekit.com/legal/privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.livekit.io",
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        "securityTxt": "valid",
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          "The framework is Apache-2.0 software the owner runs. The terms (last updated 6 October 2026) govern LiveKit Cloud's Build, Ship and Scale plans, including LiveKit Inference and Agent Observability, between the customer and LiveKit Incorporated of San Francisco.",
          "The privacy policy (last updated 15 October 2026) covers LiveKit's website and says it does not apply where LiveKit processes data for customers. The sub-processor list is dated 10 September 2026.",
          "livekit.io answers 308 to livekit.com. RDAP at Verisign gives livekit.com a registration date of 24 February 2000, before the company existed.",
          "livekit.com/.well-known/security.txt names a security contact, a PGP key and the disclosure policy at https://livekit.com/security/policy, with no Expires field. The repository has no SECURITY.md.",
          "No CHANGELOG file in the repository. Release notes are on GitHub releases, which couldn't be read from our session. The status page covers LiveKit Cloud, not the framework.",
          "WebFetch refused every page in this session, so first-hand pages were read with curl after checking each host's robots.txt. status.livekit.io disallows /api/, so its history page was read instead."
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/livekit-agents.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/livekit-agents.json\n- Best conversational voice-agent APIs: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/voice-agents/index.md\n- All 184 voice agents comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/voice-agents/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Bolna API + MCP (D)\n\nGood for: Indian-language phone agents and campaigns that need local carriers and India data residency, and for teams that want to self-host the MIT core.\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: Unsigned webhooks and tool calls, IP allowlisting only\n\n### LiveKit Agents (BB)\n\nGood for: Teams writing their own voice agents in Python or Node.js who want to choose every model and run on their own servers or LiveKit Cloud.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 67 against 50\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 81 against 63\n- Agent ergonomics, 80 against 52\n- Security \u0026 auth, 62 against 44\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 76\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 82 against 66\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- Free to start without a card\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.0 against 2.5 out of 5\n\nWatch for: The turn-detector models are under a proprietary licence that forbids use outside LiveKit Agents and training other models on their output\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Bolna API + MCP | LiveKit Agents | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 50 | 67 | LiveKit Agents +17 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 63 | 81 | LiveKit Agents +18 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 52 | 80 | LiveKit Agents +28 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 44 | 62 | LiveKit Agents +18 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 60 | LiveKit Agents +30 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 76 | 85 | LiveKit Agents +9 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 66 | 82 | LiveKit Agents +16 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **52.6 · D** | **72.5 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Bolna API + MCP | LiveKit Agents |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | Agent framework |\n| Vendor | Bolna | LiveKit Incorporated |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.bolna.ai` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |  |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Free |\n| Price for voice agents | not published | $0.005 per minute of audio |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT | Apache-2.0 for the framework and plugins. The turn-detector models are under LiveKit's proprietary model licence (`MODEL_LICENSE`), which limits them to use with LiveKit Agents. LiveKit Cloud and LiveKit Inference are closed services under LiveKit's terms |\n| Tools exposed | 84 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-10-15 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-08-13 | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-03-28 | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\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 | yes |\n| Popularity | 779 stars, 579 npm/wk, 2.6k PyPI/wk | 15k stars, 820k npm/wk, 1.1M PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | 3/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Bolna API + MCP.** Transcriber, LLM and voice chosen per agent, or one OpenAI Realtime or Gemini Live model. Unsigned webhooks and tool calls, IP allowlisting only.\n\n**LiveKit Agents.** An Apache-2.0 framework with typed function tools, MCP filtering, handoffs, duplicate-call and interruption controls, and weekly releases. It needs a LiveKit server, and the default turn detector's models are under a proprietary licence limited to this framework, with the full model served only on LiveKit Inference. No approval primitive or prompt-injection guidance was found.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Bolna API + MCP\n\n1. Wait for the `completed` execution status, not `call-disconnected`, before reading cost, recording or extracted data\n2. Send `scheduled_at` with a numeric offset such as `+00:00`, since a `Z` suffix returns 500\n3. Back off exponentially on 429, the limit on `/call` is 500 requests a minute\n4. Reject webhook and tool requests that don't come from 13.203.39.153, 13.126.9.249 or 13.202.133.53\n5. Leave the MCP `api_key` argument empty unless acting as a sub-account, so the key stays out of the transcript\n\n### LiveKit Agents\n\n1. Set `LIVEKIT_URL`, `LIVEKIT_API_KEY` and `LIVEKIT_API_SECRET` before starting. Every agent joins a LiveKit room, on LiveKit Cloud or a self-hosted server\n2. Pass `inference.TurnDetector(version=\"v1-mini\")` to keep turn detection local, and read `MODEL_LICENSE` before using LiveKit's turn models anywhere but LiveKit Agents\n3. Pass `record=False`, or a dict per category, to `session.start()` if audio, transcripts, traces and logs must not reach LiveKit Cloud\n4. Call `context.disallow_interruptions()` first in tools that write, and set `on_duplicate=\"reject\"` or `\"confirm\"`. Duplicates are matched by tool name only, not arguments\n5. Wrap MCP servers in `mcp.MCPToolset` with `allowed_tools` (Python only). The `mcp_servers` parameter is deprecated\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Bolna API + MCP or LiveKit Agents?\n\nLiveKit Agents scores 72.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Bolna API + MCP's 52.6 (D), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Can an agent call Bolna API + MCP and LiveKit Agents without installing anything?\n\nBolna API + MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://api.bolna.ai. No hosted endpoint is listed for LiveKit Agents.\n\n### Are Bolna API + MCP and LiveKit Agents open source?\n\nYes. Bolna API + MCP is open source (MIT). LiveKit Agents is open source (Apache-2.0 for the framework and plugins. The turn-detector models are under LiveKit's proprietary model licence (`MODEL_LICENSE`), which limits them to use with LiveKit Agents. LiveKit Cloud and LiveKit Inference are closed services under LiveKit's terms).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bolna-vs-livekit-agents.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bolna-vs-livekit-agents.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"bolna\", \"b\": \"livekit-agents\"}`. 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