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      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bolna.min.md",
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          "registry": "npm",
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      ],
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      "authNotes": "Bearer API key (`bn-...`, or `sa-...` for a sub-account) from the dashboard, shown once and stored hashed. The hosted MCP at `https://mcp.bolna.ai/api/mcp` takes the same key as a Bearer header, and every MCP tool accepts an `api_key` argument to act as a sub-account. The Web Call SDK mints single-use browser sessions that expire in about 120 seconds, so the key stays server-side. Webhooks and tool calls carry no signature. Bolna says to allowlist its 3 source IPs instead.",
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      "pricingNotes": "Prepaid wallet from $10 to $5,000 with $5 free credit at signup. Standard rate $0.06 a minute (₹5.52) covers Voice AI on the preferred STT, LLM and TTS models, falling to about $0.045 on larger top-ups. Telephony and a Bolna platform fee are billed on top, and non-preferred models are billed per use. Pilot plans are one-off, $300 for 6,500 minutes or $500 for 12,000 minutes, billed in 30-second pulses with 25 concurrent calls. Bringing your own STT, LLM and TTS keys leaves only the platform fee and telephony. Enterprise is custom (https://www.bolna.ai/pricing).",
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        "bestFor": "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.",
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          "Transcriber, LLM and voice chosen per agent, or one OpenAI Realtime or Gemini Live model",
          "Indian telephony through Plivo, Exotel and Vobiz, with an India data-residency option in ap-south-1",
          "Hosted MCP server with 84 tools, 23 of them carrying `destructiveHint`",
          "MIT-licensed core framework, released to PyPI almost daily",
          "Published per-endpoint rate limits with 429 and backoff guidance"
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          "Unsigned webhooks and tool calls, IP allowlisting only",
          "No security.txt, bug bounty or SOC 2 claim found",
          "The OpenAPI link in llms.txt returns 404",
          "Telephony and platform fees aren't priced on the pricing page",
          "Terms and privacy policy name different legal entities"
        ],
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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",
          "Back off exponentially on 429, the limit on `/call` is 500 requests a minute",
          "Reject webhook and tool requests that don't come from 13.203.39.153, 13.126.9.249 or 13.202.133.53",
          "Leave the MCP `api_key` argument empty unless acting as a sub-account, so the key stays out of the transcript"
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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\"}'",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http bolna https://mcp.bolna.ai/api/mcp --header \"Authorization: Bearer $BOLNA_API_KEY\"",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "bolna": {
              "args": [
                "-y",
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.bolna.ai/api/mcp",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer ${BOLNA_API_KEY}"
              ],
              "command": "npx"
            }
          }
        }
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        "capability": "https://letme.dev/voice.agent",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/bolna"
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        {
          "item": "Pilot plan, 12,000 minutes",
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          "note": "one-off $500, 25 concurrent calls"
        },
        {
          "item": "Pilot plan, 6,500 minutes",
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        "legalEntity": "Voxlabs Private Limited",
        "domain": "bolna.ai",
        "domainRegistered": "2024-09-27",
        "domainNote": "The registry date is later than Bolna's first PyPI release (2024-01-01), so the domain was probably re-registered. Support mail also uses bolna.dev.",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://www.bolna.ai/terms-of-service",
        "privacy": "https://www.bolna.ai/privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.bolna.ai",
        "changelog": "https://www.bolna.ai/docs/changelog",
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        "notes": [
          "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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    "answer": "Pipecat scores 68.9 (B) on agent readiness against Bolna API + MCP's 52.6 (D), and leads in every scored category.",
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      "name": "Pipecat",
      "vendor": "Daily",
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      "category": "voice-agents",
      "summary": "Pipecat is Daily's open-source Python framework for real-time voice and multimodal agents, built as pipelines of transport, speech-to-text, LLM and text-to-speech services, with client SDKs and optional hosting on Pipecat Cloud.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipecat",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipecat.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipecat.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pipecat.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/pipecat-ai/pipecat",
      "license": "BSD-2-Clause for the framework. Pipecat Cloud is a hosted service under Daily's terms of service",
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      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "pipecat-ai"
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        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@pipecat-ai/client-js"
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      ],
      "auth": "none",
      "authNotes": "The framework has no account or key of its own and runs in the developer's process. Each service takes its provider's key, such as `DEEPGRAM_API_KEY` or `CARTESIA_API_KEY`, passed in code. Pipecat Cloud uses public and private API keys as bearer tokens, CLI login and email with a one-time code for the dashboard.",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "Free under BSD-2-Clause, with no signup. The developer pays each model, speech and transport provider. Pipecat Cloud, if used, bills from $0.01 per active agent minute for agent-1x, with Daily PSTN at $0.018 a minute and 1:1 Daily WebRTC voice free (https://www.daily.co/pricing/pipecat-cloud/, read 17 October 2026).",
      "priceSummary": "Free · OSS",
      "where": "library",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the framework source, the docs or the Pipecat Cloud pricing page (checked 17 October 2026).",
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      "popularity": {
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        "npmWeekly": 97617,
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        "asOf": "2026-10-17"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.pipecat.ai",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.pipecat.ai/llms.txt",
      "capabilities": [
        "voice.agent",
        "voice.pipeline",
        "voice.speech-to-speech",
        "voice.tools",
        "voice.telephony",
        "agent.mcp-client",
        "agent.multi-agent"
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        "open-source",
        "self-hosted",
        "python",
        "free",
        "no-card",
        "bsd-2-clause",
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        "mcp-client",
        "pipeline",
        "speech-to-speech",
        "telephony",
        "webrtc",
        "no-telemetry"
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      "lastRelease": "2026-09-26",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 68.9,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 215,
        "ranked": true,
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        "categoryRank": 4,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
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          "maintenance": 87,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 72,
          "schema": 90,
          "security": 57,
          "transparency": 81
        },
        "pending": [
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          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-17"
        },
        "negative": -4,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "2025-11-10 to 2026-06-17. Three published advisories, fixed and between four and eleven months old, so 1 point each. Remote code execution through `pickle.loads()` in the optional, deprecated LivekitFrameSerializer (GHSA-c2jg-5cp7-6wc7, CVE-2025-62373, critical, fixed in 0.0.94 on 10 November 2025, advisory published 23 April 2026), arbitrary file read through the development runner's `/files` endpoint (GHSA-3363-2ph6-35wh, high, fixed in 1.2.0 on 14 May 2026) and unauthenticated call control through the runner's telephony `/ws` endpoint (GHSA-j8cv-x86q-rj85, high, fixed in 1.4.0 on 17 June 2026). The moderate GHSA-hqm2-cfx2-2vgh of 15 October 2026 covers behaviour documented as by design and isn't deducted. https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-c2jg-5cp7-6wc7, https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-3363-2ph6-35wh, https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-j8cv-x86q-rj85",
          "2026-10-16. changelog/6193.security.md says the services for OpenAI-compatible providers other than OpenAI sent `OPENAI_API_KEY` to their provider when given no `api_key`, including when `os.getenv` read an unset variable. Fixed on main on 16 October 2026 (commit 89d0e031a) and not in a release at the check, with no advisory, so 1 point. https://github.com/pipecat-ai/pipecat/blob/main/changelog/6193.security.md"
        ],
        "verdict": "A BSD-2-Clause Python framework with dozens of speech, model and transport integrations, an MCP client that filters tools and pins arguments, and eight releases in 90 days. It has no tool-approval step, and 1.12.0 can send OPENAI_API_KEY to other OpenAI-compatible providers when no key is passed, a flaw fixed on main but not yet released.",
        "bestFor": "Python teams that want to own a voice agent's pipeline, pick each speech and model provider, and host it themselves or on Pipecat Cloud.",
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          "BSD-2-Clause framework, with 23 speech-to-text, 25 LLM, 31 text-to-speech and 6 speech-to-speech services listed in the README",
          "Eight PyPI releases in the 90 days to 17 October 2026, with a dated Keep a Changelog file and pull-request links",
          "`MCPClient` takes a tool allowlist, per-tool output filters and fixed arguments hidden from the model",
          "No telemetry found in the source. OpenTelemetry tracing is off by default and needs an exporter the developer supplies",
          "Errors carry a category that separates permanent failures from transient ones, with an `is_usable` flag per service"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No tool-approval or confirmation step, and no prompt-injection guidance, for tools that act on a caller's speech",
          "Up to 1.12.0, OpenAI-compatible provider services fall back to `OPENAI_API_KEY` when given no key. Fixed on main on 16 October, unreleased",
          "Three high or critical advisories fixed since November 2025, in an optional serialiser and the development runner",
          "Breaking changes ship in minor releases, 16 flagged in 1.8.0 and 4 in 1.10.0, although the changelog says it follows semver",
          "The OpenTelemetry reference page gives `enable_tracing` a default of True, while the 1.12.0 source defaults it to False"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Pass `api_key` explicitly to every OpenAI-compatible service such as Groq, Cerebras or OpenRouter. On 1.12.0 a missing key sends `OPENAI_API_KEY` to that provider",
          "Pass `tools_filter` to `MCPClient` so only the tools the call needs reach the model, and use `tools_arguments` for values the model must not choose",
          "Gate tools that book, pay or send in your own handler. Pipecat has no approval step, and a caller's speech goes straight to the model",
          "Keep the development runner on localhost. Its `/start`, `/daily` and dial-in webhook endpoints take requests from anyone by design",
          "Pin a minor version and read the breaking-change flags in CHANGELOG.md before upgrading, since minor releases remove and rename APIs"
        ],
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          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 72,
          "schema": 90,
          "security": 57,
          "transparency": 83
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        "install": "pip install pipecat-ai   # or: uv tool install \"pipecat-ai[cli]\" \u0026\u0026 pipecat init"
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        "tool": "https://letme.dev/pipecat"
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          "usd": 0.01,
          "note": "per active agent minute, reserved agents $0.0005 a minute"
        },
        {
          "item": "Pipecat Cloud agent-2x (1 vCPU, 2 GB)",
          "unit": "call-minute",
          "usd": 0.02,
          "note": "per active agent minute, reserved agents $0.001 a minute"
        },
        {
          "item": "Pipecat Cloud agent-3x (1.5 vCPU, 3 GB)",
          "unit": "call-minute",
          "usd": 0.03,
          "note": "per active agent minute, reserved agents $0.0015 a minute"
        },
        {
          "item": "Daily WebRTC voice and video",
          "unit": "call-minute",
          "usd": 0.004,
          "note": "per participant minute, 1:1 voice sessions on Pipecat Cloud free"
        },
        {
          "item": "Daily PSTN dial-in or dial-out",
          "unit": "call-minute",
          "usd": 0.018,
          "note": "SIP included, SIP alone $0.003 to $0.02 a minute"
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        {
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  "markdown": "Pipecat scores 68.9 (B) on agent readiness against Bolna API + MCP's 52.6 (D), and leads in every scored category. Both do voice agents.\n\n- Bolna API + MCP: grade D, 52.6/100, rank #814 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bolna.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/bolna.json\n- Pipecat: grade B, 68.9/100, rank #215 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipecat.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pipecat.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- No incidents deducted, where Pipecat loses 4 points for them\n\nWatch for: Unsigned webhooks and tool calls, IP allowlisting only\n\n### Pipecat (B)\n\nGood for: Python teams that want to own a voice agent's pipeline, pick each speech and model provider, and host it themselves or on Pipecat Cloud.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 72 against 50\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 90 against 63\n- Agent ergonomics, 72 against 52\n- Security \u0026 auth, 57 against 44\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 87 against 76\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 81 against 66\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\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: No tool-approval or confirmation step, and no prompt-injection guidance, for tools that act on a caller's speech\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Bolna API + MCP | Pipecat | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 50 | 72 | Pipecat +22 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 63 | 90 | Pipecat +27 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 52 | 72 | Pipecat +20 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 44 | 57 | Pipecat +13 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 60 | Pipecat +30 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 76 | 87 | Pipecat +11 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 66 | 81 | Pipecat +15 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -4 | |\n| **Total** | | **52.6 · D** | **68.9 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Bolna API + MCP | Pipecat |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | Agent framework |\n| Vendor | Bolna | Daily |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.bolna.ai` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |  |\n| Auth | API key | None |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Free |\n| Price for voice agents | not published | $0.01 per minute of call |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT | BSD-2-Clause for the framework. Pipecat Cloud is a hosted service under Daily's terms of service |\n| Tools exposed | 84 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-09-26 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-08-13 |  |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-03-28 |  |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes |  |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes |  |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text |  |\n| Popularity | 779 stars, 579 npm/wk, 2.6k PyPI/wk | 16k stars, 98k npm/wk, 302k 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**Pipecat.** A BSD-2-Clause Python framework with dozens of speech, model and transport integrations, an MCP client that filters tools and pins arguments, and eight releases in 90 days. It has no tool-approval step, and 1.12.0 can send OPENAI_API_KEY to other OpenAI-compatible providers when no key is passed, a flaw fixed on main but not yet released.\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### Pipecat\n\n1. Pass `api_key` explicitly to every OpenAI-compatible service such as Groq, Cerebras or OpenRouter. On 1.12.0 a missing key sends `OPENAI_API_KEY` to that provider\n2. Pass `tools_filter` to `MCPClient` so only the tools the call needs reach the model, and use `tools_arguments` for values the model must not choose\n3. Gate tools that book, pay or send in your own handler. Pipecat has no approval step, and a caller's speech goes straight to the model\n4. Keep the development runner on localhost. Its `/start`, `/daily` and dial-in webhook endpoints take requests from anyone by design\n5. Pin a minor version and read the breaking-change flags in CHANGELOG.md before upgrading, since minor releases remove and rename APIs\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Bolna API + MCP or Pipecat?\n\nPipecat scores 68.9 (B) 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 Pipecat without installing anything?\n\nBolna API + MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://api.bolna.ai. No hosted endpoint is listed for Pipecat.\n\n### Are Bolna API + MCP and Pipecat open source?\n\nYes. Bolna API + MCP is open source (MIT). Pipecat is open source (BSD-2-Clause for the framework. Pipecat Cloud is a hosted service under Daily's terms of service).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bolna-vs-pipecat.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bolna-vs-pipecat.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"bolna\", \"b\": \"pipecat\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare bolna pipecat`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/bolna.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pipecat.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Bolna API + MCP or Pipecat\n\n- [AssemblyAI Voice Agent API vs Bolna API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/assemblyai-voice-agent-vs-bolna.md)\n- [AssemblyAI Voice Agent API vs Pipecat](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/assemblyai-voice-agent-vs-pipecat.md)\n- [Bland AI API + MCP vs Bolna API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bland-ai-vs-bolna.md)\n- [Bland AI API + MCP vs Pipecat](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bland-ai-vs-pipecat.md)\n- [Bolna API + MCP vs Deepgram Voice Agent API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bolna-vs-deepgram-voice-agent.md)\n- [Bolna API + MCP vs ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bolna-vs-elevenlabs-agents.md)\n- [Bolna API + MCP vs Gemini Live API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bolna-vs-gemini-live.md)\n- [Bolna API + MCP vs GPT-Live](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bolna-vs-gpt-live.md)\n- [Bolna API + MCP vs Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bolna-vs-hume-evi.md)\n- [Bolna API + MCP vs LiveKit Agents](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bolna-vs-livekit-agents.md)\n- [Bolna API + MCP vs OpenAI Realtime API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bolna-vs-openai-realtime.md)\n- [Bolna API + MCP vs PlaceCall](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bolna-vs-placecall.md)\n- [Bolna API + MCP vs Retell AI API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bolna-vs-retell-ai.md)\n- [Bolna API + MCP vs Synthflow API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bolna-vs-synthflow.md)\n- [Bolna API + MCP vs Ultravox Realtime API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bolna-vs-ultravox.md)\n- [Bolna API + MCP vs Vapi API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bolna-vs-vapi.md)\n- [Bolna API + MCP vs Vocily AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bolna-vs-vocily.md)\n- [Bolna API + MCP vs Vogent API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bolna-vs-vogent.md)\n- [Deepgram Voice Agent API vs Pipecat](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepgram-voice-agent-vs-pipecat.md)\n- [ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP vs Pipecat](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elevenlabs-agents-vs-pipecat.md)\n- [Gemini Live API vs Pipecat](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-live-vs-pipecat.md)\n- [Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface) vs Pipecat](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hume-evi-vs-pipecat.md)\n- [LiveKit Agents vs Pipecat](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/livekit-agents-vs-pipecat.md)\n- [OpenAI Realtime API vs Pipecat](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-realtime-vs-pipecat.md)\n- [Pipecat vs PlaceCall](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipecat-vs-placecall.md)\n- [Pipecat vs Retell AI API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipecat-vs-retell-ai.md)\n- [Pipecat vs Synthflow API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipecat-vs-synthflow.md)\n- [Pipecat vs Ultravox Realtime API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipecat-vs-ultravox.md)\n- [Pipecat vs Vapi API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipecat-vs-vapi.md)\n- [Pipecat vs Vocily AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipecat-vs-vocily.md)\n- [Pipecat vs Vogent API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipecat-vs-vogent.md)\n- [Bolna API + MCP vs CueLight](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bolna-vs-cuelight.md)\n- [Bolna API + MCP vs Pipecat PhoneLLM](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bolna-vs-pipecat-phonellm.md)\n- [CueLight vs Pipecat](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cuelight-vs-pipecat.md)\n- [Pipecat vs Pipecat PhoneLLM](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipecat-vs-pipecat-phonellm.md)\n- [GPT-Live vs Pipecat](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt-live-vs-pipecat.md)\n",
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