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"2016-01-28", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/deepgram.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-11T13:23:13.674114431Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-18T00:14:35.52203266Z" } }, "answer": "Pipecat and Deepgram Voice Agent API score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 68.9 (B) and 68.1 (B). Deepgram Voice Agent API leads on security \u0026 auth.", "b": { "slug": "pipecat", "name": "Pipecat", "vendor": "Daily", "vendorUrl": "https://www.pipecat.ai/", "kind": "framework", "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", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "pipecat-ai" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@pipecat-ai/client-js" } ], "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).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 16314, "npmWeekly": 97617, "pypiWeekly": 302047, "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" ], "tags": [ "framework", "open-source", "self-hosted", "python", "free", "no-card", "bsd-2-clause", "llms-txt", "mcp-client", "pipeline", "speech-to-speech", "telephony", "webrtc", "no-telemetry" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-26", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 68.9, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 215, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1133, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 72, "maintenance": 87, "payments": 60, "reliability": 72, "schema": 90, "security": 57, "transparency": 81 }, "pending": [ "performance", "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.", "strengths": [ "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. 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The terms of service (last updated 31 March 2025) say Daily and name Pipecat Cloud and Daily's open-source frameworks among its services. The DPA (last updated 1 May 2025) names the company 'Daily, Co.' at 548 Market St., San Francisco.", "RDAP gives pipecat.ai a registration date of 1 May 2024. The docs are at docs.pipecat.ai and the code under GitHub's pipecat-ai organisation.", "security.txt returns 404 on www.pipecat.ai, docs.pipecat.ai and www.daily.co. SECURITY.md and the Pipecat Cloud security guide route reports to an email address at Daily, which the guide says is acknowledged within a week. Daily publishes a responsible disclosure policy with no bounty.", "The privacy policy is effective 6 January 2025. The sub-processor list is dated 1 September 2026.", "The status page covers Pipecat Cloud, not the framework.", "WebFetch refused docs.pipecat.ai and github.com, so docs.pipecat.ai, www.daily.co, status.pipecat.daily.co, developers.cloudflare.com, huggingface.co, pypi.org, api.osv.dev, pypistats.org, repos.ecosyste.ms, issues.ecosyste.ms, the npm registry, the MCP registry and rdap.org were read with curl after their robots.txt. 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"title": "Pipecat vs Vogent API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipecat-vs-vogent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cuelight-vs-deepgram-voice-agent.json", "title": "CueLight vs Deepgram Voice Agent API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cuelight-vs-deepgram-voice-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cuelight-vs-pipecat.json", "title": "CueLight vs Pipecat", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cuelight-vs-pipecat" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepgram-voice-agent-vs-pipecat-phonellm.json", "title": "Deepgram Voice Agent API vs Pipecat PhoneLLM", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepgram-voice-agent-vs-pipecat-phonellm" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipecat-vs-pipecat-phonellm.json", "title": "Pipecat vs Pipecat PhoneLLM", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipecat-vs-pipecat-phonellm" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt-live-vs-pipecat.json", "title": "GPT-Live vs Pipecat", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt-live-vs-pipecat" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 17, "deepgram-voice-agent": 55, "edge": "pipecat", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "pipecat": 72, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 0, "deepgram-voice-agent": 90, "edge": "", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "pipecat": 90, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 5, "deepgram-voice-agent": 67, "edge": "pipecat", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "pipecat": 72, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 14, "deepgram-voice-agent": 71, "edge": "deepgram-voice-agent", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "pipecat": 57, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 20, "deepgram-voice-agent": 40, "edge": "pipecat", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "pipecat": 60, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 2, "deepgram-voice-agent": 85, "edge": "pipecat", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "pipecat": 87, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 4, "deepgram-voice-agent": 77, "edge": "pipecat", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "pipecat": 81, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Pipecat and Deepgram Voice Agent API score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 68.9 (B) and 68.1 (B). Deepgram Voice Agent API leads on security \u0026 auth. Both do voice agents.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "deepgram-voice-agent": "$0.075 a minute all in on Standard, $0.050 with your own LLM and TTS, $200 of credit with no card. No phone numbers or SIP, so you bridge Twilio or another carrier yourself.", "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." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepgram-voice-agent-vs-pipecat", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepgram-voice-agent-vs-pipecat.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepgram-voice-agent-vs-pipecat.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepgram-voice-agent-vs-pipecat.min.md" }, "markdown": "Pipecat and Deepgram Voice Agent API score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 68.9 (B) and 68.1 (B). Deepgram Voice Agent API leads on security \u0026 auth. Both do voice agents.\n\n- Deepgram Voice Agent API: grade B, 68.1/100, rank #250 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepgram-voice-agent.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/deepgram-voice-agent.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### Deepgram Voice Agent API (B)\n\nGood for: Developers who already run telephony (Twilio, Amazon Connect, Genesys, AudioCodes) and want a cheap managed pipeline with their choice of LLM.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 71 against 57\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Runs on your own machine\n- No incidents deducted, where Pipecat loses 4 points for them\n\nWatch for: No phone numbers or SIP, so you bridge Twilio or another carrier yourself\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 55\n- Agent ergonomics, 72 against 67\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 40\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Open source\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 | Deepgram Voice Agent API | Pipecat | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 55 | 72 | Pipecat +17 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 90 | 90 | even |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 72 | Pipecat +5 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 71 | 57 | Deepgram Voice Agent API +14 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 60 | Pipecat +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 85 | 87 | Pipecat +2 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 77 | 81 | Pipecat +4 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -4 | |\n| **Total** | | **68.1 · B** | **68.9 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Deepgram Voice Agent API | Pipecat |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | Agent framework |\n| Vendor | Deepgram | Daily |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://agent.deepgram.com/v1/agent` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio, SSE (legacy) | |\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 (SDKs) | BSD-2-Clause for the framework. Pipecat Cloud is a hosted service under Daily's terms of service |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-09-26 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-08-06 | |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2021-10-26 | |\n| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | |\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 | yes | |\n| Popularity | 468 stars, 1.1M npm/wk, 805k PyPI/wk | 16k stars, 98k npm/wk, 302k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | 3/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Deepgram Voice Agent API.** $0.075 a minute all in on Standard, $0.050 with your own LLM and TTS, $200 of credit with no card. No phone numbers or SIP, so you bridge Twilio or another carrier yourself.\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### Deepgram Voice Agent API\n\n1. Set `mip_opt_out` in the Settings message to keep call audio out of training\n2. Use the function-call hold for anything irreversible, since replies can start before the user's turn is confirmed\n3. Back off exponentially on 429, a pay-as-you-go project gets 45 concurrent sockets\n4. Pin the LLM version, an unpinned Gemini route failed for 1.5 hours on 21 July 2026\n5. Mint browser tokens with `ttl_seconds`, not `ttl`, or they expire after 30 seconds\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, Deepgram Voice Agent API or Pipecat?\n\nPipecat and Deepgram Voice Agent API score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 68.9 (B) and 68.1 (B). Deepgram Voice Agent API leads on security \u0026 auth.\n\n### Can an agent call Deepgram Voice Agent API and Pipecat without installing anything?\n\nDeepgram Voice Agent API has a hosted endpoint at https://agent.deepgram.com/v1/agent. No hosted endpoint is listed for Pipecat.\n\n### Are Deepgram Voice Agent API and Pipecat open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for Deepgram Voice Agent API. 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/deepgram-voice-agent-vs-pipecat.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepgram-voice-agent-vs-pipecat.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"deepgram-voice-agent\", \"b\": \"pipecat\"}`. 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