# ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP vs Gemini Live API (slim)

> ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP scores 71.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Gemini Live API's 57.1 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Gemini Live API leads on payments & pricing. Both do voice agent. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP scores 71.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Gemini Live API's 57.1 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Gemini Live API leads on payments & pricing. Both do voice agent.

- ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP: BB 71.3, rank #125 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/elevenlabs-agents.min.md
- Gemini Live API: C 57.1, rank #560 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemini-live.min.md
- ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP, good for Teams that want a managed pipeline with ElevenLabs voices, a choice of LLM, wide telephony integration and web and mobile SDKs. Ahead on Reliability, 60 against 41; Schema & documentation, 92 against 66; Agent ergonomics, 77 against 69; Security & auth, 76 against 48; Transparency & trust, 77 against 72. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better.
- Gemini Live API, good for Teams building their own voice or vision assistant on a single speech-to-speech model with function calling and Search grounding, who can run a backend for tokens and audio transport. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 40 against 35.

| Category | ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP | Gemini Live API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 60 | 41 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 92 | 66 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 77 | 69 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 76 | 48 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 85 | 83 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 77 | 72 |

| Fact (where they differ) | ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP | Gemini Live API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | ElevenLabs | Google |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/convai` | `https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Price for voice agent | $0.08 per minute of call | not published |
| Licence | MIT (SDKs) | Proprietary service under the Gemini API Additional Terms of Service. The Python and JavaScript SDKs are Apache-2.0 |
| MCP registry | `io.elevenlabs/mcp` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-09-15 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-03-31 | 2026-04-28 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-20 | 2026-10-01 |
| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 114 stars, 1.2M npm/wk, 2.2M PyPI/wk | 29.5M npm/wk, 34.1M PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | none |