# ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP vs LiveKit Agents (slim)

> LiveKit Agents scores 72.5 (BB) to ElevenLabs Agents's 71.3 (BB) for voice agents. LiveKit Agents is cheaper for voice agents, $0.01 against $0.08 per minute of call. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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LiveKit Agents scores 72.5 (BB) on agent readiness against ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP's 71.3 (BB), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP leads on schema & documentation and security & auth. Both do voice agents. LiveKit Agents is cheaper for voice agents, $0.01 against $0.08 per minute of call.

- ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP: BB 71.3, rank #138 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/elevenlabs-agents.min.md
- LiveKit Agents: BB 72.5, rank #104 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/livekit-agents.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 Schema & documentation, 92 against 81; Security & auth, 76 against 62. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.5 against 3.0 out of 5.
- LiveKit Agents, good 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. Ahead on Reliability, 67 against 60; Payments & pricing, 60 against 35; Transparency & trust, 82 against 77. Also Cheaper for voice agents, $0.01 against $0.08 per minute of call; Free to start without a card; Open source.

| Category | ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP | LiveKit Agents |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 60 | 67 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 92 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 77 | 80 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 76 | 62 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 85 | 85 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 77 | 82 |

| Fact (where they differ) | ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP | LiveKit Agents |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | Agent framework |
| Vendor | ElevenLabs | LiveKit Incorporated |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/convai` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |  |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Price for voice agents | $0.08 per minute of call | $0.01 per minute of call |
| Licence | MIT (SDKs) | 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 |
| MCP registry | `io.elevenlabs/mcp` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-10-15 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-03-31 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-20 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 114 stars, 1.2M npm/wk, 2.2M PyPI/wk | 15k stars, 820k npm/wk, 1.1M PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | 3/5 (4) |