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Public agents can be joined from a browser with just the agent ID. Private agents need a signed URL or conversation token minted server-side. The hosted MCP at `https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/mcp` signs in with OAuth.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Billed per call minute, separate from the credit pool. Free includes 15 minutes, Starter $6 75, Creator $22 275, Pro $99 1,238, Scale $299 3,738 and Business $990 12,375. Extra minutes cost $0.08, burst minutes above the concurrency cap $0.16, and text messages $0.003 each. LLM usage is billed on top at the model's rate, and your telephony provider bills you directly (https://elevenlabs.io/pricing/agents).", "priceSummary": "$22 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 or machine payment in the docs or pricing (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 114, "npmWeekly": 1231322, "pypiWeekly": 2223099, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://elevenlabs.io/docs/eleven-agents/overview", "llmsTxt": "https://elevenlabs.io/docs/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://api.elevenlabs.io/openapi.json", "registryName": "io.elevenlabs/mcp", "capabilities": [ "voice.agent", "voice.pipeline", "voice.tools", "voice.telephony" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "closed-source", "python", "typescript", "openapi", "llms-txt", "mcp", "pipeline", "webhooks", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-29", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 71.3, "grade": "BB", 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"2026-10-17T01:46:30.546289725Z" } ], "githubStars": 114, "npmWeekly": 1162606, "pypiWeekly": 2251780, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://elevenlabs.io/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2027-10-06T00:00:00.000Z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T15:52:35.427346212Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://elevenlabs.io/docs/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T14:22:02.557421261Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "elevenlabs.io", "checkedAt": "2026-10-11T13:12:52.95183386Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://elevenlabs.io/docs/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:02:45.295725381Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-14T20:41:43.535202932Z", "fingerprint": "f1b48d848908" }, { "url": "https://elevenlabs.io/pricing/agents", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:02:51.32386103Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-13T20:16:35.524320003Z", "fingerprint": "88eeeebe6baf" }, { "url": "https://elevenlabs.io/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:02:55.326474373Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-14T20:41:53.570052557Z", "fingerprint": "81edfec9ee0d" }, { "url": "https://elevenlabs.io/terms-of-use", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:02:57.339088291Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-13T20:16:41.591694515Z", "fingerprint": "c166f437bb16" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-18T00:14:37.886093034Z" } }, "answer": "ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP scores 71.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Pipecat PhoneLLM's 58.7 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Pipecat PhoneLLM leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "pipecat-phonellm", "name": "Pipecat PhoneLLM", "vendor": "Daily", "vendorUrl": "https://www.daily.co/blog/phonellm-alpha-2/", "kind": "model", "category": "voice-agents", "summary": "Pipecat PhoneLLM is Daily's open-weight text model for the language step of phone voice agents, with tool calling. Alpha 2, released 15 October 2026, comes as Mini (30B, on Workers AI) and Max (120B, weights and dedicated endpoints).", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipecat-phonellm", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipecat-phonellm.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipecat-phonellm.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pipecat-phonellm.json", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/pipecat-ai/phonellm-mini-alpha-2", "license": "BSD-2-Clause for PhoneLLM Mini, with the NVIDIA Nemotron Open Model License kept for its base model. OpenMDW-1.1 for PhoneLLM Max, the licence of its base model. Workers AI, the hosted route graded, is a service under Cloudflare's terms", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai/run/@cf/daily-co/phonellm-mini-alpha-2", "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "On Workers AI, a Cloudflare API token with Workers AI permission on one account, sent as a Bearer header. Inside a Worker the `AI` binding needs no token. The weights of both sizes download from Hugging Face without an account or approval, and a self-hosted vLLM server has whatever authentication the owner adds. Baseten, Modal and AWS SageMaker each need their own account.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "PhoneLLM Mini costs $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens on Workers AI (5,455 and 21,818 neurons), with no cached-input price listed. Workers AI includes 10,000 neurons a day on the Free and Paid Workers plans (https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/pricing/, read 17 October 2026). Max has no per-token route. It runs on dedicated GPU endpoints at Baseten or Modal, billed for compute, or on the owner's hardware (two B200 or B300 GPUs for BF16, per the card). The weights are free to download.", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Cloudflare's Machine Payments beta takes x402 on `POST /ai/run` for four models, and PhoneLLM Mini isn't one of them (https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway/features/machine-payments/, read 17 October 2026). No x402, MPP or L402 on the Daily post or the model cards.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-17" }, "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/pipecat-ai/phonellm-mini-alpha-2", "llmsTxt": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "voice.pipeline", "voice.tools", "inference.llm", "inference.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "model", "open-weights", "hosted", "alpha", "new", "free-tier", "no-card", "usage-priced", "llms-txt", "openai-compatible", "telephony", "gpu" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-15", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 58.7, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 629, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1133, "categoryRank": 12, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 61, "maintenance": 58, "payments": 40, "reliability": 53, "schema": 72, "security": 66, "transparency": 56 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-17" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "PhoneLLM Mini is callable per token on Workers AI at $0.06 input and $0.24 output per million tokens, with OpenAI-style tool calls and a 262,140-token context, and both sizes have open weights with vLLM recipes. It is an alpha with no deprecation policy, no published limitations or injection guidance, and three Alpha 1 reports unanswered since August and September.", "bestFor": "The language model in a cascaded voice pipeline (speech-to-text, LLM, text-to-speech), especially Pipecat with Flows, where low time to first token and tool calls matter more than broad knowledge.", "strengths": [ "Mini is on Workers AI at $0.06 per million input and $0.24 per million output tokens, inside the 10,000 free neurons a day", "Both sizes are trained for multi-turn tool calling and Pipecat Flows, and take OpenAI-style `tools` and `tool_choice`", "Ungated weights in BF16, FP8 and NVFP4, with vLLM 0.30 recipes measured on B200 GPUs in each card", "Mini is BSD-2-Clause and Max OpenMDW-1.1, both free to run, fine-tune and redistribute with the notices kept", "Mini answers with thinking off by default, so replies carry no reasoning tokens" ], "weaknesses": [ "Labelled Alpha 2 by Daily, with no deprecation policy, support period or changelog of its own", "Max has no per-token hosted route, only dedicated GPU endpoints or two B200 or B300 GPUs of the owner's", "No limitations section, safety evaluation or prompt-injection guidance, for a model that acts on a caller's speech", "Workers AI's published input schema requires `prompt` and has no `messages` property, while every example sends `messages`", "Three Alpha 1 discussions, one on tool calls and one on vLLM prefix caching, have no reply from the maintainers" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send `temperature: 0` on every call. The repositories' generation_config.json samples by default, and Max's sets temperature 1.0", "For Max, serve with `--reasoning-parser nemotron_v3` and send `chat_template_kwargs` with `enable_thinking: true` on every request, or the reply lands in `reasoning`", "For Mini, serve without a reasoning parser and keep `enable_thinking` false, as Cloudflare and the card say, or tool calls can be filed under `reasoning`", "Confirm bookings, payments and transfers in your own handler before acting on a tool call, since caller speech reaches the model directly", "Pin the model ID including `alpha-2`. Daily states no notice period, and a later alpha may replace it" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2.8, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 58.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 61, "maintenance": 58, "payments": 40, "reliability": 53, "schema": 72, "security": 66, "transparency": 55 }, "provenanceScore": 57 }, "connect": { "install": "vllm serve pipecat-ai/phonellm-mini-alpha-2 \\\n --served-model-name phonellm-mini-alpha-2 \\\n --trust-remote-code \\\n --dtype bfloat16 \\\n --max-model-len 32768 \\\n --max-num-seqs 256 \\\n --enable-prefix-caching \\\n --async-scheduling \\\n --mamba-ssm-cache-dtype float32 \\\n --enable-auto-tool-choice \\\n --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder", "http": "curl https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/$CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID/ai/run/@cf/daily-co/phonellm-mini-alpha-2 \\\n -X POST \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $CLOUDFLARE_AUTH_TOKEN\" \\\n -d '{ \"messages\": [{ \"role\": \"system\", \"content\": \"You are a friendly assistant\" }, { \"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Why is pizza so good\" }], \"temperature\": 0, \"chat_template_kwargs\": { \"enable_thinking\": false } }'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/voice.pipeline", "tool": "https://letme.dev/pipecat-phonellm" }, "sameCompany": [ "pipecat" ], "area": "voice", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "PhoneLLM Mini Alpha 2 input on Workers AI", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0.06, "note": "5,455 neurons. No cached-input price listed" }, { "item": "PhoneLLM Mini Alpha 2 output on Workers AI", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0.24, "note": "21,818 neurons" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Daily", "domain": "pipecat.ai", "domainRegistered": "2024-05-01", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "https://www.daily.co/legal/terms-of-service/", "privacy": "https://www.daily.co/legal/privacy/", "statusPage": "https://www.cloudflarestatus.com", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-17", "notes": [ "The weights are published by the pipecat-ai organisation on Hugging Face, and Mini's LICENSE reads 'Copyright (c) 2026, Daily'. Legal entity, domain date, terms, privacy and security.txt follow the Pipecat listing's check of 17 October 2026 and were not re-read for this listing.", "The graded hosted route is Cloudflare's, at api.cloudflare.com, so the status page is Cloudflare's. Daily runs no endpoint of its own for PhoneLLM.", "No changelog of PhoneLLM's own was found. Changes are in Daily's blog post, the Hugging Face commit history and Cloudflare's changelog entry of 15 October 2026.", "Pages were read with curl after each host's robots.txt (www.daily.co, huggingface.co, developers.cloudflare.com, www.cloudflarestatus.com, www.pipecat.ai, modal.com)." ], "score": 57 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipecat-phonellm.json", "live": { "slug": "pipecat-phonellm", "probe": { "target": "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai/run/@cf/daily-co/phonellm-mini-alpha-2", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-18T00:14:51.223557152Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 17, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 19, "p95ms24h": 31, "samples24h": 24, "samples30d": 24, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-17", "probes": 21, "ok": 21 }, { "date": "2026-10-18", "probes": 3, "ok": 3 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://www.cloudflarestatus.com", "indicator": "major", "summary": "Partial System Outage", "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T00:09:01.806012239Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.daily.co/legal/privacy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:14:52.9950864Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "0100275d4e6b" }, { "url": "https://www.daily.co/legal/terms-of-service/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:14:55.805751581Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "c64f8e3a735a" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-18T00:14:51.223557152Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "Model API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "ElevenLabs", "b": "Daily", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/convai", "b": "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai/run/@cf/daily-co/phonellm-mini-alpha-2", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "MIT (SDKs)", "b": "BSD-2-Clause for PhoneLLM Mini, with the NVIDIA Nemotron Open Model License kept for its base model. OpenMDW-1.1 for PhoneLLM Max, the licence of its base model. Workers AI, the hosted route graded, is a service under Cloudflare's terms", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "io.elevenlabs/mcp", "b": "not listed", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-09-29", "b": "2026-10-15", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-03-31", "b": "", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-05-20", "b": "", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "yes, with an opt-out", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "114 stars, 1.2M npm/wk, 2.2M PyPI/wk", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "3.5/5 (2)", "b": "2.8/5 (4)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP scores 71.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Pipecat PhoneLLM's 58.7 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Pipecat PhoneLLM leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP or Pipecat PhoneLLM?" }, { "answer": "ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Pipecat PhoneLLM needs an API key.", "question": "Do ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP and Pipecat PhoneLLM need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/convai and Pipecat PhoneLLM at https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai/run/@cf/daily-co/phonellm-mini-alpha-2.", "question": "Can an agent call ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP and Pipecat PhoneLLM without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 60 against 53", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 92 against 72", "Agent ergonomics, 77 against 61", "Security \u0026 auth, 76 against 66", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 58", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 77 against 56" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better", "Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.5 against 2.8 out of 5" ], "goodFor": "Teams that want a managed pipeline with ElevenLabs voices, a choice of LLM, wide telephony integration and web and mobile SDKs.", "slug": "elevenlabs-agents", "watchFor": "$0.08 a minute excludes LLM tokens and carrier minutes" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Payments \u0026 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt-live-vs-pipecat-phonellm.json", "title": "GPT-Live vs Pipecat PhoneLLM", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt-live-vs-pipecat-phonellm" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-realtime-vs-pipecat-phonellm.json", "title": "OpenAI Realtime API vs Pipecat PhoneLLM", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-realtime-vs-pipecat-phonellm" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipecat-phonellm-vs-ultravox.json", "title": "Pipecat PhoneLLM vs Ultravox Realtime API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipecat-phonellm-vs-ultravox" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 7, "edge": "elevenlabs-agents", "elevenlabs-agents": 60, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "pipecat-phonellm": 53, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 20, "edge": "elevenlabs-agents", "elevenlabs-agents": 92, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "pipecat-phonellm": 72, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 16, "edge": "elevenlabs-agents", "elevenlabs-agents": 77, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "pipecat-phonellm": 61, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "elevenlabs-agents", "elevenlabs-agents": 76, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "pipecat-phonellm": 66, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "pipecat-phonellm", "elevenlabs-agents": 35, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "pipecat-phonellm": 40, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 27, "edge": "elevenlabs-agents", "elevenlabs-agents": 85, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "pipecat-phonellm": 58, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 21, "edge": "elevenlabs-agents", "elevenlabs-agents": 77, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "pipecat-phonellm": 56, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP scores 71.3 (BB) on agent 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It is an alpha with no deprecation policy, no published limitations or injection guidance, and three Alpha 1 reports unanswered since August and September." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elevenlabs-agents-vs-pipecat-phonellm", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elevenlabs-agents-vs-pipecat-phonellm.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elevenlabs-agents-vs-pipecat-phonellm.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elevenlabs-agents-vs-pipecat-phonellm.min.md" }, "markdown": "ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP scores 71.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Pipecat PhoneLLM's 58.7 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Pipecat PhoneLLM leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do voice pipeline.\n\n- ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP: grade BB, 71.3/100, rank #138 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/elevenlabs-agents.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/elevenlabs-agents.json\n- Pipecat PhoneLLM: grade C, 58.7/100, rank #629 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipecat-phonellm.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pipecat-phonellm.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### ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP (BB)\n\nGood for: Teams that want a managed pipeline with ElevenLabs voices, a choice of LLM, wide telephony integration and web and mobile SDKs.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 60 against 53\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 92 against 72\n- Agent ergonomics, 77 against 61\n- Security \u0026 auth, 76 against 66\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 58\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 77 against 56\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.5 against 2.8 out of 5\n\nWatch for: $0.08 a minute excludes LLM tokens and carrier minutes\n\n### Pipecat PhoneLLM (C)\n\nGood for: The language model in a cascaded voice pipeline (speech-to-text, LLM, text-to-speech), especially Pipecat with Flows, where low time to first token and tool calls matter more than broad knowledge.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 35\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: Labelled Alpha 2 by Daily, with no deprecation policy, support period or changelog of its own\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP | Pipecat PhoneLLM | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 60 | 53 | ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP +7 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 92 | 72 | ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP +20 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 77 | 61 | ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP +16 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 76 | 66 | ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP +10 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 40 | Pipecat PhoneLLM +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 85 | 58 | ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP +27 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 77 | 56 | ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP +21 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **71.3 · BB** | **58.7 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP | Pipecat PhoneLLM |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | Model API |\n| Vendor | ElevenLabs | Daily |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/convai` | `https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai/run/@cf/daily-co/phonellm-mini-alpha-2` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT (SDKs) | BSD-2-Clause for PhoneLLM Mini, with the NVIDIA Nemotron Open Model License kept for its base model. OpenMDW-1.1 for PhoneLLM Max, the licence of its base model. Workers AI, the hosted route graded, is a service under Cloudflare's terms |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | `io.elevenlabs/mcp` | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-10-15 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-03-31 | |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-20 | |\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 | not found in the text | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | |\n| Popularity | 114 stars, 1.2M npm/wk, 2.2M PyPI/wk | none |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | 2.8/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP.** API keys scoped to endpoint groups, with per-key credit limits and service accounts. $0.08 a minute excludes LLM tokens and carrier minutes.\n\n**Pipecat PhoneLLM.** PhoneLLM Mini is callable per token on Workers AI at $0.06 input and $0.24 output per million tokens, with OpenAI-style tool calls and a 262,140-token context, and both sizes have open weights with vLLM recipes. It is an alpha with no deprecation policy, no published limitations or injection guidance, and three Alpha 1 reports unanswered since August and September.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP\n\n1. Create a key scoped to the agents endpoints with a credit limit before handing it to an agent\n2. Back off exponentially on `rate_limit_exceeded`, and wait for calls to finish on `concurrent_limit_exceeded`\n3. Use signed URLs or conversation tokens for private agents instead of exposing the API key\n4. Set `platform_settings.privacy.retention_days` where you don't need 2 years of history\n5. Pick a low-latency LLM, the pipeline waits on it every turn\n\n### Pipecat PhoneLLM\n\n1. Send `temperature: 0` on every call. The repositories' generation_config.json samples by default, and Max's sets temperature 1.0\n2. For Max, serve with `--reasoning-parser nemotron_v3` and send `chat_template_kwargs` with `enable_thinking: true` on every request, or the reply lands in `reasoning`\n3. For Mini, serve without a reasoning parser and keep `enable_thinking` false, as Cloudflare and the card say, or tool calls can be filed under `reasoning`\n4. Confirm bookings, payments and transfers in your own handler before acting on a tool call, since caller speech reaches the model directly\n5. Pin the model ID including `alpha-2`. Daily states no notice period, and a later alpha may replace it\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP or Pipecat PhoneLLM?\n\nElevenLabs Agents API + MCP scores 71.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Pipecat PhoneLLM's 58.7 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Pipecat PhoneLLM leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP and Pipecat PhoneLLM need an API key?\n\nElevenLabs Agents API + MCP takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Pipecat PhoneLLM needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP and Pipecat PhoneLLM without installing anything?\n\nYes. ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/convai and Pipecat PhoneLLM at https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai/run/@cf/daily-co/phonellm-mini-alpha-2.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elevenlabs-agents-vs-pipecat-phonellm.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elevenlabs-agents-vs-pipecat-phonellm.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"elevenlabs-agents\", \"b\": \"pipecat-phonellm\"}`. 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