{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "fone-me", "name": "fone.me", "vendor": "Fone", "vendorUrl": "https://www.fone.me", "kind": "platform", "category": "voice-agents", "summary": "fone.me is a hosted AI agent at a personal link that answers calls and messages for a person or small business over web chat, voice, WhatsApp, Telegram and a Premium number. Other agents reach it through keyless MCP and A2A.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fone-me", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fone-me.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fone-me.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/fone-me.json", "dns": "fone-me.grade.anchorterminal.com", "license": "Proprietary hosted service. Terms of service at https://www.fone.me/terms, whose text draws by script and could not be read on 5 November 2026; no company is named on any page read. No source, SDK or package is published", "transports": [ "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://www.fone.me/mcp", "packages": [], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "No credential for callers. llms.txt gives the MCP server at https://www.fone.me/mcp as Streamable HTTP with auth 'none', and the README of the GitHub repository spearisa/fone-me-mcp says 'public, like the links themselves'. The A2A agent cards read (demo and maxr) declare no securitySchemes or security. The search API at /api/agents/search takes a query with no key per llms.txt. Owners sign in with Apple, Google or email to set up an agent; no owner API key, scopes or tokens are documented.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "The agent, the first link and the website chat button are free. Premium is $9.99 a month (llms.txt and https://www.fone.me/alternatives/smith-ai) and adds the agent's own phone number, calling minutes and more links, with cancellation at any time; no page read gives the minute allowance, the number of links, the countries for numbers or the payment method. Outbound calls use Premium minutes and international calls use more minutes per minute. Callers and outside agents pay nothing (checked 2026-11-05).", "priceSummary": "$9.99 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in llms.txt, the guide pages read, the MCP repository README and server.json, or the two agent cards (checked 2026-11-05). The MCP server and A2A endpoints are free and keyless; Premium is a monthly subscription with no payment route stated.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 4, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-05" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.fone.me/llms.txt", "llmsTxt": "https://www.fone.me/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "voice.agent", "voice.telephony", "voice.calls", "messaging.whatsapp", "messaging.inbound" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "closed-source", "mcp", "remote-mcp", "no-auth", "keyless", "a2a", "llms-txt", "whatsapp", "telegram", "ios", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-status-page" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-05", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 28.3, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1429, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1510, "categoryRank": 26, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 29, "maintenance": 23, "payments": 50, "reliability": 15, "schema": 31, "security": 30, "transparency": 23 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-11-05" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Any agent can find a fone.me link and message its owner's agent through a keyless MCP server or A2A, with no sign-up or cost, and owners see every conversation in one inbox. Tool schemas, rate limits and abuse controls for that open channel are unpublished, the terms and privacy policy draw by script, and no company is named.", "bestFor": "Agents acting for a person who need to reach a freelancer's, shop's or small business's own AI agent at its fone.me link to ask a question, request a booking or quote or leave a message, and owners who want an answering agent on a link, WhatsApp, Telegram and a $9.99 number without building one.", "strengths": [ "Keyless MCP server and per-link A2A endpoints let any agent find, look up and message a person's or business's agent without an account or payment", "Agent cards follow A2A 0.3.0 with skills, input and output modes and a JSON-RPC transport, readable at an address robots.txt allows", "Outbound calls disclose the agent and transcription, run only 8 am to 9 pm in the callee's time zone and stop permanently on a do-not-call request", "Owners see every call and chat with a transcript in one inbox, can take over at any time and approve what the agent will say before it calls", "Free agent, first link and website chat button, with Premium at $9.99 a month for a number and calling minutes" ], "weaknesses": [ "No tool arguments, input schemas, annotations, error shapes or rate limits are published for the MCP server or A2A endpoints", "message_agent and A2A reach any person's agent with no caller identity, and no spam, rate or abuse control for that channel is documented", "The terms, privacy policy, data-deletion page, FAQ and support page draw by script, and no company, address or country of incorporation is named on any page read", "No status page, changelog, security.txt, SLA or published minute allowance for Premium", "robots.txt disallows the /mcp, /api/ and /*/a2a paths that llms.txt advertises to agents" ], "agentNotes": [ "Connect to https://www.fone.me/mcp with no credentials; use find_agents or get_agent before message_agent so the message goes to the right person's link.", "Say who you are acting for in every message_agent call; the owner reads it in an inbox as a named conversation, and conversations continue across calls.", "Treat replies as the owner's agent speaking from what it was taught, not a commitment; the vendor says it asks its owner before agreeing to anything or spending money.", "Read a link's agent card at /{link}/.well-known/agent-card.json for its skills before using A2A message/send at /{link}/a2a.", "Don't send personal or payment details through message_agent; no retention or privacy terms for agent-to-agent messages could be read." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 28.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 29, "maintenance": 23, "payments": 50, "reliability": 15, "schema": 31, "security": 30, "transparency": 13 }, "provenanceScore": 32, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-05", "maintenance": "2026-11-05", "payments": "2026-11-05", "reliability": "2026-11-05", "schema": "2026-11-05", "security": "2026-11-05", "transparency": "2026-11-05" }, "last": "2026-11-05", "oldest": "2026-11-05", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "config": { "mcpServers": { "fone.me": { "type": "http", "url": "https://www.fone.me/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/voice.agent", "tool": "https://letme.dev/fone-me" }, "area": "voice", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Premium", "unit": "month", "usd": 9.99, "note": "own fone.me number, calling minutes (allowance not published) and more links; the agent, first link and chat button are free" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "fone.me", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.fone.me/terms", "privacy": "https://www.fone.me/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-05", "notes": [ "No legal entity is named on any page read. Page metadata gives the author and site name as 'Fone', and llms.txt gives San Francisco, CA, USA as a location. The terms, privacy policy and data-deletion page draw their text by script and showed only titles, so whether they name a company is unchecked, not absent.", "The README of github.com/spearisa/fone-me-mcp ends 'Operated by zwilio'. No fone.me page read names zwilio or links the repository, and three web searches found no company of that name, so it is not recorded as the legal entity.", "The MCP server, the search API and the A2A endpoints are on www.fone.me, the vendor's own domain. robots.txt disallows /mcp, /api/ and /*/a2a, so none was fetched; the agent cards it allows were read for two links.", "No status page or changelog found. /.well-known/security.txt answers with the app's HTML shell, recorded as none. /status failed to load.", "RDAP for fone.me, the Wayback Machine, the official MCP registry and the App Store listing (id 6759304762) were not read; each fetch needed an approval that did not come. firstReleased 2025-11-05 is the earliest sitemap lastmod (/sha_krux), a lower bound only, and falls one year to the day before the check, so the sitemap may cap its dates." ], "score": 32 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fone-me.json", "live": { "slug": "fone-me", "probe": { "target": "https://www.fone.me/mcp", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-07T19:22:07.71997153Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 405, "lastMs": 357, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 215, "p95ms24h": 511, "samples24h": 210, "samples30d": 210, "days": [ { "date": "2026-11-06", "probes": 13, "ok": 13 }, { "date": "2026-11-07", "probes": 197, "ok": 197 } ] }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://fone.me/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:59:59.997697627Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://www.fone.me/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:32:32.136376991Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.fone.me/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:28:42.001987885Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e3b0c44298fc" }, { "url": "https://www.fone.me/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:28:44.174787172Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e3b0c44298fc" } ], "mcpTools": { "url": "https://www.fone.me/mcp", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T01:44:39.315960369Z", "status": "ok", "note": "answered without the initialize handshake", "tools": [ { "name": "find_agents", "title": "Find people and businesses on fone.me", "description": "Search fone.me for people's and businesses' AI agents by what they do or offer (e.g. 'dog walker', 'real estate agent in Miami', 'Spanish tutor'). Returns their fone.me links.", "inputSchema": { "properties": { "limit": { "description": "How many results (1-10). Default 5.", "type": "number" }, "query": { "description": "What you're looking for, in plain words.", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "query" ], "type": "object" }, "annotations": { "openWorldHint": true, "readOnlyHint": true, "title": "Find people and businesses on fone.me" } }, { "name": "get_agent", "title": "Look up a fone.me agent", "description": "Get who is behind a fone.me link (e.g. fone.me/samspearin) and what their agent can help with, before messaging it.", "inputSchema": { "properties": { "link": { "description": "A fone.me link or name, e.g. 'fone.me/sam' or 'sam'.", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "link" ], "type": "object" }, "annotations": { "openWorldHint": true, "readOnlyHint": true, "title": "Look up a fone.me agent" } }, { "name": "message_agent", "title": "Message a fone.me agent", "description": "Send a message to the AI agent at a fone.me link and get its reply — ask a question, request a booking or a quote, or leave a message for the person. The conversation continues across calls. Say who you're asking for in on_behalf_of.", "inputSchema": { "properties": { "link": { "description": "A fone.me link or name, e.g. 'fone.me/samspearin'.", "type": "string" }, "message": { "description": "What to say to the agent.", "type": "string" }, "on_behalf_of": { "description": "The name of the person you're asking for (shown to the owner).", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "link", "message" ], "type": "object" }, "annotations": { "destructiveHint": false, "idempotentHint": false, "openWorldHint": true, "readOnlyHint": false, "title": "Message a fone.me agent" } }, { "name": "add_chat_to_website", "title": "Add an AI chat button to a website", "description": "Get the one-line code that puts a fone.me AI agent on a website: a chat button in the corner where visitors chat, call by voice, or continue on WhatsApp or Telegram, and the agent answers questions, takes messages and booking requests for the owner. Use it when someone building or editing a website (HTML, Next.js, React, WordPress, Shopify, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, Framer) wants a chatbot, AI receptionist, live chat or contact widget. Free to start. Give the person's fone.me link if they have one.", "inputSchema": { "properties": { "link": { "description": "The site owner's fone.me link, e.g. 'fone.me/joes-plumbing' or 'joes-plumbing'. Leave out if they don't have one yet.", "type": "string" }, "site": { "description": "What the site is built with: html, nextjs, react, wordpress, shopify, wix, squarespace, webflow, framer. Default html.", "type": "string" } }, "type": "object" }, "annotations": { "openWorldHint": true, "readOnlyHint": true, "title": "Add an AI chat button to a website" } } ], "schemaTokens": 725, "changedAt": "2026-11-07T01:44:39.315960369Z", "check": { "checker": "anchor-check/1.0", "totalTokens": 725, "counts": { "error": 0, "note": 1, "warn": 1 }, "findings": [ { "rule": "TC18", "severity": "warn", "tool": "add_chat_to_website", "message": "readOnlyHint is true but the name says \"add\"", "fix": "If it changes anything, readOnlyHint must be false." }, { "rule": "TC24", "severity": "note", "message": "4 of 4 tools have no outputSchema", "fix": "Declare outputSchema for tools that return structured data, and return structuredContent that matches it." } ] } }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T19:22:07.71997153Z" } }, "answer": "Gemini Live API scores 54.1 (C) on agent readiness against fone.me's 28.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. fone.me leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "gemini-live", "name": "Gemini Live API", "vendor": "Google", "vendorUrl": "https://ai.google.dev", "kind": "http-api", "category": "voice-agents", "summary": "Google's Live API runs real-time spoken conversations with Gemini audio-to-audio models over a stateful WebSocket. It takes audio, images and text, speaks back, and supports interruptions, function calling and Google Search grounding.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemini-live", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemini-live.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemini-live.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gemini-live.json", "dns": "gemini-live.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-live-api-examples", "license": "Proprietary service under the Gemini API Additional Terms of Service. The Python and JavaScript SDKs are Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "google-genai" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@google/genai" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Self-serve API key from Google AI Studio, tied to a Google Cloud project. Keys created since 28 May 2026 are authorisation keys bound to a service account and restricted to the Gemini API, and unrestricted standard keys are rejected. The raw WebSocket guide passes the key as a `key` query parameter. For browsers and phones, a backend mints an ephemeral token (preview) at `POST /v1beta/auth_tokens`, single use by default, 1 minute to start a session and 30 minutes to use it, optionally locked to a model and configuration.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free tier on the Live models with no billing account, where content is used to improve Google products. Paid tier per 1M tokens on `gemini-3.8-live`, the extended thinking model and `gemini-3.1-flash-live-preview`. Text in $0.75, audio in $3.00 (about $0.005 a minute), image or video in $1.00, text out $4.50, audio out $12.00 (about $0.018 a minute). Google Search grounding $14 per 1,000 requests after 5,000 free a month, with a daily cap of 1,500 requests. Each turn re-bills the whole session context. Paid tier needs a linked billing account and a $5 minimum prepayment (https://aistudio.google.com/docs/pricing, checked 2026-11-04).", "priceSummary": "$14 / 1k req", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Live API docs, the pricing page or the billing guide (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 29486957, "pypiWeekly": 34128301, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://aistudio.google.com/docs/live-api", "llmsTxt": "https://aistudio.google.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "voice.agent", "voice.speech-to-speech", "voice.tools" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "closed-source", "speech-to-speech", "websocket", "streaming", "python", "typescript", "llms-txt", "api-key", "function-calling" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-29", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 54.1, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 922, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1510, "categoryRank": 17, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 69, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 40, "reliability": 41, "schema": 66, "security": 48, "transparency": 72 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-04" }, "negative": -3, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-10-29. google-genai 2.34.0, one of the listing's SDKs, lists the fix \"Stop per-request Authorization and X-Server-Timeout from leaking into client default headers\" (commit 0584c96, in the shared request code in _api_client.py; its live.py lines add the quota project header, and the Live connection already copied its headers), so a per-request credential could persist into later requests from the same client. No advisory was found on OSV for google-genai or @google/genai, and release notes aren't an advisory (-3). https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md" ], "verdict": "A speech-to-speech API with per-token prices published, a free tier and a generally available model, `gemini-3.8-live`, since 15 September 2026. The documented raw WebSocket connection carries the API key in the URL, connections reset about every 10 minutes, and no SLA or readable incident history was found for the Developer API.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "`gemini-3.8-live` went generally available on 15 September 2026 with asynchronous function calling as the default and three response scheduling modes.", "Ephemeral tokens can be single use, expire in 30 minutes by default and be locked to a model and session configuration.", "Prices are public per million tokens with per-minute equivalents, $0.005 a minute of audio in and $0.018 a minute of audio out.", "Session resumption handles, a GoAway message with `timeLeft` and sliding-window context compression are documented for long sessions.", "Free tier on the Live models with no billing account, and paid-tier content isn't used to improve Google products per the pricing page." ], "weaknesses": [ "The WebSocket guide authenticates with the API key as a `key` query parameter, and ephemeral tokens as an `access_token` query parameter.", "The status page at aistudio.google.com/status renders in the browser only, so no incident history could be read, and no SLA was found for the Developer API.", "No machine-readable contract for the WebSocket messages was found. The Discovery document types only the setup and token schemas.", "The capabilities guide and the API reference still say the Live API is in preview, and the docs give both 70 and 99 supported languages.", "google-genai 2.34.0 fixed per-request Authorization headers leaking into client defaults on 29 October 2026 with no advisory." ], "agentNotes": [ "Enable `sessionResumption` and keep the newest handle. Connections end after about 10 minutes, and handles stay valid for 2 hours.", "Set `contextWindowCompression` with a sliding window. Without it audio sessions stop at 15 minutes and audio with video at 2 minutes, and every turn re-bills the whole context.", "On `gemini-3.8-live` function calls are non-blocking by default. Set `behavior: BLOCKING` if the model must wait for the tool response.", "Keep the API key on a server and send it through the SDK. Give browsers an ephemeral token from `POST /v1beta/auth_tokens`, locked with `liveConnectConstraints`.", "Use google-genai 2.34.0 or later if you pass a per-request Authorization header. Earlier versions kept it in the client's default headers" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 54.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 69, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 40, "reliability": 41, "schema": 66, "security": 48, "transparency": 55 }, "provenanceScore": 89, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-04", "maintenance": "2026-11-04", "payments": "2026-11-04", "reliability": "2026-11-04", "schema": "2026-11-04", "security": "2026-11-04", "transparency": "2026-11-04" }, "last": "2026-11-04", "lastMoved": "2026-11-04", "oldest": "2026-11-04", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "pip install google-genai # or: npm i @google/genai", "http": "curl -X POST \"https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/auth_tokens\" \\\n -H \"x-goog-api-key: $GEMINI_API_KEY\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"uses\": 1, \"liveConnectConstraints\": {\"model\": \"models/gemini-3.8-live\", \"config\": {\"sessionResumption\": {}, \"responseModalities\": [\"AUDIO\"]}}}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/voice.agent", "tool": "https://letme.dev/gemini-live" }, "sameCompany": [ "gemini-api", "vertex-ai", "gemini-embedding", "vertex-ai-tuning", "cloud-run-gpus", "google-model-armor", "google-imagen", "google-veo", "google-lyria", "google-speech-to-text", "google-cloud-tts", "google-adk", "google-memory-bank", "google-secret-manager", "google-cloud-document-ai", "google-weather-api", "chrome-devtools-mcp", "google-maps-platform", "google-cloud-translation", "google-calendar-api", "firebase-cloud-messaging", "google-cloud-storage", "google-drive-api", "gemini-enterprise", "gemini-cli", "google-search-console", "google-ads-api", "google-forms", "google-sheets-api", "gmail-api", "google-people-api" ], "area": "voice", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "gemini-3.8-live audio input", "unit": "audio-minute", "usd": 0.005, "note": "$3.00 per 1M audio tokens, charged while the API is listening" }, { "item": "gemini-3.8-live audio output", "unit": "audio-minute", "usd": 0.018, "note": "$12.00 per 1M audio tokens" }, { "item": "gemini-3.8-live text input", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0.75 }, { "item": "gemini-3.8-live text output", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 4.5, "note": "includes thinking tokens and transcription text" }, { "item": "Google Search grounding", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 14, "note": "after 5,000 free search queries a month shared across Gemini 3.x models" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Google LLC", "domain": "google.com", "domainRegistered": "1997-09-15", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms", "privacy": "https://policies.google.com/privacy", "statusPage": "https://aistudio.google.com/status", "changelog": "https://aistudio.google.com/docs/changelog", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-11-04", "notes": [ "The WebSocket and the token endpoint are on generativelanguage.googleapis.com, Google's API domain. The docs moved from ai.google.dev to aistudio.google.com (301) by 4 November 2026.", "RDAP for google.com gives a registration date of 1997-09-15.", "The Gemini API Additional Terms of Service are effective 23 March 2026 and incorporate the Google APIs Terms of Service. Paid services fall under Google's Data Processing Addendum for products where Google is a data processor.", "The Google Privacy Policy read on 8 October 2026 is effective 1 October 2026. It is Google's general policy, and the terms page is where API data use is set out.", "www.google.com/.well-known/security.txt expires 2030-04-01 and points to g.co/vulnz and the vulnerability reward programme. ai.google.dev has no security.txt of its own (404).", "aistudio.google.com/status answered 200 with a page drawn by script on 8 October and 4 November 2026, so no component or incident history was read." ], "score": 89 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemini-live.json", "live": { "slug": "gemini-live", "probe": { "target": "https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-07T19:22:08.569875241Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 25, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 25, "p95ms24h": 76, "samples24h": 238, "samples30d": 7299, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 169, "ok": 169 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-11", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-12", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-13", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-15", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-16", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-17", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-18", "probes": 256, "ok": 256 }, { "date": "2026-10-19", "probes": 255, "ok": 255 }, { "date": "2026-10-20", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-22", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-23", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-24", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-10-25", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-26", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-27", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-28", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-10-29", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-30", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-31", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-11-01", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-11-02", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-11-03", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-11-04", "probes": 246, "ok": 246 }, { "date": "2026-11-05", "probes": 185, "ok": 185 }, { "date": "2026-11-06", "probes": 241, "ok": 241 }, { "date": "2026-11-07", "probes": 197, "ok": 197 } ] }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@google/genai", "version": "3.0.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:27:54.103439131Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "google-genai", "version": "3.0.0", "released": "2026-11-06", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:27:53.992746347Z" } ], "githubStars": 574, "npmWeekly": 31989360, "pypiWeekly": 38431674, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://google.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2030-04-01T00:00:00z", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T16:01:22.068349931Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://aistudio.google.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:32:33.309773462Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "google.com", "registered": "1997-09-15", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/google.com", "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T14:17:18.719851913Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://aistudio.google.com/docs/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T13:58:58.890372656Z", "changedAt": "2026-11-07T13:58:58.890372656Z", "fingerprint": "5bad8c4d68e3" }, { "url": "https://aistudio.google.com/docs/deprecations", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T13:59:00.948709321Z", "changedAt": "2026-11-07T13:59:00.948709321Z", "fingerprint": "f0958caa84a5" }, { "url": "https://aistudio.google.com/docs/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T13:59:02.934679834Z", "changedAt": "2026-11-06T13:21:52.348830989Z", "fingerprint": "d3b5522104e1" } ], "github": { "repo": "google-gemini/gemini-live-api-examples", "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T08:51:40.474878688Z", "stars": 566, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": true, "pushedAt": "2026-10-23T02:23:10Z", "openIssues": 21, "openPRs": 10, "issuesOpened90d": 12, "issuesClosed90d": 0, "prsMerged90d": 1, "replies": { "sampled": 23, "unanswered": 11, "medianDays": 1.6 } }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T19:22:08.569875241Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 60, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "gemini-live", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "Closed service. The newest dated change to the agent surface found is the MCP repository github.com/spearisa/fone-me-mcp, created 5 October 2026 with server.json version 1.0.0, 31 days ago (20). The comparison page marked 'Checked October 28, 2026' and the profile lastmods in the sitemap are content, not releases. No changelog, release notes or three dated changes in 90 days (0 of 20). The support page and FAQ draw by script and no support email, forum or community channel was found; responsiveness unchecked (3 of 15). server.json names the server me.fone.www/agents, a namespace that needs proof of the domain, but the official MCP registry could not be read, so presence is scored absent (0 of 15). No package, public code or CI (0 of 10). 20+0+3+0+0 = 23.", "b": "google-genai 2.34.0 (29 October 2026) changes the Live client, adding base_url, api_version and headers to `LiveConnectConfig.http_options` and a header fix in live.py, 6 days before the check (30). In the 90 days from 6 August, the changelog's `gemini-3.5-transcribe-live` (26 August) and 3.8 Live GA (15 September) entries, and Python SDK releases that change Live code, 2.18.0 (12 August), 2.19.0 (19 August), 2.23.0 (10 September), 2.26.0 (30 September), 2.30.0 (13 October), 2.32.0 (21 October), 2.33.0 (22 October) and 2.34.0 (29 October) (20). Closed service with a changelog updated several times a month. Support channels were not tested (10 of 15). Current official SDKs, `google-genai` v2.34.0 and `@google/genai` v2.32.0, both tagged 29 October (15). Apache-2.0 SDKs with type-check workflows in the Python repository and Node 20 or later stated. CI results were not read (8 of 10)." }, "scores": { "a": 23, "b": 83 } }, { "by": 49, "category": "transparency", "leads": "gemini-live", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "Closed service. Terms of service exist at /terms but draw by script, so their content, governing law and the company they name are unchecked; no company, address or country of incorporation appears on any page read, llms.txt says San Francisco, and the MCP repository has no licence (5 of 30). Data handling was read only from guide pages, which say only the owner sees their calls and messages, calls are transcribed and callers told so, and private categories are withheld. The privacy policy and data-deletion page draw by script, so no retention period, recording statement, DPA or AI-training statement was read (8 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices (0). No subprocessors, telephony, model or hosting providers or data locations are named on any page read; the demo agent card's icon is served from Cloudinary (0 of 20). 5+8+0+0 = 13.", "b": "Closed service with clear terms, SDKs under Apache-2.0 (15 of 30). The terms, pricing page and zero data retention page agree that free-tier content improves Google products and paid content does not. The terms say abuse logs are kept for a limited period and the abuse monitoring page gives 55 days. Session state is kept up to 24 hours when resumption is on, and Search grounding data 30 days (20 of 30). A deprecations table gives earliest shutdown dates and replacements, with 17 November 2026 for the two older Live previews, about nine weeks after the replacement shipped, and no stated minimum notice (15 of 20). The terms say data may be stored transiently or cached in any country where Google has facilities. The Data Processing Addendum applies to paid services, and no sub-processor list was read (5 of 20)." }, "scores": { "a": 23, "b": 72 } }, { "by": 40, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "gemini-live", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "MCP reading. Four tools named in llms.txt, a small set, but their definitions were not read, so short of full marks (18 of 25). find_agents searches by what someone does and the search API takes a query; no limit, paging or output-size controls are documented (3 of 20). No error codes or messages documented for the MCP server, the search API or A2A (0 of 20). No readOnlyHint or destructiveHint seen and no idempotency key; the three lookups are read-only by name and description, while message_agent writes to a real person's inbox and continues the conversation across calls (2 of 20). No credentials, no configuration beyond the URL, and few stated inputs; no SDK in any language (6 of 15). 18+3+0+2+6 = 29.", "b": "Scored as an API. Context can be sized with sliding-window compression and a trigger token count, media resolution is configurable and `UsageMetadata` reports token counts (18 of 25). No lists to page. Output controls are turn coverage, optional transcription of either side and the compression window (12 of 20). Server signals an agent can act on are `interrupted`, `generationComplete`, GoAway and tool call cancellation, but there is no documented error catalogue for the socket (10 of 20). Session resumption makes reconnects safe, resuming does not spend a token use, and non-blocking function calls take `SILENT`, `WHEN_IDLE` or `INTERRUPT` scheduling. No idempotency guidance for tool side effects after an interruption (14 of 20). A session needs only a model and a response modality, voice activity detection is automatic, and there are official Python and JavaScript SDKs (15)." }, "scores": { "a": 29, "b": 69 } }, { "by": 35, "category": "schema", "leads": "gemini-live", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "MCP reading, since the MCP server is what an outside agent calls. No tool arguments or input schemas are published in llms.txt, the guide pages or the GitHub README, and robots.txt disallows /mcp, so no session was opened and tools/list was not read. Per-link A2A agent cards are machine-readable JSON (protocol 0.3.0, JSONRPC, input and output modes, skills with examples) and server.json names the remote, but neither types the MCP tools (8 of 25). llms.txt is a real document for agents covering the MCP server, A2A, the search API and the widget (10). Each tool has a one-line purpose in llms.txt and the README, and the how-it-works page states what the agent will and won't do; nothing says when not to use a tool (6 of 20). No typed inputs, enums, constraints or required fields published (0 of 15). Example prompts in the README, per-skill examples in agent cards and widget code for eight site builders; no error response is documented (4 of 15). server.json and the agent cards carry version 1.0.0 and the cards a protocol version; no changelog (3 of 15). 8+10+6+0+4+3 = 31.", "b": "No AsyncAPI or similar file for the WebSocket messages was found. The keyless Discovery document (revision 20261006) types `auth_tokens.create` and five related schemas, `BidiGenerateContentSetup` among them, but not the client and server messages (8 of 25). llms.txt with a Markdown twin of every page (10). The capabilities guide, model comparison table and best practices page say when to use each model, voice activity mode and tool behaviour (16 of 20). The reference at aistudio.google.com/api-reference/live lists every message with field types, enums such as `ActivityHandling`, `TurnCoverage` and the sensitivity levels, and required marks, as tables and not as a schema (12 of 15). Python and JavaScript examples on every guide, but no list of WebSocket close codes or Live error responses was found (8 of 15). Dated changelog and versioned model names, less 3 because the tools page omits the 3.8 models, the overview says 70 languages where the capabilities guide lists 99, and preview banners remain on two pages after general availability (12 of 15). Docs moved from ai.google.dev to aistudio.google.com by 4 November 2026; the pages not re-read stand per the 8 October check." }, "scores": { "a": 31, "b": 66 } }, { "by": 26, "category": "reliability", "leads": "gemini-live", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Hosted reading, for the MCP server and A2A endpoints and the service behind them. No status page is linked from llms.txt, the home page or any guide page read, and https://www.fone.me/status failed to load (0). No readable incident history, so the floor (5). No request rate limit for the MCP server, the search API or A2A is published; the only limits are on the agent's own outbound calls (8 am to 9 pm in the callee's time zone, 'limited per day' with no number), which are not request limits (0 of 15). No 429, overload or retry guidance and no idempotency key for message_agent or message/send (0 of 15). No SLA (0). Nothing on the MCP server, the agent cards or llms.txt is marked beta or preview, and the MCP repository's server.json is version 1.0.0 (10). 0+5+0+0+0+10 = 15.", "b": "Graded as a hosted API on the Gemini Developer API. A status page exists at aistudio.google.com/status, but on 4 November it still returned a script shell titled \"Google AI Studio\" with no components or history we could read (10 of 20, and 5 of 30 for the incident line with no readable record). Session limits are published, 15 minutes for audio and 2 for audio with video without compression, connections of about 10 minutes, and spend limits per 10 minutes of $10 on Tier 1 and $200 on Tiers 2 and 3. Per-model request limits and concurrent sessions are shown only in AI Studio, so the earlier partial 8 of 15 is kept. The server sends a GoAway message with `timeLeft` before closing, session resumption handles last 2 hours, and the troubleshooting guide gives exponential backoff with jitter for 429 and 503 (12 of 15). No SLA found for the Developer API (0). `gemini-3.8-live` is stable and generally available since 15 September, but the endpoint is `v1beta`, ephemeral tokens are in preview and the capabilities guide and API reference still label the Live API a preview, so the earlier partial 6 of 10 is kept." }, "scores": { "a": 15, "b": 41 } }, { "by": 18, "category": "security", "leads": "gemini-live", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "No credential exists for callers. llms.txt gives auth 'none', the README says the server is 'public, like the links themselves', and the two agent cards read declare no security scheme. There is nothing to leak or rotate, but fone.me and an owner can tell callers apart only by the name they give ('Maria via ChatGPT' in the README) and by traffic, and no caller identity or verification is documented (10 of 30). Three of four MCP tools are lookups; message_agent and A2A message/send reach any owner's agent. On the owner's side the vendor says the agent asks before agreeing to anything or spending money, the owner approves what it will say before a call, outbound calls run only 8 am to 9 pm local, pause when reported and stop permanently on request, and the owner can take over any chat. No read-only mode and no confirmation on the caller's side (8 of 20). message_agent returns text generated from what the owner taught the agent, and every agent on the platform reads messages from anyone; the only guidance is the how-it-works statement that the agent keeps relationship status, health, money and address private, with no documented prompt-injection or spam handling for the open channel, and the call-screening page says it does not promise to block calls (4 of 15). Owners see every call and chat with a transcript in one inbox; nothing is logged for the calling agent (8 of 15). /.well-known/security.txt answers with the app shell, and no disclosure policy, bug bounty or certification appears on any page read (0 of 20). 10+8+4+8+0 = 30.", "b": "Keys created since 28 May 2026 are authorisation keys bound to a service account and restricted to the Gemini API, with IP and origin restrictions, a leak checklist and rejection of unrestricted standard keys. Ephemeral tokens add expiry and use counts (25 of 30). The WebSocket guide, re-read on 4 November, still documents the API key as a `key` query parameter and ephemeral tokens as an `access_token` query parameter, so we deduct 10 on that documentation (15 of 30). Ephemeral tokens can be locked to a model and configuration and to one session, which keeps system instructions server side. There is no approval step for tool calls, which the client runs itself (12 of 20). The model hears callers and can ground on Google Search, and the best practices page covers guardrails in system instructions but not prompt injection (5 of 15). Opt-in logs exist for billed projects, and we did not confirm they cover Live sessions. Usage is visible per project (8 of 15). security.txt on google.com valid to 2030 with a vulnerability reward programme. No certification naming the Developer API was found (8 of 20)." }, "scores": { "a": 30, "b": 48 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "Platform", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Fone", "b": "Google", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://www.fone.me/mcp", "b": "https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "None", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary hosted service. Terms of service at https://www.fone.me/terms, whose text draws by script and could not be read on 5 November 2026; no company is named on any page read. No source, SDK or package is published", "b": "Proprietary service under the Gemini API Additional Terms of Service. The Python and JavaScript SDKs are Apache-2.0", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "4", "b": "none", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-05", "b": "2026-10-29", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "2026-04-28", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "2026-10-01", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "yes", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "29.5M npm/wk, 34.1M PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Gemini Live API scores 54.1 (C) on agent readiness against fone.me's 28.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. fone.me leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, fone.me or Gemini Live API?" }, { "answer": "Yes. fone.me has a hosted endpoint at https://www.fone.me/mcp and Gemini Live API at https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta.", "question": "Can an agent call fone.me and Gemini Live API without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Payments \u0026 pricing, 50 against 40" ], "also": [ "No key needed to call it", "No incidents deducted, where Gemini Live API loses 3 points for them" ], "goodFor": "Agents acting for a person who need to reach a freelancer's, shop's or small business's own AI agent at its fone.me link to ask a question, request a booking or quote or leave a message, and owners who want an answering agent on a link, WhatsApp, Telegram and a $9.99 number without building one.", "slug": "fone-me", "watchFor": "No tool arguments, input schemas, annotations, error shapes or rate limits are published for the MCP server or A2A endpoints" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 41 against 15", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 66 against 31", "Agent ergonomics, 69 against 29", "Security \u0026 auth, 48 against 30", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 23", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 72 against 23" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "gemini-live", "watchFor": "The WebSocket guide authenticates with the API key as a `key` query parameter, and ephemeral tokens as an `access_token` query parameter." } ], "history": { "fone-me": null, "gemini-live": [ { "causes": [ "security" ], "date": "2026-11-04", "delta": -3, "from": 57.1, "fromGrade": "C", "to": 54.1, "toGrade": "C" }, { "causes": [ "correction" ], "date": "2026-10-28", "delta": -0.1, "from": 57.2, "fromGrade": "C", "to": 57.1, "toGrade": "C" }, { "causes": [ "method" ], "date": "2026-10-28", "delta": 0.1, "from": 57.1, "fromGrade": "C", "to": 57.2, "toGrade": "C" } ] }, "job": { "capability": "voice.agent", "name": "Voice agents" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-nova-sonic-vs-fone-me.json", "title": "Amazon Nova 2 Sonic vs fone.me", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-nova-sonic-vs-fone-me" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-nova-sonic-vs-gemini-live.json", "title": "Amazon Nova 2 Sonic vs Gemini Live API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-nova-sonic-vs-gemini-live" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/assemblyai-voice-agent-vs-fone-me.json", "title": "AssemblyAI Voice Agent API vs fone.me", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/assemblyai-voice-agent-vs-fone-me" }, { "json": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-live-vs-vapi.json", "title": "Gemini Live API vs Vapi API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-live-vs-vapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-live-vs-vocily.json", "title": "Gemini Live API vs Vocily AI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-live-vs-vocily" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-live-vs-vogent.json", "title": "Gemini Live API vs Vogent API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-live-vs-vogent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-live-vs-pipecat-phonellm.json", "title": "Gemini Live API vs Pipecat PhoneLLM", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-live-vs-pipecat-phonellm" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "by": 26, "edge": "gemini-live", "fone-me": 15, "gemini-live": 41, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 35, "edge": "gemini-live", "fone-me": 31, "gemini-live": 66, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 40, "edge": "gemini-live", "fone-me": 29, "gemini-live": 69, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 18, "edge": "gemini-live", "fone-me": 30, "gemini-live": 48, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "fone-me", "fone-me": 50, "gemini-live": 40, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 60, "edge": "gemini-live", "fone-me": 23, "gemini-live": 83, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "by": 49, "edge": "gemini-live", "fone-me": 23, "gemini-live": 72, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Gemini Live API scores 54.1 (C) on agent readiness against fone.me's 28.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. fone.me leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do voice agents.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "fone-me": "Any agent can find a fone.me link and message its owner's agent through a keyless MCP server or A2A, with no sign-up or cost, and owners see every conversation in one inbox. Tool schemas, rate limits and abuse controls for that open channel are unpublished, the terms and privacy policy draw by script, and no company is named.", "gemini-live": "A speech-to-speech API with per-token prices published, a free tier and a generally available model, `gemini-3.8-live`, since 15 September 2026. The documented raw WebSocket connection carries the API key in the URL, connections reset about every 10 minutes, and no SLA or readable incident history was found for the Developer API." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fone-me-vs-gemini-live", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fone-me-vs-gemini-live.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fone-me-vs-gemini-live.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fone-me-vs-gemini-live.min.md" }, "markdown": "Gemini Live API scores 54.1 (C) on agent readiness against fone.me's 28.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. fone.me leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do voice agents.\n\n- fone.me: grade F, 28.3/100, rank #1429 of 1510. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fone-me.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/fone-me.json\n- Gemini Live API: grade C, 54.1/100, rank #922 of 1510. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemini-live.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gemini-live.json\n- Best conversational voice-agent APIs: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/voice-agents/index.md\n- All 518 voice agents comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/voice-agents/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### fone.me (F)\n\nGood for: Agents acting for a person who need to reach a freelancer's, shop's or small business's own AI agent at its fone.me link to ask a question, request a booking or quote or leave a message, and owners who want an answering agent on a link, WhatsApp, Telegram and a $9.99 number without building one.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 50 against 40\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- No incidents deducted, where Gemini Live API loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: No tool arguments, input schemas, annotations, error shapes or rate limits are published for the MCP server or A2A endpoints\n\n### Gemini Live API (C)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 41 against 15\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 66 against 31\n- Agent ergonomics, 69 against 29\n- Security \u0026 auth, 48 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 23\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 72 against 23\n\nWatch for: The WebSocket guide authenticates with the API key as a `key` query parameter, and ephemeral tokens as an `access_token` query parameter.\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Gemini Live API +60\n\n- fone.me (23): Closed service. The newest dated change to the agent surface found is the MCP repository github.com/spearisa/fone-me-mcp, created 5 October 2026 with server.json version 1.0.0, 31 days ago (20). The comparison page marked 'Checked October 28, 2026' and the profile lastmods in the sitemap are content, not releases. No changelog, release notes or three dated changes in 90 days (0 of 20). The support page and FAQ draw by script and no support email, forum or community channel was found; responsiveness unchecked (3 of 15). server.json names the server me.fone.www/agents, a namespace that needs proof of the domain, but the official MCP registry could not be read, so presence is scored absent (0 of 15). No package, public code or CI (0 of 10). 20+0+3+0+0 = 23.\n- Gemini Live API (83): google-genai 2.34.0 (29 October 2026) changes the Live client, adding base_url, api_version and headers to `LiveConnectConfig.http_options` and a header fix in live.py, 6 days before the check (30). In the 90 days from 6 August, the changelog's `gemini-3.5-transcribe-live` (26 August) and 3.8 Live GA (15 September) entries, and Python SDK releases that change Live code, 2.18.0 (12 August), 2.19.0 (19 August), 2.23.0 (10 September), 2.26.0 (30 September), 2.30.0 (13 October), 2.32.0 (21 October), 2.33.0 (22 October) and 2.34.0 (29 October) (20). Closed service with a changelog updated several times a month. Support channels were not tested (10 of 15). Current official SDKs, `google-genai` v2.34.0 and `@google/genai` v2.32.0, both tagged 29 October (15). Apache-2.0 SDKs with type-check workflows in the Python repository and Node 20 or later stated. CI results were not read (8 of 10).\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Gemini Live API +49\n\n- fone.me (23): Closed service. Terms of service exist at /terms but draw by script, so their content, governing law and the company they name are unchecked; no company, address or country of incorporation appears on any page read, llms.txt says San Francisco, and the MCP repository has no licence (5 of 30). Data handling was read only from guide pages, which say only the owner sees their calls and messages, calls are transcribed and callers told so, and private categories are withheld. The privacy policy and data-deletion page draw by script, so no retention period, recording statement, DPA or AI-training statement was read (8 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices (0). No subprocessors, telephony, model or hosting providers or data locations are named on any page read; the demo agent card's icon is served from Cloudinary (0 of 20). 5+8+0+0 = 13.\n- Gemini Live API (72): Closed service with clear terms, SDKs under Apache-2.0 (15 of 30). The terms, pricing page and zero data retention page agree that free-tier content improves Google products and paid content does not. The terms say abuse logs are kept for a limited period and the abuse monitoring page gives 55 days. Session state is kept up to 24 hours when resumption is on, and Search grounding data 30 days (20 of 30). A deprecations table gives earliest shutdown dates and replacements, with 17 November 2026 for the two older Live previews, about nine weeks after the replacement shipped, and no stated minimum notice (15 of 20). The terms say data may be stored transiently or cached in any country where Google has facilities. The Data Processing Addendum applies to paid services, and no sub-processor list was read (5 of 20).\n\n### Agent ergonomics: Gemini Live API +40\n\n- fone.me (29): MCP reading. Four tools named in llms.txt, a small set, but their definitions were not read, so short of full marks (18 of 25). find_agents searches by what someone does and the search API takes a query; no limit, paging or output-size controls are documented (3 of 20). No error codes or messages documented for the MCP server, the search API or A2A (0 of 20). No readOnlyHint or destructiveHint seen and no idempotency key; the three lookups are read-only by name and description, while message_agent writes to a real person's inbox and continues the conversation across calls (2 of 20). No credentials, no configuration beyond the URL, and few stated inputs; no SDK in any language (6 of 15). 18+3+0+2+6 = 29.\n- Gemini Live API (69): Scored as an API. Context can be sized with sliding-window compression and a trigger token count, media resolution is configurable and `UsageMetadata` reports token counts (18 of 25). No lists to page. Output controls are turn coverage, optional transcription of either side and the compression window (12 of 20). Server signals an agent can act on are `interrupted`, `generationComplete`, GoAway and tool call cancellation, but there is no documented error catalogue for the socket (10 of 20). Session resumption makes reconnects safe, resuming does not spend a token use, and non-blocking function calls take `SILENT`, `WHEN_IDLE` or `INTERRUPT` scheduling. No idempotency guidance for tool side effects after an interruption (14 of 20). A session needs only a model and a response modality, voice activity detection is automatic, and there are official Python and JavaScript SDKs (15).\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Gemini Live API +35\n\n- fone.me (31): MCP reading, since the MCP server is what an outside agent calls. No tool arguments or input schemas are published in llms.txt, the guide pages or the GitHub README, and robots.txt disallows /mcp, so no session was opened and tools/list was not read. Per-link A2A agent cards are machine-readable JSON (protocol 0.3.0, JSONRPC, input and output modes, skills with examples) and server.json names the remote, but neither types the MCP tools (8 of 25). llms.txt is a real document for agents covering the MCP server, A2A, the search API and the widget (10). Each tool has a one-line purpose in llms.txt and the README, and the how-it-works page states what the agent will and won't do; nothing says when not to use a tool (6 of 20). No typed inputs, enums, constraints or required fields published (0 of 15). Example prompts in the README, per-skill examples in agent cards and widget code for eight site builders; no error response is documented (4 of 15). server.json and the agent cards carry version 1.0.0 and the cards a protocol version; no changelog (3 of 15). 8+10+6+0+4+3 = 31.\n- Gemini Live API (66): No AsyncAPI or similar file for the WebSocket messages was found. The keyless Discovery document (revision 20261006) types `auth_tokens.create` and five related schemas, `BidiGenerateContentSetup` among them, but not the client and server messages (8 of 25). llms.txt with a Markdown twin of every page (10). The capabilities guide, model comparison table and best practices page say when to use each model, voice activity mode and tool behaviour (16 of 20). The reference at aistudio.google.com/api-reference/live lists every message with field types, enums such as `ActivityHandling`, `TurnCoverage` and the sensitivity levels, and required marks, as tables and not as a schema (12 of 15). Python and JavaScript examples on every guide, but no list of WebSocket close codes or Live error responses was found (8 of 15). Dated changelog and versioned model names, less 3 because the tools page omits the 3.8 models, the overview says 70 languages where the capabilities guide lists 99, and preview banners remain on two pages after general availability (12 of 15). Docs moved from ai.google.dev to aistudio.google.com by 4 November 2026; the pages not re-read stand per the 8 October check.\n\n### Reliability: Gemini Live API +26\n\n- fone.me (15): Hosted reading, for the MCP server and A2A endpoints and the service behind them. No status page is linked from llms.txt, the home page or any guide page read, and https://www.fone.me/status failed to load (0). No readable incident history, so the floor (5). No request rate limit for the MCP server, the search API or A2A is published; the only limits are on the agent's own outbound calls (8 am to 9 pm in the callee's time zone, 'limited per day' with no number), which are not request limits (0 of 15). No 429, overload or retry guidance and no idempotency key for message_agent or message/send (0 of 15). No SLA (0). Nothing on the MCP server, the agent cards or llms.txt is marked beta or preview, and the MCP repository's server.json is version 1.0.0 (10). 0+5+0+0+0+10 = 15.\n- Gemini Live API (41): Graded as a hosted API on the Gemini Developer API. A status page exists at aistudio.google.com/status, but on 4 November it still returned a script shell titled \"Google AI Studio\" with no components or history we could read (10 of 20, and 5 of 30 for the incident line with no readable record). Session limits are published, 15 minutes for audio and 2 for audio with video without compression, connections of about 10 minutes, and spend limits per 10 minutes of $10 on Tier 1 and $200 on Tiers 2 and 3. Per-model request limits and concurrent sessions are shown only in AI Studio, so the earlier partial 8 of 15 is kept. The server sends a GoAway message with `timeLeft` before closing, session resumption handles last 2 hours, and the troubleshooting guide gives exponential backoff with jitter for 429 and 503 (12 of 15). No SLA found for the Developer API (0). `gemini-3.8-live` is stable and generally available since 15 September, but the endpoint is `v1beta`, ephemeral tokens are in preview and the capabilities guide and API reference still label the Live API a preview, so the earlier partial 6 of 10 is kept.\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Gemini Live API +18\n\n- fone.me (30): No credential exists for callers. llms.txt gives auth 'none', the README says the server is 'public, like the links themselves', and the two agent cards read declare no security scheme. There is nothing to leak or rotate, but fone.me and an owner can tell callers apart only by the name they give ('Maria via ChatGPT' in the README) and by traffic, and no caller identity or verification is documented (10 of 30). Three of four MCP tools are lookups; message_agent and A2A message/send reach any owner's agent. On the owner's side the vendor says the agent asks before agreeing to anything or spending money, the owner approves what it will say before a call, outbound calls run only 8 am to 9 pm local, pause when reported and stop permanently on request, and the owner can take over any chat. No read-only mode and no confirmation on the caller's side (8 of 20). message_agent returns text generated from what the owner taught the agent, and every agent on the platform reads messages from anyone; the only guidance is the how-it-works statement that the agent keeps relationship status, health, money and address private, with no documented prompt-injection or spam handling for the open channel, and the call-screening page says it does not promise to block calls (4 of 15). Owners see every call and chat with a transcript in one inbox; nothing is logged for the calling agent (8 of 15). /.well-known/security.txt answers with the app shell, and no disclosure policy, bug bounty or certification appears on any page read (0 of 20). 10+8+4+8+0 = 30.\n- Gemini Live API (48): Keys created since 28 May 2026 are authorisation keys bound to a service account and restricted to the Gemini API, with IP and origin restrictions, a leak checklist and rejection of unrestricted standard keys. Ephemeral tokens add expiry and use counts (25 of 30). The WebSocket guide, re-read on 4 November, still documents the API key as a `key` query parameter and ephemeral tokens as an `access_token` query parameter, so we deduct 10 on that documentation (15 of 30). Ephemeral tokens can be locked to a model and configuration and to one session, which keeps system instructions server side. There is no approval step for tool calls, which the client runs itself (12 of 20). The model hears callers and can ground on Google Search, and the best practices page covers guardrails in system instructions but not prompt injection (5 of 15). Opt-in logs exist for billed projects, and we did not confirm they cover Live sessions. Usage is visible per project (8 of 15). security.txt on google.com valid to 2030 with a vulnerability reward programme. No certification naming the Developer API was found (8 of 20).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | fone.me | Gemini Live API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 15 | 41 | Gemini Live API +26 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 31 | 66 | Gemini Live API +35 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 29 | 69 | Gemini Live API +40 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 30 | 48 | Gemini Live API +18 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 50 | 40 | fone.me +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 23 | 83 | Gemini Live API +60 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 23 | 72 | Gemini Live API +49 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **28.3 · F** | **54.1 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | fone.me | Gemini Live API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Platform | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Fone | Google |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://www.fone.me/mcp` | `https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta` |\n| Transports | Streamable HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | None | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary hosted service. Terms of service at https://www.fone.me/terms, whose text draws by script and could not be read on 5 November 2026; no company is named on any page read. No source, SDK or package is published | Proprietary service under the Gemini API Additional Terms of Service. The Python and JavaScript SDKs are Apache-2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | 4 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-05 | 2026-10-29 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-04-28 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-10-01 |\n| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | none | 29.5M npm/wk, 34.1M PyPI/wk |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### fone.me\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n### Gemini Live API\n\n- -3.0 on 4 November 2026: security\n- -0.1 on 28 October 2026: correction\n- +0.1 on 28 October 2026: checklist\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**fone.me.** Any agent can find a fone.me link and message its owner's agent through a keyless MCP server or A2A, with no sign-up or cost, and owners see every conversation in one inbox. Tool schemas, rate limits and abuse controls for that open channel are unpublished, the terms and privacy policy draw by script, and no company is named.\n\n**Gemini Live API.** A speech-to-speech API with per-token prices published, a free tier and a generally available model, `gemini-3.8-live`, since 15 September 2026. The documented raw WebSocket connection carries the API key in the URL, connections reset about every 10 minutes, and no SLA or readable incident history was found for the Developer API.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### fone.me\n\n1. Connect to https://www.fone.me/mcp with no credentials; use find_agents or get_agent before message_agent so the message goes to the right person's link.\n2. Say who you are acting for in every message_agent call; the owner reads it in an inbox as a named conversation, and conversations continue across calls.\n3. Treat replies as the owner's agent speaking from what it was taught, not a commitment; the vendor says it asks its owner before agreeing to anything or spending money.\n4. Read a link's agent card at /{link}/.well-known/agent-card.json for its skills before using A2A message/send at /{link}/a2a.\n5. Don't send personal or payment details through message_agent; no retention or privacy terms for agent-to-agent messages could be read.\n\n### Gemini Live API\n\n1. Enable `sessionResumption` and keep the newest handle. Connections end after about 10 minutes, and handles stay valid for 2 hours.\n2. Set `contextWindowCompression` with a sliding window. Without it audio sessions stop at 15 minutes and audio with video at 2 minutes, and every turn re-bills the whole context.\n3. On `gemini-3.8-live` function calls are non-blocking by default. Set `behavior: BLOCKING` if the model must wait for the tool response.\n4. Keep the API key on a server and send it through the SDK. Give browsers an ephemeral token from `POST /v1beta/auth_tokens`, locked with `liveConnectConstraints`.\n5. Use google-genai 2.34.0 or later if you pass a per-request Authorization header. Earlier versions kept it in the client's default headers\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, fone.me or Gemini Live API?\n\nGemini Live API scores 54.1 (C) on agent readiness against fone.me's 28.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. fone.me leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Can an agent call fone.me and Gemini Live API without installing anything?\n\nYes. fone.me has a hosted endpoint at https://www.fone.me/mcp and Gemini Live API at https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fone-me-vs-gemini-live.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fone-me-vs-gemini-live.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"fone-me\", \"b\": \"gemini-live\"}`. 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