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      "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.",
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      "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 queries after 5,000 free a month. Each turn re-bills the whole session context. Paid tier needs a linked billing account and a $5 minimum prepayment (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing, checked 2026-10-08).",
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        "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.",
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          "`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."
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          "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, best practices and API reference pages still say the Live API is in preview, and the docs give both 70 and 99 supported languages.",
          "No telephony. Phone calls need a partner such as Voximplant, LiveKit or Pipecat, and concurrent session limits are shown only inside AI Studio."
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          "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.",
          "Send 16 kHz 16-bit PCM in 20 to 40 ms chunks and discard buffered playback when `interrupted` is true.",
          "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`."
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          "item": "gemini-3.8-live text input",
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        "privacy": "https://policies.google.com/privacy",
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          "The WebSocket and the token endpoint are on generativelanguage.googleapis.com, Google's API domain. The docs are on ai.google.dev.",
          "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, so no component or incident history was read."
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      "summary": "Pipecat is Daily's open-source Python framework for real-time voice and multimodal agents, built as pipelines of transport, speech-to-text, LLM and text-to-speech services, with client SDKs and optional hosting on Pipecat Cloud.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipecat",
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      "authNotes": "The framework has no account or key of its own and runs in the developer's process. Each service takes its provider's key, such as `DEEPGRAM_API_KEY` or `CARTESIA_API_KEY`, passed in code. Pipecat Cloud uses public and private API keys as bearer tokens, CLI login and email with a one-time code for the dashboard.",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "Free under BSD-2-Clause, with no signup. The developer pays each model, speech and transport provider. Pipecat Cloud, if used, bills from $0.01 per active agent minute for agent-1x, with Daily PSTN at $0.018 a minute and 1:1 Daily WebRTC voice free (https://www.daily.co/pricing/pipecat-cloud/, read 17 October 2026).",
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        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the framework source, the docs or the Pipecat Cloud pricing page (checked 17 October 2026).",
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          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-17"
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        "negative": -4,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "2025-11-10 to 2026-06-17. Three published advisories, fixed and between four and eleven months old, so 1 point each. Remote code execution through `pickle.loads()` in the optional, deprecated LivekitFrameSerializer (GHSA-c2jg-5cp7-6wc7, CVE-2025-62373, critical, fixed in 0.0.94 on 10 November 2025, advisory published 23 April 2026), arbitrary file read through the development runner's `/files` endpoint (GHSA-3363-2ph6-35wh, high, fixed in 1.2.0 on 14 May 2026) and unauthenticated call control through the runner's telephony `/ws` endpoint (GHSA-j8cv-x86q-rj85, high, fixed in 1.4.0 on 17 June 2026). The moderate GHSA-hqm2-cfx2-2vgh of 15 October 2026 covers behaviour documented as by design and isn't deducted. https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-c2jg-5cp7-6wc7, https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-3363-2ph6-35wh, https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-j8cv-x86q-rj85",
          "2026-10-16. changelog/6193.security.md says the services for OpenAI-compatible providers other than OpenAI sent `OPENAI_API_KEY` to their provider when given no `api_key`, including when `os.getenv` read an unset variable. Fixed on main on 16 October 2026 (commit 89d0e031a) and not in a release at the check, with no advisory, so 1 point. https://github.com/pipecat-ai/pipecat/blob/main/changelog/6193.security.md"
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        "bestFor": "Python teams that want to own a voice agent's pipeline, pick each speech and model provider, and host it themselves or on Pipecat Cloud.",
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          "Eight PyPI releases in the 90 days to 17 October 2026, with a dated Keep a Changelog file and pull-request links",
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          "No telemetry found in the source. OpenTelemetry tracing is off by default and needs an exporter the developer supplies",
          "Errors carry a category that separates permanent failures from transient ones, with an `is_usable` flag per service"
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          "Up to 1.12.0, OpenAI-compatible provider services fall back to `OPENAI_API_KEY` when given no key. Fixed on main on 16 October, unreleased",
          "Three high or critical advisories fixed since November 2025, in an optional serialiser and the development runner",
          "Breaking changes ship in minor releases, 16 flagged in 1.8.0 and 4 in 1.10.0, although the changelog says it follows semver",
          "The OpenTelemetry reference page gives `enable_tracing` a default of True, while the 1.12.0 source defaults it to False"
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          "Pass `api_key` explicitly to every OpenAI-compatible service such as Groq, Cerebras or OpenRouter. On 1.12.0 a missing key sends `OPENAI_API_KEY` to that provider",
          "Pass `tools_filter` to `MCPClient` so only the tools the call needs reach the model, and use `tools_arguments` for values the model must not choose",
          "Gate tools that book, pay or send in your own handler. Pipecat has no approval step, and a caller's speech goes straight to the model",
          "Keep the development runner on localhost. Its `/start`, `/daily` and dial-in webhook endpoints take requests from anyone by design",
          "Pin a minor version and read the breaking-change flags in CHANGELOG.md before upgrading, since minor releases remove and rename APIs"
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        },
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          "item": "Pipecat Cloud agent-2x (1 vCPU, 2 GB)",
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        {
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          "usd": 0.2,
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  "markdown": "Pipecat scores 68.9 (B) on agent readiness against Gemini Live API's 57.1 (C), and leads in every scored category. Both do voice agents.\n\n- Gemini Live API: grade C, 57.1/100, rank #688 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemini-live.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gemini-live.json\n- Pipecat: grade B, 68.9/100, rank #215 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipecat.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pipecat.json\n- Best conversational voice-agent APIs: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/voice-agents/index.md\n- All 184 voice agents comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/voice-agents/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### 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\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- No incidents deducted, where Pipecat loses 4 points for them\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### Pipecat (B)\n\nGood for: Python teams that want to own a voice agent's pipeline, pick each speech and model provider, and host it themselves or on Pipecat Cloud.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 72 against 41\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 90 against 66\n- Security \u0026 auth, 57 against 48\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 40\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 81 against 72\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Free to start without a card\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: No tool-approval or confirmation step, and no prompt-injection guidance, for tools that act on a caller's speech\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Gemini Live API | Pipecat | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 41 | 72 | Pipecat +31 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 66 | 90 | Pipecat +24 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 69 | 72 | Pipecat +3 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 48 | 57 | Pipecat +9 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 60 | Pipecat +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 83 | 87 | Pipecat +4 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 72 | 81 | Pipecat +9 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -4 | |\n| **Total** | | **57.1 · C** | **68.9 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Gemini Live API | Pipecat |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | Agent framework |\n| Vendor | Google | Daily |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP |  |\n| Auth | API key | None |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Free |\n| Price for voice agents | not published | $0.01 per minute of call |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under the Gemini API Additional Terms of Service. The Python and JavaScript SDKs are Apache-2.0 | BSD-2-Clause for the framework. Pipecat Cloud is a hosted service under Daily's terms of service |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-15 | 2026-09-26 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-04-28 |  |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-01 |  |\n| Customer content may train models | yes |  |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes |  |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes |  |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text |  |\n| Popularity | 29.5M npm/wk, 34.1M PyPI/wk | 16k stars, 98k npm/wk, 302k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\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**Pipecat.** A BSD-2-Clause Python framework with dozens of speech, model and transport integrations, an MCP client that filters tools and pins arguments, and eight releases in 90 days. It has no tool-approval step, and 1.12.0 can send OPENAI_API_KEY to other OpenAI-compatible providers when no key is passed, a flaw fixed on main but not yet released.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### 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. Send 16 kHz 16-bit PCM in 20 to 40 ms chunks and discard buffered playback when `interrupted` is true.\n5. 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`.\n\n### Pipecat\n\n1. Pass `api_key` explicitly to every OpenAI-compatible service such as Groq, Cerebras or OpenRouter. On 1.12.0 a missing key sends `OPENAI_API_KEY` to that provider\n2. Pass `tools_filter` to `MCPClient` so only the tools the call needs reach the model, and use `tools_arguments` for values the model must not choose\n3. Gate tools that book, pay or send in your own handler. Pipecat has no approval step, and a caller's speech goes straight to the model\n4. Keep the development runner on localhost. Its `/start`, `/daily` and dial-in webhook endpoints take requests from anyone by design\n5. Pin a minor version and read the breaking-change flags in CHANGELOG.md before upgrading, since minor releases remove and rename APIs\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Gemini Live API or Pipecat?\n\nPipecat scores 68.9 (B) on agent readiness against Gemini Live API's 57.1 (C), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Can an agent call Gemini Live API and Pipecat without installing anything?\n\nGemini Live API has a hosted endpoint at https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta. No hosted endpoint is listed for Pipecat.\n\n### Are Gemini Live API and Pipecat open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for Gemini Live API. Pipecat is open source (BSD-2-Clause for the framework. Pipecat Cloud is a hosted service under Daily's terms of service).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-live-vs-pipecat.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-live-vs-pipecat.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"gemini-live\", \"b\": \"pipecat\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare gemini-live pipecat`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gemini-live.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pipecat.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Gemini Live API or Pipecat\n\n- [AssemblyAI Voice Agent API vs Gemini Live API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/assemblyai-voice-agent-vs-gemini-live.md)\n- [AssemblyAI Voice Agent API vs Pipecat](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/assemblyai-voice-agent-vs-pipecat.md)\n- [Bland AI API + MCP vs Gemini Live API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bland-ai-vs-gemini-live.md)\n- [Bland AI API + MCP vs Pipecat](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bland-ai-vs-pipecat.md)\n- [Bolna API + MCP vs Gemini Live API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bolna-vs-gemini-live.md)\n- [Bolna API + MCP vs Pipecat](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bolna-vs-pipecat.md)\n- [Deepgram Voice Agent API vs Gemini Live API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepgram-voice-agent-vs-gemini-live.md)\n- [Deepgram Voice Agent API vs Pipecat](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepgram-voice-agent-vs-pipecat.md)\n- [ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP vs Gemini Live API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elevenlabs-agents-vs-gemini-live.md)\n- [ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP vs Pipecat](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elevenlabs-agents-vs-pipecat.md)\n- [Gemini Live API vs GPT-Live](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-live-vs-gpt-live.md)\n- [Gemini Live API vs Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-live-vs-hume-evi.md)\n- [Gemini Live API vs LiveKit Agents](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-live-vs-livekit-agents.md)\n- [Gemini Live API vs OpenAI Realtime API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-live-vs-openai-realtime.md)\n- [Gemini Live API vs PlaceCall](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-live-vs-placecall.md)\n- [Gemini Live API vs Retell AI API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-live-vs-retell-ai.md)\n- [Gemini Live API vs Synthflow API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-live-vs-synthflow.md)\n- [Gemini Live API vs Ultravox Realtime API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-live-vs-ultravox.md)\n- [Gemini Live API vs Vapi API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-live-vs-vapi.md)\n- [Gemini Live API vs Vocily AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-live-vs-vocily.md)\n- [Gemini Live API vs Vogent API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-live-vs-vogent.md)\n- [Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface) vs Pipecat](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hume-evi-vs-pipecat.md)\n- [LiveKit Agents vs Pipecat](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/livekit-agents-vs-pipecat.md)\n- [OpenAI Realtime API vs Pipecat](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-realtime-vs-pipecat.md)\n- [Pipecat vs PlaceCall](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipecat-vs-placecall.md)\n- [Pipecat vs Retell AI API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipecat-vs-retell-ai.md)\n- [Pipecat vs Synthflow API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipecat-vs-synthflow.md)\n- [Pipecat vs Ultravox Realtime API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipecat-vs-ultravox.md)\n- [Pipecat vs Vapi API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipecat-vs-vapi.md)\n- [Pipecat vs Vocily AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipecat-vs-vocily.md)\n- [Pipecat vs Vogent API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipecat-vs-vogent.md)\n- [CueLight vs Pipecat](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cuelight-vs-pipecat.md)\n- [Pipecat vs Pipecat PhoneLLM](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipecat-vs-pipecat-phonellm.md)\n- [GPT-Live vs Pipecat](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt-live-vs-pipecat.md)\n- [Gemini Live API vs Pipecat PhoneLLM](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-live-vs-pipecat-phonellm.md)\n",
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