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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hume-evi-vs-vogent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cuelight-vs-hume-evi.json", "title": "CueLight vs Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cuelight-vs-hume-evi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hume-evi-vs-pipecat-phonellm.json", "title": "Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface) vs Pipecat PhoneLLM", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hume-evi-vs-pipecat-phonellm" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt-live-vs-livekit-agents.json", "title": "GPT-Live vs LiveKit Agents", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt-live-vs-livekit-agents" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt-live-vs-openai-realtime.json", "title": "GPT-Live vs OpenAI Realtime API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt-live-vs-openai-realtime" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt-live-vs-pipecat.json", "title": "GPT-Live vs Pipecat", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt-live-vs-pipecat" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt-live-vs-retell-ai.json", "title": "GPT-Live vs Retell AI API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt-live-vs-retell-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt-live-vs-ultravox.json", "title": "GPT-Live vs Ultravox Realtime API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt-live-vs-ultravox" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt-live-vs-vapi.json", "title": "GPT-Live vs Vapi API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt-live-vs-vapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt-live-vs-pipecat-phonellm.json", "title": "GPT-Live vs Pipecat PhoneLLM", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt-live-vs-pipecat-phonellm" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 7, "edge": "gpt-live", "gpt-live": 62, "hume-evi": 55, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 3, "edge": "hume-evi", "gpt-live": 87, "hume-evi": 90, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "gpt-live", "gpt-live": 76, "hume-evi": 66, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 39, "edge": "gpt-live", "gpt-live": 66, "hume-evi": 27, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "by": 17, "edge": "hume-evi", "gpt-live": 20, "hume-evi": 37, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 17, "edge": "gpt-live", "gpt-live": 82, "hume-evi": 65, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "by": 15, "edge": "gpt-live", "gpt-live": 76, "hume-evi": 61, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], 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Hume ends API access on 13 November 2026." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt-live-vs-hume-evi", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt-live-vs-hume-evi.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt-live-vs-hume-evi.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt-live-vs-hume-evi.min.md" }, "markdown": "GPT-Live scores 66.8 (B) on agent readiness against Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface)'s 56.7 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface) leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do voice speech to speech.\n\n- GPT-Live: grade B, 66.8/100, rank #296 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gpt-live.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gpt-live.json\n- Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface): grade C, 56.7/100, rank #693 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hume-evi.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hume-evi.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### GPT-Live (B)\n\nGood for: Teams who want a voice front end that keeps talking while a separate backend reasons and runs tools, with WebRTC, WebSocket and SIP from one vendor and a flat per-minute voice price.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 62 against 55\n- Agent ergonomics, 76 against 66\n- Security \u0026 auth, 66 against 27\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 82 against 65\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 76 against 61\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.5 against 2.0 out of 5\n\nWatch for: openai.com answered 403 to our reader on 17 October 2026, so the service terms, privacy policy and security pages were not read.\n\n### Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface) (C)\n\nGood for: Consumer and coaching products where the caller's tone matters and English is enough on EVI 3.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 37 against 20\n\nWatch for: Hume ends access to the TTS and EVI APIs on 13 November 2026 and deletes account data after that date\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | GPT-Live | Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface) | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 62 | 55 | GPT-Live +7 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 87 | 90 | Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface) +3 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 76 | 66 | GPT-Live +10 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 66 | 27 | GPT-Live +39 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 37 | Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface) +17 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 82 | 65 | GPT-Live +17 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 76 | 61 | GPT-Live +15 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **66.8 · B** | **56.7 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | GPT-Live | Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | OpenAI | Hume AI |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.openai.com/v1/live/sessions` | `https://api.hume.ai/v0/evi` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service. The service terms on openai.com were not read. The Python SDK is Apache-2.0, and the OpenAPI description and the OpenAI Live Console sample are MIT | MIT (SDKs) |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-16 | 2026-08-18 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-10-05 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2025-02-25 |\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 | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Popularity | none | 180 stars, 79k npm/wk, 24k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (4) | 2/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**GPT-Live.** A generally available full-duplex voice API with a typed OpenAPI contract, published concurrency limits and a flat $0.05 a minute for the voice session. Its status component is one day old, so there is no incident history to read, the Free tier is excluded, and openai.com refused our reader, so the terms and privacy policy were not read.\n\n**Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface).** Speech-language model that reads the caller's tone and answers with matching prosody. One account-wide key, sent in the WebSocket and Twilio webhook URLs. Hume ends API access on 13 November 2026.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### GPT-Live\n\n1. Create sessions on a server with the project API key. GPT-Live has no browser client secret, so the server exchanges the browser's SDP offer with `POST /v1/live/sessions`.\n2. Choose `delegation.type` at creation. Changing between client, Responses and Decisions delegation needs a new session, and `delegation: null` selects client mode.\n3. After `session.started`, listen for `error` with code `responses_validation_failed`. Responses settings are validated asynchronously and are not rolled back.\n4. Do not retry an outbound SIP `POST /v1/live/sessions` after a timeout. Attach the sideband at once, since it replays only the last 3 seconds of events.\n5. Keep the transport open until `session.closed` to read the final `usage.seconds`. A WebRTC session bills 15 seconds at creation, credited once it runs.\n\n### Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface)\n\n1. Create a config with a voice first, EVI 3 has no default\n2. Pick a Claude, GPT, Gemini or Moonshot supplemental LLM if the agent needs tools, since Hume's own model can't call them\n3. Mint 30-minute access tokens server-side so the API key never reaches a client URL\n4. Turn on 'Do not retain data' and 'Do not use for training' at app.hume.ai before sensitive calls\n5. Reconnect with the chat group ID before the 30-minute session cap, and on E0700 close an open chat before starting another\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, GPT-Live or Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface)?\n\nGPT-Live scores 66.8 (B) on agent readiness against Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface)'s 56.7 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface) leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do GPT-Live and Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface) need an API key?\n\nGPT-Live needs an API key. Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface) takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call GPT-Live and Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface) without installing anything?\n\nYes. GPT-Live has a hosted endpoint at https://api.openai.com/v1/live/sessions and Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface) at https://api.hume.ai/v0/evi.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt-live-vs-hume-evi.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt-live-vs-hume-evi.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"gpt-live\", \"b\": \"hume-evi\"}`. 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