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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.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "The OpenAPI 3.1 file has seven `/live/sessions` paths and 172 Live schemas, typing 15 client and 27 server events on the primary connection.", "Voice sessions cost $0.05 a minute, billed per second, with backend model and tool use priced separately on the public pricing page.", "Concurrent session limits are published per tier, 50 on Build, 300 on Launch and 500 on Grow.", "Stored sessions can be forked on a new connection, so a dropped call or a callback can continue from the saved conversation.", "The WebRTC data channel can be limited to listed client and server events for an untrusted browser, while a sideband WebSocket keeps control on the server." ], "weaknesses": [ "openai.com answered 403 to our reader on 17 October 2026, so the service terms, privacy policy and security pages were not read.", "The Live component on status.openai.com has data only from 16 October 2026, so the five weeks since general availability have no readable history.", "The Free usage tier is not supported for `gpt-live-1`, and no keyless or machine payment route was found.", "There is no public endpoint to delete a stored session recording. 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It has no Expires field, which RFC 9116 requires.", "robots.txt on developers.openai.com allows all, on openai.com allows all but one path, and status.openai.com answers 404, which means no rules." ], "score": 94 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gpt-live.json", "live": { "slug": "gpt-live", "probe": { "target": "https://api.openai.com/v1/live/sessions", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-18T00:14:41.488280295Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 400, "lastMs": 174, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 168, "p95ms24h": 423, "samples24h": 24, "samples30d": 24, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-17", "probes": 21, "ok": 21 }, { "date": "2026-10-18", "probes": 3, "ok": 3 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.openai.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T00:08:39.737987052Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T22:59:43.206401385Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-16T22:20:47.232011113Z", "fingerprint": "3261efc5e241" }, { "url": "https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 403, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:06:47.173321282Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-11T19:31:08.710809907Z", "fingerprint": "604e9f69c16a" }, { "url": "https://openai.com/policies/services-agreement/", "kind": "terms", "status": 403, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:06:49.182720152Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-04T15:46:24.458479472Z", "fingerprint": "46a4b30744ca" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-18T00:14:41.488280295Z" } }, "answer": "GPT-Live scores 66.8 (B) on agent readiness against Vapi API + MCP's 63.5 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. 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A separate public key is for browser calls with the Web SDK. The local MCP server reads `VAPI_TOKEN`.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Usage only is $0.05 a minute Vapi hosting, plus transcriber, model, voice and telephony at provider cost, prepaid with $5 of free credits to start. Vapi telephony, SIP, WebSockets and WebRTC transport are free, Twilio inbound runs $0.008 a minute and outbound $0.014. Success Packages add support and limits on top of usage, Core $29 a month and Pro 10 per cent of the hosting fee with a $999 monthly minimum. Add-ons include HIPAA at $2,000 a month and extra concurrent lines at $10 a line a month. The vendor's calculator puts 1,000 minutes with Deepgram, OpenAI and ElevenLabs at roughly $0.08 to $0.13 a minute all in (https://vapi.ai/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$29 / mo", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 support in the docs, pricing page or MCP docs (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 20, "popularity": { "githubStars": 57, "npmWeekly": 177088, "pypiWeekly": 42248, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.vapi.ai", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.vapi.ai/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://api.vapi.ai/api-json", "capabilities": [ "voice.agent", "voice.pipeline", "voice.speech-to-speech", "voice.tools", "voice.telephony" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "no-card", "mcp", "llms-txt", "openapi", "typescript", "python", "webhooks", "streaming", "pipeline", "speech-to-speech", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-21", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 63.5, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 433, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1133, "categoryRank": 9, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 64, "maintenance": 88, "payments": 35, "reliability": 70, "schema": 89, "security": 58, "transparency": 73 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": -4, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-06-03. A compromised developer GitHub token was used to push malicious code to Vapi repositories and publish four malicious `@vapi-ai/server-sdk` versions (0.11.1, 0.11.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.2) to npm. Vapi says they were removed within about three hours with zero downloads and no customer data exposed, and it published a write-up. Fixed and documented, so we deduct 4 of a possible 15 (https://vapi.ai/blog/our-response-to-june-3-supply-chain-incident)." ], "verdict": "Voice agents can combine supported transcription, model and voice providers, including customer-supplied endpoints. Per-minute cost depends on the selected providers.", "bestFor": "Developers who want to choose every provider, bring their own keys and tune cost against latency.", "strengths": [ "Any mix of transcriber, model and voice provider, or your own keys and endpoints", "OpenAPI file, llms.txt and a weekly changelog", "Public keys limited to allowed origins and assistants", "99 per cent uptime SLA on the Pro package, 99.9 per cent on Premier", "Versioned assistants and tools with draft and publish since August 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "Real per-minute cost depends on provider choices", "Usage only has 4 concurrent lines and 14 days of retention", "MCP tools that place calls or buy numbers carry no annotations", "No request rate limits or Retry-After guidance found", "Malicious SDK versions reached npm for about three hours on 3 June 2026" ], "agentNotes": [ "Read `subscriptionLimits.concurrencyBlocked` in the `POST /call` response, a full account queues the call rather than failing", "Confirm 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"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-pipecat-phonellm.json", "title": "GPT-Live vs Pipecat PhoneLLM", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt-live-vs-pipecat-phonellm" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 8, "edge": "vapi", "gpt-live": 62, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "vapi": 70, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 2, "edge": "vapi", "gpt-live": 87, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "vapi": 89, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 12, "edge": "gpt-live", "gpt-live": 76, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "vapi": 64, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 8, "edge": "gpt-live", "gpt-live": 66, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "vapi": 58, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 15, "edge": 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Per-minute cost depends on the selected providers." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt-live-vs-vapi", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt-live-vs-vapi.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt-live-vs-vapi.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt-live-vs-vapi.min.md" }, "markdown": "GPT-Live scores 66.8 (B) on agent readiness against Vapi API + MCP's 63.5 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Vapi API + MCP leads on reliability, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community. 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- Vapi API + MCP: grade B, 63.5/100, rank #433 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vapi.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/vapi.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- Agent ergonomics, 76 against 64\n- Security \u0026 auth, 66 against 58\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.5 against 2.5 out of 5\n- No incidents deducted, where Vapi API + MCP loses 4 points for them\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### Vapi API + MCP (B)\n\nGood for: Developers who want to choose every provider, bring their own keys and tune cost against latency.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 70 against 62\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 88 against 82\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: Real per-minute cost depends on provider choices\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | GPT-Live | Vapi API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 62 | 70 | Vapi API + MCP +8 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 87 | 89 | Vapi API + MCP +2 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 76 | 64 | GPT-Live +12 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 66 | 58 | GPT-Live +8 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 35 | Vapi API + MCP +15 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 82 | 88 | Vapi API + MCP +6 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 76 | 73 | GPT-Live +3 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -4 | |\n| **Total** | | **66.8 · B** | **63.5 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | GPT-Live | Vapi API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | OpenAI | Vapi |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.openai.com/v1/live/sessions` | `https://api.vapi.ai` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\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 (MCP server) |\n| Tools exposed | none | 20 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-16 | 2026-09-21 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-09-14 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2023-09-09 |\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 | not found in the text |\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 | 57 stars, 177k npm/wk, 42k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (4) | 2.5/5 (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**Vapi API + MCP.** Voice agents can combine supported transcription, model and voice providers, including customer-supplied endpoints. Per-minute cost depends on the selected providers.\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### Vapi API + MCP\n\n1. Read `subscriptionLimits.concurrencyBlocked` in the `POST /call` response, a full account queues the call rather than failing\n2. Confirm with a person before `vapi_create_call` or `vapi_buy_phone_number`, the server won't ask\n3. Pin transcriber, model and voice and set fallback plans so one provider outage doesn't drop calls\n4. Read the call log's cost breakdown to see what each provider charged\n5. Check `@vapi-ai/server-sdk` isn't pinned to 0.11.1, 0.11.2, 1.2.1 or 1.2.2\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, GPT-Live or Vapi API + MCP?\n\nGPT-Live scores 66.8 (B) on agent readiness against Vapi API + MCP's 63.5 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Vapi API + MCP leads on reliability, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do GPT-Live and Vapi API + MCP need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call GPT-Live and Vapi API + MCP without installing anything?\n\nYes. GPT-Live has a hosted endpoint at https://api.openai.com/v1/live/sessions and Vapi API + MCP at https://api.vapi.ai.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt-live-vs-vapi.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt-live-vs-vapi.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"gpt-live\", \"b\": \"vapi\"}`. 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