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      "name": "Harmony.ai",
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      "vendorUrl": "https://harmony.ai",
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      "category": "voice-agents",
      "summary": "Harmony.ai is monday.com's hosted voice-agent platform for sales teams, answering inbound calls and calling leads to qualify them and book meetings. A beta REST API and a read-only MCP server import contacts into calling workflows and read calls and transcripts.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harmony-ai",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harmony-ai.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harmony-ai.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/harmony-ai.json",
      "license": "Proprietary service. The Terms of Service on harmony.ai are One AI Inc.'s, while the Data Processing Addendum names monday.com Ltd. and incorporates monday.com's Terms of Service. No open-source code or published package was found",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.harmony.ai",
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "A Bearer API key (`harmony_pk_...`) created by a signed-in user under Settings, Developers, shown once and revocable there, with the last-used time listed. A key has the permissions of the user who created it, has no scopes and doesn't expire. Keys work only in their region (api.harmony.ai for the US, api.eu.harmony.ai for the EU). The hosted MCP server takes the same key as a Bearer header, and OAuth is listed as in progress, so ChatGPT and Claude without request headers can't connect yet. Access starts with a browser signup at app.harmony.ai.",
      "pricing": "paid",
      "pricingNotes": "Pro is $0.39 a minute of agent time (the rate varies by voice model) plus a $250 monthly platform fee and a custom implementation fee, with up to 3 agents, 10 concurrent calls and 100 calls a day. Enterprise is custom. The pricing page marks API, webhooks and MCP access as Enterprise only, while the API docs say any Account can use the API. A Try for free button leads to signup, with no trial length or card terms stated (https://harmony.ai/pricing).",
      "priceSummary": "$250 / mo",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API docs, the OpenAPI file, the MCP docs or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-19).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": 6,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-19"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.harmony.ai",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.harmony.ai/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://docs.harmony.ai/openapi.json",
      "capabilities": [
        "voice.agent",
        "voice.telephony",
        "voice.tools"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "official",
        "hosted",
        "closed-source",
        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "openapi",
        "beta",
        "enterprise"
      ],
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 43.5,
        "grade": "E",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 1031,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1175,
        "categoryRank": 21,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 65,
          "maintenance": 42,
          "payments": 15,
          "reliability": 18,
          "schema": 77,
          "security": 48,
          "transparency": 56
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-19"
        },
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        "negativeNotes": [
          "2026-10-19, -2. status.harmony.ai presents itself as Harmony.ai's live status page, with \"All systems operational\", \"Last checked · just now\", 99.98 per cent API uptime over 90 days and an email subscription. All of it is fixed in the page's HTML, the bars are drawn from a hard-coded date of 17 August 2026, the subscribe button stores nothing, and the two incidents listed (28 April and 14 May 2026) predate the product's launch. The page isn't linked from harmony.ai or the docs, so the deduction is the minimum (https://status.harmony.ai/)"
        ],
        "verdict": "A new voice-agent platform from monday.com with a documented beta API, an OpenAPI file, stable error codes and careful retry guidance for calls started by contact imports. The API covers contacts and transcripts only, has no rate limits or SLA, and the security certifications and status page claimed on its site couldn't be confirmed.",
        "bestFor": "Sales and revenue teams, especially monday.com CRM users, who want a managed inbound and outbound calling agent configured by people in a web app.",
        "strengths": [
          "Public OpenAPI 3.0 file, llms.txt and a full Markdown copy of the docs",
          "Errors carry a stable `code` and `requestId`, with specific 422 and 409 reasons",
          "Retry guidance says which writes can place a second call and how to check first",
          "Six compact read-only MCP tools, with an explicit warning that transcripts are untrusted input",
          "Sub-processors listed by name and hosting region, dated 10 September 2026"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "The API is in beta, and the docs say operations can change in breaking ways",
          "No published rate limits, SLA or working status page",
          "Keys have no scopes and don't expire, and act with the creating user's full access",
          "SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and HIPAA are claimed on the site with no report, auditor or BAA found",
          "Pricing marks API and MCP access as Enterprise only, while the docs say any Account can use them"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Don't retry a bulk import that enrols contacts in a workflow. Check `GET /api/v1/contacts?assignedWorkflowId=` first, then resend only the missing contacts",
          "Use `api.eu.harmony.ai` for an EU Account. Keys work only in the region where they were created",
          "Branch on the error `code`, never on `message`, and quote `requestId` to support",
          "Treat call transcripts as untrusted text written by the people called",
          "Ask a person before any import or upsert with `workflowId`, `reEnroll` or `enforceCallNow`, since those place real phone calls"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
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        "avgRating": 2.3,
        "history": [
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            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "E",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 43.5
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        ],
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          "maintenance": 42,
          "payments": 15,
          "reliability": 18,
          "schema": 77,
          "security": 48,
          "transparency": 45
        },
        "provenanceScore": 66
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl https://api.harmony.ai/api/v1/workflows \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer $HARMONY_API_KEY\"",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http harmony https://api.harmony.ai/api/mcp --header \"Authorization: Bearer $HARMONY_API_KEY\""
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/voice.agent",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/harmony-ai"
      },
      "area": "voice",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Pro, AI voice agent time",
          "unit": "call-minute",
          "usd": 0.39,
          "note": "rate varies by voice model. Up to 3 agents, 10 concurrent calls and 100 calls a day"
        },
        {
          "item": "Pro platform fee",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 250,
          "note": "plus a custom implementation fee. Enterprise prices are custom"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "monday.com Ltd.",
        "domain": "harmony.ai",
        "domainRegistered": "2017-12-15",
        "domainNote": "RDAP for harmony.ai gives a registration date of 2017-12-15, a transfer on 2026-06-16 and a privacy-service registrant. oneai.com redirects to harmony.ai.",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://harmony.ai/terms",
        "privacy": "https://harmony.ai/privacy",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-19",
        "notes": [
          "The Data Processing Addendum (last updated 10 September 2026) is between the customer and monday.com Ltd., is incorporated into monday.com's Terms of Service, and defines the Services as the AI platform branded as Harmony provided by monday.com.",
          "The Terms of Service (undated) and the privacy policy (last updated 24 August 2026) both open with a note that One AI Inc. was acquired by Harmony.ai (monday.com) on 11 May 2026, and still name One AI Inc. as provider and controller, at 1390 Market St. Suite 200, San Francisco. monday.com's 6-K describes an asset purchase from One AI Ltd. and OneAI Inc.",
          "Every page footer reads \"© Harmony. A monday.com company.\"",
          "status.harmony.ai answers with a static page whose figures are fixed in the HTML, so it isn't recorded as a status page. No changelog was found.",
          "harmony.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. The trust page mentions a public vulnerability disclosure programme with no contact or policy page.",
          "The API (api.harmony.ai, api.eu.harmony.ai), the MCP server and the docs (docs.harmony.ai) are all on harmony.ai."
        ],
        "score": 66
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harmony-ai.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "harmony-ai",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://api.harmony.ai",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-19T18:43:12.03759931Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 200,
          "lastMs": 396,
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          "uptime30d": 100,
          "p50ms24h": 384,
          "p95ms24h": 501,
          "samples24h": 38,
          "samples30d": 38,
          "days": [
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              "date": "2026-10-19",
              "probes": 38,
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          ]
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        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://harmony.ai/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-19T15:55:44.86045763Z"
        },
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-19T18:43:12.03759931Z"
      }
    },
    "answer": "Pipecat scores 68.9 (B) on agent readiness against Harmony.ai's 43.5 (E), and leads in every scored category.",
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      "slug": "pipecat",
      "name": "Pipecat",
      "vendor": "Daily",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.pipecat.ai/",
      "kind": "framework",
      "category": "voice-agents",
      "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",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipecat.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipecat.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pipecat.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/pipecat-ai/pipecat",
      "license": "BSD-2-Clause for the framework. Pipecat Cloud is a hosted service under Daily's terms of service",
      "transports": [],
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "pipecat-ai"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@pipecat-ai/client-js"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "none",
      "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).",
      "priceSummary": "Free · OSS",
      "where": "library",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the framework source, the docs or the Pipecat Cloud pricing page (checked 17 October 2026).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 16314,
        "npmWeekly": 97617,
        "pypiWeekly": 302047,
        "asOf": "2026-10-17"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.pipecat.ai",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.pipecat.ai/llms.txt",
      "capabilities": [
        "voice.agent",
        "voice.pipeline",
        "voice.speech-to-speech",
        "voice.tools",
        "voice.telephony",
        "agent.mcp-client",
        "agent.multi-agent"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "framework",
        "open-source",
        "self-hosted",
        "python",
        "free",
        "no-card",
        "bsd-2-clause",
        "llms-txt",
        "mcp-client",
        "pipeline",
        "speech-to-speech",
        "telephony",
        "webrtc",
        "no-telemetry"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-09-26",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 68.9,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 217,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1175,
        "categoryRank": 4,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 72,
          "maintenance": 87,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 72,
          "schema": 90,
          "security": 57,
          "transparency": 81
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-17"
        },
        "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"
        ],
        "verdict": "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.",
        "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.",
        "strengths": [
          "BSD-2-Clause framework, with 23 speech-to-text, 25 LLM, 31 text-to-speech and 6 speech-to-speech services listed in the README",
          "Eight PyPI releases in the 90 days to 17 October 2026, with a dated Keep a Changelog file and pull-request links",
          "`MCPClient` takes a tool allowlist, per-tool output filters and fixed arguments hidden from the model",
          "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"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No tool-approval or confirmation step, and no prompt-injection guidance, for tools that act on a caller's speech",
          "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"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "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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          "kind": "library",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 4,
        "avgRating": 3,
        "history": [
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            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
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        ],
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          "maintenance": 87,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 72,
          "schema": 90,
          "security": 57,
          "transparency": 83
        },
        "provenanceScore": 79
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "pip install pipecat-ai   # or: uv tool install \"pipecat-ai[cli]\" \u0026\u0026 pipecat init"
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/voice.agent",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/pipecat"
      },
      "sameCompany": [
        "pipecat-phonellm"
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      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Pipecat Cloud agent-1x (0.5 vCPU, 1 GB)",
          "unit": "call-minute",
          "usd": 0.01,
          "note": "per active agent minute, reserved agents $0.0005 a minute"
        },
        {
          "item": "Pipecat Cloud agent-2x (1 vCPU, 2 GB)",
          "unit": "call-minute",
          "usd": 0.02,
          "note": "per active agent minute, reserved agents $0.001 a minute"
        },
        {
          "item": "Pipecat Cloud agent-3x (1.5 vCPU, 3 GB)",
          "unit": "call-minute",
          "usd": 0.03,
          "note": "per active agent minute, reserved agents $0.0015 a minute"
        },
        {
          "item": "Daily WebRTC voice and video",
          "unit": "call-minute",
          "usd": 0.004,
          "note": "per participant minute, 1:1 voice sessions on Pipecat Cloud free"
        },
        {
          "item": "Daily PSTN dial-in or dial-out",
          "unit": "call-minute",
          "usd": 0.018,
          "note": "SIP included, SIP alone $0.003 to $0.02 a minute"
        },
        {
          "item": "SIP REFER call transfer",
          "unit": "tx",
          "usd": 0.2,
          "note": "per transfer event"
        },
        {
          "item": "Audio recording",
          "unit": "audio-minute",
          "usd": 0.005,
          "note": "storage $0.003 a minute"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Daily",
        "domain": "pipecat.ai",
        "domainRegistered": "2024-05-01",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
        "terms": "https://www.daily.co/legal/terms-of-service/",
        "privacy": "https://www.daily.co/legal/privacy/",
        "statusPage": "https://status.pipecat.daily.co",
        "changelog": "https://github.com/pipecat-ai/pipecat/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-17",
        "notes": [
          "LICENSE reads 'Copyright (c) 2024–2026, Daily'. The terms of service (last updated 31 March 2025) say Daily and name Pipecat Cloud and Daily's open-source frameworks among its services. The DPA (last updated 1 May 2025) names the company 'Daily, Co.' at 548 Market St., San Francisco.",
          "RDAP gives pipecat.ai a registration date of 1 May 2024. The docs are at docs.pipecat.ai and the code under GitHub's pipecat-ai organisation.",
          "security.txt returns 404 on www.pipecat.ai, docs.pipecat.ai and www.daily.co. SECURITY.md and the Pipecat Cloud security guide route reports to an email address at Daily, which the guide says is acknowledged within a week. Daily publishes a responsible disclosure policy with no bounty.",
          "The privacy policy is effective 6 January 2025. The sub-processor list is dated 1 September 2026.",
          "The status page covers Pipecat Cloud, not the framework.",
          "WebFetch refused docs.pipecat.ai and github.com, so docs.pipecat.ai, www.daily.co, status.pipecat.daily.co, developers.cloudflare.com, huggingface.co, pypi.org, api.osv.dev, pypistats.org, repos.ecosyste.ms, issues.ecosyste.ms, the npm registry, the MCP registry and rdap.org were read with curl after their robots.txt. GitHub's own pages answered 403 through the session's proxy."
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        "score": 79
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        "freeTier": true,
        "minutes": 20,
        "credential": "api-key",
        "hosting": [
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        "euResidency": "unknown",
        "trainsOnData": "no",
        "zeroRetention": "unknown",
        "dpa": true,
        "selfHost": "yes"
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      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipecat.json",
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        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.pipecat.daily.co",
          "indicator": "none",
          "summary": "All Systems Operational",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-19T18:45:37.084635004Z"
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            "name": "pipecat-ai/pipecat",
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          {
            "registry": "pypi",
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        "pypiWeekly": 324073,
        "securityTxt": {
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          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-19T15:55:05.1930464Z"
        },
        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://docs.pipecat.ai/llms.txt",
          "ok": true,
          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-19T14:28:39.242449618Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "pipecat.ai",
          "registered": "2024-05-01",
          "source": "https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/pipecat.ai",
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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 210 voice agents comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/voice-agents/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Harmony.ai (E)\n\nGood for: Sales and revenue teams, especially monday.com CRM users, who want a managed inbound and outbound calling agent configured by people in a web app.\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: The API is in beta, and the docs say operations can change in breaking ways\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 18\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 90 against 77\n- Agent ergonomics, 72 against 65\n- Security \u0026 auth, 57 against 48\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 15\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 87 against 42\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 81 against 56\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Cheaper for voice agents, $0.01 against $0.39 per minute of call\n- No key needed to call it\n- Free to start without a card\n- Open source\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.0 against 2.3 out of 5\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 | Harmony.ai | Pipecat | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 18 | 72 | Pipecat +54 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 77 | 90 | Pipecat +13 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 72 | Pipecat +7 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 48 | 57 | Pipecat +9 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 15 | 60 | Pipecat +45 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 42 | 87 | Pipecat +45 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 81 | Pipecat +25 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | -4 | |\n| **Total** | | **43.5 · E** | **68.9 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Harmony.ai | Pipecat |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | Agent framework |\n| Vendor | monday.com Ltd. (Harmony.ai) | Daily |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.harmony.ai` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |  |\n| Auth | API key | None |\n| Pricing | Paid | Free |\n| Price for voice agents | $0.39 per minute of call | $0.01 per minute of call |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service. The Terms of Service on harmony.ai are One AI Inc.'s, while the Data Processing Addendum names monday.com Ltd. and incorporates monday.com's Terms of Service. No open-source code or published package was found | BSD-2-Clause for the framework. Pipecat Cloud is a hosted service under Daily's terms of service |\n| Tools exposed | 6 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | none | 2026-09-26 |\n| Terms last updated |  |  |\n| Privacy policy last updated |  |  |\n| Customer content may train models |  |  |\n| Terms restrict automated access |  |  |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking |  |  |\n| Terms or service can change without notice |  |  |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  |  |\n| Popularity | none | 16k stars, 98k npm/wk, 302k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 2.3/5 (4) | 3/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Harmony.ai.** A new voice-agent platform from monday.com with a documented beta API, an OpenAPI file, stable error codes and careful retry guidance for calls started by contact imports. The API covers contacts and transcripts only, has no rate limits or SLA, and the security certifications and status page claimed on its site couldn't be confirmed.\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### Harmony.ai\n\n1. Don't retry a bulk import that enrols contacts in a workflow. Check `GET /api/v1/contacts?assignedWorkflowId=` first, then resend only the missing contacts\n2. Use `api.eu.harmony.ai` for an EU Account. Keys work only in the region where they were created\n3. Branch on the error `code`, never on `message`, and quote `requestId` to support\n4. Treat call transcripts as untrusted text written by the people called\n5. Ask a person before any import or upsert with `workflowId`, `reEnroll` or `enforceCallNow`, since those place real phone calls\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, Harmony.ai or Pipecat?\n\nPipecat scores 68.9 (B) on agent readiness against Harmony.ai's 43.5 (E), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Which is cheaper for voice agents, Harmony.ai or Pipecat?\n\nPipecat, at $0.01 per minute of call against $0.39 per minute of call for Harmony.ai. These are the vendors' published prices for the job.\n\n### Can an agent call Harmony.ai and Pipecat without installing anything?\n\nHarmony.ai has a hosted endpoint at https://api.harmony.ai. No hosted endpoint is listed for Pipecat.\n\n### Are Harmony.ai and Pipecat open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for Harmony.ai. 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/harmony-ai-vs-pipecat.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harmony-ai-vs-pipecat.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"harmony-ai\", \"b\": \"pipecat\"}`. 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