# Harmony.ai vs Pipecat (slim)

> Pipecat scores 68.9 (B) to Harmony.ai's 43.5 (E) for voice agents. Pipecat is cheaper for voice agents, $0.01 against $0.39 per minute of call. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Pipecat scores 68.9 (B) on agent readiness against Harmony.ai's 43.5 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do voice agents. Pipecat is cheaper for voice agents, $0.01 against $0.39 per minute of call.

- Harmony.ai: E 43.5, rank #1031 of 1175 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harmony-ai.min.md
- Pipecat: B 68.9, rank #217 of 1175 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipecat.min.md
- Harmony.ai, good 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. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- Pipecat, good 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. Ahead on Reliability, 72 against 18; Schema & documentation, 90 against 77; Agent ergonomics, 72 against 65; Security & auth, 57 against 48; Payments & pricing, 60 against 15; Maintenance & community, 87 against 42; Transparency & trust, 81 against 56. Also Cheaper for voice agents, $0.01 against $0.39 per minute of call; No key needed to call it; Free to start without a card; Open source; Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.0 against 2.3 out of 5.

| Category | Harmony.ai | Pipecat |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 18 | 72 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 77 | 90 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 72 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 48 | 57 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 15 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 42 | 87 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 56 | 81 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Harmony.ai | Pipecat |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | Agent framework |
| Vendor | monday.com Ltd. (Harmony.ai) | Daily |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.harmony.ai` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |  |
| Auth | API key | None |
| Pricing | Paid | Free |
| Price for voice agents | $0.39 per minute of call | $0.01 per minute of call |
| 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 |
| Tools exposed | 6 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| Last release | none | 2026-09-26 |
| Popularity | none | 16k stars, 98k npm/wk, 302k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 2.3/5 (4) | 3/5 (4) |