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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ultravox.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ultravox.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface) for schema \u0026 documentation (+6), maintenance \u0026 community (+22).\n\nPick Ultravox Realtime API for security \u0026 auth (+19), transparency \u0026 trust (+8).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface) | Ultravox Realtime API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 55 | 52 | Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface) +3 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 90 | 84 | Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface) +6 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 66 | 69 | Ultravox Realtime API +3 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 27 | 46 | Ultravox Realtime API +19 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 37 | 40 | Ultravox Realtime API +3 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 65 | 43 | Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface) +22 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 67 | 75 | Ultravox Realtime API +8 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **57.3 · C** | **58.6 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface) | Ultravox Realtime API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Hume AI | Ultravox (Fixie.ai) |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.hume.ai/v0/evi` | `https://api.ultravox.ai/api` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT (SDKs) | MIT (model code) |\n| Tools exposed | none | none |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-08-18 | 2026-07-18 |\n| Popularity | 180 stars, 79k npm/wk, 24k PyPI/wk | 4.6k stars, 17k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 2/5 (2) | 3/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\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.\n\n**Ultravox Realtime API.** Flat $0.05 a minute including model and built-in voices. No MCP server.\n\n## Before you call either\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### Ultravox Realtime API\n\n1. Honour `Retry-After` on 429 and 503 when creating calls\n2. Pin the model string (`ultravox-v0.7` or `ultravox-v0.6`) rather than relying on the default\n3. Hand clients the `joinUrl`, never the API key\n4. Delete calls through the API when you need data removed, there's no retention setting\n5. Use call stages for multi-step flows instead of one long prompt\n\n## Other comparisons with Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface) or Ultravox Realtime API\n\n- [Bland AI API + MCP vs Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bland-ai-vs-hume-evi.md)\n- [Bland AI API + MCP vs Ultravox Realtime API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bland-ai-vs-ultravox.md)\n- [Bolna API + MCP vs Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bolna-vs-hume-evi.md)\n- [Bolna API + MCP vs Ultravox Realtime API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bolna-vs-ultravox.md)\n- [Deepgram Voice Agent API vs Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepgram-voice-agent-vs-hume-evi.md)\n- [Deepgram Voice Agent API vs Ultravox Realtime API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepgram-voice-agent-vs-ultravox.md)\n- [ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP vs Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elevenlabs-agents-vs-hume-evi.md)\n- [ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP vs Ultravox Realtime API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elevenlabs-agents-vs-ultravox.md)\n- [Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface) vs Retell AI API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hume-evi-vs-retell-ai.md)\n- [Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface) vs Synthflow API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hume-evi-vs-synthflow.md)\n- [Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface) vs Vapi API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hume-evi-vs-vapi.md)\n- [Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface) vs Vogent API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hume-evi-vs-vogent.md)\n- [Retell AI API + MCP vs Ultravox Realtime API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/retell-ai-vs-ultravox.md)\n- [Synthflow API + MCP vs Ultravox Realtime API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/synthflow-vs-ultravox.md)\n- [Ultravox Realtime API vs Vapi API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ultravox-vs-vapi.md)\n- [Ultravox Realtime API vs Vogent API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ultravox-vs-vogent.md)\n",
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