# jambonz vs LiveKit Telephony (slim)

> LiveKit Telephony scores 67.5 (B) on agent readiness against jambonz's 49.2 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do voice calls. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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LiveKit Telephony scores 67.5 (B) on agent readiness against jambonz's 49.2 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do voice calls.

- jambonz: D 49.2, rank #712 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jambonz.min.md
- LiveKit Telephony: B 67.5, rank #234 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/livekit-telephony.min.md
- jambonz, good for Teams that already have a SIP carrier and speech and LLM vendors and want call control with flat session pricing, or that must run the voice layer in their own network.
- LiveKit Telephony, good for Teams that already run voice agents on LiveKit and want phone calls to arrive in the same rooms, bringing their own carrier for outbound and international calls. Ahead on Reliability, 65 against 36; Schema & documentation, 84 against 78; Agent ergonomics, 66 against 54; Security & auth, 61 against 42; Maintenance & community, 90 against 78; Transparency & trust, 75 against 50. Also No incidents deducted, where jambonz loses 3 points for them.

| Category | jambonz | LiveKit Telephony |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 36 | 65 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 78 | 84 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 54 | 66 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 42 | 61 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 78 | 90 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 50 | 75 |

| Fact (where they differ) | jambonz | LiveKit Telephony |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | FirstFive8, Inc. | LiveKit Incorporated |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Licence | Proprietary. jambonz.cloud is under the jambonz Terms of Use and self-hosted jambonz Commercial needs a paid licence key. The API server, feature server and SDK repositories on GitHub are MIT | Proprietary cloud service under LiveKit's Terms of Service. The SIP service (livekit/sip), the protocol definitions, the CLI and the server SDKs are Apache 2.0 |
| Last release | 2026-10-04 | 2026-10-08 |
| Terms last updated | 2021-05-04 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2021-05-04 | no date given |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 103 stars, 1.4k npm/wk, 420 PyPI/wk | 480 stars, 2.9M npm/wk, 1.7M PyPI/wk |