# LiveKit Agents vs Pipecat (slim)

> LiveKit Agents scores 72.5 (BB) to Pipecat's 68.9 (B) for voice agents. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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LiveKit Agents scores 72.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Pipecat's 68.9 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Pipecat leads on reliability and schema & documentation. Both do voice agents.

- LiveKit Agents: BB 72.5, rank #104 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/livekit-agents.min.md
- Pipecat: B 68.9, rank #215 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pipecat.min.md
- LiveKit Agents, good for Teams writing their own voice agents in Python or Node.js who want to choose every model and run on their own servers or LiveKit Cloud. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 80 against 72; Security & auth, 62 against 57. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; No incidents deducted, where Pipecat loses 4 points for them.
- 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 67; Schema & documentation, 90 against 81. Also No key needed to call it.

| Category | LiveKit Agents | Pipecat |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 67 | 72 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 81 | 90 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 80 | 72 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 62 | 57 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 85 | 87 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 82 | 81 |

| Fact (where they differ) | LiveKit Agents | Pipecat |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | LiveKit Incorporated | Daily |
| Auth | API key | None |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 for the framework and plugins. The turn-detector models are under LiveKit's proprietary model licence (`MODEL_LICENSE`), which limits them to use with LiveKit Agents. LiveKit Cloud and LiveKit Inference are closed services under LiveKit's terms | BSD-2-Clause for the framework. Pipecat Cloud is a hosted service under Daily's terms of service |
| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2026-09-26 |
| Terms last updated | no date given |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given |  |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes |  |
| Popularity | 15k stars, 820k npm/wk, 1.1M PyPI/wk | 16k stars, 98k npm/wk, 302k PyPI/wk |