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      "summary": "LiveKit Agents is LiveKit's open-source Python and Node.js framework for realtime voice and video agents that join LiveKit rooms, with STT, LLM, TTS and realtime-model plugins, turn detection, MCP tools and telephony through LiveKit SIP.",
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      "repo": "https://github.com/livekit/agents",
      "license": "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",
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      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "The framework is free under Apache-2.0, and you pay for models and for hosting. LiveKit Cloud's Build plan is $0 with no card, with 1,000 agent session minutes, 5 concurrent sessions and $2.50 of LiveKit Inference credit, as a hard cap. Ship starts at $50 a month and Scale at $500, with agent session minutes at $0.01 past the allowance and LiveKit Inference models billed per minute, per character or per token (https://livekit.com/pricing.md, checked 2026-10-17).",
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          "confidence": "medium",
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        "verdict": "An Apache-2.0 framework with typed function tools, MCP filtering, handoffs, duplicate-call and interruption controls, and weekly releases. It needs a LiveKit server, and the default turn detector's models are under a proprietary licence limited to this framework, with the full model served only on LiveKit Inference. No approval primitive or prompt-injection guidance was found.",
        "bestFor": "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.",
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          "MCP client with `allowed_tools`, `filter_tools()` and `tool_result_resolver` to limit tools and trim results (Python only)",
          "Voice-specific tool controls. `disallow_interruptions()`, four `on_duplicate` modes, and interrupted tools keep their result so the model doesn't call them again",
          "79 provider plugin packages, or LiveKit Inference model strings with one LiveKit key and zero data retention under LiveKit's terms",
          "Runs entirely self-hosted, with the local `v1-mini` turn detector and no LiveKit account"
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          "The turn-detector models are under a proprietary licence that forbids use outside LiveKit Agents and training other models on their output",
          "No CHANGELOG file, release notes only on GitHub, and 2.0.0b1 on PyPI since 12 October 2026 with no migration guide found",
          "705 open issues and pull requests per a GitHub mirror, and 41 of the 68 open issues among the latest 100 had no comment",
          "No built-in approval step for tool calls, and no prompt-injection guidance found in the docs",
          "In `dev` mode with LiveKit Cloud credentials, the default turn detector streams user audio to LiveKit Inference"
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          "Set `LIVEKIT_URL`, `LIVEKIT_API_KEY` and `LIVEKIT_API_SECRET` before starting. Every agent joins a LiveKit room, on LiveKit Cloud or a self-hosted server",
          "Pass `inference.TurnDetector(version=\"v1-mini\")` to keep turn detection local, and read `MODEL_LICENSE` before using LiveKit's turn models anywhere but LiveKit Agents",
          "Pass `record=False`, or a dict per category, to `session.start()` if audio, transcripts, traces and logs must not reach LiveKit Cloud",
          "Call `context.disallow_interruptions()` first in tools that write, and set `on_duplicate=\"reject\"` or `\"confirm\"`. Duplicates are matched by tool name only, not arguments",
          "Wrap MCP servers in `mcp.MCPToolset` with `allowed_tools` (Python only). The `mcp_servers` parameter is deprecated"
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          "maintenance": 85,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 67,
          "schema": 81,
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          "transparency": 68
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            "maintenance": "2026-10-17",
            "payments": "2026-10-17",
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      "connect": {
        "install": "pip install \"livekit-agents[openai,deepgram,cartesia]\"   # or: npm i @livekit/agents"
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      "letme": {
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        "tool": "https://letme.dev/livekit-agents"
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      "unitPrices": [
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          "item": "LiveKit Cloud agent session",
          "unit": "call-minute",
          "usd": 0.01,
          "note": "past the Ship or Scale allowance, models and telephony extra"
        },
        {
          "item": "LiveKit Cloud agent session recording",
          "unit": "audio-minute",
          "usd": 0.005,
          "note": "past the Ship or Scale allowance"
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        {
          "item": "LiveKit Cloud Ship plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 50,
          "note": "starting price"
        },
        {
          "item": "LiveKit Cloud Scale plan",
          "unit": "month",
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          "note": "starting price"
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        "terms": "https://livekit.com/legal/terms-of-service",
        "privacy": "https://livekit.com/legal/privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.livekit.io",
        "changelog": "https://github.com/livekit/agents/releases",
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          "The framework is Apache-2.0 software the owner runs. The terms (last updated 6 October 2026) govern LiveKit Cloud's Build, Ship and Scale plans, including LiveKit Inference and Agent Observability, between the customer and LiveKit Incorporated of San Francisco.",
          "The privacy policy (last updated 15 October 2026) covers LiveKit's website and says it does not apply where LiveKit processes data for customers. The sub-processor list is dated 10 September 2026.",
          "livekit.io answers 308 to livekit.com. RDAP at Verisign gives livekit.com a registration date of 24 February 2000, before the company existed.",
          "livekit.com/.well-known/security.txt names a security contact, a PGP key and the disclosure policy at https://livekit.com/security/policy, with no Expires field. The repository has no SECURITY.md.",
          "No CHANGELOG file in the repository. Release notes are on GitHub releases, which couldn't be read from our session. The status page covers LiveKit Cloud, not the framework.",
          "WebFetch refused every page in this session, so first-hand pages were read with curl after checking each host's robots.txt. status.livekit.io disallows /api/, so its history page was read instead."
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        "bestFor": "English voice agents on Rime's cloud that want one speech-to-speech model with their own tools, and teams moving an OpenAI Realtime beta client who can bridge phone audio themselves.",
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          "$0.08 a minute on Flex, with $50 of free usage a month and no card",
          "Uses OpenAI Realtime beta event names, with a migration guide for WebSocket, LiveKit, Pipecat and OpenAI SDK clients",
          "Key only in the upgrade header, and Prism reads no query parameters",
          "Context truncation is configurable and each reply reports what was left out and its token usage"
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          "No concurrency limit per account or key was found, and a full server refuses with 503",
          "All four SDKs are 0.1.0 alpha releases that may change their API",
          "English only, four voices, 16 kHz PCM16 in, with no mu-law, so phone calls need a bridge",
          "Privacy and security pages describe text in, audio out, and say nothing specific about caller audio"
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          "Send `session.update` before any audio, or every append fails with `session_not_initialized`.",
          "Keep streaming audio, silence included, while Prism speaks, because it finds turn ends and interruptions from that audio.",
          "Ask for the continuation after each tool result, since Prism doesn't resume on its own, and never rerun a call with an unknown outcome.",
          "Pin the exact SDK version, because the SDKs are alpha and a new release can change the API."
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          "measured": false
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        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
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            "grade": "C",
            "methodology": "0.7",
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          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 41,
          "schema": 69,
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      "unitPrices": [
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          "item": "Prism, Flex",
          "unit": "call-minute",
          "usd": 0.08,
          "note": "Metered by the minute of call audio, pay as you go. Pricing page, checked 28 October 2026"
        },
        {
          "item": "Prism, Scale",
          "unit": "call-minute",
          "usd": 0.064,
          "note": "20% off Flex for $100 a month of credit, which rolls over up to $200. Pricing page, checked 28 October 2026"
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        "legalEntity": "Rime Labs, Inc.",
        "domain": "rime.ai",
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        "terms": "https://www.rime.ai/terms",
        "privacy": "https://www.rime.ai/privacy",
        "statusPage": "https://www.rimestat.us",
        "changelog": "https://docs.rime.ai/docs/changelog",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-28",
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          "The terms name Rime Labs, Inc., the same entity as the rime-tts listing. The domain registration date stands per that listing's check of 30 September 2026 and wasn't re-read.",
          "status.rime.ai redirects to www.rimestat.us, an incident.io page with Text-to-speech API and Platform API components and data since 30 August 2026. It had no Prism component on 28 October 2026.",
          "www.rime.ai/.well-known/security.txt answered 404. The security page links a vulnerability disclosure policy.",
          "The Prism endpoint is on prism.api.rime.ai, under the vendor's own domain."
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rime-prism.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/rime-prism.json\n- Best conversational voice-agent APIs: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/voice-agents/index.md\n- All 423 voice agents comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/voice-agents/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### LiveKit Agents (BB)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 67 against 41\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 81 against 69\n- Agent ergonomics, 80 against 73\n- Security \u0026 auth, 62 against 56\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 40\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 65\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 82 against 70\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: The turn-detector models are under a proprietary licence that forbids use outside LiveKit Agents and training other models on their output\n\n### Rime Prism (C)\n\nGood for: English voice agents on Rime's cloud that want one speech-to-speech model with their own tools, and teams moving an OpenAI Realtime beta client who can bridge phone audio themselves.\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: Rime's status page had no Prism component on launch day, and there is no incident history for it\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | LiveKit Agents | Rime Prism | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 67 | 41 | LiveKit Agents +26 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 81 | 69 | LiveKit Agents +12 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 73 | LiveKit Agents +7 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 62 | 56 | LiveKit Agents +6 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 40 | LiveKit Agents +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 85 | 65 | LiveKit Agents +20 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 82 | 70 | LiveKit Agents +12 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **72.5 · BB** | **57.9 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | LiveKit Agents | Rime Prism |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent framework | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | LiveKit Incorporated | Rime Labs |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `wss://prism.api.rime.ai/v1/realtime` |\n| Transports |  | websocket |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Free | Freemium |\n| Price for voice agents | $0.005 per minute of audio | not published |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 for the framework and plugins. 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The Rime SDK used to call it (github.com/rimelabs/rime-sdk) is MIT. |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2026-10-28 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | yes |\n| Popularity | 15k stars, 820k npm/wk, 1.1M PyPI/wk | none |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**LiveKit Agents.** An Apache-2.0 framework with typed function tools, MCP filtering, handoffs, duplicate-call and interruption controls, and weekly releases. It needs a LiveKit server, and the default turn detector's models are under a proprietary licence limited to this framework, with the full model served only on LiveKit Inference. No approval primitive or prompt-injection guidance was found.\n\n**Rime Prism.** Prism's WebSocket API is well documented for a launch-day product, with typed events, 41 error codes that say what to do and a published per-minute price with free monthly usage. It has no Prism component or history on Rime's status page, no published concurrency limit, alpha SDKs, English only, and no data-handling statement that covers caller audio.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### LiveKit Agents\n\n1. Set `LIVEKIT_URL`, `LIVEKIT_API_KEY` and `LIVEKIT_API_SECRET` before starting. Every agent joins a LiveKit room, on LiveKit Cloud or a self-hosted server\n2. Pass `inference.TurnDetector(version=\"v1-mini\")` to keep turn detection local, and read `MODEL_LICENSE` before using LiveKit's turn models anywhere but LiveKit Agents\n3. Pass `record=False`, or a dict per category, to `session.start()` if audio, transcripts, traces and logs must not reach LiveKit Cloud\n4. Call `context.disallow_interruptions()` first in tools that write, and set `on_duplicate=\"reject\"` or `\"confirm\"`. Duplicates are matched by tool name only, not arguments\n5. Wrap MCP servers in `mcp.MCPToolset` with `allowed_tools` (Python only). The `mcp_servers` parameter is deprecated\n\n### Rime Prism\n\n1. Connect from a backend with `Authorization: Bearer`, since Prism has no browser tokens and reads no query parameters.\n2. Send `session.update` before any audio, or every append fails with `session_not_initialized`.\n3. Keep streaming audio, silence included, while Prism speaks, because it finds turn ends and interruptions from that audio.\n4. Ask for the continuation after each tool result, since Prism doesn't resume on its own, and never rerun a call with an unknown outcome.\n5. Pin the exact SDK version, because the SDKs are alpha and a new release can change the API.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, LiveKit Agents or Rime Prism?\n\nLiveKit Agents scores 72.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Rime Prism's 57.9 (C), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Can an agent call LiveKit Agents and Rime Prism without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for LiveKit Agents. Rime Prism has a hosted endpoint at wss://prism.api.rime.ai/v1/realtime.\n\n### Are LiveKit Agents and Rime Prism open source?\n\nLiveKit Agents is open source (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). No open-source release is listed for Rime Prism.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/livekit-agents-vs-rime-prism.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/livekit-agents-vs-rime-prism.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"livekit-agents\", \"b\": \"rime-prism\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare livekit-agents rime-prism`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/livekit-agents.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/rime-prism.json\n\n## Other comparisons with LiveKit Agents or Rime Prism\n\n- [AssemblyAI Voice Agent API vs LiveKit Agents](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/assemblyai-voice-agent-vs-livekit-agents.md)\n- [AssemblyAI Voice Agent API vs Rime Prism](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/assemblyai-voice-agent-vs-rime-prism.md)\n- [Bland AI API + MCP vs LiveKit Agents](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bland-ai-vs-livekit-agents.md)\n- [Bland AI API + MCP vs Rime Prism](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bland-ai-vs-rime-prism.md)\n- [Bolna API + MCP vs LiveKit Agents](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bolna-vs-livekit-agents.md)\n- [Bolna API + MCP vs Rime Prism](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bolna-vs-rime-prism.md)\n- [Deepgram Voice Agent API vs LiveKit Agents](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepgram-voice-agent-vs-livekit-agents.md)\n- [Deepgram Voice Agent API vs Rime Prism](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepgram-voice-agent-vs-rime-prism.md)\n- [ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP vs LiveKit Agents](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elevenlabs-agents-vs-livekit-agents.md)\n- [ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP vs Rime Prism](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elevenlabs-agents-vs-rime-prism.md)\n- [Gemini Live API vs LiveKit Agents](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-live-vs-livekit-agents.md)\n- [Gemini Live API vs Rime Prism](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-live-vs-rime-prism.md)\n- [Harmony.ai vs LiveKit Agents](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harmony-ai-vs-livekit-agents.md)\n- [Harmony.ai vs Rime Prism](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harmony-ai-vs-rime-prism.md)\n- [Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface) vs LiveKit Agents](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hume-evi-vs-livekit-agents.md)\n- [Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface) vs Rime Prism](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hume-evi-vs-rime-prism.md)\n- [LiveKit Agents vs OpenAI Realtime API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/livekit-agents-vs-openai-realtime.md)\n- [LiveKit Agents vs Pipecat](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/livekit-agents-vs-pipecat.md)\n- [LiveKit Agents vs PlaceCall](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/livekit-agents-vs-placecall.md)\n- [LiveKit Agents vs Retell AI API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/livekit-agents-vs-retell-ai.md)\n- [LiveKit Agents vs Synthflow API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/livekit-agents-vs-synthflow.md)\n- [LiveKit Agents vs Ultravox Realtime API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/livekit-agents-vs-ultravox.md)\n- [LiveKit Agents vs Vapi API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/livekit-agents-vs-vapi.md)\n- [LiveKit Agents vs Vocily AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/livekit-agents-vs-vocily.md)\n- [LiveKit Agents vs Vogent API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/livekit-agents-vs-vogent.md)\n- [OpenAI Realtime API vs Rime Prism](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-realtime-vs-rime-prism.md)\n- [Pipecat vs Rime Prism](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipecat-vs-rime-prism.md)\n- [PlaceCall vs Rime Prism](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/placecall-vs-rime-prism.md)\n- [Retell AI API + MCP vs Rime Prism](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/retell-ai-vs-rime-prism.md)\n- [Rime Prism vs Synthflow API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/rime-prism-vs-synthflow.md)\n- [Rime Prism vs Vocily AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/rime-prism-vs-vocily.md)\n- [Rime Prism vs Vogent API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/rime-prism-vs-vogent.md)\n- [CueLight vs LiveKit Agents](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cuelight-vs-livekit-agents.md)\n- [LiveKit Agents vs Pipecat PhoneLLM](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/livekit-agents-vs-pipecat-phonellm.md)\n- [GPT-Live vs LiveKit Agents](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt-live-vs-livekit-agents.md)\n- [GPT-Live vs Rime Prism](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt-live-vs-rime-prism.md)\n- [Rime Prism vs Ultravox Realtime API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/rime-prism-vs-ultravox.md)\n- [Rime Prism vs Vapi API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/rime-prism-vs-vapi.md)\n- [Pipecat PhoneLLM vs Rime Prism](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pipecat-phonellm-vs-rime-prism.md)\n",
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