# LiveKit Agents vs Vocily AI (slim)

> LiveKit Agents scores 72.5 (BB) to Vocily AI's 53.8 (D) 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 Vocily AI's 53.8 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Vocily AI leads on schema & documentation. Both do voice agents.

- LiveKit Agents: BB 72.5, rank #104 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/livekit-agents.min.md
- Vocily AI: D 53.8, rank #778 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vocily.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 Reliability, 67 against 40; Security & auth, 62 against 46; Payments & pricing, 60 against 40; Maintenance & community, 85 against 61; Transparency & trust, 82 against 47. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; Free to start without a card; Open source; No incidents deducted, where Vocily AI loses 5 points for them.
- Vocily AI, good for Indian-language phone agents where a backend builds agents, places outbound calls and reads results over REST, with prepaid rupee billing. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 90 against 81. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.

| Category | LiveKit Agents | Vocily AI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 67 | 40 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 81 | 90 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 80 | 84 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 62 | 46 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 85 | 61 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 82 | 47 |

| Fact (where they differ) | LiveKit Agents | Vocily AI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Agent framework | HTTP API |
| Vendor | LiveKit Incorporated | Vocily AI Private Limited |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.vocily.ai` |
| Transports |  | HTTP |
| Pricing | Free | Pay per use |
| Price for voice agents | $0.005 per minute of audio | not published |
| 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 | Proprietary service under Vocily's terms of service. No open-source code or published package was found |
| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2026-09-30 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-06-10 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-09-03 |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 15k stars, 820k npm/wk, 1.1M PyPI/wk | none |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | none |