# LiveKit Telephony vs Plivo Voice API (slim)

> LiveKit Telephony scores 67.5 (B) on agent readiness against Plivo Voice API's 60.4 (C), and leads in 4 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 Plivo Voice API's 60.4 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Both do voice calls.

- LiveKit Telephony: B 67.5, rank #234 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/livekit-telephony.min.md
- Plivo Voice API: C 60.4, rank #466 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/plivo-voice.min.md
- 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 Schema & documentation, 84 against 59; Security & auth, 61 against 45; Maintenance & community, 90 against 78; Transparency & trust, 75 against 70. Also Open source.
- Plivo Voice API, good for Cost-sensitive voice agents built on Pipecat, LiveKit, Vapi or Retell, and for India traffic. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card.

| Category | LiveKit Telephony | Plivo Voice API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 65 | 68 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 84 | 59 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 66 | 70 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 61 | 45 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 90 | 78 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 75 | 70 |

| Fact (where they differ) | LiveKit Telephony | Plivo Voice API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | LiveKit Incorporated | Plivo |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.plivo.com/v1` |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Licence | 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 | MIT |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-09-25 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-04-29 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-05-27 |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 480 stars, 2.9M npm/wk, 1.7M PyPI/wk | 102 stars, 51k npm/wk, 69k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (2) |