# LiveKit Telephony vs Telnyx Voice API + MCP (slim)

> Telnyx Voice API + MCP scores 74.2 (BB) on agent readiness against LiveKit Telephony's 67.5 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. LiveKit Telephony leads on security & auth and maintenance & community. Both do voice calls. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes…

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Telnyx Voice API + MCP scores 74.2 (BB) on agent readiness against LiveKit Telephony's 67.5 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. LiveKit Telephony leads on security & auth and maintenance & community. Both do voice calls.

- LiveKit Telephony: B 67.5, rank #234 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/livekit-telephony.min.md
- Telnyx Voice API + MCP: BB 74.2, rank #73 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/telnyx-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 Security & auth, 61 against 45; Maintenance & community, 90 against 83. Also Open source.
- Telnyx Voice API + MCP, good for Cost-sensitive US outbound voice agents and for agents that must onboard and pay without a person. Ahead on Reliability, 75 against 65; Schema & documentation, 93 against 84; Agent ergonomics, 90 against 66; Payments & pricing, 65 against 40. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Runs on your own machine.

| Category | LiveKit Telephony | Telnyx Voice API + MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 65 | 75 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 84 | 93 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 66 | 90 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 61 | 45 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 65 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 90 | 83 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 75 | 71 |

| Fact (where they differ) | LiveKit Telephony | Telnyx Voice API + MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | LiveKit Incorporated | Telnyx |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.telnyx.com/v2` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Price for voice calls | not published | $0.002 per minute of call |
| x402 | no | payer tooling only |
| 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 |
| Tools exposed | none | 3 |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.team-telnyx/telnyx` |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-09-25 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-03-01 |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 480 stars, 2.9M npm/wk, 1.7M PyPI/wk | 197 stars, 417k npm/wk, 179k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (8) |