Inworld Realtime API

by Inworld AI HTTP API in Conversational voice agents

Theai, Inc. dba Inworld AI · inworld.ai · status page · who's behind it

Inworld's Realtime API runs spoken conversations over WebSocket or WebRTC, chaining Inworld STT, an LLM chosen by the developer and Inworld TTS, with turn detection, interruptions and tool calling. It follows OpenAI's Realtime protocol.

Best for Teams moving off OpenAI's Realtime API who want a choice of LLM and Inworld voices.

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Assessment. Inworld's Realtime API speaks OpenAI's Realtime protocol over WebSocket or WebRTC, with a choice of LLM, client-side tools and dated release notes. Cost is the sum of STT, LLM and TTS usage with no per-minute price, there is no machine-readable event schema, and status history couldn't be read.

Facts

Access how an agent reaches and pays for it
Transport
websocket, HTTP
Auth
API key
Pricing
Pay per use
x402
No
Licence
not stated
Tools exposed
0
Where it lives packages, source, docs and releases
Packages
npm @inworld/cli
llms.txt
published
Last release
From our research 5 facts checked against the vendor's pages
Surface listed
The Realtime API at api.inworld.ai, read from docs.inworld.ai (llms.txt, Markdown guides, the WebSocket and WebRTC reference, Realtime release notes) and inworld.ai/pricing on 6 November 2026, with terms, privacy, security and status as read for inworld-tts on 4 November. No account was made and no session was opened
Architecture
A pipeline, not a single speech-to-speech model. STT (inworld/inworld-stt-1 by default), an LLM the developer picks through Inworld's router, and Inworld TTS, each billed as its own line
Session controls
Semantic and server VAD, interruptions, client-side tool calling with automatic follow-up responses, response.speak for scripted text without the LLM, back-channel interjections, filler responses and prompt caching on Anthropic models
Same company
Inworld TTS is listed as inworld-tts and Inworld STT as inworld-stt. Ultravox, which Inworld acquired, is listed separately as ultravox and runs its own speech model
Releases
Dated Realtime release notes on 21 July, 14 September, 23 September and 16 October 2026

Facts verified 6 November 2026 from vendor docs, repositories and package registries. JSON · Markdown

Strengths

  • Follows OpenAI's Realtime events, with a migration guide that changes only the URL, key and a few defaults
  • Dated release notes name affected clients and required actions for each compatibility change
  • A choice of LLM through Inworld's router, with prompt caching on Anthropic models
  • Concurrent sessions from 10 on the free plan to 1,000 on Growth
  • Zero data retention covers session content from the Developer plan up

Weaknesses

  • No per-minute price. A session's cost depends on STT, LLM tokens and TTS characters, and interrupted segments are still billed
  • No AsyncAPI or other machine-readable schema for the socket events
  • Status history couldn't be read, and an SLA exists only for Enterprise
  • The 21 July 2026 release changed response and item shapes for existing clients
  • Zero data retention doesn't cover requests routed to third-party LLM providers

Before you call it notes for agents

  1. Set the auto follow-up off if your client sends its own response.create after a tool result, or replies double
  2. Read response.done usage as an estimate and mute input audio when nobody speaks, since STT bills every second sent
  3. Use response.speak for fixed greetings, which skips the LLM
  4. Treat unsupported_field errors as warnings and keep the session open
  5. Mint browser session tokens on your server and never ship the Basic credential to a client

Who's behind it provenance 75/100

  • Legal entity namedTheai, Inc. dba Inworld AI20/20
  • Domain ageinworld.ai, no registry record we could read0/15
  • Endpoint on the vendor's domaininworld.ai15/15
  • Terms of serviceread, states 6 of the 7 things a reader expects9.1/10
  • Privacy policyread, states 7 of the 8 things a reader expects9.3/10
  • Status pagestatus.inworld.ai10/10
  • Changelogpublished10/10
  • security.txtnot found0/10
  • People named3 named with their role, none with a public profile7/10
  • Support routea support address, help pages, a community5/5

Terms and privacy, as read

Terms of service dated 2025-06-11, states 6 of 7

TL;DR Dated 2025-06-11. States 6 of the 7 things a reader expects, and we didn't find a service level. The rules found no clause to flag.

Gives the date it was last updated Last updated 2025-06-11
Effective Date: June 11, 2025

Without a date nobody can tell which version they agreed to.

Names the governing law or courts Disputes go to the courts of Santa Clara, California
Except as provided in the dispute resolution section above, all claims arising out of or relating to these Terms will be brought exclusively in the federal or state courts of Santa Clara, California.

Says where a dispute would be heard and under whose law.

States a limit on its liability Capped at the greater of $100 and the fees paid in the 12 months before the claim
OUR AGGREGATE LIABILITY UNDER THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF: (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID FOR THE SERVICE THAT GAVE RISE TO THE CLAIM DURING THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE LIABILITY AROSE OR (B) ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100).

Says the most the vendor would owe if the service causes a loss.

Says how the agreement or account can be ended
If your payment cannot be completed, we may downgrade your account or suspend your access to our Services until payment is received.

Says when the vendor can cut off access and what notice it gives.

Says how changes to the terms are announced Gives 30 days of notice before a change
If we increase our subscription prices, we will give you at least 30 days' notice and any price increase will take effect on your next renewal so that you can cancel if you do not agree to the price increase.

Says whether a customer hears about a change before it binds them.

Lists what users may not do
YOU ACCEPT AND AGREE THAT ANY USE OF OUTPUTS FROM OUR SERVICE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK AND YOU WILL NOT RELY ON OUTPUT AS A SOURCE OF TRUTH OR FACTUAL INFORMATION, OR AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR PROFESSIONAL ADVICE.

The acceptable-use rules an agent acting for a user has to stay inside.

Refers to a service level or uptime commitment

Not found in the text.

Says whether availability is promised and where the promise is written.

The document · read 2026-10-30 · 2,623 words

Privacy policy dated 2026-01-18, states 7 of 8, 1 to know

TL;DR Dated 2026-01-18. States 7 of the 8 things a reader expects, and we didn't find where data goes. To know before relying on it, selling or sharing data for advertising.

Says it sells personal data or shares it for advertising
Some of the activities described in this section may constitute “targeted advertising,” “sharing,” or “selling” under certain laws.

Personal data is passed to advertising partners, or the document says its sharing may count as a sale under privacy law.

Gives the date it was last updated Last updated 2026-01-18
Last Updated: January 18, 2026

Without a date nobody can tell which version applied when data was collected.

Says what personal data is collected
This Privacy Notice applies to information we collect when you access or use our websites and any related services (collectively, the “Services”), or when you otherwise interact with us, such as through our customer support channels.

The basic statement a privacy policy exists to make.

Says how long data is kept For as long as needed, with no period named
We store personal information for as long as necessary to carry out the purposes for which we originally collected it, satisfy our legal requirements, or for other business purposes explained in this Privacy Notice.

Says when data sent to the service is deleted.

Says who else receives the data
Vendors: we disclose information to vendors, service providers, contractors and consultants that need this information to provide services to us, such as companies that assist us with web hosting, payment processing, fraud prevention, customer service, data enrichment, analytics, and marketing and advertising.

Names the sub-processors or service providers the data is passed to, or where they are listed.

Says whether personal data is sold or shared for advertising Says it does not sell personal data
You can also adjust certain cookie settings by selecting “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” within the cookie icon at the bottom-left corner of our website.

A plain statement either way.

Says what rights people have over their data
You have the right to opt out of sharing, sales, and targeted advertising by:

Access, correction, deletion and objection, and how to use them.

Gives a privacy contact privacy@inworld.ai
Depending on where you reside, you may opt out of these disclosures by emailing privacy@inworld.ai.

An address or officer to send a request to.

Says where data is transferred or stored

Not found in the text.

The countries data goes to and the safeguard used.

The document · read 2026-10-30 · 3,236 words

A reading by a fixed set of rules, each answered with the vendor's own sentence. It isn't legal advice, a rule can miss a clause or misread one, and the document itself is what binds. How it's read and scored.

The Terms of Service (effective 11 June 2025) are an agreement with Theai, Inc. dba Inworld AI under California law, with courts in Santa Clara. The Privacy Notice (last updated 18 January 2026) names Theai, Inc.

inworld.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. The security page links a vulnerability report form.

status.inworld.ai runs the open-source issue-status app, which draws incidents from GitHub issues in inworld-ai/inworld-issue-status. Its history wasn't read, because GitHub's robots.txt couldn't be read from our environment.

inworld.ai's robots.txt allows Claude agents on the paths read and sets Content-Signal: ai-train=no, search=yes, ai-input=no. docs.inworld.ai has no such signal.

The domain's registration date wasn't established, because the RDAP lookup failed.

firstReleased is left empty. The public Realtime release notes start on 21 July 2026 and no launch date was found.

Checked 2026-11-06 against the vendor's own pages and the domain registry. Provenance is half of Transparency & trust.

Humans behind the project who makes it and where to get help

Key people

Inworld AI (Theai, Inc.) on LinkedIn @inworld GitHub

Raised over $100M in total, as of August 2023 source

Valuation over $500M as announced (the source doesn't say pre- or post-money), August 2023 round led by Lightspeed, August 2023 source

Backed bySection 32,Intel,Lightspeed Venture Partners,Founders Fund,Accelerator Investments LLC,First Spark Ventures,Kleiner Perkins,BITKRAFT Ventures,CRV,Microsoft,Micron,LG,SK Telecom,The Venture Reality Fund,HTC,Meta,Stanford University,Samsung,The Walt Disney Company,NTT DOCOMO

Researched 6 November 2026 from public pages. Copied on 6 November 2026 from the inworld-tts listing's humans file (checked 30 October 2026), since the company is the same. Inworld's Realtime TTS-2 page, read 30 October 2026, quotes Kylan Gibbs as CEO of Inworld AI. Inworld's Series A release of 23 August 2022, as published by Intel Capital, names Ilya Gelfenbeyn, Michael Ermolenko and Kylan Gibbs as founders and Ilya Gelfenbeyn as CEO at the time. No about or team page was found in the inworld.ai sitemap, so the present roles of the other two founders aren't established and the roster may be incomplete. No personal accounts are linked from Inworld's pages, so none are listed. The 28 October 2026 Reasoning post is signed by the Inworld TTS team. The ultravox listing's humans file records Inworld's announcement of 30 September 2026 that it acquired Ultravox. Investors come from the Series A release as published by Intel Capital and from The SaaS News report of the August 2023 round led by Lightspeed. Business Wire and GlobeNewswire, which carry Inworld's own releases, answered robots.txt with 403 and weren't read, so the pre-seed and seed rounds aren't itemised, and Meta is listed without a round. GamesBeat's report of 2 August 2023, read on 6 November 2026, says the Lightspeed round brought the valuation to over $500 million and quotes Kylan Gibbs on over $100 million in total funding, so both are recorded as stated for that round; it also names the Disney Accelerator and NTT Docomo Ventures among investors to date. No later round was found on inworld.ai's sitemap or in a web search on 6 November 2026. Shown for information, not part of the grade yet. People's accounts link to their own profiles; check them before you rely on one.

Sources (9)

Live watched around the clock · updated 2026-11-07 16:01 UTC

  • Vendor status page unknown, no machine-readable status found · 12 hours ago
  • npm @inworld/cli 1.5.0
  • npm downloads a week 290
  • security.txt none · 1 hour ago
  • llms.txt answers · 2 hours ago

Pages we watch

PageKindLast checkedLast changed
docs.inworld.ai/release-notes/realtimechangelog3 hours ago · 200no change seen
inworld.ai/privacyprivacy3 hours ago · 304no change seen
inworld.ai/termsterms3 hours ago · 304no change seen

Live data comes from our pollers, trackers and scrapers and doesn't change the score until a benchmark run. What we watch · /api/v1/live/inworld-realtime.json

Notable

  • WebSocket at wss://api.inworld.ai/api/v1/realtime/session?key=<session-id>&protocol=realtime and WebRTC through POST /v1/realtime/calls source
  • Follows OpenAI's Realtime event shapes, with a migration guide and Inworld extensions under providerData source
  • Concurrent sessions of 10 on On-Demand up to 1,000 on Growth source
  • Release notes of 21 July 2026 list potentially breaking changes to align with OpenAI's protocol, each with affected clients and required action source
  • Zero data retention covers Realtime sessions, but not requests routed to third-party LLM providers source
  • A Twilio Media Streams guide connects phone calls source

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Score breakdown methodology v0.7 · October 2026 research run

Assessed on 6 November 2026 from public evidence, against the published checklist. Confidence medium. Performance and Task success are pending until our probes and task suites run, so the total is over the 7 assessed categories, each weight divided by 80.

CategoryWeight this runScorePoints
Reliabilitychecked 6 November 2026 16%20 12.4
Hosted reading of the checklist. status.inworld.ai is a public status page (20), with history we couldn't read, as on inworld-tts (5). Concurrent sessions are published per plan, 10 on On-Demand up to 1,000 on Growth (15). The rate limits page gives exponential backoff with jitter and Retry-After on longer windows, and sessions emit rate_limits.updated, with nothing on reconnecting a dropped session (12 of 15). An SLA appears only in the Enterprise column, with no terms (0). No preview or beta label on the Realtime API (10). 20 + 5 + 15 + 12 + 0 + 10 = 62.
Performancenot scored in this run 10%pending pending n/a
Schema & documentationchecked 6 November 2026 13%16.2 9.8
No AsyncAPI or other machine-readable file for the socket, and the spec paths redirect (0). llms.txt, Markdown twins and a docs MCP server (10). The overview, OpenAI migration guide, providerData reference and the billing page's account of how a session is counted say what to use when (16 of 20). The reference lists every client and server event with field types and required marks, as text rather than a schema (12 of 15). JavaScript and Python example projects and an error event with type, code and param, without a list of codes (9 of 15). Dated release notes with affected clients and required actions, but no API version beyond /v1 (13 of 15). Total 60.
Agent ergonomicschecked 6 November 2026 13%16.2 11.1
Scored as an API. Conversation history defaults to the last 100 items, can be trimmed, and can be cached on Anthropic models, and every response.done carries a usage block (18 of 25). No lists to page. Output controls are modalities, turn detection settings, optional transcription and response.speak (12 of 20). Error events follow OpenAI's type and code shape, unsupported fields come back as non-fatal unsupported_field warnings, and item_not_found names the bad parameter (14 of 20). Tools run on the client and a follow-up response starts automatically after a tool result. Nothing covers side effects of a tool call cut off by an interruption (12 of 20). Works with OpenAI Realtime clients after changing the URL and key, with no Inworld Realtime SDK (12 of 15). Total 68.
Security & authchecked 6 November 2026 14%17.5 10.2
Workspace API keys sent as Basic credentials, deleted to revoke, with separate keys per environment advised. The CLI mints read-only keys unless --write is given, but write toggles cover only the Voice and Router APIs, so no key is limited to one product. Browsers use short-lived tokens minted server side. Session IDs, not secrets, go in the URL (25 of 30). Tools run in the client, so the developer approves side effects, with no approval step in the API (10 of 20). The agent listens to callers and passes their speech to an LLM, and no prompt-injection guidance was found (5 of 15). Usage per key and a Performance page with errors and throttling (8 of 15). SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA claimed and a vulnerability report form, with no security.txt or bug bounty, per the 4 November reading (10 of 20). Total 58. Zero data retention covers session content from the Developer plan up, but not requests routed to third-party LLM providers.
Payments & pricingchecked 6 November 2026 10%12.5 5.0
No x402, MPP or L402 (0). No per-session price, but each billed part (STT per hour, TTS per character, LLM per token) is priced publicly (20). On-Demand includes free STT and TTS allowances and lists no payment method, though some premium LLMs need a card on file (20). A person signs up in a browser before a key exists (0). Total 40.
Task successnot scored in this run 10%pending pending n/a
Maintenance & communitychecked 6 November 2026 7%8.8 6.2
Release note of 16 October 2026 (cache_transcript), 21 days ago (30). Three dated Realtime entries in the 90 days from 8 August, on 14 September, 23 September and 16 October (20). Discord and support@inworld.ai, with no evidence of answers read (8 of 15). Works with OpenAI's Realtime clients and the CLI is current at 1.5.0, but there is no Inworld Realtime SDK (8 of 15). CLI on npm under MIT, CI not read (5 of 10). Total 71.
Transparency & trusteditorial 51, provenance 75checked 6 November 2026 7%8.8 5.5
Closed service with clear terms naming Theai, Inc. dba Inworld AI (15). The ZDR page says what a session keeps and that third-party LLM requests aren't covered, but the terms and privacy notice disagree on training (12 of 30). Release notes flag potentially breaking changes with the clients affected and what to do, without stating a notice period (14 of 20). US headquarters with EU and India residency on Enterprise, and no sub-processor list in the docs, while sessions may route to third-party LLM providers (10 of 20). Total 51.
Negative events≤15None recorded0
Total60.1 · C

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  1. Graded 60.1 C methodology v0.7

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Everything this grade says the listing lacks, from the reasons above, the checklist, the provenance checks, the deductions, what we couldn't check and what the review panel asked for, with the steps, ready to paste into a coding agent working on Inworld Realtime API. A fix counts at the next check, once it's public.

What we couldn't check

  • unchecked: status history, because status.inworld.ai draws on GitHub issues our reader can't open
  • Whether the 21 July 2026 compatibility changes were announced before they shipped; the release note is dated the same day and no earlier notice was found
  • unchecked: maximum session length and reconnect behaviour, which weren't found in the reference

Sources 14

  1. llms.txt docs index docs.inworld.ai · seen 2026-11-06
  2. billing, plan limits and free usage docs.inworld.ai · seen 2026-11-06
  3. pricing page inworld.ai · seen 2026-11-06
  4. rate limits and 429 handling docs.inworld.ai · seen 2026-11-06
  5. zero data retention docs.inworld.ai · seen 2026-11-06
  6. Inworld CLI and MCP server docs.inworld.ai · seen 2026-11-06
  7. CLI on npm registry.npmjs.org · seen 2026-11-06
  8. terms, privacy, security and status, per the inworld-tts check inworld.ai · seen 2026-11-04
  9. Realtime overview docs.inworld.ai · seen 2026-11-06
  10. WebSocket connection docs.inworld.ai · seen 2026-11-06
  11. Realtime WebSocket reference docs.inworld.ai · seen 2026-11-06
  12. Realtime release notes docs.inworld.ai · seen 2026-11-06
  13. OpenAI migration docs.inworld.ai · seen 2026-11-06
  14. tool calling docs.inworld.ai · seen 2026-11-06

Probe metrics

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Pricing & changes

Pay per use Pay per use No per-minute or per-session price. A session is billed as its STT ($0.10 to $0.15 an hour), its LLM tokens at the model's rate and its TTS characters (TTS-2 from $25 per million on the free plan). Segments already sent to TTS are billed after an interruption.

Prices

ItemPriceUnitNote
Speech recognition in a session$0.0025per minute of audioSTT-1 at $0.15 an hour On-Demand, $0.10 on paid plans
Agent speech, TTS-2$25per 1M charactersfree On-Demand plan; lower on paid plans

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