LiveKit
Depends
Confidence: Medium
Buy if you have engineers building voice or video AI at real scale and want open-source control.
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Comparison
LiveKit and Agora both land on Depends.
Buy if you have engineers building voice or video AI at real scale and want open-source control.
Buy if you have developers embedding real-time voice, video, or voice AI agents into your own product.
| Compare | LiveKit | Agora |
|---|---|---|
| Verdict | Depends | Depends |
| Best for | Teams building voice AI agents | App teams embedding voice/video |
| Who it's not for | Non-technical founders wanting a finished voice product | Non-technical teams wanting a ready-made app |
| Privacy | SOC2 certified with a trust center and disclosure program; a few component vulnerabilities disclosed and remediated.10 | One 2021 CVE disclosed in the Agora Video SDK; vendor maintains a public security page. |
| Support quality | No support evidence found | No evidence on support quality |
| Public sentiment | Developers praise LiveKit's flexibility and scale, while most friction centers on setup complexity and choosing between similar voice-AI platforms.⁵ | Sources consistently describe Agora as developer APIs/SDKs for embedding real-time voice, video, and chat, but the evidence contains little direct user feedback.16 |
| Biggest gotcha | Cloud bills per minute across agent sessions, inference credits, and telephony . costs spike with usage² | Usage-based minutes: costs scale unpredictably as your traffic grows16 |