Provider pricing

LiveKit AI API pricing

LiveKit is the WebRTC backbone behind ChatGPT Voice, Character.AI, and most production voice-AI apps. LiveKit Agents orchestrates STT (Deepgram, AssemblyAI), LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google), and TTS (ElevenLabs, Cartesia) over sub-100ms WebRTC transport. Pricing is per participant-minute on Cloud or free when self-hosted under Apache 2.0.

Founded2021
HeadquartersSan Jose, CA
Tracked modelsDirectory

Best for

Teams building voice agents, live transcription, or any real-time multimodal AI experience.

Strengths

  • Powers ChatGPT Voice — proven at hyperscale, sub-100ms latency
  • Apache 2.0 server — full self-host option for data-residency requirements
  • Agents framework wires together STT + LLM + TTS with interruption handling
  • SIP and telephony bridges for inbound/outbound phone agents