ElevenLabs Agents vs LiveKit Agents
ElevenLabs Agents (ElevenLabs) and LiveKit Agents (LiveKit) side by side on public data, as of Oct 6, 2026.
ElevenLabs Agents has 2.2x the weekly package downloads of LiveKit Agents (2.2M against 988K). LiveKit Agents shipped 13 stable releases in the past 90 days.
Side-by-side numbers
| Metric | ElevenLabs Agents | LiveKit Agents |
|---|---|---|
| Pulse Score | 59 | 50 |
| Overall rank | #18 | #39 |
| Downloads, last 7 days | 2.2M | 988K |
| Downloads, 7-day change | up 4.2% | up 12.9% |
| Downloads, 30-day change | up 30.8% | — |
| VS Code installs | — | — |
| Marketplace rating | — | — |
| GitHub stars | — | 14.6K |
| Homebrew installs, 30 days | — | — |
| Hacker News mentions, 30 days | 0 | 11 |
| Latest stable release | — | 1.8.4 · 5d ago |
| Stable releases, 90 days | 13 | |
| Terminal-Bench (best run) | — | — |
| Price | Free + $0.08/extra minute | Free (OSS) |
| License | Apache-2.0 | |
| First released | — | — |
| Interfaces | — | Python library, Node.js library |
| Models |
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ElevenLabs Agents
ElevenLabs' conversational agent platform (formerly Conversational AI) for building and deploying voice and chat agents across web, mobile, telephony and messaging channels.
Pricing: Agent minutes are included in ElevenLabs plans (Free 15 min, Starter $6/mo with 75 min, then Creator $22, Pro $99, Scale $299 and Business $990 a month); extra minutes cost $0.08/min, or $0.16/min at burst.
LiveKit Agents
A framework for building realtime voice and video AI agents on LiveKit's WebRTC infrastructure.
Pricing: LiveKit Agents is open source and free to use; you pay only for the models and infrastructure it runs on.
Latest release 1.8.4:
- feat(smallestai): add TTS continuations protocol support
- baseten: inline mid-conversation instructions for Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
- fix: drain inference STT transcripts before closing
- feat(azure): Add Azure Voice Live Realtime API support