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LiveKit Agents

Python framework for realtime voice and video AI agents over WebRTC

  • Agent frameworks and tools
  • AI media
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What it is

A server-side framework for building conversational agents that join LiveKit rooms, listen, speak, and can see video. It lets you combine speech-to-text, LLM, text-to-speech, or realtime model providers through plugins, and adds job dispatch, semantic turn detection, multi-agent handoffs, tool calling, MCP tools, and phone calls via SIP. Developers building voice assistants, call-center bots, or interactive companions use it with the LiveKit media server, which can run on their own infrastructure.

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14,862 GitHub stars.
14,862

Forks
3,966
Commits
4,254
Contributors
500+
Language
Python
License
Apache-2.0
Last commit
Oct 20, 2026
On GitHub since
October 2023
First release
July 2024
Platforms
library
Self-hostable
No
Alternative to
Vapi, Retell AI
Tags
  • multi-agent
  • agent-framework
  • voice-assistant
  • text-to-speech
  • multimodal
  • speech-to-text

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What people are saying

Updated Oct 21, 2026
  • Hacker NewsShow HN: Open source framework OpenAI uses for Advanced VoiceOct 4, 2024 · 266 points · 61 comments (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Building conversational AI that's really flexible used to be hard. With the Agents framework from LiveKit, every piece—voice, video, LLM, data pipes—is…”Feb 21, 2026 · 2 likes · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“FWIW, for work, i use the livekit python sdk for the "agent" backend and the frontend is managed by their react library React (written by somebody else of…”Jul 20, 2025 · 3 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“🛠️ Fully #opensource #Python framework you can self-host or deploy to LiveKit Cloud with one CLI command. 🐙”Oct 5, 2025 · 1 like · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Hacker NewsBuild real-time multimodal AI applicationsSep 25, 2024 · 2 points · 0 comments (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“9. LiveKit Agents Framework for Realtime Voice AI LINK 10. Constitutional Midtraining Increases Durable Alignment in 120B Models LINK”Aug 4, 2026 · 1 like · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Tired of wiring up speech-to-text and LLMs from scratch? Agents builds realtime voice AI participants that run on your server. Worth a look, or does it not…”Sep 27, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)