Pick LiveKit if
voice teams who will burn Build for $0 (1,000 agent minutes, $2.50 inference credits, 1 free number) and only open Ship at $50 when they need a second deploy and email support.
Read the LiveKit pageLiveKit vs Unmute
Our take
Pick LiveKit if you're on a voice team who will burn Build for $0 (1,000 agent minutes, $2.50 inference credits, 1 free number) and only open Ship at $50 when they need a second deploy and email support. Pick Unmute if you're researchers and voice-agent builders who will clone the repo or poke the public demo. Skip Unmute if you're on a team that need a billed phone pathway (Bland) or a credit-metered VO file
Best for
LiveKit A voice or video agent with rooms, phones, and traces
Unmute A speech-to-speech demo you can self-host
Free plan
LiveKit $0 · you host the media server and the agent process
Unmute $0 · mIT license. You pay GPU/CPU yourself
Lowest paid
LiveKit Ship $50/mo
Unmute Not published by the vendor
Next step up
LiveKit Scale $500/mo
Unmute
Coding agent
LiveKit Voice Agents
Unmute Speech-to-speech loop
Runs where
LiveKit Hosted
Unmute Local or hosted
Watch out
LiveKit Build $0 is not free tokens
Unmute unmute.sh is a demo
Last checked
LiveKit 2026-10-22 · livekit.io/pricing
Unmute 2026-10-27 · github.com/kyutai-labs/unmute
Which one, then?
Pick Unmute if
researchers and voice-agent builders who will clone the repo or poke the public demo.
Read the Unmute page