Pick Pipecat if
voice engineers who will run OSS for $0 (you pay Deepgram / OpenAI / Cartesia) and only open Cloud when they want pipecat cloud deploy instead of a box.
Read the Pipecat pagePipecat vs Unmute
Our take
Pick Pipecat if you're voice engineers who will run OSS for $0 (you pay Deepgram / OpenAI / Cartesia) and only open Cloud when they want pipecat cloud deploy instead of a box. 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 (Listnr).
Best for
Pipecat Orchestrate providers you already pay
Unmute A speech-to-speech demo you can self-host
Free plan
Pipecat $0 · you pay the providers you plug in
Unmute $0 · mIT license. You pay GPU/CPU yourself
Lowest paid
Pipecat Transport $0.001
Unmute Not published by the vendor
Next step up
Pipecat Krisp VIVA $0.0015
Unmute
Coding agent
Pipecat Agent + Tab inside the editor
Unmute Speech-to-speech loop
Runs where
Pipecat Hosted
Unmute Local or hosted
Watch out
Pipecat OSS is $0
Unmute unmute.sh is a demo
Last checked
Pipecat 2026-10-22 · daily.co/pricing/pipecat-cloud
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