LiveKit

The open source platform for real-time communication

5.0•40 reviews•

715 followers

The open source platform for real-time communication

5.0•40 reviews•

715 followers

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Team collaboration software

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Video conferencing

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Video and Voice calling

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Realtime Voice AI

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AI Voice Agent Infrastructure

LiveKit is free, open source infrastructure for building and scaling real-time audio and video experiences in your applications. Use our APIs to easily build audio-only spaces, live classrooms, in-game video chat, collaborative screen sharing, and more.

LiveKit Reviews

The community submitted 40 reviews to tell us what they like about LiveKit, what LiveKit can do better, and more.

5.0

Based on 40 reviews

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Reviewers describe LiveKit as a practical choice for real-time voice and WebRTC work, especially when low latency, reliability, and deep control matter. Users like that it is open source and modular enough to fit into different stacks, though one user also raised questions about handling poor network conditions and audio sync edge cases out of the box. Founders of Inworld, SpatialChat, and Empacer say it performs well for live audio pipelines, uptime, and voice-first web and mobile sessions.

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real-time communication (6)

low-latency (4)

audio streaming (2)

flexibility (2)

high-quality video infrastructure (2)

signaling and session management (2)

voice AI integration (2)

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used LiveKit to build graph8

•5 reviews

We use LiveKit as the orchestrator for everything voice-related in our platform — from real-time conversations to AI-driven phone calls. It handles signaling, session management, and audio streaming across our voice AI and telephony systems. The flexibility and performance have been critical to delivering reliable, low-latency voice experiences. Thanks to the LiveKit team for building an infrastructure layer we can trust.

What's great

flexibility (2)real-time communication (6)low-latency (4)audio streaming (2)signaling and session management (2)

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graph8

•5 reviews

What's great

flexibility (2)real-time communication (6)low-latency (4)audio streaming (2)signaling and session management (2)

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176 views1yr ago

used LiveKit to build Beyond Presence: Video Agent Platform

•3 reviews

We use LiveKit for managed video streaming infrastructure and also use LiveKit agents as basis for our conversational agents. WebRTC streaming is really hard and LiveKit provides a great developer-friendly managed solution for that.

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used LiveKit to build Libretto.fm

•4 reviews

Great library and infrastructure for building real time audio and video. Exceptional documentation and SDK support in various languages make LiveKit a great choice for live audio and video.

What's great

excellent documentation (1)real-time communication (6)SDK support in various languages (1)

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26 views2yr ago

used LiveKit to build Real-time Voice Translation by Byrdhouse

•6 reviews

Livekit has an amazing developer experience with pre-built React components and incredibly easy to implement real-time state management. Support through their slack has been very helpful.

What's great

developer-friendly (1)pre-built React components (1)real-time state management (1)

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used LiveKit to build Empacer

•3 reviews

We use LiveKit for the real-time audio layer: it streams the owner’s voice to our pipeline and back with the low latency a voice-first product needs. It powers the live voice sessions in both the web and mobile apps.

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used LiveKit to build Roark

•3 reviews

LiveKit is the invisible backbone for our real-time calls. Their infra just works: low-latency, rock-solid, and developer-friendly. Instead of reinventing media servers, we get to focus on building great products.

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8 views1yr ago

•3 reviews

Love that it’s open source and modular enough to plug into anything. I'm curious, how are teams typically handling edge cases like poor network conditions or audio sync issues with LiveKit out of the box?

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used LiveKit to build Toby

•3 reviews

Toby is a voice interviewer, so the conversation has to feel live: no awkward gaps, and you can cut in mid-question like you would with a real person. LiveKit’s Agents framework handles the hard parts (WebRTC transport, turn detection, interruptions) out of the box, and it’s open source, so I’m not locked into one STT, LLM or TTS vendor. I could swap models without rebuilding the pipeline. As a solo builder shipping my first product, that let me spend my time on the interview experience instead of audio plumbing.

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2 views28d ago

used LiveKit to build Mode AI

•12 reviews

Here’s what made it stand out: Built for real-time AI (not just calls) – LiveKit handles audio, video, and data streams together, making it ideal for multimodal AI agents Low latency, high performance – powered by WebRTC + SFU architecture for smooth, scalable real-time communication Open-source & flexible – we can customize, self-host, and deeply integrate into our stack instead of being locked into rigid workflows Developer-first architecture – clean SDKs across platforms and faster iteration for complex use cases Handles infra complexity – abstracts the hardest parts of WebRTC while still giving us control

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