LiveKit

The open source platform for real-time communication

5.0•35 reviews•

628 followers

The open source platform for real-time communication

5.0•35 reviews•

628 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 35 reviews to tell us what they like about LiveKit, what LiveKit can do better, and more.

5.0

Based on 35 reviews

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Reviewers, mostly founders building voice and AI products, praise LiveKit for low-latency, reliable real-time communication and the control its open-source WebRTC stack gives them. Makers of Inworld and Firecoach AI say it fits live audio pipelines and sub-100ms voice use cases, while others highlight scalable deployment, uptime, and flexible self-hosting. The lone user review also likes its modular, open-source design, but raises an open question about how well it handles poor networks and audio sync out of the box.

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Pros

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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AssemblyAI Voice Agent APIAPIs to automatically transcribe and understand audio

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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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66 views1yr ago

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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88 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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51 views1yr ago

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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24 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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5 views2yr ago

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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6 views10mo 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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14 views11mo ago

used LiveKit to build Firecoach AI

•10 reviews

Voice AI needs real-time, not near-real-time. LiveKit's open-source WebRTC gave us full pipeline control with sub-100ms latency. Daily.co and Dyte were too abstracted for what we needed.

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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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used LiveKit to build Realtime TTS-2

•6 reviews

LiveKit's realtime infrastructure powers a lot of the voice agent ecosystem. Their Inference Service and Agent Plugin made it straightforward for developers to plug Realtime TTS into live audio pipelines. Great team that genuinely understands the latency constraints of conversational AI.

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