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.
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Reviewers describe LiveKit in narrowly consistent terms: they value its open-source, modular setup and say it offers the control needed for real-time voice and multimodal AI work. Founders from Inworld, SpatialChat, and Talo by Palabra.ai mostly emphasize reliability, low latency, and deep integration into live audio pipelines, with one noting strong handling of latency-sensitive conversational AI. User feedback is sparse but aligns on flexibility, while also raising unanswered questions about poor network conditions and audio sync edge cases.
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We use LiveKit as the orchestrator for everything voice-related in our platform β 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)
We use LiveKit as the orchestrator for everything voice-related in our platform β 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)
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.
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)
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)
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.
Love that itβs 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?
Hereβs what made it stand out:
Built for real-time AI (not just calls) β LiveKit handles audio, video, and data streams together, making it ideal for multimodal AI agents
Low latency, high performance β powered by WebRTC + SFU architecture for smooth, scalable real-time communication
Open-source & flexible β we can customize, self-host, and deeply integrate into our stack instead of being locked into rigid workflows
Developer-first architecture β clean SDKs across platforms and faster iteration for complex use cases
Handles infra complexity β abstracts the hardest parts of WebRTC while still giving us control