Agents
Agents is a framework that lets developers build realtime voice AI agents that talk, listen, and join calls for businesses.
What it is good for
- Building a voice assistant that answers live phone calls
- Making outbound phone calls with an AI agent
- Letting an AI agent hear and respond in real time
- Testing that an AI agent behaves as expected
At a glance
- Who it is for
- Setup
- Requires programming
Level 5 of 5. You need to write code to use it.
- Cost
- Free and open source
- Type
- Framework or SDK
- Tasks
- Works with
- LiveKit Cloud, OpenAI, Deepgram, Cartesia, Gemini, Tavus
Momentum
- Rank this week
- Not ranked (last #43, week 40, 2026)
- Best rank
- #43 week 40, 2026
- GitHub stars
- 15,050
GitHub numbers as of Nov 2, 2026. Updated weekly.
Ranking history
Official links
Setup steps are on the official pages. We do not repeat them here, since they change.
Questions
- Is Agents free?
- Yes. It is free and open source (Apache-2.0 license).
- Do I need to know how to code to use Agents?
- Yes. You need to write code to use it.
- What does Agents work with?
- According to its own documentation, it works with LiveKit Cloud, OpenAI, Deepgram, Cartesia, Gemini, and Tavus.
- What is Agents good for?
- Building a voice assistant that answers live phone calls, making outbound phone calls with an AI agent, letting an AI agent hear and respond in real time, and testing that an AI agent behaves as expected.
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