Comparing Open Source Frameworks for Realtime Voice and Video AI Agents: LiveKit Agents vs Pipecat

This guide compares LiveKit Agents and Pipecat, the two open source frameworks it says matter most for building production voice and video AI agents, across architecture, adoption, developer experience and production readiness. LiveKit Agents runs on LiveKit's open source WebRTC and SIP infrastructure and wires the pipeline for you, while Pipecat assumes no transport and has developers assemble the pipeline stage by stage. It also covers where TEN Framework, Dograh, Vision Agents and Vocode fit in.