LiveKit
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“LiveKit was a really nice foundation for video and audio calls.”
“I also moved over to using livekit for the service, and man, I should've done that sooner.”
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“I also moved over to using livekit for the service, and man, I should've done that sooner.”
“the entire stack does indeed appear to be open source”
“no reasons to put open stack in quotes”
Caveats and dissent
“Livekit could at any time change their license and drop support for the free open-source version”
“LiveKit, the "open stack" they rely on ties into VC-funded US tech used for border surveillance”
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Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“Our platform gives developers everything they need to build, test, deploy, scale, and observe agents in production.”
“LiveKit is building the infrastructure layer for the voice-driven era of computing.”
“LiveKit is building the infrastructure layer for the voice-driven era of computing.”
“LiveKit is building the infrastructure layer for the voice-driven era of computing.”
“Our platform gives developers everything they need to build, test, deploy, scale, and observe agents in production.”
“LiveKit is building the infrastructure layer for the voice-driven era of computing.”
Threads where it came up
- France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc. 4 mentions
- France to ban officials from US video tools including Zoom, Teams 3 mentions
- Proton Meet 2 mentions
- France's homegrown open source online office suite 2 mentions
- Show HN: LemonSlice – Give your voice agents a face 2 mentions
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026) 1 mention
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All comments 31
“real LiveKit + Twilio SIP call”
“LiveKit was a really nice foundation for video and audio calls.”
“The main difference from gateway is”
“It uses Telnyx SIP and LiveKit cloud”
“I also moved over to using livekit for the service, and man, I should've done that sooner.”
“I also moved over to using livekit for the service, and man, I should've done that sooner.”
“I hope Livekit is good enough so solve that problem.”
“Proton Meet relies entirely on LiveKit Cloud (USA based)”
“Proton Meet relies entirely on LiveKit Cloud to run”
“For small groups SFU like Livekit is not needed at all.”
“We used LemonSlice, LiveKit, and ElevenLabs.”
Last week’s presentation on Docs, bloknotejs & Yjs https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/DC97FQ-building_digital_workplace_solutions_on_top_of_foundational_libraries_blocknote_/
“LiveKit powers Visio”
“Livekit could at any time change their license and drop support for the free open-source version”
we gotchu: https://docs.livekit.io/agents/models/tts/inference/inworld/
“the entire stack does indeed appear to be open source”
“no reasons to put open stack in quotes”
“LiveKit, the "open stack" they rely on ties into VC-funded US tech used for border surveillance”
“Here's the link to the LiveKit LemonSlice plugin.”
“a great open source (MIT licensed) product written in Go”
“It says "powered by LiveKit"”
“Visio with live kit”
“You mean something like LiveKit”
“It's based on https://github.com/livekit.”
“speech to speech is not nearly as good as livekit IMO”
“Or PipeCat Cloud / LiveKit cloud”
“when we switched to OSS stacks (Pipecat, LiveKit), we realise that even with great OSS, the plumbing was still painful”
“livekit handles the webrtc video/audio (it’s been rock solid)”
“also recently added livekit and MAS for element call”
“Livekit + a few backend components hosted in Modal”
“LiveKit: WebRTC infrastructure”