Hard facts side by side: free tiers, prices, limits, SDKs and privacy. Every value links to the official page it came from and is re-checked every week.
| For translation |  DeepL |  LiveKit Agents |
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| Free tier | Not listed | Yes, Build plan at $0, no card Includes 1,000 agent session minutes and $2.50 in inference credits (about 50 minutes) a month. Source, Nov 15, 2026 |
| Starting price | Not listed | $50/mo (Ship plan) Ship adds 5,000 session minutes and $5 inference credits; Scale starts at $500/mo. Source, Nov 15, 2026 |
| Rate limit | Not listed | 100 LLM requests/min (free) Build plan: 600,000 LLM tokens/min, 5 STT and 5 TTS connections, 5 concurrent agent sessions. Source, Nov 15, 2026 |
| Size limit | 128 KiB per request Headers are limited to 16 KiB; retry 429 responses with exponential backoff. Source, Nov 15, 2026 | Not listed |
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| Official SDKs | PythonJavaScript / TypeScriptPHP.NETJavaRuby Official client libraries; community libraries cover other languages. Source, Nov 15, 2026 | PythonJavaScript / TypeScript |
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| Open source | Not listed | Yes livekit/agents and livekit/agents-js are Apache-2.0; LiveKit Cloud itself is a hosted service. Source, Nov 15, 2026 |
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| Trains on your data | No DeepL states Pro customer data is never used to train its models. Source, Nov 15, 2026 | Not listed |
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| EU hosting | Not listed | Yes EU project data region, eu-central agent hosting, and EU-only LiveKit Inference models. Source, Nov 15, 2026 |
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| Compliance | SOC 2ISO 27001GDPRHIPAA Listed as ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and GDPR certifications. Source, Nov 15, 2026 | SOC 2GDPRHIPAA SOC 2 Type II audited; HIPAA BAAs on Scale and Enterprise; ISO 27001 in progress. Source, Nov 15, 2026 |
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LiveKit Agents framework ships for Python and Node.js.
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