LiveKit alternative

The whole call, without assembling it.

LiveKit gives you the pipes. We give you the agent, the models and the phone line, in one rupee price.

LiveKit’s numbers checked 25 October 2026.

AI agents from ₹1 a minute.¹

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The Frequency console: Agent Studio with four agents in Hinglish, Hindi, Tamil and Gujarati, and a test call in the browser.

Why switch

Why people switch to Frequency.

Everything a phone call in India needs, from one team, priced in rupees.

AI agents

AI agents from ₹1 a minute.¹

Speech recognition, the model and the voice, in one rupee rate. Billed in 10-second blocks, so short calls stay cheap.

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Five languages, live.

Hindi, English, Gujarati, Tamil and Telugu. And the Hinglish in between, mid-sentence.

Every call runs on our own GPUs in India.

The listening, the thinking and the voice are ours: Fourier STT, Gemma 4 26B and Fourier TTS.

One bill, in rupees.

The phone line, the platform, speech recognition, the model and the voice all come from us.

Live the same day.

Build in the sandbox, press Go live, and call today. Every company starts on pay as you go, with no monthly commitment.

Hear it before you decide.

Real lines from Fourier TTS, one request each, unedited. Pick a language and press play.

Hear it

You build the agent, or you buy the call

Here is how LiveKit and Frequency differ.

LiveKit gives developers the plumbing: an open-source agent framework, WebRTC and SIP, and hosted models you pay for by the minute. You write and run the agent. We are the other side of that choice: speech recognition, model and voice of our own, on our GPUs in India, sold as one rupee price per minute with the phone line inside on pay as you go.

LiveKit is what a good engineering team reaches for when it wants to own the whole thing. The agent framework is open source. WebRTC and SIP are in one stack. Models come from Deepgram, OpenAI, Cartesia and others, hosted by LiveKit or on your own keys. You write the agent, pick each part, and deploy it.

That is a real freedom, and it comes with a real to-do list. Someone on your team writes and hosts the code. Someone chooses the Hindi recogniser and the Hindi voice and checks they work together. Someone sets up the SIP trunk to an Indian carrier, because LiveKit’s own numbers are US-only and inbound-only. And the bill arrives as several lines.

We sell the whole call. Speech recognition, the model and the voice are ours. The model is the open Gemma 4 26B, on our own GPUs in India, where every call runs. You write a prompt, pick a voice, and the agent is live the same day. On pay as you go the phone line is in the price.

Hear it.

Real lines from Fourier TTS. Pick one, press play.

Text149 characters

Hi, मैं नेहा बोल रही हूँ Acme Store से। आपका order dispatch हो गया है और Friday तक deliver हो जाएगा। Address में कोई change करना हो तो अभी बता दीजिए।

48 kHz · MonoReady when you are

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voice
Neha
language
Hinglish
speech
0:09
characters
149

Fourier TTS, voice neha, rendered 16 Oct 2026. One request, not edited.

Text119 characters

नमस्ते, मैं श्रुति बोल रही हूँ, दाँतों के क्लिनिक से। कल सुबह डॉक्टर साहब से आपका मिलना तय है। क्या आप समय पर आ पाएँगे?

48 kHz · MonoReady when you are

0:00 / 0:08

voice
Shruti
language
Hindi
speech
0:08
characters
119

Fourier TTS, voice shruti, rendered 16 Oct 2026. One request, not edited.

Text117 characters

નમસ્તે, હું આશુ બોલું છું. તમારી લોનનો હપ્તો આવતા અઠવાડિયે ભરવાનો છે. તમે કહો તો હું અત્યારે જ ભરવાની રીત સમજાવી દઉં.

48 kHz · MonoReady when you are

0:00 / 0:08

voice
Ashu
language
Gujarati
speech
0:08
characters
117

Fourier TTS, voice ashu, rendered 17 Oct 2026. One request, not edited.

Text167 characters

வணக்கம், நான் நேஹா பேசுகிறேன். உங்கள் பார்சல் நாளை மாலைக்குள் வந்து சேரும். அந்த நேரத்தில் நீங்கள் வீட்டில் இல்லையென்றால் சொல்லுங்கள், வேறு நாளுக்கு மாற்றி விடுகிறோம்.

48 kHz · MonoReady when you are

0:00 / 0:10

voice
Neha
language
Tamil
speech
0:10
characters
167

Fourier TTS, voice neha, rendered 17 Oct 2026. One request, not edited.

Text114 characters

నమస్కారం, నేను సమీర్ మాట్లాడుతున్నాను. నిన్న మీరు మా కొత్త ఇళ్ళ గురించి అడిగారు. ఇప్పుడు కొంచెం సేపు మాట్లాడవచ్చా?

48 kHz · MonoReady when you are

0:00 / 0:08

voice
Sameer
language
Telugu
speech
0:08
characters
114

Fourier TTS, voice sameer, rendered 17 Oct 2026. One request, not edited.

Side by side

Here is LiveKit beside Frequency.

Every price in rupees², from their own pages and ours.³

Choose your plan.

Choose your plan.

Your price · T1

₹1 a minute¹

₹1,000 for 1,000 minutes

₹1,00,000 / month minimum, credited to your wallet; your usage counts towards it. Our phone line adds ₹0.30 and call insights ₹0.20 a minute, if you want them. In the chart, beside LiveKit’s volume price.

Your price · T3

₹3 a minute¹

₹3,000 for 1,000 minutes

₹50,000 / month minimum, credited to your wallet; your usage counts towards it. The phone line and call insights are in the rate. In the chart, beside LiveKit’s volume price.

Your price · T5

₹5 a minute¹

₹5,000 for 1,000 minutes

Pay as you go from your wallet. The phone line and call insights are in the rate. In the chart, beside LiveKit’s pay-as-you-go price.

One minute of a call, in rupeesYour plan, beside the price it pairs with
One minute of a call, LiveKit and Frequency, in rupees
OptionBar₹ a minute
Pay as you goLiveKit Cloud's Ship plan, against our T5
LiveKit Cloud, Ship the agent session on its own + the models and a carrier's line, at their prices ₹0.95$0.01
LiveKit's own exampleTheir calculator a US phone call with its hosted models + a carrier's line for calls to India ₹4.55$0.0479
Frequency T5 pay as you go, no commitment ₹5all-in
At volumeLiveKit Cloud's Scale plan, against our T3 and T1
LiveKit Cloud, Scale the agent session on its own + discounted model prices and a carrier's line ₹0.95$0.01
Frequency T3 ₹50,000/month commitment ₹3all-in
Frequency T1 ₹1,00,000/month commitment + ₹0.30 phone line and ₹0.20 insights, if you want them ₹1₹1.50 with both
How we read these numbers

Dollar prices converted at ₹94.96, the ECB reference rate on 16 October 2026. The rate.

Each bar is one minute as LiveKit’s own pages price it, layer by layer, beside ours from our price list. A hatched end is a part of the call their price leaves out and publishes no number for, so it has no length.

  • LiveKit Cloud, Ship: agent session ₹0.95 ($0.01 per min)
  • LiveKit's own example: session, US line, model, speech, voice and observability ₹4.55 ($0.0479)
  • LiveKit Cloud, Scale: agent session ₹0.95 ($0.01 per min)

LiveKit's pricing page adds up a phone call on Build or Ship as the agent session, its US telephony, the language model, speech to text, text to speech and observability: $0.0479 a minute. The line in it is LiveKit's own US inbound number, so a call to India needs a carrier's trunk instead, at the carrier's rate plus LiveKit's third-party SIP minutes. The Ship and Scale plans also carry a monthly fee, $50 and $500, with minutes included.

From livekit.com/pricing, checked . Ours from our price list.

The chart shows the plan you choose above beside the price it pairs with: our T1 and T3 beside LiveKit’s volume price, our T5 beside its pay-as-you-go price. Without that choice, every bar is listed.

What a minute costs, LiveKit and Frequency, in their words
DetailLiveKitFrequency
Published price per minute Agent sessions: Build $0/mo with 1,000 minutes included Ship $50/mo with 5,000 minutes included then $0.01 per min; Scale $500/mo with 50,000 minutes included then $0.01 per min; the models and the phone line are billed on top livekit.com T1 ₹1/min with ₹1,00,000/month T3 ₹3/min with ₹50,000/month; T5 ₹5/min pay as you go, phone line and insights included (GST extra)
What else a minute adds Models through LiveKit Inference at each model's price, for example Deepgram Nova-3 (Multilingual) at $0.0058 a minute and Cartesia Sonic 3 at $50.00 per million characters on Build and Ship third-party SIP minutes at $0.004 per min on Ship and $0.003 per min on Scale; and your carrier's own charges for the call livekit.com Nothing on T5 and T3: the phone line and insights are inside the rate on T1 they are optional at ₹0.30/min and ₹0.20/min
Their worked example LiveKit's own example of a phone call on Build or Ship comes to $0.0479 a minute: the agent session, its US telephony, the model, speech recognition, the voice and observability a carrier's line to India is not in it livekit.com 1,000 minutes on T5: 1,000 × ₹5 = ₹5,000, phone line included

What it costs

LiveKit’s pricing page does the sum for you. A phone call on its Build or Ship plan comes to $0.0479 a minute with its hosted models and a US line, about ₹4.55 at the ECB rate. The agent session in that is $0.01 per min, about ₹0.95. The Ship plan adds $50 a month, ₹4,748, with 5,000 session minutes inside. A call to India swaps the US line for a carrier’s trunk, at the carrier’s rate plus LiveKit’s third-party SIP minutes.

Ours is ₹5 a minute on pay as you go, line included, so 1,000 minutes cost ₹5,000. When you’re calling every day, the volume plan takes it to ₹1 a minute. We bill in 10-second blocks, and a call nobody answers is free. The build-or-buy guide walks through the trade.

Who runs each part of the call

LiveKit is infrastructure: it carries the call and runs your code, and the models come from other companies at their price. We are the models and the platform.

Who runs each part of the call, LiveKit and Frequency
DetailLiveKitFrequency
Phone line You bring it Twilio, Telnyx, Exotel, Plivo or another SIP trunk docs.livekit.io Ours Mirai phone line, +91 numbers
Platform Theirs LiveKit Cloud livekit.com Ours Our orchestration
Speech recognition Third party, your pick Deepgram, AssemblyAI, Cartesia and others, hosted or on your keys livekit.com Ours Fourier STT
Language model Third party, your pick OpenAI, Google and others livekit.com Ours Gemma 4 26B, on our GPUs
Voice Third party, your pick Cartesia, Deepgram and others; ElevenLabs and Sarvam as plugins docs.livekit.io Ours Fourier TTS

Languages

Languages and voices, LiveKit and Frequency
DetailLiveKitFrequency
Languages Whatever the model you pick supports Hindi is in the Inference lists for Deepgram Nova-3, AssemblyAI and Cartesia Sonic 3, and Sarvam is a plugin on your own key, not in Inference docs.livekit.io Hindi, Gujarati, English, Tamil and Telugu, plus Hinglish, in speech recognition and voice Bengali, Marathi and Kannada are coming

Where it runs

Where it runs, LiveKit and Frequency
DetailLiveKitFrequency
Where it runs A global edge network with region pinning on Scale SOC 2 Type II; PCI DSS and ISO 27001 are in progress; no India region is named on the pages we read livekit.com Every call runs on our own GPUs in India

Phone numbers

Phone numbers, LiveKit and Frequency
DetailLiveKitFrequency
Phone numbers LiveKit Phone Numbers are available only in the US, and only inbound calling is supported calls to India go through a SIP trunk from Twilio, Telnyx, Exotel, Plivo or another carrier docs.livekit.io Indian (+91) numbers: buy a dedicated number through us, or connect your own Plivo number

Concurrent agent sessions

For developers, LiveKit and Frequency
DetailLiveKitFrequency
Concurrent agent sessions 5 on Build, 20 on Ship, Up to 600 on Scale, custom on Enterprise livekit.com A new workspace starts with 5 calls at a time, raised when you ask, with no code change

Your own code

More, LiveKit and Frequency
DetailLiveKitFrequency
Your own code Open source under Apache 2.0 you write the agent in Python or Node.js and host it on LiveKit Cloud or your own servers docs.livekit.io Prompt or node-based agents built in the console, started from your code with POST /v2/calls

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Which to pick

Which is right for you?

Sometimes it's them. We'll say so.

Choose LiveKit if…

  • You want to write the agent yourself, in Python or Node.js, and pick every model.
  • You already run WebRTC or video, and want calls on the same stack.
  • You want to self-host. The framework and the server are open source under Apache 2.0.
  • You call outside India, or you want to hand a call to a person today.

Choose Frequency if…

  • You want an agent that works this afternoon, with no code to write or host.
  • Your customers are in India and speak Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, English or a mix.
  • You want one price per minute, in rupees, instead of a session fee plus models plus a carrier.
  • You make a lot of calls. Our agents cost ₹1 a minute on the volume plan.

Where LiveKit is ahead

If you want to self-host, LiveKit is open source and we aren’t. If you want Sarvam’s recogniser with ElevenLabs’s voice and your own fine-tuned model, LiveKit will wire them up. It hands calls to a person, cold or warm, which we can’t do yet. Its Scale plan runs up to 600 agent sessions at once; a new workspace with us starts at 5 and grows when you ask. And it carries SOC 2 Type II today.

Moving

Moving your agent across is easy.

Bring the agent you have. Most of it carries across.

  1. Step 1

    Open the sandbox.

    Look around with no sign-up. We ask for an email only when you test a call.

  2. Step 2

    Bring your prompt.

    Paste the prompt you already wrote into Agent Studio, and pick a voice and a language.

  3. Step 3

    Talk to it. Go live.

    Test it in your browser or on your own phone, then go live the same day.

Open the sandbox

Moving across

Your system prompt becomes the agent’s prompt in Agent Studio, and your first message its greeting. The tool calls you wrote become the agent’s tools, and the result of every call arrives as a signed webhook. If your agent follows a fixed script, lay it out as nodes instead. The quickstart goes from a new key to a real phone call in five minutes, and the latency guide shows how to time the reply on both.

Questions

Here is what people ask before switching from LiveKit.

What do 1,000 minutes cost on each?

LiveKit's own example prices a minute at $0.0479 with its hosted models and a US line, so 1,000 minutes come to about $47.90, or ₹4,549 at the ECB rate, before a carrier's line to India and the Ship plan's $50 a month. On our pay-as-you-go plan, 1,000 minutes cost ₹5,000 with the line included, and the agent is already written.

Is LiveKit's $0.01 a minute comparable to your ₹5?

No. The $0.01 per min, about ₹0.95, is the agent session alone. The speech recognition, the model, the voice and the phone line are billed on top, by LiveKit Inference, by your own providers or by your carrier. Our ₹5 on pay as you go is all of them together.

Do I have to write code?

On LiveKit, yes. You write the agent in Python or Node.js, choose the models and host it. With us, you write a prompt in the console, pick a voice and a language, and test it in your browser. Your own code starts calls with one POST and reads the result from a webhook.

Can I keep LiveKit and use your voice?

Fourier TTS speaks OpenAI's POST /v1/audio/speech, so a client that lets you set a base URL and a model name can call it. Our Pipecat guide shows the same idea with pipecat-mirai. Custom setups are on you to test.

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  1. AI agents from ₹1 a minute: on our volume plan, ₹1,00,000 a month. Pay as you go is ₹5 a minute. Prices exclude GST.

  2. Dollar prices converted at ₹94.96, the ECB reference rate on 16 October 2026. The rate.

  3. LiveKit’s figures are from its own pages, linked beside each one and listed under Sources, checked . Ours are from our price list and docs.