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Voice agent middleware for production phone and web agents versus Open-source framework for real-time voice and multimodal AI agents
Compare interactively in Explore →Choose Vapi when…
- •You're building phone or web voice agents with real-time conversation
- •You need multi-provider LLM + TTS + STT routing in one platform
- •You want production-grade call analytics and interruption handling
Choose Pipecat when…
- •You want code-level control over your full voice agent pipeline
- •You're building real-time multimodal agents that handle voice and vision together
- •You need to mix and match STT, LLM, and TTS providers freely
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Vapi
Full-stack platform for building, testing, and deploying voice AI agents. Handles real-time telephony, multi-provider LLM routing, interruption detection, and call analytics. Most-adopted voice agent infrastructure in production.
Pipecat
Python framework for building real-time voice and multimodal conversational agents. Handles the full low-latency pipeline — STT → LLM → TTS — with 40+ provider integrations. The most developer-friendly OSS option for building production voice agents where you need code-level control.
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