LiveKit Agents vs Vapi

as AI assistants see them, week of 2026-09-28

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Vapi comes out ahead here. It scores 44 overall versus LiveKit Agents' 18, and shows up in 54 of 76 answers compared to 31 of 76 for LiveKit Agents. Head-to-head, Vapi is named more often on 16 questions, LiveKit Agents on just 2, with 7 ties. Vapi leads consistently across assistants too: 58 on ChatGPT, 45 on Claude, 31 on Perplexity. LiveKit Agents still holds its own on specific questions, appearing in every answer for things like open-source frameworks and developer-focused platforms, but neither is ever mentioned for "most natural sounding" or "call analytics and transcripts" questions.

Head to head

metric	LiveKit Agents	Vapi
score	18	44
questions won	18	22

By assistant

LiveKit Agents

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	14	20% of answers	#4.5
Claude	31	65% of answers	#7.2
Gemini	not sampled this week
Perplexity	9	15% of answers	#2.7

Vapi

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	58	80% of answers	#3.2
Claude	45	85% of answers	#7.5
Gemini	not sampled this week
Perplexity	31	40% of answers	#3.1

Where they differ

Only LiveKit Agents gets named for

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