Pipecat
bsd-licensed, provider-agnostic, and free if you run it yourself — the framework the others are competing with.
the most flexible option here and the one that requires the most assembly — there is no bundled price anywhere in the stack because there is no bundle.
pipecat is bsd 2-clause, confirmed from the repository, and fully self-hostable independent of daily's hosted product. it is a framework rather than a platform: you wire in whichever stt, llm and tts you want and pay those vendors directly. run it on your own servers and the platform cost is zero.
on pipecat cloud, daily charges $0.01 to $0.03 a minute for agent compute depending on tier, with idle capacity as low as $0.0005. one-to-one voice transport is free, krisp noise removal is free for the first 10,000 session minutes a month, and concurrency is advertised as unlimited on pay-per-use. a realistic hosted stack lands around $0.07 to $0.18 a minute.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- ai voice agent platforms
- pricing
- free self-hosted
- website
- daily.co
the most flexible option here and the one that requires the most assembly — there is no bundled price anywhere in the stack because there is no bundle.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.