LiveKit
Open-source plumbing for realtime voice and video AI, the network behind ChatGPT's voice mode. Valued at $1B in January 2026, though its last public revenue figure is a 2024 run rate above $10M.
LiveKit, Jan 22, 2026; TechCrunch, Apr 10, 2025- Valuation
- $1B at the January 2026 Series C led by Index Ventures. No earlier valuation was published by the company.
- Raised
- About $183M $83M across seed, Series A and Series B, then $100M in the Series C.
- Revenue
- $10M+ run rate (2024) the CEO's figure for 2024, with 500+ paying customers. Nothing newer is public.
- Watch
- Model labs as customers OpenAI built ChatGPT voice on LiveKit; xAI's Grok voice stack is offered through it too.
- AI
- Agents are the product Agents framework downloaded 1M+ times a month; hosted agents, model gateway and simulations sit on top.
- Liquidity
- None reported no staff tender offer or secondary sale found; shares are not listed.
- Hiring
- 27 → 28 remote listings since Oct 10.
Free open source, paid cloud by the minute.
The media server and Agents framework are free under the Apache 2.0 license. LiveKit Cloud charges plans from $0 to $500 a month plus usage, such as $0.01 per agent session minute past the included amount, with custom enterprise deals. LiveKit Inference resells speech and language models from providers like OpenAI, Deepgram and ElevenLabs on one bill. No revenue split is published.
LiveKit pricing, checked Nov 3, 2026; LiveKit, Oct 1, 2025- 1The default open-source stack for voice agentsThe media server repo has about 22,000 GitHub stars and the Agents repo about 15,000. LiveKit says Agents is downloaded over 1M times a month.GitHub, checked Nov 3, 2026; LiveKit, Jan 2026
- 2Proof at the biggest scaleOpenAI runs ChatGPT voice over LiveKit Cloud. Named users include Salesforce Agentforce, Tesla, Spotify, Meta and Microsoft, and LiveKit says a quarter of US 911 dispatch centers use it.LiveKit, Apr 10, 2025; LiveKit, Jan 22, 2026
- 3More of the stack in one placeBeyond transport, it now sells agent hosting, phone numbers, a model gateway, observability, simulations and a robotics stack, plus its own open turn detection model.livekit.com/llms.txt, checked Nov 3, 2026
- Twilio$31.5Blisted, Oct 30 close
- LiveKit$1.00BSeries C, Jan 22
- Vapi$500Mprivate, May 12
Private values are the last reported round; they can be stale. Listed values are market value. Bars start at zero.
Every round, and what its terms give away.
LiveKit is private, so there is no share price. What its investors paid, and on what terms, is the closest thing to one.
- $1.00B
- latest valuation, Series C Jan 22
- $183M
- raised in all
- $10M
- run-rate, as of Apr 10
- 50
- employees, as reported
CEO called finances quite healthy; no figures.
TechCrunch, Apr 10, 2025 (2024 run rate, about 50 staff); SiliconANGLE, Jan 2026- Jan 22Series C$100M at $1.00BLed by Index Ventures. About 10% of the company, if all new sharesSalesforce Ventures joined; Altimeter, Redpoint and Hanabi returned. Pre or post money not stated.LiveKit, Jan 22, 2026; SiliconANGLE
- Apr 10Series B$45MLed by AltimeterAltimeter doubled down after leading the A. Hanabi Capital (Mike Volpi) joined. Total raised reached $83M.LiveKit, Apr 10, 2025
- Jun 4Series A$23MLed by AltimeterRedpoint and AI angels joined. Form D/A shows $21.9M sold to 21 investors. Forbes reported a $110M valuation, citing an unnamed source.LiveKit, Jun 4, 2024; SEC Form D/A, Jul 29, 2024; Forbes Argentina
- Aug 30Seed extension$7.3MLed by Not disclosedNot announced. Form D shows $7.3M sold to 4 existing investors, first sale Aug 30, 2022.SEC Form D, filed Sep 6, 2022
- Dec 13Seed$7.0MLed by Redpoint VenturesAngels included Justin Kan and Elad Gil. No revenue at the time; about 15 staff.TechCrunch, Dec 13, 2021; Redpoint
- Down round or flat round?No sign of one. The Series C set $1B; the only earlier figure is a reported $110M at the 2024 Series A. The Series B valuation was not published.TechCrunch, Jan 22, 2026; Forbes Argentina, Jun 10, 2024Clear
- How much of the company the last round soldAbout 10%: $100M at $1B, if $1B is post money. Reports do not say pre or post.SiliconANGLE, Jan 22, 2026Clear
- Time since the last raiseAbout 9 months since January 2026, which came 10 months after the Series B. It then bought Loophole Labs in September 2026, a sign it is spending on growth.LiveKit release via Fortune, Sep 24, 2026Clear
- Structured or unusual termsNone reported. EDGAR shows no Form D for the 2025 or 2026 rounds under LiveKit's filer number, so terms cannot be checked there.SEC EDGAR filing list, checked Nov 3, 2026Open
- Who led the last roundIndex Ventures, a new outside lead, with Salesforce Ventures (a customer's venture arm) joining and earlier backers following.LiveKit, Jan 22, 2026Clear
- Tender offers or secondary sales for staffNone reported. Searched company posts and press; no tender date or price found.LiveKit announcements, checked Nov 3, 2026Open
- Layoffs in the last 12 monthsNone found in news or company posts. It listed 29 open roles on Nov 3, 2026, almost all remote.LiveKit job board, checked Nov 3, 2026Clear
Clear: checked, nothing found. Flag: found, with the source. Open: could not be checked.
No filing reported
What the record says, and what we think it means.
The fact is the source's. The read, in italics, is ours.
- 01Good
ChatGPT voice runs on LiveKit.
LiveKit, Oct 3, 2024OpenAI put a LiveKit client SDK in the ChatGPT app; users and the AI connect over LiveKit Cloud. Announced October 2024.
The best possible reference customer. It also means a large share of traffic could sit with one buyer; no split is published.
- 02Watch
Valuation far ahead of known revenue.
TechCrunch, Apr 10, 2025; LiveKit, Jan 2026The last public figure is a run rate above $10M in 2024, stated by the CEO. The Series C priced the company at $1B without a revenue number.
Investors are paying for expected voice AI growth. Newer revenue is likely much higher, but it is not public.
- 03Neutral
Bought Loophole Labs in September 2026.
LiveKit release via Fortune, Sep 24, 2026The eight-engineer team built a hypervisor that moves running workloads between servers. Price not disclosed. LiveKit aims to cut agent start times below three seconds.
Its first disclosed acquisition: a small team buy to fix a hosting gap, not a big bet.
- 04Neutral
It now resells AI models.
LiveKit job post, checked Nov 3, 2026; LiveKit, Oct 1, 2025LiveKit Inference bills OpenAI, Deepgram, ElevenLabs and other models at provider rates on one LiveKit bill. A finance job post calls its credit-based, usage-priced revenue very complex.
Resold inference can lift reported revenue but at thin margins. How it is booked (gross or net) is still being set.
- 05Watch
Customers can run it for free.
GitHub, checked Nov 3, 2026The media server and Agents framework are Apache 2.0 licensed and can be self-hosted. LiveKit Cloud is the paid, managed version.
Open source wins adoption, but big users can leave the cloud. Paid features like hosted agents and inference are the defense.
- 06Good
Large enterprise deployments.
LiveKit, Jan 22, 2026LiveKit says Salesforce Agentforce voice agents and Tesla's sales, support and roadside voice AI run on it. Salesforce Ventures invested in the Series C.
Enterprise buyers bring bigger, stickier contracts than startups. Customer revenue per account is not disclosed.
- 07Neutral
A four-person board in 2024.
SEC Form D/A, filed Jul 29, 2024The 2024 Form D/A lists co-founders Russell d'Sa and David Zhao as officers and directors, with directors Patrick Chase and Benjamin Ball Jr.
A small founder-led board. No newer filing shows changes after the Series B or C.
- 08Good
Hiring is almost all remote.
LiveKit job board, checked Nov 3, 2026Of 29 open roles on Nov 3, 2026, 28 were remote across North America, the UK, Ireland and Germany. One developer advocate role is hybrid in San Francisco. All list pay ranges and equity.
A remote-first setup that extends to Europe. Check each posting's country.
Engineering is paid 33% over market.
We save every company's roles, pay by team and level, AI share and churn every day, so each month this page can say more. Sparklines use their own scale.
Can AI agents do business with LiveKit?
We checked the agent payment programs, developer docs and site rules an AI assistant would meet.
Built for agents. It sells agent infrastructure, and its site and docs ship llms.txt, an MCP server and agent skills.
Still Remote read- YesAn MCP server agents can callA public Docs MCP server at docs.livekit.io/mcp searches docs, changelogs, pricing and LiveKit code. It covers docs, not account actions.LiveKit MCP server card, checked Nov 3, 2026
- YesSkills for AI coding toolsPublishes installable agent skills, such as one for building LiveKit agents, plus a CLI command that sets them up in Claude Code, Codex and Cursor.LiveKit agent skills index, checked Nov 3, 2026
- YesSite and docs AI tools can readlivekit.com/llms.txt (about 3,800 characters) and docs.livekit.io/llms.txt (about 8,200) both exist. Docs pages serve Markdown by adding .md.checked Nov 3, 2026
- YesLets AI crawlers read its siterobots.txt allows all bots and names no AI crawlers. It blocks only /benchmarks/workflow on the main site and /styleguide on docs.checked Nov 3, 2026
- YesMachine-readable list of its agent toolsA /.well-known/ard.json file lists the Docs MCP server and agent skills, with a last-verified date of Oct 22, 2026.checked Nov 3, 2026
- YesIts own agent productsIts core product is a framework and cloud for voice, video and physical AI agents. Agents built on it can call outside MCP servers as tools.LiveKit docs, checked Nov 3, 2026
Where LiveKit puts AI to work.
- 1Trains and hosts its own modelsLiveKit built an open turn detection model that runs on CPU, hosts models next to its cloud agents, and is hiring a research engineer to post-train open-weight models for its agents.LiveKit job post, checked Nov 3, 2026; LiveKit, Jan 2026
- 2AI tools expected in most rolesJob posts ask designers, finance and operations hires to use AI tools in daily work, and a sales systems role builds agent workflows on top of Salesforce and HubSpot.LiveKit job posts, checked Nov 3, 2026
Fewer listings than on Sep 7, most of them in engineering.
What has to be true for $1 billion to hold?
The starting revenue is LiveKit's own reported figure. A way to think, not a forecast, and not investment advice.
At 80x, LiveKit needs $13 million of revenue to be worth $1 billion. Your world gets there with $20 million, so the next round likely prices above the last.
$100,000 of equity valued at the $1.00B Series C price would be worth about $156,800 on paper in this world, before dilution from new rounds, taxes and vesting. Private shares only turn into cash at a sale, an IPO or a tender offer.
A way to think, not a forecast, and not investment advice.
LiveKit, Jan 22, 2026; TechCrunch, Apr 10, 2025The signals, and which way they push.
- TailwindVoice agents are spreading fast.
LiveKit reported over 3 billion calls a year in April 2025 and 100,000+ developers. By January 2026 Agents was downloaded over 1M times a month.
- TailwindModel labs route voice through it.
OpenAI's ChatGPT voice and xAI's Grok voice stack both use LiveKit, and new realtime models land on LiveKit Inference.
- TailwindA second market in robots.
LiveKit Portal (June 2026) handles teleoperation and remote inference for robots, a market beyond phone and app voice.
- HeadwindFunded rivals higher up the stack.
Vapi raised $50M in May 2026 at a reported $500M and won Amazon Ring's support calls. Twilio and Agora sell realtime voice too.
Where LiveKit ends up, if we had to bet.
Our calls, not facts. Each one is tied to something that already happened, so you can judge the reasoning.
- 1
LiveKit lists on a US exchange by 2031.
Long shot 16%IPOIt is young, with a $1B valuation set in January 2026 and a last public run rate of about $10M. No IPO talk or filing has been reported.
LiveKit, Jan 2026; TechCrunch, Apr 2025 - 2
LiveKit buys more small infrastructure teams by 2031.
Likely 72%M&AIt bought Loophole Labs in 2026 to speed up agent hosting. The Series C was raised to add compute, storage and network services.
LiveKit release via Fortune, Sep 2026; SiliconANGLE, Jan 2026 - 3
A cloud or AI company buys LiveKit by 2031.
Coin flip 50%SaleIts biggest users include OpenAI, Salesforce and Microsoft, which could want to own the voice layer. A $1B price and founder control may keep it independent.
LiveKit release via Fortune, Sep 24, 2026 - 4
Hosted agents and resold inference bring in more money than basic media transport by 2031.
Coin flip 50%RevenueLiveKit now sells agent hosting, simulations and a model gateway on top of the free server. Per-minute agent billing and inference credits scale with every call.
LiveKit pricing, checked Nov 3, 2026 - 5
LiveKit is still the most used open-source voice agent framework in 2031.
Likely 72%CompetitionIts two main repos have about 37,000 GitHub stars combined and top AI labs build on it. Model labs could still build their own transport and cut it out.
GitHub, checked Nov 3, 2026
Read by the Still Remote research agent on November 4, 2026 from the sources linked on this page. Facts and scenarios only, not investment advice.