LiveKit Cloud

Overview

LiveKit Cloud is a fully managed, globally distributed platform for building, hosting, and operating AI agent applications at scale.

While LiveKit's open-source server provides the realtime media foundation, LiveKit Cloud extends beyond managed infrastructure. It combines realtime audio, video, and data streaming with agent development tools, managed agent hosting, built-in inference, native telephony, and production-grade observability in a single, cohesive platform.

What LiveKit Cloud includes

Realtime communication core: A fully managed, globally distributed mesh of LiveKit servers that powers low-latency audio, video, and data streaming for realtime applications.

Agent Builder: Design, test, and iterate on AI agents using a purpose-built development experience. Agent Builder streamlines prompt design, tool configuration, and interaction flows.

Managed agent hosting: Deploy and run agents directly on LiveKit Cloud without managing servers or orchestration. LiveKit handles scaling, lifecycle management, isolation, and upgrades.

Built-in inference: LiveKit Inference lets you run supported AI models directly within the LiveKit Cloud environment without requiring API keys.

Native telephony: LiveKit Phone Numbers lets you provision phone numbers and connect PSTN calls directly into LiveKit rooms without setting up trunks.

Observability and operations: Production-grade analytics, logs, and quality metrics are built into the LiveKit Cloud dashboard, giving visibility into agent behavior, media quality, usage, and performance across your deployment.

Why choose LiveKit Cloud?

• End-to-end platform: Build, deploy, and operate AI agents, realtime media, inference, and telephony in one system.
• Zero operational overhead: No need to manage servers, scaling, or infrastructure.
• Global edge network: Users connect to the closest region for minimal latency.
• Elastic, unlimited scale: Support for rooms with unlimited participants using LiveKit's global mesh architecture.
• Enterprise-grade reliability: 99.99% uptime guarantee with redundant infrastructure.
• Comprehensive analytics: Monitor usage, performance, and quality metrics through the LiveKit Cloud dashboard.
• Seamless developer experience: Use the same APIs and SDKs as open source, with additional cloud-native capabilities.

Open source compatible, platform complete

LiveKit Cloud runs the same open-source LiveKit server available on GitHub and supports the same APIs and SDKs. This means:

• You can start on open source and migrate to LiveKit Cloud without rewriting application code.

• You can move from LiveKit Cloud to self-hosted if your requirements change.

• Your client and agent code remains portable—the connection endpoint is the primary difference.

What does differ is everything around the server: agent tooling, hosting, inference, telephony, global scaling, and observability, all of which are native features of LiveKit Cloud.

Comparing LiveKit Cloud to self-hosted

When building with LiveKit, you can run the open-source server yourself or use LiveKit Cloud as a fully managed, end-to-end platform:

LiveKit Cloud administration

For information about LiveKit Cloud architecture, administration, and configuration, see the Administration section.

Next steps

Ready to deploy your agents? Get started with the Agent deployment guide.