LiveKit Agents Had 4,583,195 Downloads. Pipecat Had 2,007 More Stars.

Which open-source voice agent framework do people install?

livekit-agents, by PyPI file downloads, in this set and this window. 4,583,195 downloads from October 10 through November 8, 2026, without mirrors. pipecat-ai had 1,468,981. Pipecat had more stars the next morning: 17,168 against 15,161.

Abstract / summary

livekit-agents was downloaded 4,583,195 times on PyPI from October 10 through November 8, 2026, in the without_mirrors series. pipecat-ai had 1,468,981 downloads in the same window. LiveKit’s total was 3.12 times Pipecat’s. vocode had 964. bolna had 11,509.

Stars ran the other way. At 07:38 UTC on November 10, 2026, pipecat-ai/pipecat had 17,168 stars and livekit/agents had 15,161, a gap of 2,007. The Node package @livekit/agents, a separate registry, had 4,176,784 downloads over the same 30 days. Pipecat does not publish a Node agent framework under the names checked here. Its JavaScript client, @pipecat-ai/client-js, had 466,933 downloads.

Why it matters

The framework page that already earns impressions ranks libraries by stars and by a later install census. Neither table includes a voice-agent framework. Public LiveKit-versus-Pipecat comparisons round both download totals and both star totals, and they leave the Node package out. On this pass the Python star leader is Pipecat and the Python install leader is LiveKit, by 3,114,214 downloads. The Node package is almost as large as the Python one, and it sits on a repository with 961 stars.

A star is a bookmark. A download is a file request, including CI and dependency installs. The same split showed up in the November 9 census, where CrewAI had more stars than LangGraph and far fewer downloads. Voice frameworks repeat it. Using the langchain total printed in that census, 155,918,257, the same dates and the same mirror filter, langchain was downloaded 34.02 times as often as livekit-agents. Voice is a smaller install base than the general agent SDK, and inside voice the install rank and the star rank disagree.

Methodology

The download source is pypistats, unauthenticated, endpoint https://pypistats.org/api/packages/{name}/overall?mirrors=false. Each 30-day total is the sum of daily rows whose category is without_mirrors and whose date is from 2026-10-10 through 2026-11-08 inclusive. The four responses carried HTTP Date Tue, 10 Nov 2026 07:37:57 GMT. The series in those files ran from 2026-04-08 through 2026-11-09. November 10 was not in the file. November 9 is reported as its own day and inside a second 30-day window, October 11 through November 9, and it is not inside the headline total.

The set is four distributions, chosen before the sums were read. livekit-agents and pipecat-ai are the two frameworks public comparisons already pair, and their PyPI summaries call them a voice-agent framework and a voice-assistant framework. vocode’s summary is “The all-in-one voice SDK.” bolna’s repository description is “Conversational voice AI agents,” and it shipped a release on November 6, 2026. The PyPI name pipecat, without the -ai suffix, is a different project. Its summary is data logging for sensors, version 0.3.0. It is not in the table.

Versions and upload times come from the PyPI JSON document for each distribution, HTTP Date Tue, 10 Nov 2026 07:38:17 GMT. Stars, forks, open issues, license SPDX ids, and pushed_at come from the GitHub repository API, Accept application/vnd.github+json, X-GitHub-Api-Version 2022-11-28. livekit/agents and pipecat-ai/pipecat were read at 07:38:01 GMT. bolna-ai/bolna was read at 07:38:02 GMT. vocodedev/vocode-python returned 301 to repositories/606164768, which is vocodedev/vocode-core, read at 07:38:30 GMT. livekit/agents-js was read at 07:39:15 GMT.

npm figures are the downloads point API for 2026-10-10:2026-11-08. The five point responses were read at 07:41:28 GMT and each body named that start and end. Package versions for the JavaScript packages come from the npm registry at 07:38:38 GMT for @livekit/agents and at 07:41:29 GMT for the three @pipecat-ai packages. The langchain comparison uses the total already printed in this site’s November 9 install census. This note did not re-sum langchain.

Limitations

• The four Python distributions are a named set, not every package whose summary contains the word voice. A framework this pass did not query is absent. The Pipecat name without the -ai suffix was checked and excluded because it is a logging library.
• A download is a file request. CI, a mirror the filter still misses, and one project installing a dependency all increment it. livekit-agents 1.8.11 requires livekit==1.2.0 with no extra marker, so a cold install also requests the LiveKit realtime SDK. That SDK’s downloads are not in the 4,583,195.
• PyPI and npm are different registries. Adding 4,583,195 to 4,176,784 does not produce a user count. The same person, or the same CI job, can request both.
• @pipecat-ai/client-js, client-react, and small-webrtc-transport are not the Python agent loop. Their download totals are printed so Pipecat’s JavaScript surface is not reported as zero. They are not added to pipecat-ai’s 1,468,981.
• November 9 is higher than November 8 for both leading distributions, and neither current release was uploaded that day. This note does not explain the jump. The headline window ends November 8 so the jump cannot inflate it. A 30-day window that includes November 9 is in the body, and the rank does not change.
• Stars are an account’s bookmark. They are not unique people and not a quality rank. vocodedev/vocode-core has 3,810 stars and 964 downloads in this window. The star count is older interest. The download count is current installs of the package.
• open_issues_count includes pull requests. A zero would not mean a project has no bugs, and the counts here are not zeros. This note did not read the issue tracker.
• The langchain multiple, 34.02, divides a total published on November 9 by the livekit-agents total measured on November 10. Both windows are October 10 through November 8, and both use without_mirrors. The earlier total was not re-downloaded.

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