Alternatives to LiveKit Agents (Node.js)
LiveKit Agents (Node.js) is an agent framework by LiveKit: Node.js distribution of the LiveKit Agents framework for realtime voice agents in LiveKit rooms. If it doesn't fit your setup, these 12 agent frameworks cover similar ground. They are ordered by how closely they match LiveKit Agents (Node.js) and by our rank, which weighs adoption, freshness and documentation; money never changes the order. Genkit leads the list (more GitHub stars (6.5K); supports TypeScript and Go). Each entry shows data reasons to switch, and you can open a side-by-side comparison with LiveKit Agents (Node.js).
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LiveKit Agents (Node.js)
Node.js distribution of the LiveKit Agents framework for realtime voice agents in LiveKit rooms.
12 alternatives
Ordered by how closely each matches LiveKit Agents (Node.js) (shared product, category or stated alternative) and by rank.
- 1Genkit
Google
Open-source Firebase framework for AI features and agent workflows in JavaScript, Go, Python and Dart, with model plugins.
- More GitHub stars (6.5K)
- Supports TypeScript and Go
★ 6.5K↓ 95.8K/wkLast active Oct 23, 2026Compare →
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 2PraisonAI
Mervin Praison
Python framework for multi-agent teams and workflows, with a CLI and Docker, MCP and A2A deployment options.
- More GitHub stars (9.3K)
- Supports Python
★ 9.3K↓ 4.6K/wkLast active Oct 24, 2026Compare →
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 3LiveKit Agents
LiveKit
Framework for Python or Node.js programs that join LiveKit rooms as realtime voice and video agents.
- More GitHub stars (14.9K)
- Supports Python
★ 14.9K↓ 963.9K/wkLast active Oct 24, 2026Compare →
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 4LangChain.js
LangChain
JavaScript and TypeScript framework of interoperable components for building LLM apps and agents, with LangGraph.js and Deep Agents above it.
- More GitHub stars (18.3K)
- Supports TypeScript
★ 18.3KLast active Oct 23, 2026
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 5trigger.dev
triggerdotdev
TypeScript platform to build and deploy long-running AI agents and workflows with retries, queues and human approval steps.
- More GitHub stars (16.6K)
- Supports TypeScript
★ 16.6KLast active Oct 24, 2026
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 6
TypeScript and JavaScript framework for multi-agent workflows with tools, handoffs, guardrails, sandboxes and voice agents.
- More GitHub stars (3.9K)
- Supports TypeScript
★ 3.9K↓ 1.2M/wkLast active Oct 21, 2026
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 7Deep Agents (JavaScript)
LangChain
The batteries included agent harness.
- Supports TypeScript
★ 1.6KLast active Oct 22, 2026
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 8LlamaIndex
LlamaIndex
Open-source Python toolkit for RAG and agents over your own data, with event-driven workflows and 300+ integration packages.
- More GitHub stars (52.6K)
- Supports Python
★ 52.6K↓ 1.4M/wkLast active Oct 14, 2026
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 9ADK for TypeScript
Google
TypeScript toolkit for agents with Zod-typed tools, graph and multi-agent workflows, and Node.js or browser runtimes.
- Supports TypeScript
★ 1.4K↓ 143.5K/wkLast active Oct 23, 2026
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 10Rig
Playgrounds
Rust library for LLM applications with agents, tool calling, streaming and 20+ model providers, plus a terminal coding agent.
- More GitHub stars (9K)
- Supports Rust
★ 9K↓ 152.4K/wkLast active Oct 24, 2026
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 11Pi Agent Core
Earendil
Minimal TypeScript agent harness with an agent runtime, multi-provider LLM API, terminal UI and coding agent CLI that users extend themselves.
- More GitHub stars (117.6K)
- Supports TypeScript
★ 117.6K↓ 5.1M/wkLast active Oct 24, 2026
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 12AgentScope Java
Alibaba Tongyi Lab
Java framework for distributed, long-running agents with typed event streams, permission gating, middleware and subagents.
- More GitHub stars (6.1K)
- Supports Java
★ 6.1KLast active Oct 24, 2026
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet
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