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Example (replace the values with your own): `https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/comparisons/vs-pipecat/index.md?goal=&organization=` --- # Pydantic AI vs Pipecat Pipecat is an open-source Python framework for realtime voice and multimodal agents, maintained by Daily: frame processors compose into a pipeline, transports carry the audio, and speech-to-text, LLM, text-to-speech and speech-to-speech services slot in as stages. Pydantic AI's [realtime support](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/realtime/overview/) is a speech-to-speech agent loop on four providers behind one API, and it is the same typed [`Agent`](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/api/pydantic-ai/agent/#pydantic_ai.agent.Agent) that runs as text, in a [web chat](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/guides/web/) or behind your API: the call uses the same tools, dependencies and [capabilities](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/realtime/capabilities/), becomes ordinary message history you can [hand to a text agent](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/realtime/history/#handing-off-to-a-text-agent) for structured output, and is traced end to end in [Logfire](https://pydantic.dev/logfire). With Pipecat the pipeline is the product and the model is one stage in it; here the agent is the product and voice is one of its interfaces. Pydantic AI is one part of a stack: the [Harness SDK](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/) for capabilities and complete agents, [Pydantic Evals](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/evals/evals/) for evaluation, [Pydantic Graph](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/graph/graph/) for graph-based workflows, [Pydantic Logfire](https://pydantic.dev/logfire) for observability, and [Pydantic](https://pydantic.dev/docs/validation/latest/get-started/) itself for validation. The tables below cover the whole of it. ## Framework Pipecat Pydantic AI and [Harness SDK](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/) Language Python Python License BSD-2-Clause MIT Model providers Many (services) [Many](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/models/overview/) Extensibility Frame processors and services [Capabilities and toolsets](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/guides/extensibility/); [50+ with the Harness SDK](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/) Harnesses Build your own Built-in [`Coder`](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/coder/) and [`Researcher`](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/researcher/), or compose your own Observability OpenTelemetry [OpenTelemetry](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/integrations/logfire/#using-opentelemetry), including [Pydantic Logfire](https://pydantic.dev/logfire) Durable execution No [Seven integrations](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/capabilities/durable_execution/overview/) Interfaces WebRTC and WebSocket transports, telephony, client SDKs [CLI](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/integrations/cli/), [web chat](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/guides/web/), [AG-UI](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/integrations/ui/ag-ui/), [Vercel AI](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/integrations/ui/vercel-ai/), [ACP](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/acp/) (experimental), [GitHub Agentic Workflows](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/harness/gh-aw/) Realtime voice Cascaded STT + LLM + TTS, and speech-to-speech services [Speech-to-speech](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/realtime/overview/), four providers Evals Yes [Pydantic Evals](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/evals/evals/) Image generation Image-generation services [Image Generation](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/guides/image-generation/) ## Realtime, side by side Our realtime support means speech-to-speech models: one persistent connection, audio in and audio out, on the four providers below. Pipecat also runs the cascaded pipeline, its primary path, which we do not. If you are choosing a voice stack, these are the rows that decide it: Pipecat Pydantic AI Speech-to-speech providers Services for several providers [Five](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/realtime/overview/#provider-support) behind one API: OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Gemini Live, xAI, ElevenLabs Agents Cascaded STT + LLM + TTS Yes, the primary path; dozens of STT, LLM and TTS services Not built in; [compose it yourself](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/realtime/overview/#other-ways-to-build-voice) around a text agent Audio transport First-party WebRTC and WebSocket transports, Daily and LiveKit among them Yours: [browser WebRTC sideband or WebSocket relay](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/realtime/deployment/) Telephony PSTN and SIP in and out, DTMF, transfers [Bridge a provider](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/realtime/deployment/#siptelephony-bridge) such as Twilio Turn detection Silero VAD, own Smart Turn model, interruptions [Provider turn detection, barge-in, push-to-talk](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/realtime/turns/) Noise cancellation Krisp, ai-coustics and other filters Provider-side only Hand off to another agent mid-call Yes, between workers on a shared bus No; [delegate from a tool](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/realtime/tools/#delegating-work-during-a-call) instead Structured conversation flows Pipecat Flows: a node graph in YAML, JSON or Python, with a visual editor; cascaded pipelines only, not speech-to-speech No flow graph; instructions and tools steer the call Tools mid-call Direct functions, MCP [The same tools, toolsets and dependencies](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/realtime/tools/) as a text agent Capabilities mid-call No equivalent [Capabilities and hooks](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/realtime/capabilities/), with documented limits After the call The pipeline's `LLMContext` messages [`Agent.run()` on the call's history](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/realtime/history/#handing-off-to-a-text-agent) for structured output or follow-up Observability OpenTelemetry, opt-in; turn and per-service spans [OpenTelemetry](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/realtime/observability/): session, turn and tool spans, usage attributed per response Evals Pipecat Evals: scripted and simulated scenarios, LLM judge [Pydantic Evals](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/evals/evals/) on the text hand-off; nothing realtime-specific yet Deployment A Python process; Pipecat Cloud or self-host [Your process, your backend](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/realtime/deployment/) The same agent without voice Text-only bots over a WebSocket transport, still a pipeline and a worker [`run()`, CLI, web chat, AG-UI, Vercel AI](https://pydantic.dev/docs/ai/overview/interfaces/)